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Thu, 18 Oct 2018

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

Wed, 17 Oct 2018

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/

Tue, 16 Oct 2018

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/

Mon, 15 Oct 2018

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

Sun, 14 Oct 2018

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

Sat, 13 Oct 2018

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

Fri, 12 Oct 2018

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/

Thu, 11 Oct 2018

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/

Mon, 08 Oct 2018

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/