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/