The Windows Subsystem for Linux endgame is a full Linux desktop accessible from within Windows 10. How is this not where Microsoft is going?

How do I make this program? (An article written before I got started with my Ruby script to create and post social updates and then send them to Twitter) http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/programming/2017_0912_how_do_i_make_this_program

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 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/windows/linux_on_windows/2017_1013_backup_before_installing_new_wsl

When I don’t recommend Clojure – vemv.net https://blog.vemv.net/when-i-dont-recommend-clojure-2597039536ce

Yes, you should delete facebook – Nat Eliason https://medium.com/s/story/yes-you-should-delete-facebook-heres-why-bc623a3b4625

Another year in newspapers; how many more? – an excellent column by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin's @DavidAllen909 https://www.dailybulletin.com/2018/04/21/another-year-in-newspapers-how-many-more/

I added Markdown syntax highlighting for Notepad++ with a "user defined language" file I got from this Github repo https://github.com/Edditoria/markdown-plus-plus

I am using the Tree Style Tab add-on for @firefox, and it's a bit of a game-changer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

Not sure how I stumbled on @ThePracticalDev, but I like it http://dev.to

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior: I'm not sure what led me to the early albums of Chick Corea's Return to Forever (I think it was Brian Eno's "Music for Airports," or Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint"), but here's another excellent album. Chick burns as usual, and this is a great showcase for guitarist Al Di Meola. The playing is heavy, the tones, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqiC5_88cVQ

Sexual harassment was rampant at Coachella 2018, where Teen Vogue reporter says she was groped 22 times https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sexual-harassment-was-rampant-at-coachella-2018

Chick Corea/Return to Forever - 1972: I love the instrumentation and vibe of this record - kind of a quiet fusion with electric piano and bass with flute and otherworldly vocals. How can you not love Chick on the Fender Rhodes electric piano? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TcSK6MYkpU

Job interviews for programmers now often come with days of unpaid homework — Quartz at Work https://work.qz.com/1254663/job-interviews-for-programmers-now-often-come-with-days-of-unpaid-homework/

I’m Ben and I am a Rails developer - Ben Halpern https://dev.to/ben/im-ben-and-i-am-a-rails-developer-1j67

Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-gdpr-latest-data-ad-tracking-opt-out-stop-ads-marketing-a8310031.html

ClojureScript, beginners' home page http://clojure-script.org/

Cherry MX Board Silent: The keyboard for professionals - ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/cherry-mx-board-silent-the-keyboard-for-professionals/

Today's most important article you'll read all day: How to save your privacy from the Internet’s clutches – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/14/how-to-save-your-privacy-from-the-internets-clutches/

The iPhone changed our lives. Now Apple needs to tackle addiction - Tony Faddell/WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tony-fadell-apple-iphone-addiction-control-design

I built a progressive web app and published it in 3 app stores. Here’s what I learned - Judah Gabriel http://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-it-in-3-app-stores-heres-what-i-learned/

My day-job Firefox transition is going well. I have been creating and arranging the bookmarks I need. I sync those bookmarks so I have them on all PCs. Tasks still on Chrome: Getting weather information across SoCal (that's a LOT of bookmarks) and Google Maps screen-grabs, which render more clearly on Chrome than FF.

The Finns who refuse to give up on Sailfish OS - Engadget https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/01/jolla-sailfish-os-team-interview-mwc/

The missing building blocks of the Web – Anil Dash https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc

The most important article you will read today: It's time to rebuild the web - by Mike Loukides for O'Reilly Media https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/its-time-to-rebuild-the-web

It's not like Google didn't have an unfair advantage in collecting data with its ubiquitous search engine, free and functional email and apps, as well as a phone OS, but it also controls the web browser that most of us use. There are other browsers besides Firefox, but for me it stands alone, and its importance today cannot be overstated.

Go: the good, the bad and the ugly - Sylvain Wallez https://bluxte.net/musings/2018/04/10/go-good-bad-ugly/

Build a JSON API with Hugo's custom output formats - Forestry.io: This is huge: Using the Hugo static blogging system as the engine for an API. https://forestry.io/blog/build-a-json-api-with-hugo/

Key to avoiding Firefox tab scrolling: Maximum of 16 tabs (at least on my laptop screen)

To get around the problem in Firefox where you can't see all of your tabs without using scroll buttons (if you have a lot of tabs), I am going to try to uses more windows, and I am making bookmark folders that I can use to populate individual windows more quickly.

I'm doing another serious Firefox test. I already use it for most of my non-day-job browsing, but having so many bookmarks set up in Google Chrome plus Firefox's tab issue (you can only fit so many on the screen before you have to use scroll buttons) has kept me in Chrome.

(Puts tinfoil hat on) The worst thing is a smartphone. It's like we're all wearing a wire AND a tracking device at all times. Facebook is telling us how creepy it is in terms of how much data it collects, and while that is oddly refreshing, Google, Amazon, Apple, Twitter and others are being suspiciously quiet about what they do and how much control we have over it.

