S100 Computers: A web site for S-100 bus computer owners - This is a very deep site on how to make S-100 bus computers work in the 2010s http://www.s100computers.com/index.html

Stop future proofing software – George3d6 https://medium.com/@george3d6/stop-future-proofing-software-c984cbd65e78

The Rails doctrine - David Heinemeier Hansson (2016) https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/

Virgin Mobile is selling Android phones, but they don't put storage or memory in the specs

Six-chip Z80 board runs CP/M from a CF card https://github.com/linker3000/Z80-Board

Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing - The Economist https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/09/01/silicon-valley-is-changing-and-its-lead-over-other-tech-hubs-narrowing

The overprotected American child: Parents and communities are figuring out ways to give their children more independence—and it just may help them to become less anxious, more self-reliant adults - Andrea Petersen/WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-overprotected-american-child-1527865038?mod=djmc_pkt_ff

Twitter is testing suggestions of accounts to unfollow - Axios https://www.axios.com/twitter-is-testing-suggestions-of-accounts-to-unfollow-3229b5d9-77dd-4c88-92ae-fb1e69d05d07.html

Mozilla: Changing our approach to anti-tracking https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-our-approach-to-anti-tracking/

Money for nothing: Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In the future, who will still work for a paycheck? - Atossa Araxia Abrahamian/The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

The world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995 - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain

Getting Started with React – An Overview and Walkthrough – Tania Rascia https://www.taniarascia.com/getting-started-with-react/

See all eight planets in one night - Sky & Telescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/see-all-eight-planets-in-one-night/

‘Digital shackles’: the unexpected cruelty of ankle monitors - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/28/digital-shackles-the-unexpected-cruelty-of-ankle-monitors

Real world SSD wearout – okmeter.io blog https://blog.okmeter.io/real-world-ssd-wearout-a3396a35c663

The bridge of desperation: The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has led to one of the largest mass migrations in Latin America’s history - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Venezuela_bridge

How Hollywood is racing to catch up with Netflix - Cynthia Littleton/Variety https://variety.com/2018/digital/features/media-streaming-services-netflix-disney-comcast-att-1202910463/

Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work? - Rayne Ellis/Mashable https://mashable.com/2018/08/18/how-recycling-works

I delivered packages for Amazon and it was a nightmare - Alana Semuels/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/amazon-flex-workers/563444/

The unlikely return of Birkenstock - The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/cathy-horyn-on-birkenstocks-unlikely-rise.html

Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay up. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/24/thousands-amazon-workers-receive-food-stamps-now-bernie-sanders-wants-amazon-pay-up/?utm_term=.3d6b73c5294d

What is this weird Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work? – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter-army-of-amazon-drones-cheerfully-defending-warehouse-work/

AWS' answer to Digital Ocean is Lightsail, which has been around since 2016. This is the first I've heard of it. https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/aws-cuts-the-price-of-most-of-its-lightsail-virtual-private-servers-in-half/

Mathematica at 30: We’ve come a long way (but you haven’t seen anything yet!) - Stephen Wolfram http://blog.wolfram.com/2018/06/21/weve-come-a-long-way-in-30-years-but-you-havent-seen-anything-yet/

GitLab 11.2 released with live preview in the Web IDE and Android project import https://about.gitlab.com/2018/08/22/gitlab-11-2-released/

What if banks were publicly owned? In LA, this may soon be a reality. | David Dayen/HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/public-bank-los-angeles_us_5b6bef33e4b0ae32af954495

Let’s all go back to Tumblr | Jeremy Gordon/The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back

We don't run cron jobs (2016) - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17805829

We don’t run cron jobs at Nextdoor – Wenbin Fang/Nextdoor Engineering https://engblog.nextdoor.com/we-don-t-run-cron-jobs-at-nextdoor-6f7f9cc62040

Fedora Silverblue is a new way of putting together a Linux desktop with rpm-ostree for 'fully atomic upgrades, easy rollbacks,' and Flatpak desktop applications for 'stronger isolation' and more reliable upgrades. https://teamsilverblue.org/

