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Think globally, microblog locally
Thu, 14 Jun 2018

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Not only is the Mac Mini outdated, it's no longer mini - John Gruber/Daring Fireball https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/06/14/snellintosh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

Wed, 13 Jun 2018

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

Tue, 12 Jun 2018

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/

Sun, 10 Jun 2018

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

Fri, 08 Jun 2018

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/

Thu, 07 Jun 2018

It's easy to get to zero inbox when you 'delete all'

GitHub is Microsoft's .5 billion undo button - Paul Ford/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button

Wed, 06 Jun 2018

Shields down: Happy people don't leave jobs they love - Rands in Repose http://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/