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