JRuby https://www.jruby.org/

The way I learn programming is by making stupid little programs

I am looking into Shoes, the easiest little GUI toolkit for Ruby http://shoesrb.com

Chess game using Racket's pasteboard - Alex Harsanyi https://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/10/chess-game-using-racket-s-pasteboard.html

Why futurism has a cultural blindspot Tom Vanderbilt/Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/why-futurism-has-a-cultural-blindspot-rp

Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career | joshuahu.io https://www.joshuahu.io/blog/quitting/

Hackaday.io | The world's largest collaborative hardware development community. https://hackaday.io

The 555 timer chip and how it got that way | Dan Maloney/Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/the-555-and-how-it-got-that-way/

What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/what-we-lose-by-reading-100000-words-every-day/2018/10/04/72dea000-b212-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.36b801454468

A long list of complaints about static site generators - Florens Verschelde https://fvsch.com/static-site-generators/

École 42, a free, teacher-less university founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel is schooling thousands of future-proof programmers — Quartz https://qz.com/1054412/a-french-billionaires-free-teacher-less-university-is-designing-thousands-of-future-proof-employees/

Learn Git Branching https://learngitbranching.js.org/

The Netflix vs. Amazon Prime Video war is making piracy cool again – Chris Mills/BGR https://bgr.com/2018/10/07/netflix-vs-amazon-prime-video-original-content-piracy/

The Dutch reach: A no-tech way to save bicyclists’ lives - Tanya Mohn/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/smarter-living/the-dutch-reach-save-bicyclists-lives-bicycle-safety-drivers.html

9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6,000-word leaked memo on survival – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/chat-not-snap/

I am taking a Ruby program that's a giant procedural script and rewriting it with classes. I was going to do this in Java, but the description of classes in "Head First Ruby" by Jay McGavren was so good, I decided to stick with the original language.

How do you take a picture of a black hole? With a telescope as big as the Earth - Seth Fletcher/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-as-big-as-the-earth.html

How China used a tiny chip to infiltrate U.S. companies - Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Why I’m worried about Google: I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t. - Matthew Green/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/google-is-losing-users-trust.html

Clojure is cool - Ahungry.com http://ahungry.com/blog/2018-09-09-Clojure-is-Cool.html