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Think globally, microblog locally
Thu, 07 Feb 2019

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.

Wed, 06 Feb 2019

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/

Tue, 05 Feb 2019

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/

Mon, 04 Feb 2019

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).

Sun, 03 Feb 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

Sat, 02 Feb 2019

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?

Fri, 01 Feb 2019

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

Thu, 31 Jan 2019

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/

Wed, 30 Jan 2019

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