My current existential crisis: Stick with Windows 10, or go back to Linux (and yes, I know nobody wants to hear about it)

The 'future book' is here, but it's not what we expected | Craig Mod/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/future-book-is-here-but-not-what-we-expected/

Microsoft's new Terminal is open source https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal

Windows gets a new terminal – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/windows-gets-a-new-terminal/

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-visual-studio-online-an-online-code-editor/

Goodbye AWS: Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes, Part 1 - Ev Kontsevoy/Gravitational https://gravitational.com/blog/aws_vs_colocation/

Why you should start binge-reading right now - Ben Dolnick/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/why-you-should-start-binge-reading-right-now.html

Why Go? – Key advantages you may have overlooked - YourBasic Go https://yourbasic.org/golang/advantages-over-java-python/

Local newspapers are failing to make the digital transition larger players did — and are in danger of vanishing - Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/graphics/local-newspapers-stark-divide/

Dooce.com’s Heather Armstrong was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart. - Chavie Lieber/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead

Smartphone shipments: Apple down 30%, Samsung down 8%, But Huawei up 50% - John Koetsier/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/05/01/smartphone-shipments-apple-down-30-samsung-down-8-but-huawei-up-50

While @hostgator might not have everything, and their Ruby is old (in keeping with their CentOS 6 base), it looks like they have ALL the Ruby Gems installed -- like thousands of them

I really like what I see with @ProtonMail

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET has Clojure, Java, Golang, Erlang, Haskell, Node, Perl, Python 2 and 3, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala and even TCL, LISP, Scheme, Guile and Racket. Ruby Gems include Rails, Jekyll and Nokogiri (but no Sinatra). They do have Hugo. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

Twitter is boring AF. Sorry, Twitter.

The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program - Jason Del Rey/Vox https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping

How a Canadian chain is reinventing book selling - Alexandra Alter/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/books/booksupdate/indigo-books-canadian-chain.html

Building a site with Jekyll on NearlyFreeSpeech.net - Jesse Squires https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/building-a-site-with-jekyll-on-nfsn/

.@carlaschroder's Linux Cookbook is 14 years old, and I am still getting tips from it (I've gotten rid of countless tech books much younger, FYI). I use lots of macros in Vim, but now I'm going to explore abbreviations (ab) and mappings (map), which are in her .vimrc

PWA vs. React Native https://www.kirupa.com/apps/pwa_vs_react_native.htm

Paid email newsletters are proving themselves as a meaningful revenue generator for writers - Alan Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/writers-have-been-trying-to-support-online-themselves-for

All the details on Librem One by Purism - mail, chat, social and VPN that doesn't track you or sell your data https://librem.one/

.@BryanLunduke emphasizes that you pay for Purism's Librem One with money, not with your every last shred of your privacy. It's a different way of imagining our connected world. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/purism-launches-librem-one-suite-privacy-protecting-no-track-no-ad-apps-and-services

Purism, the company that makes privacy-respecting laptops, is now launching a 'bundle of ethical services': chat, mail, VPN and social media that vow to never track you https://puri.sm/

Faith, friendship and tragedy at Santa Fe High - Skip Hollandsworth/Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/remembering-sabika-sheikh-pakistani-student-killed-santa-fe-school-shooting/

Better looking fonts for Fedora - silenc3r/GitHub https://github.com/silenc3r/fedora-better-fonts

You should have a personal web site - Mark Christian https://writing.markchristian.org/2019/04/29/personal-web-sites/

Announcing the release of Fedora 30 - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/

The new @Fedora Discussion forum is about 99% @teamsilverblue-related. I understand to some extent why Silverblue is interesting, but it's not like "regular" Fedora is horrible and this is some kind of software savior.

Red Hat takes over stewardship for the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 projects from Oracle - Sugandha Lahoti/Packt Hub https://hub.packtpub.com/redhat-takes-over-stewardship-for-the-openjdk-8-and-openjdk-11-projects-from-oracle/

I believe in what @neovim is doing, but I use Gvim at least half the time, and Neovim's GUI story isn't very clear

I forgot to mention that I run 64-bit Vim in Windows. And yes, I will die on this hill.

