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Think globally, microblog locally
Wed, 17 Jan 2018

Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic programming language tours (for the minute, I'm obsessed with this site) https://learnxinyminutes.com

Transmit AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware | system-bus-radio https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio

Hey, makers of video content on Twitter, your video doesn't show until the video ad -- which has nothing to do with your content -- is over. tl;dr: Your entire post looks like an ad for some product, and you're getting paid /home/public//cgi-bin/ode.cgi.

How a 22-year-old discovered the worst chip flaws in history | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-a-22-year-old-discovered-the-worst-chip-flaws-in-history

Tue, 16 Jan 2018

Lipi is a GUI that lets regular people use the Hugo static blog creator http://sohanchy.com/Lipi/

Your weird job titles are making you miss the best candidates | Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/40514090/your-weird-job-titles-are-making-you-miss-the-best-candidates

Is this the beginning of the end of the Bitcoin bubble? | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-bubble-pop/550601/

Containers vs. operating systems | Dave Cheney https://dave.cheney.net/2018/01/16/containers-versus-operating-systems

Mon, 15 Jan 2018

Should internet firms pay for the data users currently give away? | The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21734390-and-new-paper-proposes-should-data-providers-unionise-should-internet

How I Start - Let's Build a Ruby Gem Together! | Yuki & Moto Press http://yukimotopress.github.io/start

Everyone is getting hilariously rich and you're not (hint: it's about SF tech bros and Bitcoin) | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaires.html

Is the answer to phone addiction a worse phone? | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/grayscale-phone.html

If you have any interest in Clojure, Lisp or functional programming, you should read this list (early and often).

Thanks to Azel4231 for the list on Github. More at https://feierabendprojekte.wordpress.com

Also from Azel4231: An introduction to Clojure (2015, slides in PDF format)

IBM mainframe tube module part II: Powering up and using a 1950s key debouncer http://www.righto.com/2018/01/ibm-mainframe-tube-module-part-ii.html

Digital minimalism for the working hacker | Z.D. Smith http://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/digital-minimalism-for-the-working-hacker.html

Sun, 14 Jan 2018

Inside one of America's last pencil factories | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html

4 lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe programming | HPE https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/4-lessons-for-modern-software-developers-from-1970s-mainframe-programming-1709.html

Sat, 13 Jan 2018

ClojureScript syntax in 15 minutes | shaunlebron https://github.com/shaunlebron/ClojureScript-Syntax-in-15-minutes

Murdoch’s News Corp. warns Facebook to avoid ‘political’ changes | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/murdoch-s-news-corp-warns-facebook-to-avoid-political-changes

The state of Atom’s performance | blog.atom.io http://blog.atom.io/2018/01/10/the-state-of-atoms-performance.html

2017 JavaScript rising stars (you have to do a little clicking once you get there) https://risingstars.js.org/2017/en/

Ruby still isn't dead | Engine Yard https://www.engineyard.com/blog/ruby-still-isnt-dead

Firefox bullshit removal via about:config | haasn https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5

Modern JavaScript explained for dinosaurs | Medium https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-explained-for-dinosaurs-f695e9747b70

Unix's curl utility coming to Windows | daniel.haxx.se https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/01/13/microsoft-curls-too/

Fri, 12 Jan 2018

There's a simplicity to the Ode blogging system that is lacking in almost everything else out there. I say this as I test a static blogging system that is bringing in about 100 dependencies right now. https://ode.io/home/

Brave and DuckDuckGo Partner to Improve Privacy on the Web | Brave.com https://brave.com/brave-and-duckduckgo-partner-to-improve-privacy-on-the-web/