Mail-in-a-Box: Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box https://mailinabox.email/

Bill Gates wrote much of the code in the TRS-80 Model 100 https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm#tc35

The TRS-80 Model 100, journalism workhorse of the 1980s - Wayne Lorentz http://wayne.lorentz.me/This_TRS-80/

Facebook: I'm there for the jazz guitar and old-technology posts

Not to copy other bloggers, though I'm totally doing just that, I'm thinking of adding an e-mail newsletter. E-mail is newly "hot" because it's a direct connection that doesn't involve a smarmy social-media interloper

I really don't like seeing the cheesy Disqus ads Disqus on my blog. Disqus deserves to make money, but I'm reluctant to pay. Like other bloggers, I might start creating "discussion" links on Reddit or Hacker News. Also, who needs the extra JS that loads with Disqus?

I've seen a few people delete their Facebook accounts more due to lack of interest than anything else. They are mostly moving to Instagram, so it's all in the family, so to speak.

I don't know what's worse, a company that only responds to your complaint when you shame them on social media, or one that DGAF even then

Why Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles - Bengt Halvorson/Motor Authority https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-purging-touchscreens-from-its-vehicles

The Unison file synchronization tool is too fragile. I need to find another way. Client and server need the exact same Unison version in order for sync to work, and it's getting harder to make that happen.

This @NewYorker article on @ewarren (aka Elizabeth Warren) is so long, I can't read it in one sitting. I'll have to wait for the paper magazine to come out. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/can-elizabeth-warren-win-it-all

Say what you will about @Microsoft, but they are putting money and people behind efforts to provide more tools for developers well beyond the MS-only languages and frameworks https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/

Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java | The Visual Studio Blog https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-visual-studio-code-java-installer/

The Ruby Style Guide https://rubystyle.guide/

The new Dropbox sucks - Daring Fireball https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks

I would be running Firefox right now if it weren't for @BangOlufsen and @ConexantSystems' broken audio driver https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555726

Apple reveals 'Lisa': Its million gamble (1983) - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/apple-reveals-lisa-its-50-million-gamble-207032

GIMP is never going to fix IPTC captions. If they haven't done it by now, it's never going to happen. https://www.gimp.org

It's not like I'm all that and a bag of chips, but writing on Twitter is better than reading on it

A brief history of how your privacy was stolen (by Google and Facebook, that is) - Roger McNamee/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/opinion/google-facebook-data-privacy.html

Eleventy is a static-site generator written in JavaScript that is extensible and light weight. Consider it an alternative to Jekyll, Hugo and Gatsby. https://www.11ty.io/

Java for everything - Teamten.com https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html

Time Machine-style backup with rsync - Laurent Cozic https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

An orbit map of the solar system - Eleanor Lutz/Tabletop Whale http://tabletopwhale.com/2019/06/10/the-solar-system.html

MacBook Pro problem costing turned out to be a /home/public//cgi-bin/ode.cgi fix - Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/11/macbook-pro-problem/

Mozilla is launching paid, premium features in Firefox - Katharine Schwab/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90362208/even-more-evidence-that-firefox-wants-to-be-the-anti-chrome

Meet the new Dropbox desktop app (Windows and Mac, no Linux) https://www.dropbox.com/features/new