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

Introduction To Calculus With Derivatives (a very interesting and accessible take on the subject) http://adit.io/posts/2018-02-18-Introduction-To-Calculus-With-Derivatives.html

Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate. If true, this adds a lot to the current climate-change debate. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ancient-farmers-glaciers-profoundly-earth.html

Hard lessons (thanks, Amazon) breathe new life into retail stores - Michael Corkery/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/retail-walmart-amazon-economy.html

Dr. Bronner's Soap is a trendy million company — Simone Stolzoff/Quartzy https://qz.com/quartzy/1374780/dr-bronners-soap-is-a-trendy-120-million-company/

More on blogPoster in a GUI: I like apps written in the QT toolkit, and I bet that JavaFX is also pretty good, but these frameworks add a lot of complexity to what is still a fairly simple Ruby console app.

More on blogPoster going GUI: While there are better GUI toolkits than Tk, and languages that haven't abandoned the desktop GUI, Ruby and Tk seems like the most "standard" of pairings, and this project is simple enough that it'll probably work just fine.

While I haven't yet made my Ruby-coded blogPoster app (which is posting this entry) either modular or class-based (I still plan to to do that), I am starting work on the GUI version with Tk and the help of the http://tkdocs.com tutorial.

Warmoth Custom Guitar & Bass Parts offers a dizzying number of options for creating the solidbody guitar you want while avoiding the trouble of woodworking and finishing. Plus all bodies and necks are made in the USA http://www.warmoth.com/

S100 Computers: A web site for S-100 bus computer owners - This is a very deep site on how to make S-100 bus computers work in the 2010s http://www.s100computers.com/index.html

Stop future proofing software – George3d6 https://medium.com/@george3d6/stop-future-proofing-software-c984cbd65e78

The Rails doctrine - David Heinemeier Hansson (2016) https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/

Virgin Mobile is selling Android phones, but they don't put storage or memory in the specs

Six-chip Z80 board runs CP/M from a CF card https://github.com/linker3000/Z80-Board

Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing - The Economist https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/09/01/silicon-valley-is-changing-and-its-lead-over-other-tech-hubs-narrowing

The overprotected American child: Parents and communities are figuring out ways to give their children more independence—and it just may help them to become less anxious, more self-reliant adults - Andrea Petersen/WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-overprotected-american-child-1527865038?mod=djmc_pkt_ff

Twitter is testing suggestions of accounts to unfollow - Axios https://www.axios.com/twitter-is-testing-suggestions-of-accounts-to-unfollow-3229b5d9-77dd-4c88-92ae-fb1e69d05d07.html

Mozilla: Changing our approach to anti-tracking https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-our-approach-to-anti-tracking/

Money for nothing: Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In the future, who will still work for a paycheck? - Atossa Araxia Abrahamian/The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

The world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995 - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain

Getting Started with React – An Overview and Walkthrough – Tania Rascia https://www.taniarascia.com/getting-started-with-react/

See all eight planets in one night - Sky & Telescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/see-all-eight-planets-in-one-night/

‘Digital shackles’: the unexpected cruelty of ankle monitors - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/28/digital-shackles-the-unexpected-cruelty-of-ankle-monitors

Real world SSD wearout – okmeter.io blog https://blog.okmeter.io/real-world-ssd-wearout-a3396a35c663

The bridge of desperation: The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has led to one of the largest mass migrations in Latin America’s history - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Venezuela_bridge

How Hollywood is racing to catch up with Netflix - Cynthia Littleton/Variety https://variety.com/2018/digital/features/media-streaming-services-netflix-disney-comcast-att-1202910463/

Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work? - Rayne Ellis/Mashable https://mashable.com/2018/08/18/how-recycling-works

I delivered packages for Amazon and it was a nightmare - Alana Semuels/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/amazon-flex-workers/563444/

The unlikely return of Birkenstock - The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/cathy-horyn-on-birkenstocks-unlikely-rise.html

Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay up. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/24/thousands-amazon-workers-receive-food-stamps-now-bernie-sanders-wants-amazon-pay-up/?utm_term=.3d6b73c5294d

What is this weird Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work? – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter-army-of-amazon-drones-cheerfully-defending-warehouse-work/

AWS' answer to Digital Ocean is Lightsail, which has been around since 2016. This is the first I've heard of it. https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/aws-cuts-the-price-of-most-of-its-lightsail-virtual-private-servers-in-half/

Mathematica at 30: We’ve come a long way (but you haven’t seen anything yet!) - Stephen Wolfram http://blog.wolfram.com/2018/06/21/weve-come-a-long-way-in-30-years-but-you-havent-seen-anything-yet/

GitLab 11.2 released with live preview in the Web IDE and Android project import https://about.gitlab.com/2018/08/22/gitlab-11-2-released/

What if banks were publicly owned? In LA, this may soon be a reality. | David Dayen/HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/public-bank-los-angeles_us_5b6bef33e4b0ae32af954495

Let’s all go back to Tumblr | Jeremy Gordon/The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back

We don't run cron jobs (2016) - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17805829

We don’t run cron jobs at Nextdoor – Wenbin Fang/Nextdoor Engineering https://engblog.nextdoor.com/we-don-t-run-cron-jobs-at-nextdoor-6f7f9cc62040

Fedora Silverblue is a new way of putting together a Linux desktop with rpm-ostree for 'fully atomic upgrades, easy rollbacks,' and Flatpak desktop applications for 'stronger isolation' and more reliable upgrades. https://teamsilverblue.org/

Use bundler/inline to make sure users get the Ruby gems needed to run your script https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/970jus/rewriting_a_shell_script_on_ruby/e47dj1z

Stop hiring for culture fit - Patty McCord/Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-to-hire

Punctuation that failed to make its mark - Keith Houston/BBC.com http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151104-punctuation-that-failed-to-make-its-mark

What does immersing yourself in a book do to your brain? | Maryanne Wolf/Literary Hub https://lithub.com/what-does-immersing-yourself-in-a-book-do-to-your-brain/

TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes - Tom Ross/GitHub https://github.com/umpox/TinyEditor

Don't do what you love for a career -- do what makes you money - Catherine Baab-Muguira/Quartz https://qz.com/819233/do-what-you-love-is-bad-advice-work-for-money-not-for-passion/

Electric scooters are illegal in the UK because of 1835 law - Shona Ghosh/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-scooters-illegal-1835-highways-act-2018-8

Is this the end of the TV writers’ room as we know it? | Joy Press/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/the-end-of-the-tv-writers-room-as-we-know-it-mini-rooms

In Ruby, global variables work, but you're supposed to use instance variables when you can, so I made the switch on all the variables in this Twitter-posting app. If you see this, it worked.

Facebook wanted us to kill this investigative tool - Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wanted-us-to-kill-this-investigative-tool-1826620111

Snap’s drop in active users could signal a social media peak - Kate Conger/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/technology/snapchat-users.html

I'm learning a crazy amount of Vim by using it every day. I look up how to do the things I need to do (and Vim can do just about anything), and I've written search/replace macros for the hard stuff. Repetition is the key.

China still sorting through its bike-share graveyards - Alan Taylor/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/china-abandoned-bike-share-graveyards/566576/

Where Vim came from - Two-Bit History https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html

Why so many poor kids who get into college don’t end up enrolling - Alvin Chang/Vox https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17639142/poor-kids-college-dont-enroll

Commit often, perfect later, publish once - Seth Robertson/Git Best Practices https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/