It bears repeating: @firefox is very much a usable browser. If you think there is too much Google in your life, pair it with @DuckDuckGo and see how it works for you.

Dollar stores are thriving – but are they ripping off poor people? - Joe Eskenazi/The Guardian US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/28/dollar-store-ripping-people-off-poverty-inequality

The expensive education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley - Kara Swisher/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/the-expensive-education-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-silicon-valley.html

When you try to use Vim commands in a WordPress Dashboard window

As Google Maps renames neighborhoods, residents fume - Jack Nicas/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html

Why a typical home solar setup does not work with the grid down - and what you can do about it - Russel Graves https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-setup-does-not-work-off-grid.html

The hardest thing about search/replace macros in Vim is figuring out how to deal with line breaks. I have lots of situations where having cr-lf line endings is helpful in search/replace, but that's not a thing in Vim.

I'm using Vim as my main Windows text editor to edit news stories because my usual go-to Win editors - Notepad++ and Geany - are both bad at search/replace macros. I'm learning a lot of Vim due to brute repetition.

SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure - Tom Hall http://www.sicpdistilled.com

Time to get Audacity - the free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing - for my Windows 10 laptop https://www.audacityteam.org/

10 reasons to ignore computer science degrees | CIO https://www.cio.com/article/3293010/hiring-and-staffing/10-reasons-to-ignore-computer-science-degrees.html

I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences. - Sunil Sandhu https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/i-created-the-exact-same-app-in-react-and-vue-here-are-the-differences-e9a1ae8077fd

How Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50 million pages of newspapers in his living room - Alexandria Neason/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tom-tryniski-fultonhistory.php

The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere — Ephrat Livni/Quartzy https://quartzy.qz.com/1342058/the-most-relaxing-vacation-you-can-take-is-going-nowhere-at-all/

LeBron James’ barbershop talk show ‘The Shop’ lands at HBO - @TVAnita/Urban Hollywood 411 https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/07/27/lebron-james-barbershop-talk-show-the-shop-lands-at-hbo/

‘Black-ish’ creator Kenya Barris leaving ABC Studios - by @TVAnita/Urban Hollywood 411 https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/07/27/kenya-barris-leaving-abc-studios/

Nautilus 3.30 offers improvements to GNOME's file manager - Carlos Soriano https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2018/07/27/nautilus-3-30/

The billion plan to turn Hoover Dam into a giant battery - Ivan Penn/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/energy-environment/hoover-dam-renewable-energy.html

Racket (aka @racketlang) is so easy to upgrade. I went to v7.0 and upgraded the language and the Dr. Racket IDE in one easy operation

Notable change in Racket v7.0: On Windows, an --embed-dlls flag for raco exe creates a truly standalone, single-file ".exe" that embeds Racket's DLLs https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/07/racket-v7-0.html

Why I’m deleting all my old tweets | Emily Dreyfuss/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/im-deleting-all-my-old-tweets

Microfilm lasts half a millennium - Crag Saper/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/microfilm-lasts-half-a-millennium/565643/

San Francisco Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at Facebook and other tech companies - Leanna Garfield/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-free-cafeteria-food-facebook-ban-2018-7

Amazon could never replace libraries. Here’s everything we offer that Amazon doesn’t. - Amanda Oliver/Vox https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/7/26/17616516/amazon-silicon-valley-libraries-forbes

Learn Vanilla JS: Open source list of paid and free resources to learn vanilla JavaScript - Snipcart https://github.com/snipcart/learnvanillajs

You should learn vanilla javaScript before JS frameworks - Francois-Xavier P. Darveau/Snipcart https://snipcart.com/blog/learn-vanilla-javascript-before-using-js-frameworks

Slack is buying HipChat - Dina Bass and Ellen Huet/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software