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

Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads - Rani Molla/Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/9/10/17797720/amazon-is-stuffing-its-search-results-pages-with-ads

Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy? - Evan Osnos/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy

Facts and stories about antique computers - Ed Thelen (an extensive list of links) http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/index.html

Computing Before Computers (1990 book on the history of computing going back to 1600 AD) http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CBC-Ch-01.pdf

Academy scraps 'Popular Film' Oscars category after industry backlash - @TVAnita/Urban Hollywood 411 https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/09/06/academy-scraps-popular-film-oscars-category/

Scooter use is rising in major cities. So are trips to the emergency room. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/scooter-use-is-rising-in-major-cities-so-are-trips-to-the-emergency-room/2018/09/06/53d6a8d4-abd6-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html