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

Was Trump’s election a ‘Sputnik moment’ for civics education? – Beau Yarbrough/Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2018/05/30/was-trumps-election-a-sputnik-moment-for-civics-education/

In Alabama, a small-town paper is figuring out digital advertising — and they’re doing it live - Marlee Baldridge/Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/in-alabama-a-small-town-paper-is-figuring-out-digital-advertising-and-theyre-doing-it-live/

Social media has taken the wind from the sails of the open web - Rob Reed/Ode https://ode.io/off-topic/rob/technology/internet/social-media-taken-wind-from-webs-sails.html#social-media-taken-wind-from-webs-sails

This is a test: Sending directly to the social blog

Appropriate Uses For SQLite - SQLite.org https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

In praise of the 30-hour work week – Valerie Aurora https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/06/17/in-praise-of-the-30-hour-work-week/

Wi-Fi security is starting to get its biggest upgrade in over a decade - Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/6/26/17501594/wpa3-wifi-security-certification

Is Silicon Valley doomed to become the next Detroit? - Andrew L. Russell and Lee Vinsel/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90201098/is-silicon-valley-doomed-to-become-the-next-detroit

The Haskell School of Music: From Signals to Symphonies (PDF) - Paul Hudak/Yale University Department of Computer Science http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/HSoM.pdf

Microsoft is putting Slack on notice — Mike Murphy/Quartz https://qz.com/1325993/microsoft-is-offerring-a-free-version-of-its-slack-competitor-teams/

Graffiti targeting Amazon spreading in Seattle – Taylor Soper and Kurt Scholsser/GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2018/photos-graffiti-targeting-amazon-jeff-bezos-illustrates-animosity-toward-tech-giant-seattle/

Downloading your Twitter data - Kyle Conroy https://kyleconroy.com/your-twitter-data

Microsoft launches free version of Teams | Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-launches-free-version-of-teams/

Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich - Maddy Savage/BBC http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180709-unlike-most-millennials-norways-are-rich

Microsoft matches Slack with a free version of its Teams chat app - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563710/microsoft-teams-free-version-slack-competitor

The scooting life: are electric scooters worth the trouble? | Nikil Saval/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-scooting-life-are-electric-scooters-worth-the-trouble

The next Facebook? Alma Campus raises $1 million for a college social network with an academic bent | Anna Hensel/VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/alma-campus-raises-1-million-for-a-college-social-network-with-an-academic-bent/

Why you hate contemporary architecture | Brianna Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson/Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture

Microsoft is updating the Windows Notepad app for the first time in years - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563704/microsoft-windows-notepad-app-update

Why Kubernetes is the new application server - Rafael Benevides/Red Hat Developer blog https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/06/28/why-kubernetes-is-the-new-application-server/

Overlooked No More: Bette Nesmith Graham, who invented Liquid Paper - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/obituaries/bette-nesmith-graham-liquid-paper.html

Google Cloud Platform - The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It's Mostly Good) - Daniel Compton/Deps https://www.deps.co/blog/google-cloud-platform-good-bad-ugly/

Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them? - Daniel Miller/L.A. Times http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ca-cm-times-art-20180712-htmlstory.html

What is the minimal web? - mnmlist http://mnmlist.com/w/

Google Cloud Platform launches Los Angeles region - Google Cloud https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/la/

Delivering WordPress in 7KB | Jack Lenox/CSS-Tricks https://css-tricks.com/delivering-wordpress-in-7kb/

Apple updates MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-updates-macbook-pro-with-faster-performance-and-new-features-for-pros/

The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea - DHH/Signal v. Noise https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3

Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm - BBC News (covers Boulder Daily Camera and Denver Post) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44688274

How to install (Let's Encrypt) free SSL in Hostgator - The David Web https://thedavidweb.com/install-lets-encrypt-free-ssl-hostgator/

Open Source at Write.as https://write.as/open-source

Write.as — Distraction-free blogging and writing platform https://write.as/

Matt Baer is the creator of Write.as https://write.as/matt/who-is-this

Sky-high deductibles broke the U.S. health insurance system - John Tozzi and Zachary Tracer/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-26/sky-high-deductibles-broke-the-u-s-health-insurance-system

No, I have no side code projects to show you | Ezekiel Buchheit/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-have-side-code-projects-show-you-ezekiel-buchheit/

How I fully quit Google (and you can, too) – Nithin Coca/Medium https://medium.com/s/story/how-i-fully-quit-google-and-you-can-too-4c2f3f85793a

Employers will do almost anything to find workers to fill jobs — except pay them more - Michael Hiltzik/Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-employment-20180710-story.html

Let’s celebrate Hugo’s 5th birthday | Bjørn Erik Pedersen/Hugo (There is a lot of info here on the Hugo static site generator) https://gohugo.io/news/lets-celebrate-hugos-5th-birthday/

Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway – Jonathan S. Geller/BGR https://bgr.com/2018/07/10/apple-1password-acquisition-deal/