Walmart reportedly considers cloning Netflix to beat Amazon - Rhett Jones/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/walmart-may-build-a-netflix-clone-to-stick-it-to-amazon-1827682696

When a tech reporter doesn’t use much tech - David Streitfeld/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/personaltech/tech-reporter-does-not-use-tech.html

America’s electoral system gives the Republicans advantages over Democrats - The Economist https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/07/12/americas-electoral-system-gives-the-republicans-advantages-over-democrats

Google Cloud Platform Blog: Improving our account management policies to better support customers - Ben Treynor Sloss/GCP Blog https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-our-account-management-policies-to-better-support-customers.html

Google gets slapped with billion EU fine for Android antitrust abuse – Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/google-gets-slapped-5bn-by-eu-for-android-antitrust-abuse

Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Netflix, Amazon | Valentina Palladino/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/walmart-may-launch-a-video-streaming-service-to-battle-netflix-amazon

Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17585396/google-android-eu-fine-response

S3 suspend for the Lenovo X1 Carbon 2018 - fiji-flo/GitHub https://github.com/fiji-flo/x1carbon2018s3

vim-zen: Barebones Vim Plugin Manager - prakadanish/GitHub https://github.com/prakashdanish/vim-zen

Start to finish: Deploying a React app on DigitalOcean - Julien Tregoat/Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/start-to-finish-deploying-a-react-app-on-digitalocean-bcfae9e6d01b

Social media’s dial-up ancestor: The bulletin board system - Kevin Driscoll/IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/social-medias-dialup-ancestor-the-bulletin-board-system

These Barbie typewriters can send secret messages, and yes, this is for real - Crypto Museum http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/

To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of romance writer gamed Amazon's algorithm - Sarah Jeong/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal

Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication - Ana Sandoiu/Medical News Today https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322463.php

I've never heard of Refinery29, but they do slideshows right -- and that's a rarity https://www.refinery29.com/netflix-hidden-gems

Why use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps? https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien/diary/44356

How smart speakers are changing the way we listen to music | Eric Harvey/Pitchfork https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-smart-speakers-are-changing-the-way-we-listen-to-music/

If you see this post, I have succeeded in moving the configuration portion of my blogPoster Ruby script to its own file, which I call into the main file with Ruby's require_relative

I have been doing some work on the blogPoster Ruby script in preparation for sharing the code, and if you see this post, I didn't break it

Building a progressive web app with Gatsby, a static site generator - Michelle Barker/Our Name Is Mud https://ournameismud.co.uk/journal/building-a-progressive-web-app-with-gatsby

Get a progressive web app running in just 20 minutes using gatsby.js - Melissa McEwen/Rollout Blog https://rollout.io/blog/progressive-web-app-running-20-minutes

After all I said about not being on StatusNet/GNU Social in years, I just started an account on quitter.im (the instance I used to use at quitter.se is dead)

I have used Identi.ca (still available), StatusNet/GNU Social (the network I was on, quitter.se, seems dead now) and Diaspora, but those are pretty much confined to open-source software users. Twitter is news-centric and otherwise has a very wide reach.

I prefer reading Hacker News and Reddit, but those aren't sites where you can or should post a lot. For that, there's Twitter, and probably also Google Plus, though I can't remember the last time I posted there.

I used a lot of social networks, but all have fallen by the wayside except for Twitter. It retains the simplicity of a text post and fits my "posting style"

I created my own blogPoster app because I wanted to make the act of writing and publishing a social media update to my own site and Twitter as seamless and easy as possible

When I'm coding and all my tools are working, the operating system doesn't matter