Alex Bartsch — Covers: Retracing reggae record sleeves in London http://www.alexbartsch.com/covers

Big @debian security update today for the #Chromium browser https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4575

I have been running Debian Stable on this laptop for more than 3 months, and it has been a lovely experience. The relentless pace of updates in Windows 10 and Fedora drove me to it.

I love how I'm automatically running Debian 10.2, and all I had to do is keep up with regular apt update/upgrades. Check /etc/debian_version to see what you are running.

Canadian jazz guitarist Ed Bickert dies at 86 https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/jazzblog/rip-ed-bickert

I am installing my first Flatpak application from Flathub, and it is taking a long time. Maybe the second one goes more quickly. https://flathub.org

The state of Java IDE packaging in Linux is not so good. Netbeans and Eclipse didn't even make it into Debian Buster, and the Netbeans in Sid is version 10 when I want 11. Ubuntu also packages Netbeans 10. I can't figure out anything for Ubuntu 19.10.

I still think the M.2 NVMe SSD is the tech MVP of the late 2010s. It's a total game-changer in terms of desktop/laptop performance. I now can't stand using PCs with magnetic hard drives.

Happy 25th year, blogging. You've grown up, but social media is still having a brawl by John Naughton/The Guardian leads with @davewiner as one of the first bloggers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/12/blogging-twenty-five-years-old-all-grown-up

Residents flee San Francisco because of costs - Marco della Cava/USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/

I have an aluminum laptop, and I see no advantage over plastic. Aluminum will dent before plastic will break.

I'm not trying to hate on Medium's "business model," why is it even remotely attractive in a world where WordPress.com won't charge you or your readers, where dev.to is beginning to dominate the developer-blog space, and where you CAN run your own server in the closet or cloud?

I've gotten a lot of paywalled Medium links today. Unless you, the writer, are making some serious Medium money — and I know you're not — consider running your own site or choosing a free platform like ... all the others.

Who really killed Blockbuster? Ben Unglesbee/Retail Dive https://www.retaildive.com/news/who-really-killed-blockbuster/564314/

A love letter to Clojure (Part 1) - Gene Kim. Great post. https://itrevolution.com/love-letter-to-clojure-part-1/#why-i-love-lisps-now

You, your cellphone and a disaster: What to do when communications go wonky - Jason H. Harper/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-09/shelter-me-you-your-cellphone-and-a-disaster-what-to-do-when-communications-go-wonky

An open letter to the new owners of Meteor - Sacha Greif https://medium.com/@sachagreif/an-open-letter-to-the-new-owners-of-meteor-353d64780b20

I just started using Evolution - I am going full @GNOME, it appears

It's nice that in @racketlang GUI programming is treated like something you might want to do https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/index.html

Ruby gtk3 GUI applications ARE cross-platform - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2019_1006_ruby_gtk3_is_crossplatform/

A new chapter for Meteor - Geoff Schmidt/Meteor Blog (My take: It's not a ringing endorsement that "most of" the Meteor.js team abandoned it for Apollo Graph QL) https://blog.meteor.com/a-new-chapter-for-meteor-7b684320be4c

Canadian tech holding company Tiny acquires JavaScript app platform Meteor – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/tiny-acquires-meteor/

Lovely playing on Herb Ellis and Freddie Green's "Rhythm Willie" album, which also features Ray Brown, Jake Hanna and Ross Tompkins. Who doesn't love Herb? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfgcgupbIb4

Here she is, the safest driver in Los Angeles - Ethan Varian/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/style/safest-driver-los-angeles.html

How Kerrygold butter conquered America - Elizabeth G. Dunn/Bloomberg <20191002kerrygold_butter.txt>

What happened at WeWork? - Reeves Wiedeman/New York Magazine http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-happened-at-we-why-wework-postponed-its-ipo.html

Don Cherry & John Coltrane - The Avant Garde: I am crazy into this album right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6inXbK1rk