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/

One man’s quest to rid Wikipedia of exactly one grammatical mistake - Andrew McMillen/Backchannel https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-10508842caad

Amazon offers employees and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses – Sarah Perez/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/amazon-offers-employees-10k-and-3-months-pay-to-start-their-own-delivery-businesses/

Uber's losses reach double digits in IPO debut debacle/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-13/uber-shares-decline-for-second-day-in-u-s-pre-market-trading

Uber stock is taking a beating https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/uber/real-time

How decades-old hippie soap brand Dr. Bronner's became a touchstone of wellness culture - Kieran Dahl/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/8/18535403/dr-bronners-soap-label-castile

Math teachers should be more like football coaches - The New York Times @BloomtasticMath https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/math-teaching-football.html

In #Vim 8.1, you can bring up your OS's terminal in a split window with the commands :terminal and :term

While Vim 8.1 is considered "a minor release," adding a terminal that you can use for debugging, compiling, doing commits in git,or whatever else you want, is a major feature https://www.vim.org/vim-8.1-released.php

Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs - Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exclusive-idUSKCN1SJ0X1

Was Shakespeare a woman? - Elizabeth Winkler/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/who-is-shakespeare-emilia-bassano/588076/

How to use advanced rsync for large Linux backups | Alan Formy-Duval/Opensource.com (Note: this is an EXCELLENT article) https://opensource.com/article/19/5/advanced-rsync

I made my first three abbreviations (using ab) in Vim to kick out boilerplate text. I had been using macros, but @CarlaSchroder's #LinuxCookbook showed me how abbreviations do this better.

Microsoft is putting a ton of work into making Windows 10 more attractive to developers. The new terminal and vast improvements in WSL 2 only continue that trend. They are aiming to convert Mac and Linux developers, and I can see that happening.

A look at Fedora 30's new features | Anderson Silva/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/19/5/fedora-30-features

Social media and boredom: How technology is changing our emotions - Sean Illing/Vox https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18510958/social-media-addiction-boredom-loneliness-society-technology-smart-phones

Career spotlight: Misha Euceph, KPCC – Nicholas Quah/Hot Pod News https://hotpodnews.com/career-spotlight-misha-euceph-kpcc/

How to make a podcast - Misha Euceph https://www.howtomakeapodcast.org/

I compare the huge public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) with Digital Ocean and two shared-hosting providers (HostGator and NearlyFreeSpeech.net) for the small user http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/web_hosting/2019_0506_hosting_with_google_nfsn_digital_ocean_or_hostgator

Free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 for developers https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download

Notable in the new RHEL 8.0: Fractional scaling in GNOME 2.28, dnf is now yum, app streams (like Fedora Modular) and no Perl, Python or Ruby in the default https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.0_release_notes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has been released https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8

This article on the problems at the Apple Stores is interesting. My recent iMac purchase experience bears this out. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/apple-store-locations-reviews-show-customer-service-in-decline

My current existential crisis: Stick with Windows 10, or go back to Linux (and yes, I know nobody wants to hear about it)

The 'future book' is here, but it's not what we expected | Craig Mod/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/future-book-is-here-but-not-what-we-expected/

Microsoft's new Terminal is open source https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal

Windows gets a new terminal – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/windows-gets-a-new-terminal/

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-visual-studio-online-an-online-code-editor/

Goodbye AWS: Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes, Part 1 - Ev Kontsevoy/Gravitational https://gravitational.com/blog/aws_vs_colocation/

Why you should start binge-reading right now - Ben Dolnick/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/why-you-should-start-binge-reading-right-now.html

Why Go? – Key advantages you may have overlooked - YourBasic Go https://yourbasic.org/golang/advantages-over-java-python/

Local newspapers are failing to make the digital transition larger players did — and are in danger of vanishing - Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/graphics/local-newspapers-stark-divide/

Dooce.com’s Heather Armstrong was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart. - Chavie Lieber/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead

Smartphone shipments: Apple down 30%, Samsung down 8%, But Huawei up 50% - John Koetsier/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/05/01/smartphone-shipments-apple-down-30-samsung-down-8-but-huawei-up-50

While @hostgator might not have everything, and their Ruby is old (in keeping with their CentOS 6 base), it looks like they have ALL the Ruby Gems installed -- like thousands of them

I really like what I see with @ProtonMail

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET has Clojure, Java, Golang, Erlang, Haskell, Node, Perl, Python 2 and 3, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala and even TCL, LISP, Scheme, Guile and Racket. Ruby Gems include Rails, Jekyll and Nokogiri (but no Sinatra). They do have Hugo. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

Twitter is boring AF. Sorry, Twitter.

The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program - Jason Del Rey/Vox https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping

How a Canadian chain is reinventing book selling - Alexandra Alter/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/books/booksupdate/indigo-books-canadian-chain.html

Building a site with Jekyll on NearlyFreeSpeech.net - Jesse Squires https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/building-a-site-with-jekyll-on-nfsn/

.@carlaschroder's Linux Cookbook is 14 years old, and I am still getting tips from it (I've gotten rid of countless tech books much younger, FYI). I use lots of macros in Vim, but now I'm going to explore abbreviations (ab) and mappings (map), which are in her .vimrc

PWA vs. React Native https://www.kirupa.com/apps/pwa_vs_react_native.htm

Paid email newsletters are proving themselves as a meaningful revenue generator for writers - Alan Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/writers-have-been-trying-to-support-online-themselves-for

All the details on Librem One by Purism - mail, chat, social and VPN that doesn't track you or sell your data https://librem.one/

.@BryanLunduke emphasizes that you pay for Purism's Librem One with money, not with your every last shred of your privacy. It's a different way of imagining our connected world. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/purism-launches-librem-one-suite-privacy-protecting-no-track-no-ad-apps-and-services

Purism, the company that makes privacy-respecting laptops, is now launching a 'bundle of ethical services': chat, mail, VPN and social media that vow to never track you https://puri.sm/

Faith, friendship and tragedy at Santa Fe High - Skip Hollandsworth/Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/remembering-sabika-sheikh-pakistani-student-killed-santa-fe-school-shooting/

Better looking fonts for Fedora - silenc3r/GitHub https://github.com/silenc3r/fedora-better-fonts

You should have a personal web site - Mark Christian https://writing.markchristian.org/2019/04/29/personal-web-sites/

Announcing the release of Fedora 30 - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/

The new @Fedora Discussion forum is about 99% @teamsilverblue-related. I understand to some extent why Silverblue is interesting, but it's not like "regular" Fedora is horrible and this is some kind of software savior.

Red Hat takes over stewardship for the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 projects from Oracle - Sugandha Lahoti/Packt Hub https://hub.packtpub.com/redhat-takes-over-stewardship-for-the-openjdk-8-and-openjdk-11-projects-from-oracle/

I believe in what @neovim is doing, but I use Gvim at least half the time, and Neovim's GUI story isn't very clear

I forgot to mention that I run 64-bit Vim in Windows. And yes, I will die on this hill.