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

Announcement and release notes for Bionicpup64 8.0 http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-bionic/bionicpup64/release-bionicpup64-8.0.htm

Bionicpup64 8.0 CE is Puppy Linux that uses Ubuntu 18.04 packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311

This is Xenialpup 7.5, the version of Puppy Linux I am using. I am running the UEFI version. http://blog.puppylinux.com/xenialpup-released