Facebook’s next project: American inequality - A Stanford economist is using the company's vast store of personal data to study why so many in the U.S. are stuck in place economically - Politico https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/facebook-inequality-stanford-417093

Securing your Linux web server – 'Linux in Action' author David Clinton https://hackernoon.com/securing-your-linux-web-server-2be683c223eb

Why it’s so hard to actually work in shared offices (it's really about WeWork) - The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/why-its-so-hard-to-actually-work-in-shared-offices/

The beauty of the COBOL programming language - DevOps.com https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/

Amazon doesn’t just want to dominate the market—it wants to become the market - The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/amazon-doesnt-just-want-to-dominate-the-market-it-wants-to-become-the-market/

'Just an ass-backward tech company': How Twitter lost the Internet War - Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war

The Facebook armageddon: The social network's increasing threat to journalism - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/facebook-media-buzzfeed.php

A Clojure learning journey - Robert Stuttaford https://www.stuttaford.me/2018/02/18/a-clojure-learning-journey/

Browse without baggage in Firefox: Set Tracking Protection to always on - The Firefox Frontier blog https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/tracking-protection-always-on/

twitter-api for Clojure by Adam Wynne https://github.com/adamwynne/twitter-api

The Micro text editor showcases the power of Go as a cross-platform programming language. It really seems to be write once, compile and then run everywhere. Maybe I should consider Go for console app development. Can Go easily do GUIs? https://micro-editor.github.io/

Don Marti's blog strikes me as very important reading. He is a former Linux Journal editor who is now an open-source strategist at Mozilla. Lots of good information on Internet privacy and ad shenanigans. https://blog.zgp.org/

So you want a console text editor for Windows https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/

Why is Salesforce taking over skyscrapers around America? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/2/8/16990236/salesforce-skyscraper-san-francisco-skyline

Peter Thiel, retreating from Silicon Valley's tech scene, is moving to L.A. - LA Times http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-peter-thiel-20180215-story.html

Classroom desk replaced by IKEA couches, beanbags and rocking chairs. Will it help students learn? - LA Times http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-school-seating-20180215-story.html

Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand

Why ad companies love google’s ad blocker, but hate Apple’s privacy features - How-to Geek https://www.howtogeek.com/342297/why-ad-companies-love-googles-ad-blocker-but-hate-apples-privacy-features/

Astrophotographer spots Elon Musk's Tesla roadster cruising through space (video) - Space.com https://www.space.com/39699-astrophotographer-spots-elon-musks-roadster-in-space-video.html

Email is your electronic memory - FastMail Blog https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electronic-memory/

Real-world 4G LTE vs. 5G test benchmark: 14x bandwidth - React, etc. https://react-etc.net/entry/real-world-4g-lte-vs-5g-test-benchmark-14x-bandwidth

What students know that experts don't: School is all about getting the credential, not building skills http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-caplan-education-credentials-20180211-story.html

Who killed the junior developer? – Melissa McEwen https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/who-killed-the-junior-developer-33e9da2dc58c

I'm using MSN's Politics page. Lots of @NYTimes and @WAPO, no paywalls https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/

All she has to do to collect a million lotto jackpot is make her name public. She refuses. - Washington Post https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/all-she-has-to-do-to-collect-a-dollar560-million-lotto-jackpot-is-make-her-name-public-she-refuses/ar-BBJ4Jsr

Influential guitar author and editor Tom Wheeler dies - Reverb News https://reverb.com/news/influential-guitar-author-and-editor-tom-wheeler-dies-at-70

Zombie processes are eating your memory - Random ASCII https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/zombie-processes-are-eating-your-memory/

Is JavaScript trash? — Part 1 – Julien Etienne https://medium.com/@julienetienne/is-javascript-trash-part-1-5310ac4e20d0

Self-Education for Web Developers, a guide for beginners in programming - mkdev.me https://mkdev.me/en/book

When to use SQLite https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

It's not lost on me that setting up the Leiningen environment (or whatever you call it) for Clojure is both easier to do and understand in Windows than it is in Fedora. I'm glad there is now a package for Debian, but Fedora needs one, too.

