What we need instead of another huge social network is a bunch of smaller platforms that are built on blogs and the open web - Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/2018/07/13/replacing-billionuser-platforms.html

Google Cloud steps up storage game to court Hollywood, launches Filestore - Larry Dignan/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-steps-up-storage-game-to-court-hollywood-launches-filestore

Thank you for your help NoSQL, but we got it from here - Rick Negrin/MemSQL Blog http://blog.memsql.com/nosql/

How I got banned for life from Airbnb - Jackson Cunningham/Medium https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba

How ‘Fortnite’ became the most popular video game on Earth - Brian Feldman/New York Magazine http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/07/how-fortnite-became-the-most-popular-video-game-on-earth.html

'Find your passion' is awful advice: A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers - Olga Khazan/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/find-your-passion-is-terrible-advice/564932

A full-spec updated 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro will cost you ,699 | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-full-spec-updated-15-inch-apple-macbook-pro-will-cost-you-6699

Apple's surprise MacBook Pro update further strains its relationship with pros - David Gewirtz/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-surprise-macbook-pro-update-further-strains-its-relationship-with-pros

Was Trump’s election a ‘Sputnik moment’ for civics education? – Beau Yarbrough/Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2018/05/30/was-trumps-election-a-sputnik-moment-for-civics-education/

In Alabama, a small-town paper is figuring out digital advertising — and they’re doing it live - Marlee Baldridge/Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/in-alabama-a-small-town-paper-is-figuring-out-digital-advertising-and-theyre-doing-it-live/

Social media has taken the wind from the sails of the open web - Rob Reed/Ode https://ode.io/off-topic/rob/technology/internet/social-media-taken-wind-from-webs-sails.html#social-media-taken-wind-from-webs-sails

This is a test: Sending directly to the social blog

Appropriate Uses For SQLite - SQLite.org https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

In praise of the 30-hour work week – Valerie Aurora https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/06/17/in-praise-of-the-30-hour-work-week/

Wi-Fi security is starting to get its biggest upgrade in over a decade - Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/6/26/17501594/wpa3-wifi-security-certification

Is Silicon Valley doomed to become the next Detroit? - Andrew L. Russell and Lee Vinsel/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90201098/is-silicon-valley-doomed-to-become-the-next-detroit

The Haskell School of Music: From Signals to Symphonies (PDF) - Paul Hudak/Yale University Department of Computer Science http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/HSoM.pdf

Microsoft is putting Slack on notice — Mike Murphy/Quartz https://qz.com/1325993/microsoft-is-offerring-a-free-version-of-its-slack-competitor-teams/

Graffiti targeting Amazon spreading in Seattle – Taylor Soper and Kurt Scholsser/GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2018/photos-graffiti-targeting-amazon-jeff-bezos-illustrates-animosity-toward-tech-giant-seattle/

Downloading your Twitter data - Kyle Conroy https://kyleconroy.com/your-twitter-data

Microsoft launches free version of Teams | Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-launches-free-version-of-teams/

Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich - Maddy Savage/BBC http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180709-unlike-most-millennials-norways-are-rich

Microsoft matches Slack with a free version of its Teams chat app - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563710/microsoft-teams-free-version-slack-competitor

The scooting life: are electric scooters worth the trouble? | Nikil Saval/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-scooting-life-are-electric-scooters-worth-the-trouble

The next Facebook? Alma Campus raises $1 million for a college social network with an academic bent | Anna Hensel/VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/alma-campus-raises-1-million-for-a-college-social-network-with-an-academic-bent/

Why you hate contemporary architecture | Brianna Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson/Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture

Microsoft is updating the Windows Notepad app for the first time in years - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563704/microsoft-windows-notepad-app-update