The next big thing in fashion? Not washing your clothes - Elizabeth Segran/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90359188/the-next-big-thing-in-fashion-not-washing-your-clothes

(Why) I’m stepping down from my WordPress marketing role • Joost de Valk https://joost.blog/why-im-stepping-down-from-my-wordpress-marketing-role/

He loves the direction Apple is taking with the Mac – Marco.org https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening

They See It. They Like It. They Want It. They Rent It. - Sapna Maheshwari/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/style/rent-subscription-clothing-furniture.html

I'm worried that gem install in Ruby brings in dependencies from that program that could be better installed from the Fedora repositories

Fedora upgraded Ruby from 2.5 to 2.6, and I had to do a gem update in order to get it working. I'm hazy on which gems I have installed as Fedora packages and which are from gem install.

I've heard a lot of ES-335 and ES-330-type guitars lately, and I really love the sounds

Forestry.io is a CMS for static sites created with Hugo, Jekyll, VuePress and Gatsby. For up to 3 collaborators per site, it's free. https://forestry.io/

I tried to turn a JRuby program into a jar with Warbler, but it doesn't want to work in Windows. Coming out with a jar file that you can "just run" with Java would seem to be THE reason to use JRuby instead of regular Ruby.

Calling Java from JRuby - JRuby Wiki https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/CallingJavaFromJRuby

JRuby is a neat trick for sure. The part I need to figure out is how you go from JRuby to a JAR file that can be run like any other Java app.

JRuby already told me to replace the deprecated Dir.exists? with Dir.exist. I should get on that.

I'm using JRuby instead of MRuby (aka "regular" Ruby) to run my blogPoster app to post to Twitter and http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net

Trying jruby to run my blogPoster Ruby script

Why Excel is a startup killer, and how the riches are in the niches - Ross Simmonds/Foundation https://foundationinc.co/lab/the-saas-opportunity-of-unbundling-excel/

TrueOS, formerly PC-BSD, now focused on servers (but desktop packages are available) https://www.trueos.org/more-on-trueos/

Project Trident: A FreeBSD desktop system based on TrueOS https://project-trident.org/

Say no to Electron! Using JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop application - Renato Athaydes https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/saynotoelectronusingjavafxtowriteafastresponsivedesktopapplication

LibreOffice drops 32-bit Linux support. My take: If you NEED 32-bit, your hardware is so old, you should just run Abiword or Geany and be happy with it. If you're running 32-bit on 64-bit hardware, stop that shit. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/libreoffice-6-3-32bit-linux-support

It's very slick how TNW (aka The Next Web aka thenextweb) is a single-page-app with an infinite scroll and a URL in the browser bar that changes as you scroll from one article to the next. Nice. https://thenextweb.com

Why does macOS Catalina use Zsh instead of Bash? Licensing - Matthew Hughes/The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina-use-zsh-instead-of-bash-licensing/

Remember the '10,000 hours' rule for success? Forget about it - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/books/review/david-epstein-range.html

Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18651872/apple-macos-catalina-zsh-bash-shell-replacement-features

Up to 25 cups of coffee a day safe for heart health, study shows - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/health/coffee-heart-health-arteries-scli-intl-gbr/index.html

Apple introduces 'Sign in with Apple' to help protect your privacy – Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/apple-sign-in-privacy/

Sometimes when I see a promoted tweet and it's actually relevant, I will follow the account. And if it's a legit "ad," I will just let it pass by. Clickbate promoted tweets get muted.

We're buying into a giant lie about plastic - Alex Lubben/VICE News https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwn4mj/were-buying-into-a-giant-lie-about-plastic