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

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/

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

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

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

I love the @debian system, but I love the @fedora community and philosophy more.

5 ways to count files in a directory in Linux - Linux Handbook https://linuxhandbook.com/count-files-directory-linux/

There are @firefox ESR and @ChromiumDev updates available for @Debian Stable (Buster) https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4638

Upgrading @openbsd looks easier than ever with the new sysupgrade command. https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade.8

I spent some time running Windows 10 today. Back in Debian now.

Something tells me that the Windows Task Manager does not track a whole bunch of sketchy Microsoft processes.

Bug fixes I'm making on blogPoster in the near future include: preventing crashes when networking is down, eliminating final underscore in post paths. http://github.com/passthejoe/blogposter

I just discovered the net-ping Ruby gem, which I'm going to use to test for a live Internet connection and keep my blogPoster script from crashing. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21081639/how-to-ping-for-reachability-of-remote-host-in-ruby/21081715

I use Gvim instead of console Vim much of the time. I like being able to click the mouse around and select text that way.

I heard about the new GTK website on @latenightlinux. It is very good. The first example you see is a JavaScript app. I am very interested. https://www.gtk.org/

Things I've added to my @debian-running iMac: Git, Ruby and the Nokogiri, Twitter and net-sftp Ruby gems (plus all the dependencies they brought with them).

My @debian-running mid-2011 iMac is now at the point where I can use my blogPoster script on it to write these updates. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

I love this live election results page from @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/29/us/elections/results-south-carolina-primary-election.html?action=click&module=ELEX_results&pgtype=Interactive&region=RaceTitle

NearlyFreeSpeech.net estimates that my two sites (one production, one non-production) will cost me $1.96 per month. Total. For both.

I went to the downtown LA area near City Hall and Little Tokyo at night for the first time in a long time. A LOT of homeless. Hundreds of tents.

In this @debian install, I didn't do encrypted LVM, or LVM at all. I went for straight partitions, one for swap, one for /. I'm changing my philosophy on partitioning. #KeepItSimple

I installed Debian Buster on a mid-2011 iMac. I went for a dual boot with MacOS, using the REFInd boot manager to make it slightly more civilized. I used the nonfree-firmware Debian installer but still had to add firmware to get the Radeon card to work. #FunWithRunLevel3

Unless I'm incorrect, @debian Live images used to all ship with nonfree firmware, but now they don't, though live images with nonfree firmware are available in the nonfree "area"

Unix as IDE - Tom Ryder: TONS of great tips here https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/

How to prepare for coronavirus in the United States - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/26/how-to-prepare-for-coronavirus/?arc404=true

I now have two sites on @nfsn. http://updates.passthejoe.net and http://passthejoe.net

Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts has moved to a new hosting provider and is now being actively updated by the blogPoster script via SFTP. http://updates.passthejoe.net/

I replaced ftp with sftp in my blogPoster Ruby script that posts to Twitter and a personal microblog

Getting the user and permissions right for files and directories where Perl CGI programs write to files via the Apache web server is a delicate operation.

Use Haven to turn your old Android phone into a monitoring device that detects motion, sound, vibration and light. https://github.com/guardianproject/haven

The most famous teen basketball players go to Sierra Canyon - Reeves Wiedeman/The Intelligencer https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/sierra-canyon-basketball-team.html

Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? - Anisa Purbasari Horton/BBC Worklife https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200212-could-micro-credentials-compete-with-traditional-degrees

Date Formatter Ruby gem makes it easy to configure strftime formats. I remember Golang being this easy, so glad to see this for Ruby. https://github.com/feedreader/pluto/tree/master/date-formatter

Once again, @davidallen909 makes the Inland Empire look like a million bucks: Molly sells Molly’s Souper in Upland but stays on at homey restaurant https://www.dailybulletin.com/2020/02/18/molly-sells-mollys-souper-in-upland-but-stays-on-at-homey-restaurant/

Thank you, @twitter, for randomly refreshing my timeline while I'm in the middle of reading a tweet.