The Racket Manifesto http://felleisen.org/matthias/manifesto/

I just discovered the @fngeekery podcast by @stevenproctor and downloaded a bunch of episodes. Looks great so far. https://www.functionalgeekery.com

A programmable programming language (it's Racket) - Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/3/225475-a-programmable-programming-language/fulltext

Lisp is for lovers | lisp.sh http://lisp.sh/

Racket comes with DrRacket, a simple-to-use IDE that lets you "choose" a Racket language and make stuff happen pretty quickly https://racket-lang.org/

Racket, which is a Scheme, which is a Lisp, can do a desktop GUI: The Racket Graphical Interface Toolkit http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/index.html

Inside the OED: Can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the Internet? - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/23/oxford-english-dictionary-can-worlds-biggest-dictionary-survive-internet

This SVG always shows today’s date – Terence Eden's Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/02/this-svg-always-shows-todays-date/

'MAS*H' oral history: Untold stories from one of TV's most important shows - Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/mash-oral-history-untold-stories-one-tvs-important-shows-1086322

Startup called Whimsical goes all in on Clojure, ClojureScript and React/Reagent https://whimsical.co/tech/how-we-built-whimsical/

Apple in China: who holds the keys? – Matthew Green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/01/16/icloud-in-china/

Google's AMP: the missing controversy – Ferdy Christant https://ferdychristant.com/amp-the-missing-controversy-3b424031047

Scripting the Vim editor, Part 1: Variables, values, and expressions - Damian Conway - IBM https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html

A serious push for free college in California - The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/a-serious-push-for-free-college-in-california/

The meaning of 'middle class,' in Silicon Valley, anyway - Palo Alto Online https://paloaltoonline.atavist.com/the-meaning-of-middle-class

Facebook’s next project: American inequality - A Stanford economist is using the company's vast store of personal data to study why so many in the U.S. are stuck in place economically - Politico https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/facebook-inequality-stanford-417093

Securing your Linux web server – 'Linux in Action' author David Clinton https://hackernoon.com/securing-your-linux-web-server-2be683c223eb

Why it’s so hard to actually work in shared offices (it's really about WeWork) - The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/why-its-so-hard-to-actually-work-in-shared-offices/

The beauty of the COBOL programming language - DevOps.com https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/

Amazon doesn’t just want to dominate the market—it wants to become the market - The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/amazon-doesnt-just-want-to-dominate-the-market-it-wants-to-become-the-market/

'Just an ass-backward tech company': How Twitter lost the Internet War - Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war

The Facebook armageddon: The social network's increasing threat to journalism - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/facebook-media-buzzfeed.php

A Clojure learning journey - Robert Stuttaford https://www.stuttaford.me/2018/02/18/a-clojure-learning-journey/

Browse without baggage in Firefox: Set Tracking Protection to always on - The Firefox Frontier blog https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/tracking-protection-always-on/

twitter-api for Clojure by Adam Wynne https://github.com/adamwynne/twitter-api

The Micro text editor showcases the power of Go as a cross-platform programming language. It really seems to be write once, compile and then run everywhere. Maybe I should consider Go for console app development. Can Go easily do GUIs? https://micro-editor.github.io/

Don Marti's blog strikes me as very important reading. He is a former Linux Journal editor who is now an open-source strategist at Mozilla. Lots of good information on Internet privacy and ad shenanigans. https://blog.zgp.org/