Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback https://pharo.org/web

Even after Microsoft's fix, Windows 10's 1809 update is still botching file operations - Gizmodo Australia https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/10/even-after-microsofts-fix-windows-10s-1809-update-is-still-botching-file-operations/

Endless OS is a Debian-based Linux distribution in which the root filesystem is read-only and managed by OSTree and using Flatpak for applications https://verummeum.com/blog/2018/10/21/endless-os-review-2018/

I love the design of this Hugo site, defn.io, by Bogdan Popa https://defn.io/

Playing around with Racket - Bogdan Popa https://defn.io/2018/10/21/racket/

Open platforms like Android unlock potential - Ayanna Howard/Google's The Keyword blog https://www.blog.google/technology/developers/open-platforms-android-unlock-potential/

Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl https://webperl.zero-g.net/

FT8 - tipping point for ham radio? Gerald, K5SDR/FlexRadio https://www.flexradio.com/ft8-tipping-point-for-ham-radio/

If printed dictionaries are history, what will children sit on to reach the table? | Michael Adams/National Endowment for the Humanities https://www.neh.gov/article/if-printed-dictionaries-are-history-what-will-children-sit-reach

Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows—it’s how it develops it | Peter Bright/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsofts-problem-isnt-shipping-windows-updates-its-developing-them/

Uber is testing an on-demand staffing business called Uber Works - Sean O'Kane/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/18/17995398/uber-works-staffing-business-test-trial

What do you do with a slide rule? https://tryretool.com/blog/the-slide-rule/

See data structures in action with interactive animations - David Galles/University of San Francisco https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/

What's in the App Academy curriculum? I'm only looking because it looks like you can access the entire course for free. https://www.appacademy.io/immersive/curriculum

How you can change the world by learning data structures and algorithms - Adrian Mejia https://adrianmejia.com/blog/2018/04/04/how-you-can-change-the-world-learning-data-structures-algorithms-free-online-course-tutorial/

How Lisp became God's own programming language - Two-Bit History https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html

33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts

Raspberry Pi-sized LattePanda Alpha runs Windows 10, offers MacBook-like specs - Nick Heath/TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/article/raspberry-pi-sized-lattepanda-alpha-runs-windows-10-offers-macbook-like-specs

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on its quick rise and faster fall - Alex Blumberg/Intelligencer http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2018/10/andrew-mason-on-groupon.html

Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard - Rachel Metz/MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611620/why-we-cant-quit-the-qwerty-keyboard/

Twitter and Salesforce CEOs bicker over who is helping the homeless more - Gabrielle Canon/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/12/jack-dorsey-marc-benioff-homelessness-twitter-san-francisco

Why are CVS receipts so long? An investigation. - Rachel Sugar/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/10/17956950/why-are-cvs-pharmacy-receipts-so-long

A future where everything becomes a computer is as creepy as you feared - Farhad Manjoo/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/technology/future-internet-of-things.html

I installed JRuby, and I already had 'regular' Ruby on my Windows 10 system. Can you guess what happened?

The dreaded Windows update 1809 took console Vim out of my path. I added it back. (I use both GVim and console Vim almost all the time in Windows and, when I run it, Linux)

This is a test http://stevenrosenberg.net

JRuby https://www.jruby.org/

The way I learn programming is by making stupid little programs

I am looking into Shoes, the easiest little GUI toolkit for Ruby http://shoesrb.com

Chess game using Racket's pasteboard - Alex Harsanyi https://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/10/chess-game-using-racket-s-pasteboard.html

Why futurism has a cultural blindspot Tom Vanderbilt/Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/why-futurism-has-a-cultural-blindspot-rp

Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career | joshuahu.io https://www.joshuahu.io/blog/quitting/

Hackaday.io | The world's largest collaborative hardware development community. https://hackaday.io

The 555 timer chip and how it got that way | Dan Maloney/Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/the-555-and-how-it-got-that-way/

What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/what-we-lose-by-reading-100000-words-every-day/2018/10/04/72dea000-b212-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.36b801454468

A long list of complaints about static site generators - Florens Verschelde https://fvsch.com/static-site-generators/

École 42, a free, teacher-less university founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel is schooling thousands of future-proof programmers — Quartz https://qz.com/1054412/a-french-billionaires-free-teacher-less-university-is-designing-thousands-of-future-proof-employees/

Learn Git Branching https://learngitbranching.js.org/

The Netflix vs. Amazon Prime Video war is making piracy cool again – Chris Mills/BGR https://bgr.com/2018/10/07/netflix-vs-amazon-prime-video-original-content-piracy/

The Dutch reach: A no-tech way to save bicyclists’ lives - Tanya Mohn/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/smarter-living/the-dutch-reach-save-bicyclists-lives-bicycle-safety-drivers.html

9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6,000-word leaked memo on survival – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/chat-not-snap/

I am taking a Ruby program that's a giant procedural script and rewriting it with classes. I was going to do this in Java, but the description of classes in "Head First Ruby" by Jay McGavren was so good, I decided to stick with the original language.

How do you take a picture of a black hole? With a telescope as big as the Earth - Seth Fletcher/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-as-big-as-the-earth.html

How China used a tiny chip to infiltrate U.S. companies - Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Why I’m worried about Google: I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t. - Matthew Green/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/google-is-losing-users-trust.html

Clojure is cool - Ahungry.com http://ahungry.com/blog/2018-09-09-Clojure-is-Cool.html

Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your-2fa-phone-number-to-target-you-with-ads/

How bad maps are ruining American broadband - Karl Bode/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17882842/us-internet-broadband-map-isp-fcc-wireless-competition

Is coding becoming obsolete? (Part I) – Zeroqode Blog https://blog.zeroqode.com/is-coding-becoming-obsolete-part-i-4a2cf88f8b48

Manyverse is a social network off the grid https://www.manyver.se/

Self-solving Rubik's cube https://media.dmm-make.com/item/4462/

Ungoogled Chromium: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Why I’m done with Chrome – Matthew Green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/

I will trade a bigger audience for control of my own content. (This post also lives at http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net)

Our React-native experience at Drops (so far) – Mark Szulyovszky – Medium | tl;dr They like it https://medium.com/@itchingpixels/our-react-native-experience-603e3343730

Carnegie Mellon is saving old software from oblivion - Mahadev Satyanarayanan/IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/carnegie-mellon-is-saving-old-software-from-oblivion

How do you decaffeinate coffee? - Stephen Dowling/BBC http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180917-how-do-you-decaffeinate-coffee

JavaFX 11 is released, and the project now has its own website https://openjfx.io/

10 apps to add features to Windows 10 - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/10-apps-to-add-features-to-windows-10/

Is California a good role model? - Thomas B. Edsall/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/california-economy-inequality-mobility.html