Eleventy is a static-site generator written in JavaScript that is extensible and light weight. Consider it an alternative to Jekyll, Hugo and Gatsby. https://www.11ty.io/

Java for everything - Teamten.com https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html

Time Machine-style backup with rsync - Laurent Cozic https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

An orbit map of the solar system - Eleanor Lutz/Tabletop Whale http://tabletopwhale.com/2019/06/10/the-solar-system.html

MacBook Pro problem costing turned out to be a /home/public//cgi-bin/ode.cgi fix - Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/11/macbook-pro-problem/

Mozilla is launching paid, premium features in Firefox - Katharine Schwab/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90362208/even-more-evidence-that-firefox-wants-to-be-the-anti-chrome

Meet the new Dropbox desktop app (Windows and Mac, no Linux) https://www.dropbox.com/features/new

The next big thing in fashion? Not washing your clothes - Elizabeth Segran/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90359188/the-next-big-thing-in-fashion-not-washing-your-clothes

(Why) I’m stepping down from my WordPress marketing role • Joost de Valk https://joost.blog/why-im-stepping-down-from-my-wordpress-marketing-role/

He loves the direction Apple is taking with the Mac – Marco.org https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening

They See It. They Like It. They Want It. They Rent It. - Sapna Maheshwari/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/style/rent-subscription-clothing-furniture.html

I'm worried that gem install in Ruby brings in dependencies from that program that could be better installed from the Fedora repositories

Fedora upgraded Ruby from 2.5 to 2.6, and I had to do a gem update in order to get it working. I'm hazy on which gems I have installed as Fedora packages and which are from gem install.

I've heard a lot of ES-335 and ES-330-type guitars lately, and I really love the sounds

Forestry.io is a CMS for static sites created with Hugo, Jekyll, VuePress and Gatsby. For up to 3 collaborators per site, it's free. https://forestry.io/

I tried to turn a JRuby program into a jar with Warbler, but it doesn't want to work in Windows. Coming out with a jar file that you can "just run" with Java would seem to be THE reason to use JRuby instead of regular Ruby.

Calling Java from JRuby - JRuby Wiki https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/CallingJavaFromJRuby

JRuby is a neat trick for sure. The part I need to figure out is how you go from JRuby to a JAR file that can be run like any other Java app.

JRuby already told me to replace the deprecated Dir.exists? with Dir.exist. I should get on that.

I'm using JRuby instead of MRuby (aka "regular" Ruby) to run my blogPoster app to post to Twitter and http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net

Trying jruby to run my blogPoster Ruby script

Why Excel is a startup killer, and how the riches are in the niches - Ross Simmonds/Foundation https://foundationinc.co/lab/the-saas-opportunity-of-unbundling-excel/

TrueOS, formerly PC-BSD, now focused on servers (but desktop packages are available) https://www.trueos.org/more-on-trueos/

Project Trident: A FreeBSD desktop system based on TrueOS https://project-trident.org/

Say no to Electron! Using JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop application - Renato Athaydes https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/saynotoelectronusingjavafxtowriteafastresponsivedesktopapplication

LibreOffice drops 32-bit Linux support. My take: If you NEED 32-bit, your hardware is so old, you should just run Abiword or Geany and be happy with it. If you're running 32-bit on 64-bit hardware, stop that shit. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/libreoffice-6-3-32bit-linux-support

It's very slick how TNW (aka The Next Web aka thenextweb) is a single-page-app with an infinite scroll and a URL in the browser bar that changes as you scroll from one article to the next. Nice. https://thenextweb.com

Why does macOS Catalina use Zsh instead of Bash? Licensing - Matthew Hughes/The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina-use-zsh-instead-of-bash-licensing/

Remember the '10,000 hours' rule for success? Forget about it - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/books/review/david-epstein-range.html

Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18651872/apple-macos-catalina-zsh-bash-shell-replacement-features

Up to 25 cups of coffee a day safe for heart health, study shows - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/health/coffee-heart-health-arteries-scli-intl-gbr/index.html

Apple introduces 'Sign in with Apple' to help protect your privacy – Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/apple-sign-in-privacy/

Sometimes when I see a promoted tweet and it's actually relevant, I will follow the account. And if it's a legit "ad," I will just let it pass by. Clickbate promoted tweets get muted.

We're buying into a giant lie about plastic - Alex Lubben/VICE News https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwn4mj/were-buying-into-a-giant-lie-about-plastic

At least one Vim trick you might not know - Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/intermediate-vim/

The Next browser, written in common LISP https://next.atlas.engineer/

Remembering Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019), inventor of quarks - Stephen Wolfram https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/remembering-murray-gell-mann-1929-2019-inventor-of-quarks/

The world's oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995 - Daniel Oberaus/Vice https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain

Got lucky today with Firefox and the Conexant audio driver in Windows. I turned off all of the Conexant services (which believe it or not doesn't affect the sound), and Conexant's Flow.exe isn't making a mess of things. Without that issue, Firefox is a lovely browser that spys a whole lot less.

Modern gear for the swing guitar player, 2019 update - Jonathan Stout https://www.campusfive.com/swingguitarblog/2019/4/19/what-should-i-buy-modern-gear-for-the-vintage-player-2019-update

Now I think I know what's crashing my Ruby microblogging script: Trying to save files with file names that are too long. That's an easy fix.

We have a lot of HP laptops in the house, and I'm NOT saying that a metal case is better than plastic. Aluminum will bend/dent before plastic will break.

Uber’s path of destruction - Hubert Horan/American Affairs Journal https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/

Who's taking on Walmart? Dollar General, Aldi and even Amazon - Axios https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-cefdd0af-06af-406f-837e-317a18f170ba.html?chunk=0#story0

git - How to change line-ending settings - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10418975/how-to-change-line-ending-settings

Using Hugo, GitLab Pages, and Cloudflare to create and run this Website - Thomas Kainrad (Note: This is a VERY GOOD tutorial that makes a great case for using GitLab Pages' CI/CD features) https://tkainrad.dev/posts/using-hugo-gitlab-pages-and-cloudflare-to-create-and-run-this-website/

I'm trying to track down an error that is crashing the Ruby script that handles these posts. I'm not sure if the crash happens due to longer post length or "special" characters. It seems to happen when I'm discussing C++. But now, of course, that error is NOT happening.

Apache NetBeans (now in version 11) doesn't have C/C++ support but is committed to adding it. (Disclaimer: I used to use NetBeans for C++ when I didn't want to run Visual Studio) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+Release+Roadmap