A MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM might be about to launch – BGR http://bgr.com/2018/06/04/macbook-pro-2018-release-date-soon-specs-geekbench/

American tech giants are making life tough for startups - The Economist https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/02/american-tech-giants-are-making-life-tough-for-startups

Hello, GitHub - Nat Friedman https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/

Apple jams Facebook's web-tracking tools - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44360273

Apple’s new product features are an admission of guilt | Casey Johnston/The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4810/apples-new-product-features-are-an-admission-of-guilt

Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers - The Official Microsoft Blog https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/

How 5G is going to make smartphones ugly again – BGR http://bgr.com/2018/06/02/5g-smartphones-release-date-cost-design/

Donald Trump: Could the US president pardon himself? - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40693249

Your home is under 'staggering levels of surveillance' - Jem Collins/The Essential https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/smart-homes-surviellance/

Learning Web development in 2018? Go with Lambda School - JJ Ashcraft/Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/lambda-school-coding-bootcamps-86af85b7c3f7

A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops - Hermione Hoby/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/02/new-york-remaining-independent-bookshops-booksellers-ungar-bohbot

Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker - Kristian Freeman/Byteconf https://medium.com/byteconf/stripe-is-building-a-ruby-typechecker-d6cd7cee6abf

Microsoft is said to have agreed to acquire GitHub - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

Dockless bikes: Are they bad for station-based bike-sharing systems? - Alissa Walker/Curbed https://www.curbed.com/2018/5/30/17390264/bike-sharing-dockless-bicycles-cities

What can Aristotle teach us about the routes to happiness? - Edith Hall/Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-aristotle-teach-us-about-the-routes-to-happiness

How WIRED Lost ,000 in Bitcoin https://www.wired.com/story/wired-lost-bitcoin

YAKS - Comments for your static websites https://yaks.it/

Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails - Dan Falk/NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/why-some-scientists-say-physics-has-gone-rails-ncna879346

Stop calling them 'social': Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et al are the new mainstream media - Mary McNamara http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-mcnamara-social-media-20180602-story.html

Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/2-billion-startup-github-could-be-for-sale-microsoft-2018-5

'Tis the season to write Clojure - Chris James http://www.quii.co.uk/Tis_the_season_to_write_Clojure

How to host your own private git repositories - Evan Klitzke https://eklitzke.org/how-to-host-your-own-private-git-repositories

Lobotomizing GNOME - Evan Klitzke (This is about taking control of your GNOME desktop; a very interesting read) https://eklitzke.org/lobotomizing-gnome

Arkady Babchenko: 'Murdered' Russian journalist is alive - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44307611

KCBS-KCAL anchor @ElsaRamonOnAir on why she left TV news - story by @tvanita with updates on @andreafujiitv, @WhitJohnson and @RickGarciaNews https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/05/29/former-kcbs-kcal-anchor-elsa-ramon-on-why-she-left-tv-news-exclusive/

This happened to me: clojure - Leiningen tries to call java.exe from a wrong/missing JDK - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22191986/leiningen-tries-to-call-java-exe-from-a-wrong-missing-jdk#22222935

This line had my solution:

• Does your leiningen user profile ~/.lein/profiles.clj have a :java-cmd setting ?

Yes, mine did. I vaguely remember doing that when trying to configure Emacs in "Clojure for the Brave and True."

Getting a working development environment and wrapping one's head around how Clojure programs are constructed and distributed is quite a barrier. It's not like I've gotten over it.

