‘It can’t be true’: Inside the computer processor industry’s meltdown | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/-it-can-t-be-true-inside-the-semiconductor-industry-s-meltdown

FBI chief calls encryption a ‘major public safety issue’ | The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-chief-calls-encryption-a-major-public-safety-issue/2018/01/09/29a04166-f555-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html

I just tried Debian Stable Live with nonfree firmware, and everything worked. I had to make some adjustments because most Linux/Unix GUIs (I was using Xfce) don't expect an HD (1920x1080) screen out of the box. I'm shocked at how well it went.

A very thoughtful post by James Bennett on the importance, value and necessity of a CS degree for a career in programming http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/jan/08/degrees/

Intel handling of CPU bugs disclosure 'incredibly bad,' says OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt | iTWire https://www.itwire.com/security/81338-handling-of-cpu-bug-disclosure-incredibly-bad-openbsd-s-de-raadt.html

It's well past time that I get out of shared hosting and onto a "real" server, meaning some kind of VPS (DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr). Shared hosting is a byproduct of the LAMP-stack era, which is not the world we're in now.

I'm trying other Windows editors, but Vim is still winning. While I currently find it hard to write code in Vim, for these short posts the Vim "modal" editing style is perfect. Ability to edit and write w/o mouse and arrow keys is a huge bonus.

I tweet a lot, but I don't have nearly enough followers to make it worth my while. When is it "worth it"? 5K, 10K, 100K? This is one of many reasons I want my social-media messages to have a permanent life on my own web site.

BaseCS: A compiled list of resources from the basecs series | Vaidehi Joshi https://github.com/vaidehijoshi/basecs-series

I am trying the Kinesics Text Editor for Windows. Quirks aside, deal-breaker is the seeming lack of word wrap. http://turtlewar.org/projects/editor/

I started 'How to Use Emacs, an Excellent Clojure Editor | Clojure for the Brave and True,' and it was a bit of a disaster (says Vim user who sees irony in the bizarre world of another esoteric text editor) https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/