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Wed, 14 Nov 2018

Qualtrics is a family business, one that SAP just bought for billion - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-12/how-one-family-built-8-billion-startup-far-from-silicon-valley

Host a static website on GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/product/pages/

Building a simple static site generator using Node.js - Victor Parmar/SmallData https://smalldata.tech/blog/2018/08/16/building-a-simple-static-site-generator-using-node-js

Mon, 12 Nov 2018

The Year 10,000 problem - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem

These are the things Apple customers hate the most (there's a lot) | Chris Matyszczyk/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-are-the-things-apple-customers-hate-the-most-theres-a-lot/

Sun, 11 Nov 2018

Fedora Toolbox — Hacking on Fedora Silverblue - Debarshi's den https://debarshiray.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/fedora-toolbox-hacking-on-fedora-silverblue/

Fedora Toolbox ready for testing! — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2018/10/23/fedora-toolbox-ready-for-testing/

Scripting Java 11, shebang and all - Nicolai Parlog/blog@CodeFX https://blog.codefx.org/java/scripting-java-shebang/

Why doctors hate their computers - Atul Gawande/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers

The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s - Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/the-new-york-times-is-digitizing-more-than-5-million-photos-dating-back-to-the-1800s/

Sat, 10 Nov 2018

The History of Unix, Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs

Homelessness is a tragedy the U.S. can afford to fix - Noah Smith/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-21/ending-homelessness-is-a-job-for-the-federal-government

How to improve math class | Jo Boaler/Time http://time.com/4970465/how-to-improve-math-class/

Before envelopes, people protected messages with letterlocking - Abigail Cain/Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-people-do-before-envelopes-letterlocking

Why are tech companies making custom typefaces? - arun.is https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/

Computer programming as an art - Donald E. Knuth (click the PDF link to read this December 1974 paper from Communications of the ACM) https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361612

Why Pharo might be the future of software development - Richard Kenneth Eng/The Cohort by App Academy https://blog.appacademy.io/pharo-future-software-development/

Yelp craters as much as 32% as advertisers abandon the site - Sara Salinas/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/yelp-craters-30percent-as-advertisers-abandon-the-site.html

Apple admits to hardware quality problems with iPhone X, MacBook Pro - Thurrott.com https://www.thurrott.com/apple/191172/apple-admits-to-hardware-quality-problems-with-iphone-x-macbook-pro

Fri, 09 Nov 2018

What does an orchestral conductor actually do? - Clemency Burton-Hill/BBC http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141029-what-do-conductors-actually-do

Tech CEOs are in love with their principal doomsayer - Nellie Bowles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/business/yuval-noah-harari-silicon-valley.html

Sun, 04 Nov 2018

So you wanna be a chef — Anthony Bourdain http://ruhlman.com/2010/09/so-you-wanna-be-a-chef%E2%80%94-by-bourdain-2/

Bussed out: How America moves thousands of homeless people around the country - Outside in America/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study

Thu, 01 Nov 2018

Milky Way devoured a galactic challenger, astronomers reveal - Nadia Drake/National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-milky-way-galaxy-ate-dwarf-backward-stars-astronomy

Twitter is finally giving our chronological timelines back - Ivan Mehta/TNW https://thenextweb.com/apps/2018/11/01/twitter-is-finally-giving-our-chronological-timelines-back/

Flickr, now owned by SmugMug, changes its free accounts https://blog.flickr.net/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/

Wed, 31 Oct 2018

'Hey, you're a developer. That means there's a 100 percent chance you're using a Macbook,' says developer who writes blog post that gives "brew" installation instructions with no acknowledgment that non-Mac-using developers exist.

Make your Firefox browser a privacy superpower with these extensions | The Firefox Frontier https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/make-your-firefox-browser-a-privacy-superpower-with-these-extensions/

Tiny books fit in one hand. Will they change the way we read? - Alexandra Alter/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/business/mini-books-pocket-john-green.html

I have 1,500 followers, and my tweets draw between 50 and 200 "impressions," as Twitter calls them, per post. Retweets are rare. Twitter is a different game for those with 50k, 100k and more followers.

