Donald Knuth: The Yoda of Silicon Valley - Siobhan Roberts/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html

I take it back. WordPress Dashboard response in Chrome on Windows 10 is as bad as ever. The lag is back.

I'm not working today. It's not a 'production' day. But I'm in Windows 10, and it's running well. I'm not sure if MS fixed something, or it's something I'm doing (or not doing)

A bold new chapter for Fedora Workstation — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/04/24/a-bold-new-chapter-for-fedora-workstation/

Debian News -- Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200801

Fedora Workstation: Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/04/28/fedora-workstation-swamp-draining-for-6-years/

Normally Google Chrome runs very poorly in Windows 10 when I'm using the WordPress Dashboard, but today the lag was gone in both Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Did recent updates fix something?

GNOME is not the default for Fedora Workstation — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/05/07/gnome-is-not-the-default-for-fedora-workstation/

Grub security issue fixed in Debian https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4735

Let's throw the kitchen sink at COVID-19 and get back to normal by October - Washington Post Editorial Board https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-it-would-take-to-get-back-to-normal-by-october/2020/07/27/a8886854-d02d-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html

Dear @getspectrum, between phone calls, emails and postal mail, you have asked me to subscribe to Spectrum TV well over 1,000 times. I think we both know it's never going to happen.

Zucchinis linked to rare poisonings in England | Food Safety News https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/07/zucchinis-linked-to-rare-poisonings-in-england/

The AWS bill heard around the world - Chris Short https://chrisshort.net/the-aws-bill-heard-around-the-world/

Want to improve Firefox performance on Linux? Enable WebRender - OMG! Ubuntu! https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/firefox-enable-webrender-linux

On Portland's streets: Anger, fear, and a fence that divides - Associated Press https://apnews.com/1dd1bb39093a3691f4e78093787ab877

One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat - David Pierce/Protocol https://www.protocol.com/neeva-search

Raphael Herzog's @debian Handbook — updated for Buster — is Debian's secret weapon https://raphaelhertzog.com/2020/07/24/the-debian-handbook-has-been-updated-for-debian-10/

The new Facebook design? Honestly, I don't hate it. It's a huge improvement.

I now have 4 Debian Stable systems: A 2017 HP laptop, a 2011 Mac desktop, and 2 Raspberry Pi Zero W boards

The last time I quit using Debian Stable — in 2013 — it was when my laptop died. I can see once again how nice it is to have the system working so consistently. I did this Debian Stable installation in late 2019.

The first best seller: Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela' - Pamela Regis/Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/first-best-seller

Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts but quick to reduce them - JP Koning http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/06/banks-are-slow-to-increase-rates-on.html

Pro tip: When you misspell the name of a variable, things break

I set up a cron job and forgot to send the output to /dev/null

I am looking at these Hugo themes:

• Manis

• Hermit

• Noteworthy

• Etch

• Fuji

• Anatole

@gohugoio https://themes.gohugo.io/

Before I become your doctor, you have been intubated for weeks - Dr. Anna DeForest/New England Journal of Medicine https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2016293

I took the car out to charge the battery Sunday afternoon after my AAA jump-start, and I decided to drive by Mission San Fernando. On the baseball field across the street, there was a game going on. Two full teams, uniforms, the whole nine yards. Like COVID isn't a thing.

I don't want to be a founder and I don't think you do either | Carol's Blog https://carolchen.me/blog/founding-bad/

The last reporter in town had one big question for his rich boss - Dan Barry/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/alden-global-capital-pottstown-mercury.html

The Zen of Erlang - Fred Hebert https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

This is my first time "successfully" running blogPoster with Ruby 2.7, and the script is generating a couple of warnings about calling methods in a way that is now deprecated. I'll have to see if I can figure out what's happening. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

My Fedora 30-to-32 upgrade was a success. I knew it was going to take a long time, and Fedora didn't disappoint me. Still, I welcome a successful and uneventful upgrade, and I've bought myself another year on this laptop unless I want to install something else.

Stories from 300 developers who got their first tech job in their 30s, 40s, and 50s - Quincy Larson/Free Code Camp https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stories-from-300-developers-who-got-their-first-tech-job-in-their-30s-40s-and-50s-64306eb6bb27/

Mozilla VPN: 'Mac and Linux coming soon' https://vpn.mozilla.org/

Airbnb was like a family, until the layoffs started - Erin Griffith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/airbnb-coronavirus-layoffs-.html

GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world's open source code to the Arctic - Julia Metcalf/The GitHub Blog https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/

Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/

Introducing a new and improved Twitter API - Twitter Developer Blog https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2020/introducing_new_twitter_api.html

NYT opinion editor Bari Weiss' resignation letter https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter