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Sat, 07 Jul 2018

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

Fri, 06 Jul 2018

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/

Wed, 04 Jul 2018

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

Tue, 03 Jul 2018

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

Sun, 01 Jul 2018

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