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/