The future of work is uncertain, schools should worry now - Education Week https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/09/27/the-future-of-work-is-uncertain-schools.html

What’s College Good For? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/

Mastering Ruby blocks in less than 5 minutes - Mix & Go https://mixandgo.com/blog/mastering-ruby-blocks-in-less-than-5-minutes

The Bitcoin bubble https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/bitcoin-bubble

How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship

Amazon wants a key to your house. I did it. I regretted it. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/07/amazon-wants-a-key-to-your-house-i-did-it-i-regretted-it/?utm_term=.2ef0fdb98056

The FCC still doesn’t know how the Internet works | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/fcc-still-doesnt-know-how-internet-works

Patreon is shifting processing fees from creators to supporters https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/07/patreon-shifting-processing-fees-creators-to-supporters/

The price of bitcoin has doubled in two weeks, now above | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/07/the-price-of-bitcoin-has-doubled-in-two-weeks-now-above-16k/

The world’s most popular audio file format arrives at Wikimedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/12/04/wikimedia-mp3-support/

Forget New York, millennials are flocking to 10 US cities to get a job, buy a home and start a life - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/best-housing-markets-2018-millennial-home-buying-2017-12/

Keylogger found on nearly 5,500 infected WordPress sites https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keylogger-found-on-nearly-5-500-infected-wordpress-sites/

What we learned in 2017 in science, medicine and health - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/science/what-we-learned-in-2017.html

Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again | InfoWorld https://www.infoworld.com/article/3240064/sql/why-old-school-postgresql-is-so-hip-again.html

Taking a second look at the learn-to-code craze https://theconversation.com/taking-a-second-look-at-the-learn-to-code-craze-86597

As Discord nears 100 million users, safety concerns are heard - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety

I booted into my Fedora laptop, and I miss it. It was time to do an update. Even in GNOME Shell, I tend to enjoy using it.

Bitcoin is the revolution – Hacker Noon https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-the-revolution-2aac943acd97

Vine founder Dom Hofmann hints that Vine may be back https://twitter.com/dhof/status/938469576052011008

The '80s software program that made email famous https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb9ad8/eudora-email

What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? | Dave Cheney https://dave.cheney.net/2017/12/04/what-have-we-learned-from-the-pdp-11

Disqus is acquired by marketing technology company Zeta Global (whatever that is) https://blog.disqus.com/disqus-and-zeta

A Bitcoin Frenzy Like No Other Is Gripping South Korea - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/bitcoin-frenzy-like-no-other-has-koreans-paying-a-16-premium

Many of my social-media posts originate here http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/

If you do ANY programming and post to Twitter, you should check out the Twitter API. I'm using it to post, and it's way better than relying on a third-party service that wants to charge you for more than 10 posts a day. (That means you, dlvr.it). It's also faster. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/post-and-engage/overview

I am using Firefox Quantum today for web production (lots of tabs, lots of WP and Google Apps) and it is performing very well. I heard about extensions that will show all tabs w/o scrolling, but they don't work yet with the new version of FF.

The easy guide to changing fonts in Vim | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_font

Setting the font in the GUI | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI

There is a time like the present http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/actually-there-is-a-time-like-the-present

Shouldn't em dashes — in Vim, I mean ― be easier? I made these with ctrl-v u 2014.

Special characters in Vim | Arabesque https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/special-characters-in-vim/

Interview with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress - Mapping The Journey https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/12/01/episode-14-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-founder-of-wordpress/

Apple reportedly prepping crazy cheap 9.7-inch iPad For 2018 launch | HotHardware https://hothardware.com/news/apple-reportedly-prepping-crazy-cheap-97-inch-ipad-for-2018-launch

NY Times scales back free articles to get more subscribers - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles-to-get-readers-to-subscribe

How the index card catalogued the world - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/how-the-index-card-catalogued-the-world/547271/?utm_source=feed&single_page=true

The new Firefox is pretty nice for 'general' browsing, meaning when I don't have 20+ tabs open.

Linux Journal ceases publication with November 2017 issue http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication

50 years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe https://www.space.com/38912-pulsar-discovery-by-jocelyn-bell.html

The Old Calculator Web Museum http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/

AWS Cloud9: A cloud-based integrated development environment for writing, running and debugging code in the browser https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/

Bacteria found on International Space Station may be alien in origin, says cosmonaut | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alien-life-bacteria-space-international-station-bacteria-cosmonaut-astronaut-russia-a8080036.html

Asking members to support its journalism (no prizes, no swag), The Guardian raises more reader revenue than ad dollars » Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/asking-members-to-support-its-journalism-no-prizes-no-swag-the-guardian-raises-more-reader-revenue-than-ad-dollars/

Reasons not to buy from Amazon -- Richard Stallman https://stallman.org/amazon.html

The number of people who use Netflix to fall asleep has doubled in the last two years http://exstreamist.com/the-number-of-people-who-use-netflix-to-fall-asleep-has-doubled-in-the-last-two-years/

The End of Moore’s Law – Rodney Brooks https://rodneybrooks.com/the-end-of-moores-law/

Introducing Amazon Translate: Real-time language translation | AWS News Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-translate-real-time-text-language-translation/

Is Amazon becoming consumed by its desire to own the world? — Quartz https://qz.com/1140428/jeff-bezoss-business-genius-built-amazons-empire-and-could-be-its-downfall/

Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/28/android-apps-third-party-tracker-google-privacy-security-yale-university

Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-new-captcha-test-upload-a-clear-photo-of-your-face/

Why Do You Need to Learn Javascript? | ProgrammableWeb https://www.programmableweb.com/news/why-do-you-need-to-learn-javascript/analysis/2017/11/14

Fix for Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.1 root bug - Apple Support https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315

Ink! Coffee's gentrification sign sparks backlash, calls for boycott in Denver http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/22/ink-coffee-gentrification-joke-denver/

How I dumped cable, saved money and lived to watch plenty of TV - Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-cable-dumping-netflix-showtime-hbo-streaming-amazon-1129-story.html

81-year-old celebrates 60th year at JPL, becomes longest-serving woman in NASA http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/sue-finley-celebrates-her-60-year-anniversary-at-jet-propulsion-laboratory/

Colorado colleges overflowing with huge wave of computer science students – The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/28/colorado-colleges-overflowing-computer-science-students/

Welcome back, sneakernet: Why net neutrality repeal will drive us to the edge | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/welcome-back-sneaker-net-why-neutrality-repeal-will-drive-us-to-the-edge/

HP quietly installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs (Engadget). https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/28/hp-quietly-installs-system-slowing-spyware-on-its-pcs/ Note: The HP Touchpoint Analytics software was installed on my laptop on Nov. 17, 2017.

A super-fast history of supercomputers: CDC 6600 to today -- HPE.com https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/a-super-fast-history-of-supercomputers-from-the-cdc-6600-to-the-sunway-taihulight-1711.html

Remembering obsolete technologies makes us feel good https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/the-secret-knowledge-of-obsolescence/546902/

Rails 5.2.0 beta: Easier file uploads with Active Storage http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2017/11/27/Rails-5-2-Active-Storage-Redis-Cache-Store-HTTP2-Early-Hints-Credentials/