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/

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.