I replaced Vim 8.0 with 8.1 on my Windows 10 PC. That's the kind of renegade I am.

Show HN: 1MB - Free and easy static website hosting - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19772097

1MB is a free and easy static website host https://1mb.site/

So we are going to #AvengersEndGame at 8:30 on Sunday. That's a.m., people.

I now have a successfully upgraded OpenBSD 6.5 system, but it should have been easier. Selecting upgrade after running install65.fs and miniroot65.fs from a USB drive left me with 6.4. I had to download and copy a 6.5 bsd.rd into my / and use that to boot and install.

After a kernel panic yesterday, today I hooked up the OpenBSD 6.4 drive and my HP Pavilion g6 laptop booted with no trouble. Time for the 6.5 upgrade.

Even though I used it a few days ago, yesterday my OpenBSD 6.4 laptop wouldn't boot. I wanted to upgrade to 6.5, but a kernel panic is getting in the way.

I am slowly and deliberately creating a second web site in the Google Cloud. This will be a replacement for my social-updates blog, which currently lives on shared hosting. I will then probably move my main blog to the Google Cloud. So much for being wary of Google, right?

Renting instead of owning, and taking it to the extreme - Sam Sanders/NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/715107132/the-affluent-homeless-a-sleeping-pod-a-hired-desk-and-a-handful-of-clothes

Tweets have a short shelf life

Kyle Simpson: I've forgotten more JavaScript than most people ever learn - Amsterdam JSNation https://medium.com/@amsterdamjs/kyle-simpson-ive-forgotten-more-javascript-than-most-people-ever-learn-3bddc6c13e93

The most measured person in tech is running the most chaotic place on the Internet - Daisuke Wakabayashi/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/business/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki.html

This LA band made a music video tribute to the city's not-so-classic car culture - Mike Roe/LAist https://laist.com/2019/04/17/modern_time_machines_malaise_for_days_music_video.php

Apple owes everyone an apology, and it should start with me, specifically - Casey Johnston/The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7315/apple-keyboards-still-suck-insanely-bad

Taming data with JavaScript – Brian Greig/A List Apart https://alistapart.com/article/taming-data-with-javascript/

Responsible JavaScript: Part I – Jeremy Wagner/A List Apart https://alistapart.com/article/responsible-javascript-part-1/

339 bytes of responsive CSS - Gaurav Koley (I love these simple-CSS hacks) https://blog.koley.in/2019/339-bytes-of-responsive-css

The joys of reading a print newspaper - Andrew Ferguson/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/andrew-ferguson-joys-reading-print-newspaper/586792/

58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere - jrl.ninja https://jrl.ninja/etc/1/

Congress is about to ban the government from offering free online tax filing. Thank TurboTax. — Justin Elliott/ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-the-government-from-offering-free-online-tax-filing-thank-turbotax

The great Sriracha battle is coming to America - Sophie Alexander and Randy Thanthong-Knight/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-06/thaitheparos-sriraja-panich-sriracha-comes-to-the-u-s-market

Flesh made wood: The invention of artificial refrigeration - Rebecca Woods/The Appendix http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/flesh-made-wood-the-invention-of-artificial-refrigeration

I lied when i said we did everything we could - Lane Wilson, MD https://opmed.doximity.com/articles/i-lied-when-i-said-we-did-everything-we-could

Linux Mint's sobering update: A rare glimpse into the personal struggles developers face - Jason Evangelho/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/04/08/linux-mint-sobering-update-developer-struggles-community

Indeed, it seems that Google IS forgetting the old Web | Stop at Zona-M http://stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/indeed-it-seems-that-google-is-forgetting-the-old-web/

How do you choose a cloud-computing platform? It's like the wild West out there. http://passthejoe.net/cgi-bin/ode.cgi/cloud/2019_0407_choosing_a_cloud

I'm experimenting with the free tier on @googlecloud. Here's a post from a blog I set up. http://passthejoe.net/cgi-bin/ode.cgi/google_cloud/2019_0407_google_cloud

Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life - Amanda Ruggeri/BBC Capital http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190401-why-worthless-humanities-degrees-may-set-you-up-for-life