How GitHub became the nexus of software automation | Scott Fulton III/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-github-sneaked-up-on-us-to-become-the-nexus-of-software-automation/

I have a program that's super ugly and hackish, but it works.

I'm still OK with using Windows 10. That is all.

North Brother Island is New York City's post-apocalyptic playland - Dave Mosher/Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/north-brother-island-photo-tour-2017-9

Publii - An open-source static-website building tool for every skill level, from beginner to developer https://getpublii.com/

Isn’t it time we declared our independence from bloatware? - Vlad Savov/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/4/17533926/windows-ios-android-bloatware

From industrial engineering to web development - Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/industrial-engineering-web-dev/

Becoming a software engineer with no degree- Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/becoming-a-software-engineer-with-no-degree/

How to become a data scientist without a CS degree - Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/how-to-become-a-data-scientist-without-a-cs-degree/

Why the world should adopt a basic income - Guy Standing/The Economist https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/04/why-the-world-should-adopt-a-basic-income

Easy way to build Node JS RESTful APIs - Deval Kasundra/ProgrammingSchool https://www.programmingschool.io/easy-way-to-build-node-js-restful-apis/

Flutter is not React - Tobe Osakwe/Flutter Talk https://flutter.thosakwe.com/posts/flutter-is-not-react

React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity (tl;dr they stopped using it) - Nate Ebel/Udacity https://engineering.udacity.com/react-native-a-retrospective-from-the-mobile-engineering-team-at-udacity-89975d6a8102

Say hello to full employment - Annie Lowrey/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/07/hello-full-employment/564527/

Slow reading: the antithesis of speed reading - The Indy https://www.theindy.us/slow-reading/

How to back up your /home directory in the Windows Subsystem for Linux without losing permissions before killing your old WSL and installing a new one from the Windows Store (revised 7/2018) http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/windows/linux_on_windows/2017_1013_backup_before_installing_new_wsl

Node.js breaks into the top 5 - Hacker News hiring trends (May 2018) https://www.hntrends.com/2018/may-node-js-breaks-into-top-5.html

Reason Town: A podcast about the ReasonML language https://reason.town/

Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes Racket as its newest member project https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/jun/12/racketjoins/

Google to developers: We take down your extension - because we can - Wladimir Palant https://palant.de/2018/07/03/google-to-developers-we-take-down-your-extension-because-we-can

I spent two weeks trying to charge electric scooters for extra cash. What I got was a lot of headaches. - Nathanael Buckley/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/charging-bird-scooters-overnight-is-like-a-much-less-fun-version-of-pokemon-go.html

Cities need to stop selling out to big tech companies. There's a better way - Greg LeRoy and Maryann Feldman/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way

An Introduction to FXRuby — SitePoint https://www.sitepoint.com/an-introduction-to-fxruby/

fxruby is another way to make GUIs in Ruby https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/fxruby

Ruby 2D: A promising way to make GUI programs with Ruby http://www.ruby2d.com/

Build UIs in Clojure with Seesaw https://github.com/daveray/seesaw

The evolution of the Windows command line – Rich Turner/Microsoft Developer https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/06/27/windows-command-line-the-evolution-of-the-windows-command-line/

A University of Wisconsin campus pushes plan to drop 13 majors — including English, history and philosophy - Valerie Strauss/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/21/university-of-wisconsin-campus-pushes-plan-to-drop-13-majors-including-english-history-and-philosophy/?utm_term=.92019e3a2d8b

How Facebook punked and then gut punched the news biz – John Marshall/Talking Points Memo https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-facebook-punked-and-then-gut-punched-the-news-biz

How the blog broke the Web - Amy Hoy/Stacking the Bricks https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/

Snapchat’s decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns - Helena Fitzgerald/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17366528/snapchat-decline-internet-ghost-towns

Bird's million in 4 months is the poster child for Silicon Valley - Julie Bort/Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/birds-400-million-in-4-months-is-the-poster-child-for-silicon-valley-2018-6

Get an OpenBSD virtual machine in Amsterdam https://openbsd.amsterdam/

Facebook’s retreat from the news has painful for publishers — including Slate - Will Oremus/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/facebooks-retreat-from-the-news-has-painful-for-publishers-including-slate.html

Microsoft releases 125 million building footprints in the US as open data - Bing Maps Blog https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data/

That time I had Steve Jobs keynote at Unix Expo - Chris MacAskill/Cake https://www.cake.co/conversations/rZXhqtP/that-time-i-had-steve-jobs-keynote-at-unix-expo

More Unicode circles that you can use in Vim and other editors - Mark Tolonen/Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/a/12982461

Space is full of dirty, toxic grease - Hannah Devlin/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/27/space-is-full-of-dirty-toxic-grease-scientists-reveal

If you need a bigger 'bullet,' try the Unicode character 'BLACK CIRCLE' (U+25CF) https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25cf/index.htm

An appreciation: Harlan Ellison was a trendsetting writer, a Hollywood maverick, a way-cool Valley guy — and, yes, an often nice fellow – Bob Strauss/Daily News aka @bscritic https://www.dailynews.com/2018/06/28/harlan-ellison-genius-writer-hollywood-maverick-valley-cool-and-yes-often-nice-guy/

The @medium model for collecting money and paying it out looks great. Here is what they say: Each member's /month subscription is distributed proportionally to the stories that the individual member engaged with that month. https://medium.com/creators

How to type a bullet character in Vim http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/How-to-get-rounded-bullet-list-character-tp5726926p5726927.html

The architects of this building in Romania used Morse code to "sign their names" - toromio/Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/8ujutr/the_architects_of_this_building_in_romania_used/

When using Vim macros in your vimrc, (which I do heavily), here's how to type an <esc> https://stackoverflow.com/a/4010918

Amazon Linux WorkSpaces is some kind of virtual desktop thing from AWS. You can also do it with Windows. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-linux-workspaces/

Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall - Zachary Crockett/The Hustle https://thehustle.co/why-nobody-ever-wins-the-mall-car-giveaway

Big tech isn’t the problem with homelessness. It’s All of Us - Adam Rogers/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-isnt-the-problem-with-homelessness-its-all-of-us/

An invisible rating system at your favorite chain restaurant is costing your server - Caroline O'Donovan/BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/ziosk-presto-tabletop-tablet-restaurant-rating-servers

How did Google get so big? — 60 Minutes/CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-google-get-so-big/

GraalVM is a unversal virtual machine that runs applications in more languages that I can list in this post: JS, Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, C(++), etc. https://www.graalvm.org/

On Lisp by Paul Graham - a link to a download of the 1993 book http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Amazon, the brand buster - Julie Creswell/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/business/amazon-the-brand-buster.html

The power of simplicity - Paul Okstad http://pokstad.com/2018/05/20/power-of-simplicity.html

Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo - Danny Guo https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/migrating-from-jekyll-to-hugo/

London Trust Media Holdings buys IRC.com https://irc.com/

Stanford grads dish out life advice for high school and college in what kind of, sort of looks like a book https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCX52XIG6LE6GpC8e7feQyQ1JG-ATCUZ/view

React Native at Airbnb - Gabriel Peal (TL;DR: Airbnb is winding down use of React Native and will return to "regular" native development, meaning separate apps for iOS and Android) https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c

Should we use React Native? – Charlie Cheever/Expo https://blog.expo.io/should-we-use-react-native-1465d8b607ac

This entire web site is worth looking at for a deep dive into the history of technology: Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com

Testing out a new future for Consumer Reports - Karen K. Ho/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/consumer-reports-wirecutter.php