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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

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/

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

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/

I have a program that's super ugly and hackish, but it works.

I'm still OK with using Windows 10. That is all.

North Brother Island is New York City's post-apocalyptic playland - Dave Mosher/Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/north-brother-island-photo-tour-2017-9

Publii - An open-source static-website building tool for every skill level, from beginner to developer https://getpublii.com/

Isn’t it time we declared our independence from bloatware? - Vlad Savov/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/4/17533926/windows-ios-android-bloatware

From industrial engineering to web development - Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/industrial-engineering-web-dev/

Becoming a software engineer with no degree- Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/becoming-a-software-engineer-with-no-degree/

How to become a data scientist without a CS degree - Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/how-to-become-a-data-scientist-without-a-cs-degree/

Why the world should adopt a basic income - Guy Standing/The Economist https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/04/why-the-world-should-adopt-a-basic-income

Easy way to build Node JS RESTful APIs - Deval Kasundra/ProgrammingSchool https://www.programmingschool.io/easy-way-to-build-node-js-restful-apis/

Flutter is not React - Tobe Osakwe/Flutter Talk https://flutter.thosakwe.com/posts/flutter-is-not-react

React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity (tl;dr they stopped using it) - Nate Ebel/Udacity https://engineering.udacity.com/react-native-a-retrospective-from-the-mobile-engineering-team-at-udacity-89975d6a8102

Say hello to full employment - Annie Lowrey/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/07/hello-full-employment/564527/

Slow reading: the antithesis of speed reading - The Indy https://www.theindy.us/slow-reading/

How to back up your /home directory in the Windows Subsystem for Linux without losing permissions before killing your old WSL and installing a new one from the Windows Store (revised 7/2018) http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/windows/linux_on_windows/2017_1013_backup_before_installing_new_wsl

Node.js breaks into the top 5 - Hacker News hiring trends (May 2018) https://www.hntrends.com/2018/may-node-js-breaks-into-top-5.html

Reason Town: A podcast about the ReasonML language https://reason.town/

Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes Racket as its newest member project https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/jun/12/racketjoins/

Google to developers: We take down your extension - because we can - Wladimir Palant https://palant.de/2018/07/03/google-to-developers-we-take-down-your-extension-because-we-can

I spent two weeks trying to charge electric scooters for extra cash. What I got was a lot of headaches. - Nathanael Buckley/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/charging-bird-scooters-overnight-is-like-a-much-less-fun-version-of-pokemon-go.html

Cities need to stop selling out to big tech companies. There's a better way - Greg LeRoy and Maryann Feldman/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way

An Introduction to FXRuby — SitePoint https://www.sitepoint.com/an-introduction-to-fxruby/

fxruby is another way to make GUIs in Ruby https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/fxruby

Ruby 2D: A promising way to make GUI programs with Ruby http://www.ruby2d.com/

Build UIs in Clojure with Seesaw https://github.com/daveray/seesaw

The evolution of the Windows command line – Rich Turner/Microsoft Developer https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/06/27/windows-command-line-the-evolution-of-the-windows-command-line/

A University of Wisconsin campus pushes plan to drop 13 majors — including English, history and philosophy - Valerie Strauss/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/21/university-of-wisconsin-campus-pushes-plan-to-drop-13-majors-including-english-history-and-philosophy/?utm_term=.92019e3a2d8b

How Facebook punked and then gut punched the news biz – John Marshall/Talking Points Memo https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-facebook-punked-and-then-gut-punched-the-news-biz

How the blog broke the Web - Amy Hoy/Stacking the Bricks https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/

Snapchat’s decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns - Helena Fitzgerald/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17366528/snapchat-decline-internet-ghost-towns

Bird's million in 4 months is the poster child for Silicon Valley - Julie Bort/Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/birds-400-million-in-4-months-is-the-poster-child-for-silicon-valley-2018-6

Get an OpenBSD virtual machine in Amsterdam https://openbsd.amsterdam/

Facebook’s retreat from the news has painful for publishers — including Slate - Will Oremus/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/facebooks-retreat-from-the-news-has-painful-for-publishers-including-slate.html

Microsoft releases 125 million building footprints in the US as open data - Bing Maps Blog https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data/

That time I had Steve Jobs keynote at Unix Expo - Chris MacAskill/Cake https://www.cake.co/conversations/rZXhqtP/that-time-i-had-steve-jobs-keynote-at-unix-expo

More Unicode circles that you can use in Vim and other editors - Mark Tolonen/Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/a/12982461

Space is full of dirty, toxic grease - Hannah Devlin/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/27/space-is-full-of-dirty-toxic-grease-scientists-reveal

If you need a bigger 'bullet,' try the Unicode character 'BLACK CIRCLE' (U+25CF) https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25cf/index.htm

An appreciation: Harlan Ellison was a trendsetting writer, a Hollywood maverick, a way-cool Valley guy — and, yes, an often nice fellow – Bob Strauss/Daily News aka @bscritic https://www.dailynews.com/2018/06/28/harlan-ellison-genius-writer-hollywood-maverick-valley-cool-and-yes-often-nice-guy/

The @medium model for collecting money and paying it out looks great. Here is what they say: Each member's /month subscription is distributed proportionally to the stories that the individual member engaged with that month. https://medium.com/creators

How to type a bullet character in Vim http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/How-to-get-rounded-bullet-list-character-tp5726926p5726927.html

The architects of this building in Romania used Morse code to "sign their names" - toromio/Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/8ujutr/the_architects_of_this_building_in_romania_used/

When using Vim macros in your vimrc, (which I do heavily), here's how to type an <esc> https://stackoverflow.com/a/4010918

Amazon Linux WorkSpaces is some kind of virtual desktop thing from AWS. You can also do it with Windows. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-linux-workspaces/

Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall - Zachary Crockett/The Hustle https://thehustle.co/why-nobody-ever-wins-the-mall-car-giveaway