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Think globally, microblog locally
Tue, 27 Nov 2018

By using Vim as my editor for news stories, I'm now getting more comfortable with it as my coding editor

This company makes shavers ... for your back https://bakblade.com/

Remember calling for the time? You can still do it https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/services/telephone-time-day-ttds

Open source is not about you - Rich Hickey/GitHub (as an aside, it looks like GitHub Gists as blog posts is a thing) https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9

Google workers ask bosses to cancel the company’s secret, censored search engine for China - Davey Alba/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/china-google-workers-letter-cancel-company-secret-dragonfly

Fri, 23 Nov 2018

The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history - The Economist https://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/24/facebook-should-heed-the-lessons-of-internet-history

Thu, 22 Nov 2018

The case for slowing everything down a bit - Ezra Klein/Vox https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/11/19/18101274/google-alphabet-facebook-twitter-addiction-speed

Is it finally time for media companies to adopt a common publishing platform? Jesse Knight/Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/is-it-finally-time-for-media-companies-to-adopt-a-common-publishing-platform/

Dell XPS 13: The best Linux laptop of 2018 - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-xps-13-the-best-linux-laptop-of-2018/

Gitless: A simple version control system built on top of Git https://gitless.com/

As deadly flames approached, a mother called her daughters to say goodbye - Corina Knoll/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-the-last-call-20181122-story.html

Why does this contemporary bicycle maker use wood for the frame? https://materiabikes.com/2018/10/24/why-wood/

Five Black Fridays at the mall food court - Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/21/18104973/black-friday-mall-coffee-worker-experience-gloria-jeans

Wed, 21 Nov 2018

The homeless crisis is getting worse in America’s richest cities - Noah Buhayar and Esmé E Deprez/Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities

Tue, 20 Nov 2018

Nine of every 10 Silicon Valley jobs pays less than in 1997 - Leonardo Castañeda/San Jose Mercury News https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/18/silicon-valley-wages-have-dropped-for-all-except-highest-paying-jobs-report/

Mon, 19 Nov 2018

The State of JavaScript 2018 https://stateofjs.com/

Sun, 18 Nov 2018

Is this a new way forward for "small" GUI programs? http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/programming/2018_1118_maybe_some_things_can_be_a_web_program

Sat, 17 Nov 2018

YouTube starts showing free Hollywood movies with ad breaks | Garret Sloane/Ad Age https://adage.com/article/digital/youtube-starts-showing-free-hollywood-movies-ad-breaks/315631/

20 years of open source Erlang: OpenErlang Interview with Robert Virding - Erlang Solution blog https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/20-years-of-open-source-erlang-openerlang-interview-with-robert-virding.html

Thu, 15 Nov 2018

Facebook is a normal sleazy company now - Siva Vaidhyanathan/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/facebook-is-a-normal-sleazy-company-now.html

Kathy Hoffman had had enough. So she ran. And won. - Karen Tumulty/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-31-year-old-had-had-enough-so-she-ran-and-won/2018/11/14/cd6a7046-e6c2-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html

Who does Facebook fire after a bombshell New York Times story? - Kurt Wagner/Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/11/15/18095967/facebook-new-york-times-story-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg-fired

Facebook responds to New York Times article on Russia, Muslim ban, fake news, sex-trafficking legislation and Android vs. iPhone https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/

What to do if you leak data on Github https://github.com/GitGuardian/APISecurityBestPractices/blob/master/Leak%20Mitigation%20Checklist.md

Facebook blamed George Soros for anti-Facebook movement: NYT - Troy Wolverton/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-george-soros-critics-nyt-2018-11

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta is open to customers - Red Hat Customer Portal https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/beta

The Windows 10 October 2018 update (1809): Let's try this again - Brett Howse/AnandTech https://www.anandtech.com/print/13592/the-windows-10-october-2018-update