iPhone sales are falling, and Apple's app fees might be next - Michael Liedtke/Associated Press https://apnews.com/5d1b1584438f479abae8488fa2189698

The backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla - Billy Baker/The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/04/the-backyard-mechanic-who-taking-tesla/Sv1l8q2sxpQvTFMp13VFwM/story.html

'War and Peace': The greatest of all novels - Gary Saul Morson/The New Criterion https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/3/the-greatest-of-all-novels

The servant economy: Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses - Alexis C. Madrigal/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/

I'm really enjoying reading @ManningBooks #programming titles, especially the #GetProgramming series. You can trust them for quality (not a given with all publishers). I'm actually using the #LiveBook versions more than the PDFs.

Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories – Herb Caudill/Medium https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewrite-stories-635e4c8f7c22

Getting started with the cat command | Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/19/2/getting-started-cat-command

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says he’ll reorient the company towards encryption and privacy - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/06/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-says-hell-reorient-company-towards-encryption-privacy/?utm_term=.a1d2e4ef720e

I didn't realize that my Fedora 29 system didn't have the power-saving utility tuned installed. TecMint has a nice tutorial and explainer. https://www.tecmint.com/tuned-automatic-performance-tuning-of-centos-rhel-servers/

Ed Bickert, Canadian jazz guitarist with singular approach, dies at 86 https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/jazzblog/rip-ed-bickert

I upgraded Fedora 28 to Fedora 29 using these @fedora Magazine instructions. Seamless this time. https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-28-fedora-29/

This Old App is an interesting podcast about making apps, and it also has a very, very nice website that would be great for any podcast. My only question: Why the totally random, computer-generated filenames? https://thisoldapp.online/

Shared scooters don't last long https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last-long

1TB microSD cards are now a thing - Sam Byford/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/25/18239433/1tb-microsd-card-sandisk-micron-price-release

How to start the ahavi and dbus (aka messagebus) daemons in OpenBSD with rcctl http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Avahi-daemon-dbus-daemon-td280928.html

Xfce looks great on this laptop in OpenBSD, and it took very little effort on my part. Fonts display as good as Fedora, maybe better. And Xfce is very fast on this 2012-era HP laptop with a dual-core AMD CPU and 8 GB RAM.

I always think I can use Fvwm in OpenBSD, but it's not easy. Cwm is the new hotness, relatively speaking, but it's not for me right now, anyway. I did do some setup in Fvwm, adding my apps to the menu, and I do like having so many virtual desktops.

OpenBSD starts to get useful for me when I put Xfce on it. Now I have the fonts looking good, and it's easy to launch things. I used a couple of tutorials to get it done. None of them are complete. I will try to do one. I'm getting my .vimrc set up so I can do my work with it.

Krita and digiKam are very crashy in OpenBSD 6.4. I'm looking for an image-editing solution that allows editing of IPTC metadata (i.e. the captions in JPEGs). GIMP still won't do it. But gThumb will, and that's what I'm going to use.

How I ditched my phone and unbroke my brain - Kevin Roose/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html

These New Yorkers have been doing the same thing for 50, 60, 70 years — and love it too much to stop - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/jobs-love-decades.html

America’s professional elite: wealthy, successful and miserable - Charles Duhigg/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/elite-professionals-jobs-happiness.html

My original post on the problems with Firefox, Windows 10, the Conexant audio driver and Flow. @HP finally updated the Conexant driver, but the behavior is the same. I'll probably use this solution again. https://passthejoe.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/i-had-to-switch-from-firefox-to-chrome-in-windows-10-and-im-not-happy-about-it/

I'm back with @firefox after a few weeks of @googlechrome in Windows 10. I had "reasons" for switching to Chrome, one of which was the Conexant audio driver, which makes Flow go nuts and eat CPU only when FF is running. Easiest fix: Kill flow in Task Manager.

How to learn EmberJS in a hurry – Jen Weber/Ember-ish https://medium.com/ember-ish/how-to-learn-emberjs-in-a-hurry-c6fdeae256a0

The Rise of the WeWorking Class - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/wework-coworking-office-space.html

COI - Chat Over IMAP is a universal chat protocol that is free, open, easy, safe and does not require developers to build or maintain a server https://www.coi-dev.org/