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/

I'd love to get rid of Disqus. I just changed my ad "preferences" so only one ad is showing, not a ton of them. I don't begrudge Disqus making money, and I'd almost rather pay to make the ads go away, but I would prefer comments to be "native" to my blogging platform.

Does blogPoster work in OpenBSD? If you see this post, the answer is yes.

State of Clojure survey 2019 analysis – Daniel Compton https://danielcompton.net/2019/02/06/clojure-survey-2019

State of Clojure 2019 survey results - Alex Miller/Clojure.org https://clojure.org/news/2019/02/04/state-of-clojure-2019

The rise of the robot reporter - Jaclyn Peiser/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html

Slack says it has filed to go public - but not with an IPO - Olivia Zaleski/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/messaging-platform-provider-slack-says-it-s-filed-to-go-public

Patreon CEO: Business model is not sustainable, company seeing growth - Brandon Gomez/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/crowd-funding-platform-patreon-announces-it-will-pay-out-half-a-billion-dollars-to-content-creators-in-2019.html

From WordPress to Hugo, a mindset transition | Regis Philibert https://regisphilibert.com/blog/2019/01/from-wordpress-to-hugo-a-mindset-transition/

How do you turn around the culture of a 130,000-person company? Ask Microsoft's Satya Nadella — Simone Stolzoff/Quartz at Work https://qz.com/work/1539071/how-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-rebuilt-the-company-culture/

It's been years, but I forgot that OpenBSD doesn't support the Atheros 9485 WiFi chipset. They didn't then (circa 2012/14), they don't now (2019).

I didn't realize that merging git branches locally and on GitHub are two different things. The same is true for deleting branches. It's confusing, but I'm figuring it out. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

While Twitter doesn't allow you to edit posts (and probably for good reason), I can fix hastily written posts on my personal microblog: http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net

Learning git by doing: I just figured out how to create a branch, merge my changes with the master and then change back to the master branch. Now I can work on features without breaking the master!

If you see a URL at the end of this post, blogPoster can now add them to a "raw" entry (one that doesn't originate with a live URL) http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net

He reconstructed Tom Brady’s knee. Now the Rams' doctor is rooting for L.A. - Dylan Hernandez/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/sports/super-bowl/la-sp-super-bowl-elattrache-hernandez-20190130-story.html

Rams’ male cheerleaders make NFL history at the Super Bowl - Bill Plaschke/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/sports/super-bowl/la-sp-super-bowl-rams-cheerleaders-20190130-story.html

I learned Vim through sheer will, using it all the time and seaching when I didn't know how to do something. I'm sure I could do the same with Emacs, but do I have that same will (especially now that I am so comfortable in Vim?

Idea: A paywall you can buy out - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2019/01/23/194216.html

This is why doctors still use pagers | Marissa Laliberte/Reader's Digest https://www.rd.com/health/healthcare/hospital-pagers/

From books to bullets: inside Amazon's push to 'defend' America Levi Pulkkinen/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/31/amazon-defense-cloud-computing-pentagon-jeff-bezos

How Finland solved homelessness | Laura Paddison/HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homelessness-finland-housing-first_us_5c503844e4b0f43e410ad8b6

Google Plus for consumers will shut down on April 2, 2019 – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/google-for-consumers-will-shut-down-on-april-2nd/

Apple was warned about alarming FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week - Chris Welch/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18202398/apple-facetime-bug-warned-eavesdropping

Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/

Watch all of these videos from @theoae on Baroque and early Classical instruments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVabz8LneI4&list=PLa0I2f4DpWlonE2ESxBKRg8Ft-ttK4_Eh

Recursion alert — This Twitter post has a life of its own, outside of Twitter. It lives here: http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net/

Write.as 'ends' its Medium integration, but it looks like what really ended it was Medium closing its API. Moral of this ever-repeating story: Own your content, control your content. https://write.as/blog/ending-our-medium-integration

Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS that gives the company near total access to data on a phone in exchange for a gift card (and yes, this is a real thing) - Casey Newton/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/1/30/18203349/facebook-research-app-apple-shutdown

Parmigiano-Reggiano: Italy’s practically perfect food - Amanda Ruggeri/BBC http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190127-italys-practically-perfect-food

From 'Hello World' to VP Eng – Nick Caldwell (This is an inspiring article) https://blog.devcolor.org/career-journey-part-1-3bdddf1f87a

World's oldest periodic table chart found in St Andrews | University of St Andrews news https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/worlds-oldest-periodic-table-chart-found-in-st-andrews/

Meet the 'cleanfluencers', the online gurus who like things nice and tidy - Arwa Mahdawi/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/29/meet-the-cleanfluencers-the-online-gurus-who-like-things-nice-and-tidy

Most people with addiction simply grow out of it - Maia Szalavitz/Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/social-justice/people-addiction-simply-grow-widely-denied-91605

Longwave broadcasting retains listeners - James Careless/Radio World https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/longwave-broadcasting-retains-listeners

Your TV is now a computer, but not in a good way - Alexis C. Madrigal/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/smart-tvs-are-dumb/581059/

Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics from Brown University using the D3.js library (trust me, it's excellent) https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/

The Mac App Store welcomes Office 365 - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/the-mac-app-store-welcomes-office-365/

Zuckerberg plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger - Mike Isaac/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html

Marie Kondo, 'Fyre Fraud,' and TV's millennial burnout - Sophie Gilert/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/marie-kondo-fyre-fraud-and-tvs-millennial-burnout/580753/

Pharo - Pharo 7.0 released https://pharo.org/news/pharo7.0-released

Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a shorter option - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/article-the-canadian-researcher-who-coined-the-one-minute-workout-has-an-even/

Amazon ruined online shopping - Ian Bogost/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/amazon-made-online-commerce-bewildering/580660/

So I'm switching from Firefox to Google Chrome for my news editing work because one of my co-workers coded a Chrome Extension that makes everything we do easier. But by the end of the day today, my 8 GB desktop was chugging, with almost all of the memory gone.

I don't want to lose track of the comprehensive websites of Rob MacKillop, who has done a lot of thinking, a lot of playing and has made a lot of videos of himself playing everything from jazz and "orchestral" guitar (think Mel Bay) to classical guitar without nails, the lute and theorbo. There's a lot to explore. So far I really love his playing on the classical guitar with gut (real gut) strings, which I didn't even know were still a thing you could get.

Here are the sites, which I'm dropping here before I lose them:

https://archtopguitar.net

https://rmclassicalguitar.com

https://robmackillop.net

The guitar he plays that I really like is by Simon Ambridge

Thrift stores donations are up, thanks to Marie Kondo's "Tidying Up" on Netflix - AJ Willingham and Andrea Diaz/CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/entertainment/marie-kondo-konmari-tidying-up-netflix-trnd/index.html

Battle of the Ax Men: Who Really Built the First Electric Rock ‘n’ Roll Guitar? | Collectors Weekly https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/who-really-built-the-first-electric-rock-n-roll-guitar/

Dog poop bags are a menace. But what's the green alternative? - Jemima Kiss/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/15/dog-poop-bags-plastic-alternatives

Spirited Media, the Billy Penn and Denverite parent company, is helping build Newspack, the subscription-revenue component for WordPress.com publishers - Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/01/heightening-the-cms-race-wordpress-com-and-news-revenue-hub-devise-a-toolkit-for-local-newsrooms/

Automattic aims to help publishers generate membership revenue on WordPress.com (yes, .com, not .org) with Newspack https://newspack.blog/

A post of mine got into Hacker News: If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18890417

The embroidered computer - Irene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/