When I re-installed Fedora 28, I was able to keep my /home partition. It wasn't exactly a seamless process, as this is a dual boot with a now-ancient Windows 8 (not even point-1) and an encrypted Fedora.

After years of generally seamless Fedora upgrades, I had to re-install Fedora 28 after a failed upgrade left my Fedora 27 installation unbootable. It was something having to do with the keys, even though I had secure boot turned off. The old install was crufty anyway.

Google wants to cure our phone addiction. How about that for irony? - Matt Haig (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/10/google-phone-addiction-app

In order to upgrade to Fedora 28, I am using dnf autoremove to kill out 443 packages

Announcing the release of Fedora 28 - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-28/

Windows Notepad finally understands everyone else's end of line characters - ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-notepad-finally-understands-everyone-elses-end-of-line-characters/

Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/google-duplex-will-call-salons-restaurants-and-pretend-to-be-human-for-you/

The economics of writing a technical book – Justin Garrison https://medium.com/@rothgar/the-economics-of-writing-a-technical-book-689d0c12fe39

Lyme disease vaccine: The frustrating reason there isn’t one for humans - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness

Q&A with Yvette Pasqua, chief technology officer for Meetup https://wearevcgc.com/spring2018/yvette-pasqua

1980s computer controls school district's heat and AC http://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-controls-grps-heat-and-ac_20180329064517550/1086705524

1,000 True Fans http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

Subscription hell: How not to do paywalls – Danny Crichton/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/06/subscription-hell/

Mark Zuckerberg annouces 'Clear History' feature for Facebook https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104899855107881

Proton Native - React Native for the desktop, cross compatible https://proton-native.js.org

Say yes to the progressive web - Larry Seltzer/HPE https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/say-yes-to-the-progressive-web-1805.html

In 'Elastic,' a physicist argues that the mind needs time to play - Louise Fabiani https://undark.org/article/book-review-mlodinow-elastic/

The United States of Japan - Matt Alt/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-united-states-of-japan

‘I had to guard an empty room’: The rise of the pointless job - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job

Jeff Bezos' advice to Amazon employees: Don't aim for work-life balance; it's a circle - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezo-advice-to-amazon-employees-dont-aim-for-work-life-balance-its-a-circle-2018-4

De-Googling my phone - Martin Pitt https://piware.de/post/2018-05-01-android-degoogle/

A magical ten seconds of the Shirelles - Elon Green/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-magical-ten-seconds-of-the-shirelles

Searching for a future beyond Facebook - Jacob Silverman https://longreads.com/2018/05/01/searching-for-a-future-beyond-facebook/

For news editing over the past few weeks, I've gone from Google Chrome to Firefox and from Notepad++ to gVim. I have most of the bookmarks I need in Firefox (the big exception being dozens of NWS forecasts) and I have Vim macros to take care of text processing.

The five best books on computer science and programming, according to MIT's Ana Bell https://fivebooks.com/best-books/programming-computer-science-ana-bell/

Why good people leave large tech companies - Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2017/07/11/why-good-people-leave-tech-large-companies/

Working outside the tech bubble - Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2017/08/12/working-outside-the-tech-bubble/

Why Uber is the revenge of the founders - Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2017/10/24/uber-the-revenge-of-the-founders/

Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America - Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2018/02/02/janesville-a-story-about-the-rest-of-america/

Have you heard about Steve Blank? https://steveblank.com/

I'm using Gvim for all of my news writing/editing, so I'm getting a lot of Vim practice

Are you really Facebook’s product? The history of a dangerous idea - Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html

You know you're in trouble when you see the headline 'Can Kim's Peacemaking Efforts Be Trusted?' and you think they're talking about Kim Kardashian when it's really about Kim Jong Un.