The power of Clojure: Debugging — Cambium Consulting https://cambium.consulting/articles/2018/2/8/the-power-of-clojure-debugging

In web development, everything easy is hard again – Frank Chimero https://frankchimero.com/writing/everything-easy-is-hard-again/

I installed the Clojure project Leiningen on Fedora Linux via the script. It's not the kind of thing that Linux users generally use to install things. I finally got it to work, though. Windows installation is much easier. https://leiningen.org/

Twitter and Snap's success could be bad news for publishers - Axios https://www.axios.com/twitter-snap-ad-revenue-publishers-digital-media-f81061d7-993c-433b-b7b0-3d7e698f9b44.html

Facebook testing 'downvote' button for comments - Axios https://www.axios.com/facebook-testing-downvote-button-for-comments-1518192287-60041627-d1ee-4dcc-bd82-07fbe8182cbb.html

WeWork: The perfect manifestation of the millennial id - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/wework-the-perfect-manifestation-of-the-millennial-id/550922/

Meet the dogs of Chernobyl – the abandoned pets that formed their own canine community - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/05/dogs-chernobyl-abandoned-pets-stray-exclusion-zone

My advice for coding bootcamp graduates - Ross Williamson https://thinkfaster.co/2018/02/my-advice-for-coding-bootcamp-graduates/ tl;dr: You need to know Big-O, so take classes on Data Structures and Algorithms, and Probability and Statistics either at community college or online, and when you do this, put it on your resume.

Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16973914/tvs-crt-restoration-led-gaming-vintage

Plagiarism software unveils a new source for 11 of Shakespeare's plays - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/books/plagiarism-software-unveils-a-new-source-for-11-of-shakespeares-plays.html

How to know when a child's flu turns serious - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/well/family/children-flu-infants-deaths-influenza-complications-fever-breathing-symptoms.html

Read Exploring ES6 by Axel Rauschmayer for free http://exploringjs.com/es6/

JavaScript Allongé, the "Six" Edition - read it for free at Leanpub (where you can also buy it) https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read

Creating a simple GTK+ to-do application with Ruby - iridakos https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/01/25/creating-a-gtk-todo-application-with-ruby

Thunderbird - yep, the email program - meets its users - The Mozilla Thunderbird Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/02/what-thunderbird-learned-at-fosdem/

Schnack - simple self-hosted comment system for static websites https://schnack.cool/

With the third edition of Eloquent JavaScript now available in draft form, there is no time like the present for diving in https://eloquentjavascript.net/3rd_edition/00_intro.html

Fans of Eloquent JavaScript have been waiting for the book's third edition for a very long time. A draft of Marijn Haverbeke's groundbreaking book is now here. https://eloquentjavascript.net/3rd_edition/

A Gatsby.JS tutorial https://www.gatsbyjs.org/tutorial

REPL-driven development - a talk about Clojure by Stuart Halloway https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Halloway_Stuart/REPLDrivenDevelopment.md

Turning Twitter’s feed on its head – Florian Schulz https://medium.com/@getflourish/turning-twitters-feed-on-its-head-9565af1728c8

Priority Bicycles: How to build a better bicycle - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/everettpotter/2018/02/04/priority-bicycles-how-to-build-a-better-bicycle

Why Ruby on Rails applications should consider adding Go to their stack - Sphere Software https://sphereinc.com/why-ruby-on-rails-applications-should-consider-adding-go-to-their-stack/

The need for speed: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress ecosystem - Search Engine Land https://searchengineland.com/need-speed-google-dedicates-engineering-team-accelerate-development-wordpress-ecosystem-291214

The key to managing time is managing your priorities - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/the-key-to-managing-time-is-managing-your-priorities-2018-1

The punk rock Internet – how DIY rebels are working to replace the tech giants - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/01/punk-rock-internet-diy-rebels-working-replace-tech-giants-snoopers-charter

To 'like' or retweet, that is the question (and a fundamental disconnect) in Twitter. I'm not sure which is better, or why there are two ways to do what is essentially the same thing. What if I don't "like" something but want other people to see it?

At Center for Humane Technology, former Silicon Valley movers/shakers outline how "our society is being hijacked by technology" http://humanetech.com

The rise of the social media fembot - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/arts/fembot-poppy-lil-miquela-kylie-jenner.html