I've been trying the Microsoft Edge browser. I recently worked Firefox back into my daily routine due to the massive speed improvements, and I figured I should give Edge a try. It's not that great. Right-clicking to open links is slow. Font rendering is nice. But overall, meh.

Watch the wondrous Costco pizza sauce dispenser in action | Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/costco-pizza-sauce-dispenser-satisfying

SPA, or not SPA, that is the question | Gianluca Guarini https://medium.com/@gianluca.guarini/spa-or-not-spa-that-is-the-question-711ace3576cf

Bitcoin could lose 90% of its value, Wall St. veteran Boockvar warns | CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/bitcoin-could-lose-90-percent-of-its-value-wall-st-veteran-boockvar-warns.html

Jake Paul is a terrifying genius and we should all be scared: Insights from the YouTuber's video series on how to become a social media star | BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/i-took-jake-pauls-educational-series

Inside Amazon Go, a store of the future | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/technology/inside-amazon-go-a-store-of-the-future.html

Podcasters, replace Skype with Discord for better audio quality and Web-based interviews | The Mac Observer https://www.macobserver.com/tips/deep-dive/podcasters-replace-skype-discord/

I just learned a new Vim tip: Swapping characters, words and lines | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Swapping_characters,_words_and_lines

UberEats will be the 'largest food delivery company in the world this year,' says CEO | VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/22/ubereats-will-be-the-largest-food-delivery-company-in-the-world-this-year-says-ceo/

Intel has a big problem. It needs to act like it | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it

How Google ditched VPNs for remote employee access | The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/beyondcorp-google-ditched-virtual-private-networking-internal-applications/

Decades of movie poster history go online | University of Texas http://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2018/01/18/decades-of-movie-poster-history-goes-online/

Tutorial: Intro to React | reactjs.org https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html

A brief overview of ES6 for React Native developers https://medium.com/the-react-native-log/a-brief-overview-of-es6-for-react-native-developers-15e7c68315da

JavaScript for Cats http://jsforcats.com/

How to Become a React Native Developer in 2018 – Hacker Noon https://hackernoon.com/how-to-become-a-react-native-developer-in-2018-d9bc85e1d91f

Looking beyond code to make the future work for everyone | Google CEO Sundar Pichai https://www.blog.google/topics/grow-with-google/looking-beyond-code-make-future-work-everyone/

Want a terrible job? Facebook and Google may be hiring armies of content moderators for 2018 | Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/facebook-and-google-are-building-an-army-of-content-moderators-for-2018.html

From helping shut-ins to sisterly advice, mail-order magazines did more than just sell things | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/helping-shut-ins-sisterly-advice-mail-order-magazines-did-more-just-sell-things-180967857/

Intel claims 90 percent of affected CPUs have live patches just as rumors of new attacks arrive | Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/intel-claims-90-percent-of-affected-cpus-have-live-patc-1822192075

The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google — and what they can do: A memo to big tech | The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21735026-which-antitrust-remedies-welcome-which-fight-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and

Simple made easy | a talk by Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Are we there yet? | a talk by Rick Hickey, creator of Clojure https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey

How I fell in love with Clojure | Christopher Small http://www.metasoarous.com/how-i-fell-in-love-with-clojure/

Top 5 trends in front-end development for 2018 | Applikey https://applikeysolutions.com/blog/top-5-trends-in-front-end-development-for-2018

Snap lays off two dozen employees | Cheddar https://cheddar.com/videos/exclusive-snap-lays-off-two-dozen-employees

I am looking at Wes Bos' JavaScript 30: Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials https://javascript30.com/

Implementing an open salary policy at a 17-year-old company (that company being Fog Creek Software) https://medium.com/make-better-software/talking-transparency-at-fog-creek-c8b72d58f6c

The fall of Travis Kalanick was a lot weirder and darker than you thought | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought

Elixir - Erlang didn't change, the world did https://tomjoro.github.io/2017-01-31-world-changed/

How much would an iPhone cost if Apple were forced to make it in America? (You guessed too low!) https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/01/17/how-much-would-an-iphone-cost-if-apple-were-forced-to-make-it-in-america/#7749b3cf2d2a

Why Russia is building its own Internet | IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/could-russia-really-build-its-own-alternate-internet

New California declares independence from California in statehood bid | USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/16/new-california-declares-independence-california-bid-become-51st-state/1036681001/

The hidden costs of serverless | A Cloud Guru https://read.acloud.guru/the-hidden-costs-of-serverless-6ced7844780b

Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic programming language tours (for the minute, I'm obsessed with this site) https://learnxinyminutes.com

Transmit AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware | system-bus-radio https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio

Hey, makers of video content on Twitter, your video doesn't show until the video ad -- which has nothing to do with your content -- is over. tl;dr: Your entire post looks like an ad for some product, and you're getting paid /home/public//cgi-bin/ode.cgi.

How a 22-year-old discovered the worst chip flaws in history | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-a-22-year-old-discovered-the-worst-chip-flaws-in-history

Lipi is a GUI that lets regular people use the Hugo static blog creator http://sohanchy.com/Lipi/

Your weird job titles are making you miss the best candidates | Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/40514090/your-weird-job-titles-are-making-you-miss-the-best-candidates

Is this the beginning of the end of the Bitcoin bubble? | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-bubble-pop/550601/

Containers vs. operating systems | Dave Cheney https://dave.cheney.net/2018/01/16/containers-versus-operating-systems

Should internet firms pay for the data users currently give away? | The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21734390-and-new-paper-proposes-should-data-providers-unionise-should-internet

How I Start - Let's Build a Ruby Gem Together! | Yuki & Moto Press http://yukimotopress.github.io/start

Everyone is getting hilariously rich and you're not (hint: it's about SF tech bros and Bitcoin) | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaires.html

Is the answer to phone addiction a worse phone? | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/grayscale-phone.html

If you have any interest in Clojure, Lisp or functional programming, you should read this list (early and often).

Thanks to Azel4231 for the list on Github. More at https://feierabendprojekte.wordpress.com

Also from Azel4231: An introduction to Clojure (2015, slides in PDF format)

IBM mainframe tube module part II: Powering up and using a 1950s key debouncer http://www.righto.com/2018/01/ibm-mainframe-tube-module-part-ii.html

Digital minimalism for the working hacker | Z.D. Smith http://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/digital-minimalism-for-the-working-hacker.html

Inside one of America's last pencil factories | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html

4 lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe programming | HPE https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/4-lessons-for-modern-software-developers-from-1970s-mainframe-programming-1709.html

ClojureScript syntax in 15 minutes | shaunlebron https://github.com/shaunlebron/ClojureScript-Syntax-in-15-minutes

Murdoch’s News Corp. warns Facebook to avoid ‘political’ changes | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/murdoch-s-news-corp-warns-facebook-to-avoid-political-changes

The state of Atom’s performance | blog.atom.io http://blog.atom.io/2018/01/10/the-state-of-atoms-performance.html

2017 JavaScript rising stars (you have to do a little clicking once you get there) https://risingstars.js.org/2017/en/

Ruby still isn't dead | Engine Yard https://www.engineyard.com/blog/ruby-still-isnt-dead

Firefox bullshit removal via about:config | haasn https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5

Modern JavaScript explained for dinosaurs | Medium https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-explained-for-dinosaurs-f695e9747b70

Unix's curl utility coming to Windows | daniel.haxx.se https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/01/13/microsoft-curls-too/

There's a simplicity to the Ode blogging system that is lacking in almost everything else out there. I say this as I test a static blogging system that is bringing in about 100 dependencies right now. https://ode.io/home/