The question is becoming, "Should we avoid being tracked, and how can we do it?" It sounds very tinfoil hat but likely includes all commercial social-media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat), everything Google, Apple and Amazon, and all branded browsers.

I'm really getting into using multiple desktops in Windows 10. Coming from a desktop Linux background, it's yet another thing that Windows is doing that makes a Linux user more comfortable.

How can I copy text to the system clipboard from Vim? - Vi and Vim Stack Exchange https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/84/how-can-i-copy-text-to-the-system-clipboard-from-vim

The Macros page is a powerful on from the Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros

Fascinating story: Nikon versus Canon - A story of technology change https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/nikon-versus-canon-a-story-of-technology-change-45777098038c

Uber acquires dockless bike-share startup Jump - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/9/17213994/uber-acquires-dockless-bike-share-jump

How to use Cloudflare's DNS service to speed up and secure your internet | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-cloudflares-dns-service-to-speed-up-your-internet-and-protect-your-privacy/

The most important article you will read all day: How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/

Facebook urged to make GDPR its 'baseline standard' globally – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/09/facebook-urged-to-make-gdpr-its-baseline-standard-globally/

GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate looks great but still can't really work with IPTC metadata, which is a hard requirement for an image editor that I can use. I've been waiting more than 10 years, so I'll keep using IrfanView and digiKam. https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/03/26/gimp-2-10-0-rc1-released/

Denver Post rebels against its hedge-fund ownership - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/business/media/denver-post-opinion-owner.html

Ask Hacker News: Where have you registered your domains and why? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16784074

Starbucks picked an odd time to force WiFi customers to cough up personal data – GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2018/starbucks-picked-odd-time-force-wifi-customers-cough-personal-data/

Cruising Van Nuys Blvd. in the late 1970s - photos from 1978-79 taken mostly in front of 6454 Van Nuys Blvd., then a J.C. Penney that looked to be already closing, now the Valley Professional Building at the corner of Van Nuys Blvd. and Gilmore Street. http://vnbcruisinglate70s.com

I took a few weeks off of using Xenialpup (aka Puppy Linux) until I could figure out a setup that would take the pup_save off of my Windows hard drive and put it on a USB flash drive. Did that. First boot didn't work, but second did. Keeping fingers crossed.

SpaceX can't broadcast Earth images because of a murky license - CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-cant-broadcast-earth-images-because-of-a-murky-license/

Early days: the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide. This isn't the first interesting link I've found from the Rachel by the Bay blog. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/06/learn/

Why is everyone so busy? - In search of lost time - The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why

Using Vim in my project has really helped my skills in that editor. That's what working with a couple dozen small Vim files per day will do for you.

I had to ssh into a server yesterday and set up a small script and a cron job, and I could feel how different that process was now that I can do more with Vim.

I can move around in files much more easily, and I know the basics of copy/move/paste, which is more than I could say before.

Clojure is trying to push me in the Emacs direction, and maybe I could get comfortable with that editor, but the universality of Vim/Vi is hard to ignore.

I got NordVPN working via OpenVPN in Fedora Linux. It wasn't as easy as in Windows, where there's a turnkey app, but these instructions worked both in the console and via NetworkManager, and I recommend you use the latter. https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/linux/openvpn/

If you want to run exa, a modern replacement for ls, via a binary package, systems that offer them are Mac OS's Homebrew, and Arch and Fedora Linux. Nothing yet for Debian or Ubuntu, as far as I can tell. https://the.exa.website/

GitHub - magnars/stasis: Some Clojure functions for creating static websites. https://github.com/magnars/stasis

Clojure Features: Or why you should stop worrying about features and just use Clojure | Benjamin Zaporzan http://benzaporzan.me/blog/2018/3/29/clojure_features_or_why_you_should_stop_worrying_about_features_and_just_use_clojure/

I needed to set my classpath for Java in Windows, and despite this page saying it's obsolete, it worked for Win 10. Now I can keep my Java libraries in one directory and use them wherever I'm working on a program. https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/15inout/classpath.html

There's a spy in the house, and it's name is Alexa (or its Google equivalent). People seem to be OK with this, and it is disturbing. I'm worried that the act of using a smarphone is no better in terms of how we're being tracked by corporations. From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/media/amazon-google-privacy-digital-assistants.html

GNOME 3.28 is coming to Fedora 28. Here's what's new and improved - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/gnome-3-28-released-coming-fedora-28/

Which JavaScript frameworks are the fastest? - JavaScript Report https://javascriptreport.com/js-frameworks-fastest/

There are Rust apps in Fedora - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applications-today/

The Palmer Method of Business Writing (This is what handwriting the way I learned it is supposed to look like it) https://archive.org/details/PalmerMethod1935