Mahavishnu Orchestra - 'Between Nothingness & Eternity (Live)' Can you tell I'm exploring early jazz fusion? This live album is stunning. Love the interplay. Like all good fusion, everybody is burning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmNkGQm1YE4

I keep listening to Chick Corea's first "Return to Forever" album. I love the players and the vibe. I have a newfound interest in Chick and bassist Stanley Clarke. I really love the electric piano - it's like an electric guitar, piano and vibes rolled up into one instrument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TcSK6MYkpU

Tabasco sauce is in a battle for its very survival - Michael Isaac Stein https://earther.com/tabasco-sauce-is-in-a-battle-for-its-very-survival-1825510123

Editing news stories in Vim: I figured out how to make macros and boosted my productivity by switching from Notepad++. Gvim works better when going between web browser and editor in Windows. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros

I'm starting @Udemy's Complete Java Masterclass on the recommendation of @soniagupta504 https://twitter.com/soniagupta504/status/988110466923675648

Getting laid off in tech: The myth of upper middle-class security – Aakash Japi https://hackernoon.com/getting-laid-off-in-tech-4e3efed8649b

"Farewell - ETAOIN SHRDLU" (1978) - last day of hot metal type at the New York Times https://vimeo.com/127605643

Part of Twitter's appeal is its lack of financial success, real or imagined. It's like they just can't muster being as evil as Facebook.

I'm not 'deleting' my Facebook account, if that's even possible. I'm just not using Facebook. I never used the mobile app, and I'm not opening it on my desktop.

Firefox now has built-in screenshots, but it took me going to this page to figure it out https://screenshots.firefox.com/

What comes after the social media empires - BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/facebook-youtube-fragmentation

The Windows Subsystem for Linux endgame is a full Linux desktop accessible from within Windows 10. How is this not where Microsoft is going?

How do I make this program? (An article written before I got started with my Ruby script to create and post social updates and then send them to Twitter) http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/programming/2017_0912_how_do_i_make_this_program

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 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/windows/linux_on_windows/2017_1013_backup_before_installing_new_wsl

When I don’t recommend Clojure – vemv.net https://blog.vemv.net/when-i-dont-recommend-clojure-2597039536ce

Yes, you should delete facebook – Nat Eliason https://medium.com/s/story/yes-you-should-delete-facebook-heres-why-bc623a3b4625

Another year in newspapers; how many more? – an excellent column by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin's @DavidAllen909 https://www.dailybulletin.com/2018/04/21/another-year-in-newspapers-how-many-more/

I added Markdown syntax highlighting for Notepad++ with a "user defined language" file I got from this Github repo https://github.com/Edditoria/markdown-plus-plus

I am using the Tree Style Tab add-on for @firefox, and it's a bit of a game-changer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

Not sure how I stumbled on @ThePracticalDev, but I like it http://dev.to

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior: I'm not sure what led me to the early albums of Chick Corea's Return to Forever (I think it was Brian Eno's "Music for Airports," or Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint"), but here's another excellent album. Chick burns as usual, and this is a great showcase for guitarist Al Di Meola. The playing is heavy, the tones, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqiC5_88cVQ

Sexual harassment was rampant at Coachella 2018, where Teen Vogue reporter says she was groped 22 times https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sexual-harassment-was-rampant-at-coachella-2018

Chick Corea/Return to Forever - 1972: I love the instrumentation and vibe of this record - kind of a quiet fusion with electric piano and bass with flute and otherworldly vocals. How can you not love Chick on the Fender Rhodes electric piano? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TcSK6MYkpU

Job interviews for programmers now often come with days of unpaid homework — Quartz at Work https://work.qz.com/1254663/job-interviews-for-programmers-now-often-come-with-days-of-unpaid-homework/

I’m Ben and I am a Rails developer - Ben Halpern https://dev.to/ben/im-ben-and-i-am-a-rails-developer-1j67

Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-gdpr-latest-data-ad-tracking-opt-out-stop-ads-marketing-a8310031.html

ClojureScript, beginners' home page http://clojure-script.org/