I'm sure that people use fireplace.vim and do so successfully, but I can't get it to do anything when I follow the instructions at https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace

Mainframes and supercomputers, from the beginning till today - The CPU Shack Museum http://www.cpushack.com/2018/05/27/mainframes-and-supercomputers-from-the-beginning-till-today/

Chip Hall of Fame: Zilog Z80 microprocessor - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/chip-hall-of-fame-zilog-z80-microprocessor

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover https://standardebooks.org/

Making a Case for Making a Case – Fraulini Guitars http://fraulini.com/2016/03/making-a-case-for-making-a-case/

How Fender is bringing serverless to rock 'n roll - The Cloudcast No. 348 http://www.thecloudcast.net/2018/05/the-cloudcast-348-bringing-serverless.html

Beginner's guide to Big O Notation and Time and Space Complexity - TechTalko http://www.techtalko.com/2018/04/11/beginner-guide-to-big-o-notation-time-and-space-complexity/

London Tube Heartbeat http://tubeheartbeat.com/london/

Why is your location data no longer private? — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/why-is-your-location-data-no-longer-private/

'A fun adventure, not a business': The Weather Channel stops publishing video on Facebook - Digiday https://digiday.com/media/the-weather-channel-has-walked-away-from-facebook-video/

Fread offers a whole lot of paywalled news services - including @washingtonpost, @WSJ, @WIRED, @NewYorker, @TheEconomist, @Telegraph and more - for a month. If this isn't the future, I don't know what is. https://www.getfread.com/

Code to joy: Is learning to code in middle age a fool's errand or a committed act of digital citizenship? - Andrew Smith https://www.1843magazine.com/features/code-to-joy

Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript with explanations and links to further readings - trekhleb https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms

Email as we know it is drowning in spam, forged phishing mails, and other scams and hacks. It's going to get worse before it gets better. - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/email-is-dangerous/560780/

Starting in 2019, Californians won't be allowed to drive around without license plates (and yes, that is a thing) - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/07/steve-jobs-loophole-closed-california-wants-temporary-license-plates/

AsteroidOS is an open-source operating system for your smart watch https://asteroidos.org

Where the Yanny and Laurel meme comes from - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/yanny-and-laurel-true-history/

The vehicle of the future has two wheels, handlebars, and is a bike - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/vehicle-future-bike/

After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost - John O'Nolan and Hannah Wolfe https://blog.ghost.org/5/

The untold story of Robert Mueller's time in the Vietnam War - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/robert-mueller-vietnam/

JavaScript is good, actually - Ash Furrow https://ashfurrow.com/blog/javascript-is-good-actually/

Completely Silent Computer | tp69 https://tp69.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/completely-silent-computer/

What if JavaScript wins? – Anil Dash https://medium.com/@anildash/what-if-javascript-wins-84898e5341a

Windows 10 tip: Use an ISO file to create a bootable USB flash drive - ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-use-an-iso-file-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive/

Rich Hickey on problem solving and Clojure 1.9 (transcript of the Conversations about Software Engineering podcast http://www.case-podcast.org/20-problem-solving-and-clojure-19-with-rich-hickey/transcript

What Are Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook ‘Stories’? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/smartphone-stories-snapchat-instagram-facebook/559517/

Woz on the importance of HP in the creation of Apple http://www.loopinsight.com/2018/05/14/woz-on-the-importance-of-hp-in-the-creation-of-apple/

Google’s plan to make tech less addictive - Mark Wilson/Co.Design https://www.fastcodesign.com/90171307/googles-plan-to-make-tech-less-addictive

Working LEGO pinball machine built from 15,000 bricks https://www.brothers-brick.com/2018/05/09/working-lego-pinball-machine-built-from-15000-bricks-features-benny-in-all-his-classic-space-glory-exclusive-feature/

The HP-35: An origin story - Codex 99 http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html

Build your own 'insert technology here.' A curated collection of project-based programming tutorials. https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

It doesn't have to be crazy at work - Basecamp https://basecamp.com/books/calm

Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, GNOME is back—and Ubuntu has never been better - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/ubuntu-18-04-the-return-of-a-familiar-interface-marks-the-best-ubuntu-in-years/

The biggest Fedora 28 reinstallation hurdle was getting the installer to "take" my original root partition. I had to check the box for overwriting it. There should have been some guidance. Instead I had to figure it out. It was an educated guess.