I played on the Ernie Ball Power Slinky strings again yesterday. I really like the sound of these strings. It's like a whole new world, especially after years of flatwounds https://www.ernieball.com/guitar-strings/electric-guitar-strings/slinky-nickel-wound-electric-guitar-strings/6-string#P02220

Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch twice discussed CNN with AT&T CEO, sources tell Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cnn-murdoch-exclusive/exclusive-rupert-murdoch-twice-discussed-cnn-with-att-ceo-sources-idUSKBN1DA2PY

Looking at non-binary gender in the Greek and Roman world https://eidolon.pub/the-body-in-question-d28045d23714

No more Uber, Hertz, or even car owners: How Amazon and Apple will take us all for a ride http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-more-uber-or-hertz-or-even-car-owners-how-amazon-and-apple-will-take-us-all-for-a-ride/

Disney Streaming Service Will Be Priced Below Netflix, Says Bob Iger https://www.thewrap.com/disney-streaming-service-cheaper-netflix/

The long goodbye to C: Eric S. Raymond http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7711

Build Your Own Link Shortener App with Ruby & Sinatra - RubyGuides http://www.rubyguides.com/2017/11/sinatra-link-shortener/

JShell - A Quick Look (Oracle) https://medium.com/oracledevs/jshell-a-quick-look-d26f7e91a864

Poop more effectively by repositioning one leg, say samurai https://lifehacker.com/poop-more-effectively-by-repositioning-one-leg-1551365555

JavaFX: Getting Started with JavaFX Release 8 (Oracle documentation) https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/get-started-tutorial/index.html

SMU's Meadows School of the Arts student Isaac Beu performs Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with a string quintet of SMU students

Sparkpost interview with @saronyitbarek of @codenewbies https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/community-spotlight-codenewbie/

Amplification & the changing role of media – Om Malik https://om.co/2012/10/13/amplification-the-changing-role-of-media/

The computer scientist who prefers paper ballots - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/

The first web server ever

My favorite @CERN picture: the first web server EVER
Also the paper by @timberners_lee describing the web, with a note from a reviewer: "vague but exciting" pic.twitter.com/0tTfX3y0wF

— Francesc (@francesc) November 9, 2017

Twitter must fix verification, but there are no easy solutions http://mashable.com/2017/11/09/heck-yeah-twitter-verification-is-broken/

A regular New York Times kids’ section and a kids’ version of The Daily are on the way this month http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/a-new-york-times-kids-section-once-an-experiment-will-run-monthly-starting-this-month/

I am using my Blog Poster app on a Windows 7 computer today. I have been developing it on a Windows 10 machine. I recentely added Ruby and the Nokogiri and Twitter gems to the Win 7 machine so I could test it, and all is working well so far.

Even the Twitter API allows for 280-character posts, so my Ruby app using the Twitter gem can also send longer posts. For a while, I could post 280 on the Twitter web site but only 140 with the API.

Uber whistleblower snags book deal http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/09/technology/uber-susan-fowler-book-deal/index.html

Ruby for Newbies: Working with Directories and Files https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby-for-newbies-working-with-directories-and-files--net-18810

'The Typewriter in the 21st Century' (a movie that features Highland Park's US Office Machine Company) https://thetypewritermovie.wordpress.com/

Anderson Business Technology, which has been in Pasadena for 105 years, still fixes typewriters http://andersonbt.com/

US Office Machines Company repairs typewriters in LA's Highland Park neighborhood https://www.yelp.com/biz/us-office-machine-company-los-angeles https://www.kcet.org/history-society/a-different-la-jesse-and-the-typewriter-shop

California Typewriter repairs typewriters in Berkeley. They also sell typewriters and were the topic of a movie http://www.californiatypewriter.com/blog http://www.californiatypewriter.com/

Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren't) - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-jobs-industry-careers.html

Let’s Implement The Open Source Model! But… Which Open Source? https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/lets-implement-the-open-source-model-but-which-open-source-a89c82d1b494

The Modern Javascript Tutorial https://javascript.info/

The Base.CS podcast on computer science is here -- by @vaidehijoshi and @CodeNewbies @saronyitbarek https://www.codenewbie.org/basecs

If your Cortana search box in Windows 10 turned white and you want it to turn back to dark gray http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/cortana-search-box-white-background-windows-10/

Tweet Counter: A Google Chrome extension that brings back the character counters in tweet boxes https://github.com/kamranahmedse/tweet-counter

Josh Allen: Why React Native is Not For You (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_jVy03Yew&feature=youtu.be

The Seiko SKX007 and its family of Seiko beater divers https://monochrome-watches.com/seiko-skx007-family-seiko-beater-divers/

What Cities Lost When Gothamist (including LAist) and DNAInfo Shut Down - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/11/gothamist-dnainfo-joe-ricketts-shutdown/545069/

How HQ2 Ended Seattle's Love Affair With Amazon - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/11/how-seattle-fell-out-of-love-with-amazon/545045/

This site CityLab is really good https://www.citylab.com/

GuiGarage: Building applications with JavaFx http://www.guigarage.com/

JavaFXTutorials by John Martens http://www.javafxtutorials.com/

Getting Started with JavaFX (Oracle tutorial) https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/get_started/jfxpub-get_started.htm

The JavaFX hidden economy http://gluonhq.com/javafx-hidden-economy/

ControlsFX is an open source project for JavaFX that aims to provide really high quality UI controls and other tools http://fxexperience.com/controlsfx/

Fx Experience: JavaFX news, demos and insight http://fxexperience.com/

Say no to Electron! Using JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop application https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/saynotoelectronusingjavafxtowriteafastresponsivedesktopapplication

Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and basically object-oriented programming: Abe Voelker's blog https://blog.abevoelker.com/sick-of-ruby-dynamic-typing-side-effects-object-oriented-programming/?repost2014

How to do it wrong: third-party auth, aka “social login” https://codeburst.io/how-to-do-it-wrong-third-party-auth-aka-social-login-d7f24abecef5

CS50: Introduction to Computer Science | edX https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x

Andy Tanenbaum, author of Minix, writes an open letter to Intel http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/

Gustavo Arellano, ex-OC Weekly, on the death of the alt-weekly in general http://reason.com/archives/2017/11/04/the-death-of-the-alt-weekly-as-told-by-a

Audacity 2.2.0 adds MIDI playback, revamps menus, more help links http://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-2-2-0-released/

JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON that aims to make it easier for humans to write and maintain by hand http://json5.org/

MINIX — The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular-os-in-the-world-thanks-to-intel.html

How to Get a Programming Job Straight Out of High School (from malisper.me) http://malisper.me/how-to-get-a-programming-job-straight-out-of-high-school/

Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites – Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/local-storage-and-how-to-use-it/

Using the Web Storage API - Mozilla Developer Network https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API/Using_the_Web_Storage_API

JavaScript: Storing Data on The Client with LocalStorage (via Treehouse Blog) http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/storing-data-on-the-client-with-localstorage

Is Ruby on Rails Still Worth it in 2017? | Codementor https://www.codementor.io/brookecampbell/is-ruby-on-rails-still-worth-it-in-2017-5wxguk5xn

Create a Console Application in Ruby https://ruby.unicorn.tv/articles/create-a-console-application-in-ruby

React is taking over front-end development https://medium.freecodecamp.org/yes-react-is-taking-over-front-end-development-the-question-is-why-40837af8ab76

RubyMotion allows you to write apps for iOS and Android, but you have to use a Mac to do it. http://www.rubymotion.com/

A beginner's guide to Kotlin (from Bugsnag Blog) https://blog.bugsnag.com/introduction-to-kotlin/