Thank you for this story @AntonieWrites: Granada Hills Jewish Community Center shooting survivors and their relatives reflect on a more-deadly ending in Pittsburgh rampage https://www.dailynews.com/2018/10/31/pittsburgh-rampage-taps-memories-of-hate-fueled-attack-at-granada-hills-jewish-community-center/

Tue, 30 Oct 2018

OpenBSD has virtual machines - OpenBSD FAQ http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html

Twitter should kill the retweet - Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/twitter-should-kill-retweet/574321/

The Growth of Reddit - QuillBot Blog https://blog.quillbot.com/subreddit-growth-over-time/

Announcing the release of Fedora 29 - Matthew Miller/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/

Sun, 28 Oct 2018

IBM acquires Red Hat | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-acquires-red-hat/

IBM to acquire Raleigh-based Red Hat for billion | Richard Stradling and Zachery Eanes/Bradenton Herald https://www.bradenton.com/news/nation-world/national/article220764180.html

The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy RedHat for – Josh Constine/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/biggest-software-acquisition/

IBM is acquiring Red Hat for billion - Becky Peterson/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-a-deal-to-acquire-redhat-the-software-company-valued-at-20-billion-2018-10

IBM acquires Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-hybrid-cloud-provider

Learning by copying the textbook - Eugene Wallingford http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-09.html#e2018-09-05T15_58_36.htm

Fri, 26 Oct 2018

A dark consensus about screens and kids begins to emerge in Silicon Valley - Nellie Bowles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html

Snapchat loses 2M more users in Q3 as shares sink to new low – Josh Constine/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/snapchat-q3-2018-earnings/

Thu, 25 Oct 2018

Is Gutenberg the end or a new beginning for WordPress? - Iain Poulson/Delicious Brains https://deliciousbrains.com/wordpress-gutenberg/

Wed, 24 Oct 2018

Google is making it easier to wipe out your search history - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18017832/google-search-privacy-changes-2018

Palm rises from the dead as a zombie brand, launches tiny smartphone | Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/palm-rises-from-the-dead-as-a-zombie-brand-launches-tiny-smartphone/

7-Zip is also a file manager? I didn't know. https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/14522-latest-7-zip-update.html#post328499

What's new in WordPress 5.0 (How to prepare for Gutenberg) - Brian Jackson/Kinsta https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-5-0/

Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the ‘data industrial complex’ – Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/apples-tim-cook-makes-blistering-attack-on-the-data-industrial-complex/

Lavender's soothing scent could be more than just folk medicine - JoAnna Klein/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/science/lavender-scent-anxiety.html

How we wrote a textbook – Tim Wheeler (The book is about computer science, but what interests me here is how they put the book together using LaTeX) http://tim.hibal.org/blog/how-we-wrote-a-textbook/

Tue, 23 Oct 2018

This Perl Goes To 11 http://perl11.org/

Google News app bug is using up gigabytes of background data without users’ knowledge - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/22/18011028/google-news-app-bug-background-data-overage-charge

Mon, 22 Oct 2018

How many hours do we really need to work? - Jory MacKay/RescueTime https://blog.rescuetime.com/how-many-hours-should-we-work/

Fruit, veg and family life – why Spaniards are living longer - Sam Jones/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/19/spaniards-living-longer-researchers-credit-diet-lifestyle-fruit-veg-family-life

Dangit, git! http://dangitgit.com/

Why toilets are still made of porcelain - Rachel Swaby/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/5930537/why-toilets-are-still-made-of-porcelain

How IBM’s ThinkPad became a design icon - Harry McCracken/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90145427/how-ibms-thinkpad-became-a-design-icon

Watch NASA release 450,000 gallons of water in 1 minute - CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/watch-nasa-release-450000-gallons-of-water-in-1-minute/

Sun, 21 Oct 2018

Redline Smalltalk: Smalltalk on the JVM http://www.redline.st/