Byte Magazine's LISP issue from August 1979 (archive.org via Hacker News) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08

Why the hell is the ‘race to 5G’ even a race? - Nilay Patel/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leadership-china-fcc-lte

Chinese developers fear losing GitHub access to trade war | Masha Borak/Abacus https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/chinese-developers-fear-losing-open-source-tech-trade-war/article/3011463

Byte Magazine from August 1981 on Smalltalk. Look at it for the ads alone. (Link via Hacker News) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg on Kara Swisher podcast Recode Decode - Eric Johnson/Vox https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/27/18639284/duckduckgo-gabe-weinberg-do-not-track-privacy-legislation-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-interview

I forget this every time: When you upgrade Fedora and a Dropbox popup asks you to download the daemon again. DON'T DO IT. Result will be Dropbox reindexing your entire Dropbox folder.

I'm doing the Fedora 29-30 upgrade (scorecard: 28-29 was fine, 27-28 not so much, all good from about 15 or 16 to 27)

I am loving the new terminal feature of Vim 8.1, especially in Windows 10 (hint: get it with :term)

I'm playing with #golang and @qtproject, and in Windows 10 it looks like I need TDM-GCC to make it work http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/

Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 - The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/30/atari-800-vs-commodore-64-the-brief-tale-of-two-8-bit-home-computers/

Why is SpaceX launching all of those Starlink satellites? (tl;dr global broadband internet) https://www.starlink.com/

Devblog - A dead simple blogging platform for developers by Hashnode https://hashnode.com/devblog

It's official: @netbeans is now a top-level project at the Apache Foundation @TheASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces51

How computing's first 'killer app' changed everything (tl;dr it's VisiCalc) - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47802280

While the OpenJDK version of Java doesn't even have a Windows installer, Python not only has an installer, it also has a version in the Microsoft Store. It's like they WANT users.

Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 update? | Steve/Microsoft Dev Blog - (There is a Python 3.7 you can install NOW in the Microsoft Store) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-10-may-2019-update/

What’s new in JavaScript ES2019 - Niall Mahere/Clubhouse.io: New flat() method for arrays, trimStart() and trimEnd() for strings are all extremely useful https://clubhouse.io/developer-how-to/whats-new-in-javascript-es2019

Fedora Silverblue is immutable, container-based and all that Fedora users are talking about https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/

OpenJDK not offering installers for Windows users is a very bad thing. I can do the manual install, but I can't think of another programming language that makes you do this.

I spent considerable time futzing with OpenJDK 12 in Windows, going back to Oracle's JDK 8, and trying to get JavaFX 12 to work. I messed with Netbeans 8.2, then 11, then back to 8.2. That the JDK "story" after Version 8 is so shaky, it's a problem.

Excellent introduction to Git https://areknawo.com/git-basics-the-only-introduction-you-will-ever-need/

The beauty of calculus - @stevenstrogatz https://frankeprogram.yale.edu/event/steven-strogatz-lecture-april-26-2019

This New York Times Gen X package is massive https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/14/style/generation-xers.html

Creating a free VPN via Google Cloud — Sei's Notes https://blog.sei.sh/creating-a-free-vpn-using-google-cloud

Behind Twitter’s plan to get people to stop yelling at each other - Nicole Nguyen/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/behind-twitters-plan-to-get-people-to-stop-yelling-at-each

Human composting. Yes, human composting is a thing, it turns out. - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-human-composting-washington-green-burial-inslee-20190513-story.html

Substack is a "simple" way to start a paid email newsletter https://substack.com/