and Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg

Best Buy should be dead, but it's thriving in the age of Amazon - Susan Berfield and Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-19/best-buy-should-be-dead-but-it-s-thriving-in-the-age-of-amazon

Build Android apps in PicoLisp without an Android SDK https://picolisp.com/wiki/?pilbox

Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat | Arielle Pardes/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-introduces-subreddit-chat

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's interview with Kara Swisher on Recode Decode: Full transcript https://www.recode.net/2018/7/18/17575158/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview-full-transcript-kara-swisher

Walmart reportedly considers cloning Netflix to beat Amazon - Rhett Jones/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/walmart-may-build-a-netflix-clone-to-stick-it-to-amazon-1827682696

When a tech reporter doesn’t use much tech - David Streitfeld/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/personaltech/tech-reporter-does-not-use-tech.html

America’s electoral system gives the Republicans advantages over Democrats - The Economist https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/07/12/americas-electoral-system-gives-the-republicans-advantages-over-democrats

Google Cloud Platform Blog: Improving our account management policies to better support customers - Ben Treynor Sloss/GCP Blog https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-our-account-management-policies-to-better-support-customers.html

Google gets slapped with billion EU fine for Android antitrust abuse – Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/google-gets-slapped-5bn-by-eu-for-android-antitrust-abuse

Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Netflix, Amazon | Valentina Palladino/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/walmart-may-launch-a-video-streaming-service-to-battle-netflix-amazon

Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17585396/google-android-eu-fine-response

S3 suspend for the Lenovo X1 Carbon 2018 - fiji-flo/GitHub https://github.com/fiji-flo/x1carbon2018s3

vim-zen: Barebones Vim Plugin Manager - prakadanish/GitHub https://github.com/prakashdanish/vim-zen

Start to finish: Deploying a React app on DigitalOcean - Julien Tregoat/Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/start-to-finish-deploying-a-react-app-on-digitalocean-bcfae9e6d01b

Social media’s dial-up ancestor: The bulletin board system - Kevin Driscoll/IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/social-medias-dialup-ancestor-the-bulletin-board-system

These Barbie typewriters can send secret messages, and yes, this is for real - Crypto Museum http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/

To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of romance writer gamed Amazon's algorithm - Sarah Jeong/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal

Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication - Ana Sandoiu/Medical News Today https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322463.php

I've never heard of Refinery29, but they do slideshows right -- and that's a rarity https://www.refinery29.com/netflix-hidden-gems

Why use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps? https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien/diary/44356

How smart speakers are changing the way we listen to music | Eric Harvey/Pitchfork https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-smart-speakers-are-changing-the-way-we-listen-to-music/

If you see this post, I have succeeded in moving the configuration portion of my blogPoster Ruby script to its own file, which I call into the main file with Ruby's require_relative

I have been doing some work on the blogPoster Ruby script in preparation for sharing the code, and if you see this post, I didn't break it

Building a progressive web app with Gatsby, a static site generator - Michelle Barker/Our Name Is Mud https://ournameismud.co.uk/journal/building-a-progressive-web-app-with-gatsby

Get a progressive web app running in just 20 minutes using gatsby.js - Melissa McEwen/Rollout Blog https://rollout.io/blog/progressive-web-app-running-20-minutes

After all I said about not being on StatusNet/GNU Social in years, I just started an account on quitter.im (the instance I used to use at quitter.se is dead)

I have used Identi.ca (still available), StatusNet/GNU Social (the network I was on, quitter.se, seems dead now) and Diaspora, but those are pretty much confined to open-source software users. Twitter is news-centric and otherwise has a very wide reach.

I prefer reading Hacker News and Reddit, but those aren't sites where you can or should post a lot. For that, there's Twitter, and probably also Google Plus, though I can't remember the last time I posted there.

I used a lot of social networks, but all have fallen by the wayside except for Twitter. It retains the simplicity of a text post and fits my "posting style"

I created my own blogPoster app because I wanted to make the act of writing and publishing a social media update to my own site and Twitter as seamless and easy as possible

When I'm coding and all my tools are working, the operating system doesn't matter

What we need instead of another huge social network is a bunch of smaller platforms that are built on blogs and the open web - Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/2018/07/13/replacing-billionuser-platforms.html

Google Cloud steps up storage game to court Hollywood, launches Filestore - Larry Dignan/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-steps-up-storage-game-to-court-hollywood-launches-filestore

Thank you for your help NoSQL, but we got it from here - Rick Negrin/MemSQL Blog http://blog.memsql.com/nosql/

How I got banned for life from Airbnb - Jackson Cunningham/Medium https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba

How ‘Fortnite’ became the most popular video game on Earth - Brian Feldman/New York Magazine http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/07/how-fortnite-became-the-most-popular-video-game-on-earth.html

'Find your passion' is awful advice: A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers - Olga Khazan/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/find-your-passion-is-terrible-advice/564932

A full-spec updated 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro will cost you ,699 | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-full-spec-updated-15-inch-apple-macbook-pro-will-cost-you-6699

Apple's surprise MacBook Pro update further strains its relationship with pros - David Gewirtz/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-surprise-macbook-pro-update-further-strains-its-relationship-with-pros