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Thu, 12 Jul 2018

Why Kubernetes is the new application server - Rafael Benevides/Red Hat Developer blog https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/06/28/why-kubernetes-is-the-new-application-server/

Overlooked No More: Bette Nesmith Graham, who invented Liquid Paper - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/obituaries/bette-nesmith-graham-liquid-paper.html

Google Cloud Platform - The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It's Mostly Good) - Daniel Compton/Deps https://www.deps.co/blog/google-cloud-platform-good-bad-ugly/

Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them? - Daniel Miller/L.A. Times http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ca-cm-times-art-20180712-htmlstory.html

What is the minimal web? - mnmlist http://mnmlist.com/w/

Google Cloud Platform launches Los Angeles region - Google Cloud https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/la/

Delivering WordPress in 7KB | Jack Lenox/CSS-Tricks https://css-tricks.com/delivering-wordpress-in-7kb/

Apple updates MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-updates-macbook-pro-with-faster-performance-and-new-features-for-pros/

The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea - DHH/Signal v. Noise https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3

Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm - BBC News (covers Boulder Daily Camera and Denver Post) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44688274

Wed, 11 Jul 2018

How to install (Let's Encrypt) free SSL in Hostgator - The David Web https://thedavidweb.com/install-lets-encrypt-free-ssl-hostgator/

Open Source at Write.as https://write.as/open-source

Write.as — Distraction-free blogging and writing platform https://write.as/

Matt Baer is the creator of Write.as https://write.as/matt/who-is-this

Sky-high deductibles broke the U.S. health insurance system - John Tozzi and Zachary Tracer/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-26/sky-high-deductibles-broke-the-u-s-health-insurance-system

No, I have no side code projects to show you | Ezekiel Buchheit/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-have-side-code-projects-show-you-ezekiel-buchheit/

How I fully quit Google (and you can, too) – Nithin Coca/Medium https://medium.com/s/story/how-i-fully-quit-google-and-you-can-too-4c2f3f85793a

Employers will do almost anything to find workers to fill jobs — except pay them more - Michael Hiltzik/Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-employment-20180710-story.html

Tue, 10 Jul 2018

Let’s celebrate Hugo’s 5th birthday | Bjørn Erik Pedersen/Hugo (There is a lot of info here on the Hugo static site generator) https://gohugo.io/news/lets-celebrate-hugos-5th-birthday/

Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway – Jonathan S. Geller/BGR https://bgr.com/2018/07/10/apple-1password-acquisition-deal/

Mon, 09 Jul 2018

AT&T's doomed plans to turn HBO into Netflix - David Sims/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/att-changing-hbo/564635/

Currents: A quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud - Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/june-2018/

Firefox and the 4-year battle to have Google to treat it as a first-class citizen - Chris Duckett/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-and-the-4-year-battle-to-have-google-to-treat-it-as-a-first-class-citizen

Sun, 08 Jul 2018

Is the world running out of sand? The truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands - Neil Tweedie/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jul/01/riddle-of-the-sands-the-truth-behind-stolen-beaches-and-dredged-islands

The Twitter API wasn't working for me. Was it Twitter, or was it me?

The Beyoncé* of Marching Bands, or Shake, Shake, Shake, Shako Your Booty, Part Deux – Drawerspace In A Cluttered Mind https://drawerspace.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/the-beyonce-of-marching-bands-or-shake-shake-shake-shako-your-booty-part-deux/

How GitHub became the nexus of software automation | Scott Fulton III/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-github-sneaked-up-on-us-to-become-the-nexus-of-software-automation/