Keeping up with the Kardashian cash flow - Amy Chozick/The New York Times (in case you want to read a really long NYT take on America's other first family) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/style/kardashians-interview.html
The @BostonGlobe has a 0 story paywall. That is all.
Linux Journal at 25 - Doc Searls https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-25
Being a middle-aged junior programmer – Tomas Forsman https://medium.com/@forsman.tomas/being-a-middle-aged-junior-ca7d643d9356
SPARCbook 3000ST - The coolest '90s laptop - Jason Eckhert http://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/3/14_SPARCbook_3000ST_-_The_coolest_90s_laptop.html
The story of DEC's PDP-1, or what you could buy for ,000-,000 in the early 1960s https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/timeline/pdp-1story.htm
How ketchup became the great equalizer | Amy Bentley/The Saturday Evening Post https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/the-history-of-ketchup/
The way I look at desktop/laptop computing has changed now that I use a Roku for most TV viewing and an Android phone for things like Google Hangouts
Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse - Sam Saffron https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/03/31/why-i-stuck-with-windows-for-6-years-while-developing-discourse
Performance of Mozilla Firefox has been surprisingly good. I don't know what they're doing, but it's working. The Windows version is really working for me.
Ruby 2.4 to 2.5: I can feel the speed improvement
Once you start opening a bunch of tabs, Microsoft's Edge browser starts eating a lot more CPU than Firefox with the same pages open
Productivity isn't about time management. It's about attention management. - Adam Grant/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html
I made a web page in Google Cloud http://passthejoe.net
I am having a lot of fun playing with a Debian 9 VM in the Google Cloud
I'm at a point of detente with Windows 10. Everything is working well enough.
I installed @golang 1.12 so I can play around with it
The Twitter gem won't install in Ruby 2.6. It will install in Ruby 2.5, so that's what I'm upgrading to.
Why GNU grep is fast - Mike Haertel https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html
Why I miss Rails | David Chanin https://chanind.github.io/rails/2019/03/28/why-i-miss-rails.html
You can now search really old AP Stylebooks and guides online – Kristen Hare/Poynter https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/you-can-now-search-really-old-ap-stylebooks-and-guides-online/
Google has already given you a free Debian Linux VM with 5 GB of storage https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell
Integer is a nice minimal WordPress theme from @ThemePatio. It costs for one year of support https://themepatio.com/themes/integer/
Yes, you should blog - Blair Reeves http://blairreeves.me/2019/01/10/yes-you-should-blog/
Taking control of your internet - Blair Reeves http://blairreeves.me/2019/03/08/taking-control-of-your-internet/
Always Own Your Platform http://alwaysownyourplatform.com/
Apple will sell you a refurbished iPhone SE for -299 https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/clearance