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Thu, 19 Mar 2020

My "The Linux Setup" on Linux Rig from 2011. I'm still running Debian with GNOME with gThumb for photo editing. Except it's GNOME 3 instead of 2. https://linuxrig.com/2011/06/19/the-linux-setup-steven-rosenberg-los-angeles/

The Write Stuff for C128 - AmigaLove https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1387

Tue, 17 Mar 2020

We are all home due to coronavirus, and my wife is doing a conference call on @zoom_us, and it is amazing in terms of audio/video quality

Text processing in the shell - Balthazar Rouberol and Etienne Brodu https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/text-processing-in-the-shell

.@Dropbox is rewriting its sync engine in @rustlang - Sujay Jayakar/Dropbox https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine

Extend the life of your SSD drive with fstrim - Alan Formy-Duval/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/2/trim-solid-state-storage-linux

Mitt Romney and Andrew Yang say give people money - Adam Harris/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-romney-yang-money/608134/

NsCDE: Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM https://github.com/nscde/nscde

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

Jeff’s letter to the Angular team and community - Jeff Cross (tl;dr The Angular team at Google is a toxic hellhole) https://medium.com/@jeffbcross/jeffs-letter-to-the-angular-team-and-community-5367934a16c9

We are NOT referring to restaurants as "restos." No.

GitHub acquires npm https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/

One last party, one last dance, then goodbye: College students decamp in the age of covid-19 - Karen Weintraub and Susan Svrluga/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/03/15/one-last-party-one-last-dance-then-goodbye-college-students-decamp-age-covid-19/

Mass amateurization - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_amateurization

A coronavirus cautionary tale from Italy: Don't do what we did - Mattia Ferraresi/The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-cautionary-tale-italy-dont-do-what-we-did/

Sun, 15 Mar 2020

I started a new project on GitHub. It's gonna be lit. Or shit. Too early to tell.

How to talk to your boomer about COVID-19 - Nick Allen/Medium https://medium.com/@nickpallen/how-to-talk-to-your-boomer-about-covid-19-ff082a6bf1c3

Layoffs are coming - Jacob Kaplan-Moss https://jacobian.org/2020/mar/13/layoffs-are-coming/

Coronavirus and the remote work experiment no one asked for – Matt Mullenweg https://ma.tt/2020/03/coronavirus-remote-work/

Growing up with Steve Miller - Max Marshall/Texas Monthly https://getpocket.com/explore/item/growing-up-with-steve-miller?utm_source=pocket-newtab

There will be a new edition of David Flanagan's "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" from @oreilly in June 2020. This weighty book was last revised in 2011, an eon ago in JS years. https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Most-Used-Programming-Language/dp/1491952024/

The #coronavirus trend in LA County: 3/9 - 2 new cases, 3/10 - 1 new case, 3/11 - 6 new cases, first death, 3/12 - 3 new cases, 3/13 - 8 new cases, 3/14 - 11 new cases. http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/

Hours at all @ralphsgrocery stories are now 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Thank you to all the employees who are working under extremely difficult conditions due to #coronavirus panic buying.

Did my last market run for some time. It was bananas. Except they had no bananas.

Bananas have died out once before - Jackie Turner/Aeon https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bananas-have-died-out-once-before

Sat, 14 Mar 2020

Working from home: Lessons learned over 20 years & a shopping list - Dustin Kirkland https://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2020/03/working-from-home.html

How to install Ubuntu with the new Raspberry Pi Imager | Rhys Davies/Ubuntu Blog https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-install-ubuntu-with-the-new-raspberry-pi-imager

Thu, 12 Mar 2020

Hey kids, there was a time when nobody had email, internet or cell phones. They called it "everything before the '90s."