Why being a loner may be good for your health - BBC http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180228-there-are-benefits-to-being-antisocial-or-a-loner

I wanted to buy this domain, but I just learned that it costs $19,888: http://racketeer.com/. This one is a relative bargain at $3295: http://theracketeer.com. Maybe I'll get a .io ... or go for something completely different.

I am playing with http://racket-lang.org, and I don't know how deep I will want to go with it.

The DrRacket IDE is refreshingly simple, and already I've been able to figure out how to scrape a web page and grab elements with a regex. Getting the development environment set up is world's easier than with Clojure (though I've been dabbling in Zach Oakes Nightcode https://sekao.net/nightcode to get a feel for that language).

Pros for Racket include that its team cares about desktop GUIs, the documentation is excellent, and there's a great static-blog compiler called Frog https://github.com/greghendershott/frog. Cons: Not a lot of people are using Racket for non-academic purposes. But the lack of a Ruby Nokogiri-like library made me learn a new regex pattern that I'm probably going to use in my Ruby app BlogPoster to eliminate Nokogiri as a dependency. (Related side note: the Ruby Twitter Gem is a HUGE dependency that I probably should be more focused on ditching, and if I implemented this app in Racket, I'd have to do without it. In Clojure, I could probably lean on a native library, or use something from Java.)

I have not been excited about Twitter recently. My BlogPoster script allows me to create entries and NOT post them to Twitter, and I may do that a bit this week. Whether they're on Twitter or not, my social updates are at http://stevenrosenberg.net/updates/.

Working with URLs in Racket - Luis Quintanilla: I fired up DrRacket and gave this a try, and it's as easy as it looks. Needless to say, this kind of thing is exactly what I'm looking for. http://luisquintanilla.herokuapp.com/2017/12/13/working-with-urls-racket/