How you can change the world by learning data structures and algorithms - Adrian Mejia https://adrianmejia.com/blog/2018/04/04/how-you-can-change-the-world-learning-data-structures-algorithms-free-online-course-tutorial/

How Lisp became God's own programming language - Two-Bit History https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html

33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts

Raspberry Pi-sized LattePanda Alpha runs Windows 10, offers MacBook-like specs - Nick Heath/TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/article/raspberry-pi-sized-lattepanda-alpha-runs-windows-10-offers-macbook-like-specs

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on its quick rise and faster fall - Alex Blumberg/Intelligencer http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2018/10/andrew-mason-on-groupon.html

Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard - Rachel Metz/MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611620/why-we-cant-quit-the-qwerty-keyboard/

Twitter and Salesforce CEOs bicker over who is helping the homeless more - Gabrielle Canon/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/12/jack-dorsey-marc-benioff-homelessness-twitter-san-francisco

Why are CVS receipts so long? An investigation. - Rachel Sugar/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/10/17956950/why-are-cvs-pharmacy-receipts-so-long

A future where everything becomes a computer is as creepy as you feared - Farhad Manjoo/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/technology/future-internet-of-things.html

I installed JRuby, and I already had 'regular' Ruby on my Windows 10 system. Can you guess what happened?

The dreaded Windows update 1809 took console Vim out of my path. I added it back. (I use both GVim and console Vim almost all the time in Windows and, when I run it, Linux)

This is a test http://stevenrosenberg.net

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

Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your-2fa-phone-number-to-target-you-with-ads/

How bad maps are ruining American broadband - Karl Bode/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17882842/us-internet-broadband-map-isp-fcc-wireless-competition

Is coding becoming obsolete? (Part I) – Zeroqode Blog https://blog.zeroqode.com/is-coding-becoming-obsolete-part-i-4a2cf88f8b48

Manyverse is a social network off the grid https://www.manyver.se/

Self-solving Rubik's cube https://media.dmm-make.com/item/4462/

Ungoogled Chromium: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Why I’m done with Chrome – Matthew Green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/

I will trade a bigger audience for control of my own content. (This post also lives at http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net)

Our React-native experience at Drops (so far) – Mark Szulyovszky – Medium | tl;dr They like it https://medium.com/@itchingpixels/our-react-native-experience-603e3343730

Carnegie Mellon is saving old software from oblivion - Mahadev Satyanarayanan/IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/carnegie-mellon-is-saving-old-software-from-oblivion

How do you decaffeinate coffee? - Stephen Dowling/BBC http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180917-how-do-you-decaffeinate-coffee

JavaFX 11 is released, and the project now has its own website https://openjfx.io/

10 apps to add features to Windows 10 - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/10-apps-to-add-features-to-windows-10/

Is California a good role model? - Thomas B. Edsall/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/california-economy-inequality-mobility.html

Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads - Rani Molla/Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/9/10/17797720/amazon-is-stuffing-its-search-results-pages-with-ads

Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy? - Evan Osnos/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy

Facts and stories about antique computers - Ed Thelen (an extensive list of links) http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/index.html

Computing Before Computers (1990 book on the history of computing going back to 1600 AD) http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CBC-Ch-01.pdf

Academy scraps 'Popular Film' Oscars category after industry backlash - @TVAnita/Urban Hollywood 411 https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/09/06/academy-scraps-popular-film-oscars-category/

Scooter use is rising in major cities. So are trips to the emergency room. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/scooter-use-is-rising-in-major-cities-so-are-trips-to-the-emergency-room/2018/09/06/53d6a8d4-abd6-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html

Introduction To Calculus With Derivatives (a very interesting and accessible take on the subject) http://adit.io/posts/2018-02-18-Introduction-To-Calculus-With-Derivatives.html

Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate. If true, this adds a lot to the current climate-change debate. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ancient-farmers-glaciers-profoundly-earth.html

Hard lessons (thanks, Amazon) breathe new life into retail stores - Michael Corkery/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/retail-walmart-amazon-economy.html

Dr. Bronner's Soap is a trendy million company — Simone Stolzoff/Quartzy https://qz.com/quartzy/1374780/dr-bronners-soap-is-a-trendy-120-million-company/

More on blogPoster in a GUI: I like apps written in the QT toolkit, and I bet that JavaFX is also pretty good, but these frameworks add a lot of complexity to what is still a fairly simple Ruby console app.

More on blogPoster going GUI: While there are better GUI toolkits than Tk, and languages that haven't abandoned the desktop GUI, Ruby and Tk seems like the most "standard" of pairings, and this project is simple enough that it'll probably work just fine.

While I haven't yet made my Ruby-coded blogPoster app (which is posting this entry) either modular or class-based (I still plan to to do that), I am starting work on the GUI version with Tk and the help of the http://tkdocs.com tutorial.

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