Big tech isn’t the problem with homelessness. It’s All of Us - Adam Rogers/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-isnt-the-problem-with-homelessness-its-all-of-us/

An invisible rating system at your favorite chain restaurant is costing your server - Caroline O'Donovan/BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/ziosk-presto-tabletop-tablet-restaurant-rating-servers

How did Google get so big? — 60 Minutes/CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-google-get-so-big/

GraalVM is a unversal virtual machine that runs applications in more languages that I can list in this post: JS, Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, C(++), etc. https://www.graalvm.org/

On Lisp by Paul Graham - a link to a download of the 1993 book http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Amazon, the brand buster - Julie Creswell/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/business/amazon-the-brand-buster.html

The power of simplicity - Paul Okstad http://pokstad.com/2018/05/20/power-of-simplicity.html

Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo - Danny Guo https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/migrating-from-jekyll-to-hugo/

London Trust Media Holdings buys IRC.com https://irc.com/

Stanford grads dish out life advice for high school and college in what kind of, sort of looks like a book https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCX52XIG6LE6GpC8e7feQyQ1JG-ATCUZ/view

React Native at Airbnb - Gabriel Peal (TL;DR: Airbnb is winding down use of React Native and will return to "regular" native development, meaning separate apps for iOS and Android) https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c

Should we use React Native? – Charlie Cheever/Expo https://blog.expo.io/should-we-use-react-native-1465d8b607ac

This entire web site is worth looking at for a deep dive into the history of technology: Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com

Testing out a new future for Consumer Reports - Karen K. Ho/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/consumer-reports-wirecutter.php

A first look at desktop metrics | Will Cooke/Ubuntu blog https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/06/22/a-first-look-at-desktop-metrics

Twitter ‘smytes’ customers, turns off security service a half-hour after 6 a.m. announcement – Sarah Perez/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/

Facebook Groups may soon charge monthly subscription fees for access - Shannon Liao/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17484876/facebook-groups-monthly-subscription-service-fees-access

When your program crashes at the same time, every time, you know something's wrong

Former Citrix chief Mark Templeton takes over at cloud start-up DigitalOcean - Jordan Novet/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/digitalocean-new-ceo-former-citrix-chief-mark-templeton.html

Proton Native - React Native for the desktop, cross compatible https://proton-native.js.org

More transparency and control in your Google account - The Keyword/Google https://www.blog.google/topics/safety-security/more-transparency-and-control-your-google-account/

The death of a once great city: The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence | Kevin Baker/Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-city-gentrification/

How Twitter made the tech world's most unlikely comeback - Alan Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-twitter-made-the-tech-worlds-most-unlikely-comeback

WordPress.com owner buys Atavist, maker of subscription-offering publishing software - Benjamin Mullin/WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/wordpress-com-owner-buys-atavist-maker-of-subscription-offering-publishing-software-1529597700

Why would you need an ssl certificate for localhost? - Let's Encrypt https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey - Edith Hall http://edithhall.co.uk/books/the-return-of-ulysses

Classics for the people – why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks (2015) - Edith Hall/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/20/classics-for-the-people-ancient-greeks

Basic income could work — if you do it Canada-style - Brian Bergstein/MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611418/universal-basic-income-works-if-you-do-it-canada-style/

YouTube blocks Blender videos worldwide, Blender starts its own video service called PeerTube — Ton Roosendaal/blender.org https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/

Why women don't code - Stuart Reges/Quillette https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/

BitTorrent has been sold to blockchain startup for an alleged million - Muhammad Jarir Kanji/Neowin https://www.neowin.net/news/bittorrent-has-been-sold-to-blockchain-startup-for-an-alleged-140-million

Teach yourself Racket - Prabhakar Ragde https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flaneries/TYR/

Netflix: Why AT&T bought Time Warner and Comcast and Disney want Fox - Alex Sherman/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/netflix-why-att-bought-time-warner-and-comcast-and-disney-want-fox.html

Goodbye, Denver Post. Hello, Blockchain. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/business/media/denver-post-blockchain-colorado-sun.html

Delivering WordPress in 7KB - Jack Lenox https://blog.jacklenox.com/2018/06/04/delivering-wordpress-in-7kb/

Windows 10 April 2018 Update now open to all, thanks to machine learning - Peter Bright/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/windows-10-april-2018-update-now-open-to-all-thanks-to-machine-learning/

State of React Native 2018 - Sophie Alpert/Engineering manager on React at Facebook https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14/state-of-react-native-2018

Not only is the Mac Mini outdated, it's no longer mini - John Gruber/Daring Fireball https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/06/14/snellintosh

Fund managers are preparing for a crash - Dion Rabouin/Yahoo Finance https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fund-managers-say-see-next-economic-crash-looming-144251620.html

Inside the facility where Kodak brings film back to life | Popular Science https://www.popsci.com/inside-kodak-factory-photos

The market for driverless cars will head towards monopoly - The Economist https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/06/09/the-market-for-driverless-cars-will-head-towards-monopoly

How Firefox is using Pocket to try to build a better news feed than Facebook - Casey Newton/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17446660/mozilla-firefox-pocket-recommendations-ceo-nate-weiner-interview-converge-podcast

Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast – Danny Crichton/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/12/netflix-and-alphabet-will-need-to-become-isps-fast/

Podcasts are feeds: If it doesn't have an RSS feed it isn't a podcast - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2018/06/10/192326.html

Our big loop: I want people to be able to put up their own web servers. Not companies. Not people with Computer Science degrees. People. Anyone. Everyone. - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2018/06/13/131758.html

Google and HTTP: I've been writing about Google's efforts to deprecate HTTP, the protocol of the web. This is a summary of why I am opposed to it. - Dave Winer http://this.how/googleAndHttp/

Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot - John Myers/LA Times http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-split-three-states-20180612-story.html

11 Javascript utility libraries you should know in 2018 - Jonathan Saring/Bits and Pieces https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade

Scripting News: I fear Google's control of the web http://scripting.com/2018/06/12/140329.html

RIP Macintosh: 1984–2018 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/Computerworld https://www.computerworld.com/article/3280944/apple-mac/rip-macintosh-1984-2018.html

It looks like Google’s going to launch a podcast app - Shoshana Wodinsky/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/12/17453006/google-podcast-app-launch

Compare Git hosting alternatives at GitComp https://gitcomp.com/

11 ways to speed up WordPress - Ahsan Parwez/CodeinWP https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/ways-to-speed-up-wordpress/

How to rinse your recyclables without wasting water - Nick Douglas/Lifehacker https://lifehacker.com/how-to-rinse-your-recyclables-without-wasting-water-1826764672

Mozilla: Our past work with Facebook - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/11/our-past-work-with-facebook/

Homeland Security’s massive new database will include face recognition, DNA, and people's 'non-obvious relationships' - Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/hart-homeland-securitys-massive-new-database-will-include-face-recognition-dna-and

Twenty years later, everything is the Truman Show - Julie Miller/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/truman-show-anniversary-jim-carrey-peter-weir-laura-linney

The decline of the MacBook Pro - Danny Guo https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/the-decline-of-the-macbook-pro/

The bullshit-job boom: For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose. Is there any good left in the grind? - Nathan Heller/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom

I can't believe that @ftrain's What is Code? article for Bloomberg is 3 years old. Best take on "modern" software development this decade https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/