Atlassian announces partnership with Slack, will no longer offer Stride https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership

Newsletters are immortal – Dave Pell https://medium.com/@davepell/newsletters-are-immortal-9887b1a5dc6a

Why the confirm password field must die - UX Movement http://uxmovement.com/forms/why-the-confirm-password-field-must-die/

One System, Universal Service? – Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/one-system-universal-service/

Windows 10 now uses machine learning to stop updates installing when a PC is in use - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17614842/microsoft-windows-10-updates-reboot-pc-machine-learning-feature

Facebook stock drops more than 20% after warning that revenue growth will take a hit - Max A. Cherney/MarketWatch https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-stock-crushed-after-revenue-user-growth-miss-2018-07-25

Jane Austen’s first buyer? Probably a prince she hated - Jennifer Schuessler/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/books/jane-austen-prince-regent.html

MITS Altair 8800 simulator https://s2js.com/altair/sim.html

The world economy runs on GPS. It needs a backup plan - Paul Tullis/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/the-world-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan

Cashless stores and restaurants are on the rise - Henry Grabar/Slate https://slate.com/business/2018/07/cashless-stores-and-restaurants-are-on-the-rise-to-the-delight-of-credit-card-companies.html

When media startups face big-city newspapers - Corey Hutchins/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/colorado-sun-denver-post-civil.php

Running your application for free on AWS - Parikshit Agnihotry http://p.agnihotry.com/post/the_free_stack_aws/

Vienna's affordable housing paradise | Adam Forrest/HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_us_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0

If the Dems lose against Trump in 2020 with a hard-left candidate, the party may swing back to the center -- unless the economy -- and principally a larger gap between rich and poor -- leads the Democrats to veer further left.

If Democrats regain the White House in 2020 with a hard-left approach, that will transform the party in much the same way that Trump has remade the GOP. Dems will appeal to a similarly small core constituency with an eye toward pushing more of the country further to the left.

My prediction: The Democrats will go hard left against Trump in 2020. It'll either be Elizabeth Warren (though listening to her on the stump shows that she's not yet ready) or a Bernie Sanders type minus 30 to 40 years. Outside chance that it's Bernie Sanders himself.

Using AWS with React Native https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/03/05/AWS-app-sync.html

We need a new model for tech journalism - James Ball/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/tech-journalism.php

What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps and why? - Indie Hackers https://www.indiehackers.com/round-table/what-tech-should-you-use-in-2018

Work less, get more: New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success' - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/work-less-get-more-new-zealand-firms-four-day-week-an-unmitigated-success

Project Fuchsia: Google is quietly working on a successor to Android - Mark Bergen and Mark Gurman/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/google-team-is-said-to-plot-android-successor-draw-skepticism

Beatrice Tinsley, astronomer who saw the course of the universe - Dennis Overbye/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/obituaries/overlooked-beatrice-tinsley-astronomer.html

Apple confirms 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard has 'membrane' to 'prevent debris from entering the butterfly mechanism' - Joe Rossignol/MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/19/apple-confirms-2018-mbp-keyboard-prevents-debris/

and Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg

Best Buy should be dead, but it's thriving in the age of Amazon - Susan Berfield and Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-19/best-buy-should-be-dead-but-it-s-thriving-in-the-age-of-amazon

Build Android apps in PicoLisp without an Android SDK https://picolisp.com/wiki/?pilbox

Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat | Arielle Pardes/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-introduces-subreddit-chat

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's interview with Kara Swisher on Recode Decode: Full transcript https://www.recode.net/2018/7/18/17575158/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview-full-transcript-kara-swisher