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Thu, 15 Feb 2018

Email is your electronic memory - FastMail Blog https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electronic-memory/

Real-world 4G LTE vs. 5G test benchmark: 14x bandwidth - React, etc. https://react-etc.net/entry/real-world-4g-lte-vs-5g-test-benchmark-14x-bandwidth

What students know that experts don't: School is all about getting the credential, not building skills http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-caplan-education-credentials-20180211-story.html

Wed, 14 Feb 2018

Who killed the junior developer? – Melissa McEwen https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/who-killed-the-junior-developer-33e9da2dc58c

Tue, 13 Feb 2018

I'm using MSN's Politics page. Lots of @NYTimes and @WAPO, no paywalls https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/

All she has to do to collect a million lotto jackpot is make her name public. She refuses. - Washington Post https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/all-she-has-to-do-to-collect-a-dollar560-million-lotto-jackpot-is-make-her-name-public-she-refuses/ar-BBJ4Jsr

Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Influential guitar author and editor Tom Wheeler dies - Reverb News https://reverb.com/news/influential-guitar-author-and-editor-tom-wheeler-dies-at-70

Zombie processes are eating your memory - Random ASCII https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/zombie-processes-are-eating-your-memory/

Is JavaScript trash? — Part 1 – Julien Etienne https://medium.com/@julienetienne/is-javascript-trash-part-1-5310ac4e20d0

Self-Education for Web Developers, a guide for beginners in programming - mkdev.me https://mkdev.me/en/book

When to use SQLite https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

Sat, 10 Feb 2018

It's not lost on me that setting up the Leiningen environment (or whatever you call it) for Clojure is both easier to do and understand in Windows than it is in Fedora. I'm glad there is now a package for Debian, but Fedora needs one, too.

The power of Clojure: Debugging — Cambium Consulting https://cambium.consulting/articles/2018/2/8/the-power-of-clojure-debugging

In web development, everything easy is hard again – Frank Chimero https://frankchimero.com/writing/everything-easy-is-hard-again/

Fri, 09 Feb 2018

I installed the Clojure project Leiningen on Fedora Linux via the script. It's not the kind of thing that Linux users generally use to install things. I finally got it to work, though. Windows installation is much easier. https://leiningen.org/

Twitter and Snap's success could be bad news for publishers - Axios https://www.axios.com/twitter-snap-ad-revenue-publishers-digital-media-f81061d7-993c-433b-b7b0-3d7e698f9b44.html

Facebook testing 'downvote' button for comments - Axios https://www.axios.com/facebook-testing-downvote-button-for-comments-1518192287-60041627-d1ee-4dcc-bd82-07fbe8182cbb.html

WeWork: The perfect manifestation of the millennial id - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/wework-the-perfect-manifestation-of-the-millennial-id/550922/

Meet the dogs of Chernobyl – the abandoned pets that formed their own canine community - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/05/dogs-chernobyl-abandoned-pets-stray-exclusion-zone

My advice for coding bootcamp graduates - Ross Williamson https://thinkfaster.co/2018/02/my-advice-for-coding-bootcamp-graduates/ tl;dr: You need to know Big-O, so take classes on Data Structures and Algorithms, and Probability and Statistics either at community college or online, and when you do this, put it on your resume.

Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16973914/tvs-crt-restoration-led-gaming-vintage

Plagiarism software unveils a new source for 11 of Shakespeare's plays - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/books/plagiarism-software-unveils-a-new-source-for-11-of-shakespeares-plays.html

How to know when a child's flu turns serious - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/well/family/children-flu-infants-deaths-influenza-complications-fever-breathing-symptoms.html

Read Exploring ES6 by Axel Rauschmayer for free http://exploringjs.com/es6/

JavaScript Allongé, the "Six" Edition - read it for free at Leanpub (where you can also buy it) https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read

Creating a simple GTK+ to-do application with Ruby - iridakos https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/01/25/creating-a-gtk-todo-application-with-ruby

Thunderbird - yep, the email program - meets its users - The Mozilla Thunderbird Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/02/what-thunderbird-learned-at-fosdem/