Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/uber-will-start-deactivating-riders-with-low-ratings/

Months later, I'm still battling problems on my HP laptop with the Conexant audio driver's Flow.exe program eating gobs of CPU when Firefox is running. If I wanted to bang my head against the wall over driver issues, I'd just run Linux.

I just did the Node.js/Express "Hello World" example https://expressjs.com/en/starter/hello-world.html

LAUSD looks to revive cursive in the classroom. Here’s what that looks like at a Pacoima school – great story by @ethanvarian via @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/05/26/lausd-looks-to-revive-cursive-in-the-classroom-heres-what-that-looks-like-in-a-pacoima-classroom/

Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool is as good a reason as any to use @racketlang. You can start generating great-looking documentation pages almost immediately. If I only use this one Racket feature, I'll be happy. https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html

When your programming language is all about publishing to the web (or elsewhere), I'm immediately more interested. In this case it's Pollen and @racketlang https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

The east San Fernando Valley (Van Nuys/North Hollywood/Sherman Oaks/Studio City) needs a @sproutsfm

Byte Magazine's LISP issue from August 1979 (archive.org via Hacker News) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08

Why the hell is the ‘race to 5G’ even a race? - Nilay Patel/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leadership-china-fcc-lte

Chinese developers fear losing GitHub access to trade war | Masha Borak/Abacus https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/chinese-developers-fear-losing-open-source-tech-trade-war/article/3011463

Byte Magazine from August 1981 on Smalltalk. Look at it for the ads alone. (Link via Hacker News) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg on Kara Swisher podcast Recode Decode - Eric Johnson/Vox https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/27/18639284/duckduckgo-gabe-weinberg-do-not-track-privacy-legislation-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-interview

I forget this every time: When you upgrade Fedora and a Dropbox popup asks you to download the daemon again. DON'T DO IT. Result will be Dropbox reindexing your entire Dropbox folder.

I'm doing the Fedora 29-30 upgrade (scorecard: 28-29 was fine, 27-28 not so much, all good from about 15 or 16 to 27)

I am loving the new terminal feature of Vim 8.1, especially in Windows 10 (hint: get it with :term)

I'm playing with #golang and @qtproject, and in Windows 10 it looks like I need TDM-GCC to make it work http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/

Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 - The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/30/atari-800-vs-commodore-64-the-brief-tale-of-two-8-bit-home-computers/

Why is SpaceX launching all of those Starlink satellites? (tl;dr global broadband internet) https://www.starlink.com/

Devblog - A dead simple blogging platform for developers by Hashnode https://hashnode.com/devblog

It's official: @netbeans is now a top-level project at the Apache Foundation @TheASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces51

How computing's first 'killer app' changed everything (tl;dr it's VisiCalc) - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47802280

While the OpenJDK version of Java doesn't even have a Windows installer, Python not only has an installer, it also has a version in the Microsoft Store. It's like they WANT users.

Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 update? | Steve/Microsoft Dev Blog - (There is a Python 3.7 you can install NOW in the Microsoft Store) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-10-may-2019-update/

What’s new in JavaScript ES2019 - Niall Mahere/Clubhouse.io: New flat() method for arrays, trimStart() and trimEnd() for strings are all extremely useful https://clubhouse.io/developer-how-to/whats-new-in-javascript-es2019

Fedora Silverblue is immutable, container-based and all that Fedora users are talking about https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/

OpenJDK not offering installers for Windows users is a very bad thing. I can do the manual install, but I can't think of another programming language that makes you do this.

I spent considerable time futzing with OpenJDK 12 in Windows, going back to Oracle's JDK 8, and trying to get JavaFX 12 to work. I messed with Netbeans 8.2, then 11, then back to 8.2. That the JDK "story" after Version 8 is so shaky, it's a problem.