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/

Happy Birthday, Ruby! - Dave Thomas https://github.com/ruby-no-kai/ruby25/blob/master/dave_thomas.en.md

Composing Software: The Book – Eric Elliott/JavaScript Scene https://medium.com/javascript-scene/composing-software-the-book-f31c77fc3ddc

How .8M in seed funding started Gatsby as an open source company - Changelog https://changelog.com/founderstalk/59