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/