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Mon, 08 Jan 2018

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

Sun, 07 Jan 2018

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/

So yeah, about Clojure's syntax | Val on Programming http://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-01-06-so-yeah-about-clojures-syntax.html

How transgender composer Wendy Carlos changed music forever | 98.7WFMT https://www.wfmt.com/2016/11/17/transgender-composer-wendy-carlos-changed-music-forever/

Regarding the em dash | The Millions https://themillions.com/2018/01/regarding-the-em-dash.html

An 8-tube module from a 1954 IBM mainframe examined: it's a key debouncer http://www.righto.com/2018/01/examining-1954-ibm-mainframes-pluggable.html

Still learning the Vim vocabulary. How to search for a particular word: To find the word duck, use :/duck. Then type n for the next occurrence. If you are already in your text on the word "duck," type # or ? in command mode to find the next occurrence.

Ominous note: I can write in Vim, but can I develop in it? Short programs are one thing, but I was working on a 400-line program, and I'm not there yet. I will be switching between Vim and Geany for that one.

Sat, 06 Jan 2018

Lessons from 7 self-taught coders who now work full time as software developers | FreeCodeCamp https://medium.freecodecamp.org/inspirational-success-stories-from-self-taught-web-developers-4f6f375cf17d

The only reason I'm comfortable doing so many Twitter updates is that all the ones I do from a computer also appear here: http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/

600 free online programming & computer science courses you can start in January | FreeCodeCamp https://medium.freecodecamp.org/600-free-online-programming-computer-science-courses-you-can-start-in-january-3d4b1ed473aa

Clojure 1.9 has been released | Cognitect Blog http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/clojure19

If the Windows command line is teeming with editing choices, they sure are hiding from me, so I'm sticking with the decidedly non-Windows-y Vim

Why Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown - Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/

FX chief: Even peak TV can be a 'sideshow' to internet http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2018/FX-Networks-CEO-John-Landgraf-says-television-keeps-churning-out-record-numbers-of-original-series-but-is-being-overshadowed-by-the-internet-s-dubious-distractions/id-0f79dba660824aceb10b967318695f29

A Science Project: Make the 486 Great Again! – Modern Linux in an ancient PC | YKM http://yeokhengmeng.com/2018/01/make-the-486-great-again/

Trump: I'm a 'very stable genius' | CNNPolitics http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/politics/donald-trump-white-house-fitness-very-stable-genius/index.html

Fri, 05 Jan 2018

Java Notes for Professionals book (a very, very large book available as a PDF) http://books.goalkicker.com/JavaBook/

How to become a pure mathematician or statistician (aka a little light reading) http://hbpms.blogspot.com/

Learn React with the React Starter Kit | Glitch https://medium.com/glitch/react-starter-kit-1ce6658265c5

The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017 | Part 1: Front-End Frameworks https://www.npmjs.com/npm/state-of-javascript-frameworks-2017-part-1/

​How Linux is dealing with Meltdown and Spectre | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-linux-is-dealing-with-meltdown-and-spectre/

Vim 8.0 has been great in Windows 10, but I've been having issues in Windows 7. I'm talking about command-line Vim -- lots of screen issues. No trouble with Gvim in Win 7.

The command line in Windows 10 is much better than the one in Windows 7 (and I am in the Windows command line a lot these days)

Why Intel x86 must die: Our cloud-centric future depends on open source chips | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-intel-x86-must-die-our-cloud-centric-future-depends-on-open-source-chips-meltdown/

Thu, 04 Jan 2018

Who took the legendary Earthrise photo from Apollo 8? | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/who-took-legendary-earthrise-photo-apollo-8-180967505/

This is how Meltdown can be used to steal passwords in real time | Michael Schwarz https://twitter.com/misc0110/status/948706387491786752

Wed, 03 Jan 2018

Cryogen: Simple static sites made with Clojure and Leinigen http://cryogenweb.org/

Cryogen: A simple static site generator written in Clojure https://github.com/cryogen-project/cryogen

This blog is nicely designed: (iterate think thoughts) http://yogthos.net/index.html

Protect your Fedora system against Meltdown | Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/protect-fedora-system-meltdown/

Perun is a composable static site generator built with Clojure and Boot https://perun.io/

Clojure's slow start — what's inside? | Clojure Goes Fast http://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/clojures-slow-start/

After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/colorado-city-to-build-fiber-broadband-network-with-net-neutrality/

The Way of Debian | The Tao of Debian http://debian.wayoflinux.com/

Why use Debian Stable on the desktop? | The Way of Linux http://wayoflinux.com/blog/debian-stable-on-desktop

Who killed Mr. Fixit and how to bring him back: A Q&A with iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens about the demise of the repair industry and a plan to revive it | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-10/who-killed-mr-fixit-and-how-to-bring-him-back

Tue, 02 Jan 2018

How to know everything about everything: Laura Riding’s extraordinary 1930 letters to an 8-year-old girl about being oneself | Brain Pickings https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/20/laura-riding-four-unposted-letters-to-catherine/

The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it | thenextweb.com https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/01/02/web-dying-mesh-networks-will-save/

Mon, 01 Jan 2018

The Kindle changed the book business. Can it change books? | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/can-amazon-change-books/

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science | Boaz Barak http://www.introtcs.org/public/index.html

How I learned to stop worrying and love the job hunt | Stephan Behnke https://blog.stephanbehnke.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-job-hunt-in-toronto/

I just discovered spell check in Vim (I'm a slow learner)

Using Spell Check in Vim | Jake Harding http://thejakeharding.com/tutorial/2012/06/13/using-spell-check-in-vim.html

Jilted in acquisition, digital home lock startup Otto ceases operation, and company CEO/founder details what went wrong | Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/so-close-806b8ae77fa6

Add OpenSSH to Windows 10 (alternative title: My God, it's full of stars!) https://www.howtogeek.com/336775/how-to-enable-and-use-windows-10s-built-in-ssh-commands/