48 amazing JavaScript open source for the past year (2019) - Mybridge https://medium.mybridge.co/48-amazing-javascript-open-source-for-the-past-year-v-2019-ce51cdd10fb9

Should Twitter get rid of follower counts? – Lance Ulanoff/The Upgrade https://medium.com/s/the-upgrade/should-twitter-get-rid-of-follower-counts-6fa736fff3ae

More than 2,500 lecture slides on programming in C++ - Michael D. Adams/University of Victoria https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/cppbook/downloads/lecture_slides_for_programming_in_c++-2019-02-04.pdf

Seoul prepares to rip out its manufacturing heart, a neighborhood home to 10,000 shops and 50,000 tradespeople - Chris Michael/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/20/end-of-an-era-seoul-prepares-to-rip-out-its-manufacturing-heart

Leading a meaningful life at older ages and its relationship with social engagement, prosperity, health, biology, and time use | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/116/4/1207

I’ve used Dvorak for 10 years, and I’m here to tell you it’s not all that - Jon Porter/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/17/18223384/dvorak-qwerty-keyboard-layout-10-years-speed-ergonomics

My Windows 10 laptop pretty much died for three days -- the disk was at 100% solid. Then it miraculously returned to the living. I think it was choking on a software update.

I now have @syncthing running on two Windows PCs, an @OpenBSD PC and a @Raspberry_Pi Zero W

Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market-share needle – Ron Miller/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/google-and-ibm-still-trying-desperately-to-move-cloud-market-share-needle/

How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t do it. - Kurt Wagner/Recode https://www.recode.net/2019/2/12/18222558/kara-swisher-jack-dorsey-twitter-interview-conversation-karajack-livetweet

How white space killed an enterprise app (and why data density matters) - Christie Lenneville/UX Collective https://uxdesign.cc/how-white-space-killed-an-enterprise-app-and-why-data-density-matters-b3afad6a5f2a

Using lftp to synchronize folders with a FTP account | Linux.com (I am going to try this) https://www.linux.com/blog/using-lftp-synchronize-folders-ftp-account

Quick reminder that Details/Summary is the easiest way ever to make an accordion | Chris Coyier/CSS-Tricks (and i want to try this ASAP) https://css-tricks.com/quick-reminder-that-details-summary-is-the-easiest-way-ever-to-make-an-accordion/

Help! None of my projects want to be SPAs | Jason Goldstein https://whatisjasongoldstein.com/writing/help-none-of-my-projects-want-to-be-spas/

What it’s like to work inside Apple’s ‘Black Site’ - Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-black-site-gives-contractors-few-perks-little-security

OpenBSD on a laptop - Cullum Smith: This is one of the best guides out there on how to get OpenBSD set up. I've done maybe half of the things he suggests. https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/

I'm leverging the fact that if a $35 @RaspberryPi works at all, a $5 to $10 @RaspberryPi can probably do ONE thing adequately

I am doing a project with a @Raspberry_Pi, and I didn't want to spend $ 35 on the Pi 3 B+, so I went for the Pi Zero W at $10. I would have gotten the non-WiFi version for $5, but I'm feeling just a little flush and don't want to bother with wired networking.

They were deported as kids. Now the Rubio sisters are California lawmakers – by @kevinmodesti for the @SGVTribune https://www.sgvtribune.com/2019/02/08/they-were-deported-as-kids-now-the-rubio-sisters-are-california-lawmakers/

Scripts to recursively chmod directories only and files only - Brian Zerangue/GitHub https://gist.github.com/bzerangue/3b210b009e8d934b4a68

I say this again, read @davewiner's http://scripting.com

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is much faster than Git Bash or Cygwin. I only wish it were even more baked in to the Windows desktop.

I vaguely remember that Facebook had/has a business-focused product that is basically just like Facebook, but without your friends/family and strictly for business. That could have competed with Slack, but the brand is too toxic. Google has Hangouts/Chat (or whatever they call it), but maybe Google Plus was a better solution. All of those products are languishing. So the morale of said story to startups is to find an original idea that's not easy, and you might just have the field to yourself. Even LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, could have played in the space. I really don't know why Slack pretty much stands alone, but it's sure good for them.

I know we all hate on Slack because it went from oddity to constant nag, but it's still way, way better than email for the real-time communication that genuinely improves how we do our jobs and actually saves time and effort. I'm surprised that Google/Microsoft don't want to compete in this space.

I remember building and applying patches to OpenBSD in the 5.x era. Now with syspatch, it's crazy easy to keep your base system up to date.

Not only is Syncthing available for OpenBSD, but you can install it with pkg_add https://syncthing.net

OMG, I'm already using Syncthing. I just downloaded and started running it. I didn't think it would be so easy. https://syncthing.net/