The TRS-80 Model 100, journalism workhorse of the 1980s - Wayne Lorentz http://wayne.lorentz.me/This_TRS-80/

Facebook: I'm there for the jazz guitar and old-technology posts

Not to copy other bloggers, though I'm totally doing just that, I'm thinking of adding an e-mail newsletter. E-mail is newly "hot" because it's a direct connection that doesn't involve a smarmy social-media interloper

I really don't like seeing the cheesy Disqus ads Disqus on my blog. Disqus deserves to make money, but I'm reluctant to pay. Like other bloggers, I might start creating "discussion" links on Reddit or Hacker News. Also, who needs the extra JS that loads with Disqus?

I've seen a few people delete their Facebook accounts more due to lack of interest than anything else. They are mostly moving to Instagram, so it's all in the family, so to speak.

I don't know what's worse, a company that only responds to your complaint when you shame them on social media, or one that DGAF even then

Why Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles - Bengt Halvorson/Motor Authority https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-purging-touchscreens-from-its-vehicles

The Unison file synchronization tool is too fragile. I need to find another way. Client and server need the exact same Unison version in order for sync to work, and it's getting harder to make that happen.

This @NewYorker article on @ewarren (aka Elizabeth Warren) is so long, I can't read it in one sitting. I'll have to wait for the paper magazine to come out. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/can-elizabeth-warren-win-it-all

Say what you will about @Microsoft, but they are putting money and people behind efforts to provide more tools for developers well beyond the MS-only languages and frameworks https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/

Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java | The Visual Studio Blog https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-visual-studio-code-java-installer/

The Ruby Style Guide https://rubystyle.guide/

The new Dropbox sucks - Daring Fireball https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks

I would be running Firefox right now if it weren't for @BangOlufsen and @ConexantSystems' broken audio driver https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555726

Apple reveals 'Lisa': Its million gamble (1983) - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/apple-reveals-lisa-its-50-million-gamble-207032

GIMP is never going to fix IPTC captions. If they haven't done it by now, it's never going to happen. https://www.gimp.org

It's not like I'm all that and a bag of chips, but writing on Twitter is better than reading on it

A brief history of how your privacy was stolen (by Google and Facebook, that is) - Roger McNamee/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/opinion/google-facebook-data-privacy.html

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/