Use bundler/inline to make sure users get the Ruby gems needed to run your script https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/970jus/rewriting_a_shell_script_on_ruby/e47dj1z

Stop hiring for culture fit - Patty McCord/Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-to-hire

Punctuation that failed to make its mark - Keith Houston/BBC.com http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151104-punctuation-that-failed-to-make-its-mark

What does immersing yourself in a book do to your brain? | Maryanne Wolf/Literary Hub https://lithub.com/what-does-immersing-yourself-in-a-book-do-to-your-brain/

TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes - Tom Ross/GitHub https://github.com/umpox/TinyEditor

Don't do what you love for a career -- do what makes you money - Catherine Baab-Muguira/Quartz https://qz.com/819233/do-what-you-love-is-bad-advice-work-for-money-not-for-passion/

Electric scooters are illegal in the UK because of 1835 law - Shona Ghosh/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-scooters-illegal-1835-highways-act-2018-8

Is this the end of the TV writers’ room as we know it? | Joy Press/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/the-end-of-the-tv-writers-room-as-we-know-it-mini-rooms

In Ruby, global variables work, but you're supposed to use instance variables when you can, so I made the switch on all the variables in this Twitter-posting app. If you see this, it worked.

Facebook wanted us to kill this investigative tool - Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wanted-us-to-kill-this-investigative-tool-1826620111

Snap’s drop in active users could signal a social media peak - Kate Conger/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/technology/snapchat-users.html

I'm learning a crazy amount of Vim by using it every day. I look up how to do the things I need to do (and Vim can do just about anything), and I've written search/replace macros for the hard stuff. Repetition is the key.

China still sorting through its bike-share graveyards - Alan Taylor/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/china-abandoned-bike-share-graveyards/566576/

Where Vim came from - Two-Bit History https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html

Why so many poor kids who get into college don’t end up enrolling - Alvin Chang/Vox https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17639142/poor-kids-college-dont-enroll

Commit often, perfect later, publish once - Seth Robertson/Git Best Practices https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/

It bears repeating: @firefox is very much a usable browser. If you think there is too much Google in your life, pair it with @DuckDuckGo and see how it works for you.

Dollar stores are thriving – but are they ripping off poor people? - Joe Eskenazi/The Guardian US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/28/dollar-store-ripping-people-off-poverty-inequality

The expensive education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley - Kara Swisher/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/the-expensive-education-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-silicon-valley.html

When you try to use Vim commands in a WordPress Dashboard window

As Google Maps renames neighborhoods, residents fume - Jack Nicas/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html

Why a typical home solar setup does not work with the grid down - and what you can do about it - Russel Graves https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-setup-does-not-work-off-grid.html

The hardest thing about search/replace macros in Vim is figuring out how to deal with line breaks. I have lots of situations where having cr-lf line endings is helpful in search/replace, but that's not a thing in Vim.

I'm using Vim as my main Windows text editor to edit news stories because my usual go-to Win editors - Notepad++ and Geany - are both bad at search/replace macros. I'm learning a lot of Vim due to brute repetition.

SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure - Tom Hall http://www.sicpdistilled.com

Time to get Audacity - the free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing - for my Windows 10 laptop https://www.audacityteam.org/

10 reasons to ignore computer science degrees | CIO https://www.cio.com/article/3293010/hiring-and-staffing/10-reasons-to-ignore-computer-science-degrees.html

I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences. - Sunil Sandhu https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/i-created-the-exact-same-app-in-react-and-vue-here-are-the-differences-e9a1ae8077fd

How Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50 million pages of newspapers in his living room - Alexandria Neason/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tom-tryniski-fultonhistory.php

The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere — Ephrat Livni/Quartzy https://quartzy.qz.com/1342058/the-most-relaxing-vacation-you-can-take-is-going-nowhere-at-all/