Why Intel x86 must die: Our cloud-centric future depends on open source chips | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-intel-x86-must-die-our-cloud-centric-future-depends-on-open-source-chips-meltdown/

Who took the legendary Earthrise photo from Apollo 8? | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/who-took-legendary-earthrise-photo-apollo-8-180967505/

This is how Meltdown can be used to steal passwords in real time | Michael Schwarz https://twitter.com/misc0110/status/948706387491786752

Cryogen: Simple static sites made with Clojure and Leinigen http://cryogenweb.org/

Cryogen: A simple static site generator written in Clojure https://github.com/cryogen-project/cryogen

This blog is nicely designed: (iterate think thoughts) http://yogthos.net/index.html

Protect your Fedora system against Meltdown | Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/protect-fedora-system-meltdown/

Perun is a composable static site generator built with Clojure and Boot https://perun.io/

Clojure's slow start — what's inside? | Clojure Goes Fast http://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/clojures-slow-start/

After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/colorado-city-to-build-fiber-broadband-network-with-net-neutrality/

The Way of Debian | The Tao of Debian http://debian.wayoflinux.com/

Why use Debian Stable on the desktop? | The Way of Linux http://wayoflinux.com/blog/debian-stable-on-desktop

Who killed Mr. Fixit and how to bring him back: A Q&A with iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens about the demise of the repair industry and a plan to revive it | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-10/who-killed-mr-fixit-and-how-to-bring-him-back

How to know everything about everything: Laura Riding’s extraordinary 1930 letters to an 8-year-old girl about being oneself | Brain Pickings https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/20/laura-riding-four-unposted-letters-to-catherine/

The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it | thenextweb.com https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/01/02/web-dying-mesh-networks-will-save/

The Kindle changed the book business. Can it change books? | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/can-amazon-change-books/

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science | Boaz Barak http://www.introtcs.org/public/index.html

How I learned to stop worrying and love the job hunt | Stephan Behnke https://blog.stephanbehnke.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-job-hunt-in-toronto/

I just discovered spell check in Vim (I'm a slow learner)

Using Spell Check in Vim | Jake Harding http://thejakeharding.com/tutorial/2012/06/13/using-spell-check-in-vim.html

Jilted in acquisition, digital home lock startup Otto ceases operation, and company CEO/founder details what went wrong | Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/so-close-806b8ae77fa6

Add OpenSSH to Windows 10 (alternative title: My God, it's full of stars!) https://www.howtogeek.com/336775/how-to-enable-and-use-windows-10s-built-in-ssh-commands/

re-frame: A Reagent Framework For Writing SPAs, in Clojurescript. https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

Simple and Happy: Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? | Lambda Island https://lambdaisland.com/blog/25-05-2017-simple-and-happy-is-clojure-dying-and-what-has-ruby-got-to-do-with-it

Why Clojure? http://blog.venanti.us/why-clojure/

Regexes in Clojure for fun and profit | LispCast http://www.lispcast.com/clojure-regex

Talk: A new online-comments system from the Coral Project https://coralproject.net/products/talk.html

Chemistry is quantum computing’s killer app | Chemical & Engineering News https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i43/Chemistry-quantum-computings-killer-app.html

Learning to code in 6 months — a product manager’s journey | Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/learning-to-code-in-6-months-a-product-managers-journey-b5d09b856f72

The future of buying stuff won't involve humans at all, except you | Bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-future-of-automation/

Clojure Newbie Guide http://www.clojurenewbieguide.com/

I was an Amazon delivery driver: What it’s like to work in the tech giant’s citizen package brigade | GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-delivery-driver-like-work-tech-giants-citizen-package-brigade/

Top programmers now have agents | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price

The men who are convinced we’re all living in a simulation | Mel Magazine https://melmagazine.com/the-men-who-are-convinced-were-all-living-in-a-simulation-d2c76772df2f

How Amazon delivers packages in less than an hour | Time http://time.com/4159144/amazon-prime-warehouse-new-york-city-deliveries-christmas/

7 things that could make Bitcoin crash to $1,000 or less | The Motley Fool https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/24/7-things-that-could-make-bitcoin-crash-to-1000-or.aspx

Where this supercomputer is going, there are no hard drives | Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/40500260/where-this-supercomputer-is-going-there-are-no-hard-drives

The pessimist’s guide to 2018 | Bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/pessimists-guide-to-2018/

Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply | Ken Shirriff http://www.righto.com/2017/12/repairing-1960s-mainframe-fixing-ibm.html

A PDP-11 emulator running Unix V6 in your browser. Do yourself a favor and read the FAQ first http://aiju.de/code/pdp11/faq http://pdp11.aiju.de/

One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time | Smash Company http://www.smashcompany.com/business/one-on-one-meetings-are-underrated-whereas-group-meetings-waste-time

Netflix: What happens when you press play? | High Scalability http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/11/netflix-what-happens-when-you-press-play.html

Ruby 2.5.0 released | ruby-lang.org -- no more require "pp," 5 to 10 percent performance improvement, better Unicode support and more. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/12/25/ruby-2-5-0-released/

Ruby is not the new hotness, but I love Ruby

Why your next project should be public domain | Zach Oakes https://sekao.net/nightweb/blog/public-domain.html

After years of NOT using Firefox, the project's new Quantum release has made the browser fast enough for me to run instead of Google Chrome for personal use. While I still need Chrome for my day job (too many tabs), it's nice to shake off at least one Google dependency.

My BlogPoster script is currently a huge if/else mess, but I am writing the next version to be extremely modular, using Ruby blocks to separate the various tasks. Once I get it together, I will share the code.

I'm still using the Geany text editor/"mini IDE" for my (still simple-enough) development tasks. It's so easy to run your Java/Ruby/Perl/C++ code from the editor itself. https://geany.org/

I used the Windows 10 command line to 'rescue' a USB flash drive I had used to install a Linux distro. I used diskpart in the Windows shell to bring the drive back to life with an NTFS file system. https://www.maketecheasier.com/format-usb-drives-windows-10/

Leiningen: Run Clojure in Windows https://leiningen.org/

Have you tried the new Firefox Quantum? The speed is real. The two things Chrome does that I miss are a) all tabs on one screen with no scrolling and b) see the whole URL on the screen. For my "production" work, I need those things, but for "casual" browsing, I'm using FF more.

Clojure Web frameworks and comparisons | Christopher Bui https://cb.codes/clojure-web-frameworks-and-comparisons/

I just upgraded my Linux laptop from Fedora 25 to 27 (a seemless, if long process), and the new Ruby 2.4 didn't like that my script had a CR/LF on the shebang line. The script still ran (good!), and it was easy to replace CR/LF with LF only (Geany is good about that), so I did.

Node.js and Javascript Vs. Clojure (I thought this was a very well-reasoned article that didn't hesitate to point out the situations where Clojure isn't the right choice) https://cb.codes/node-js-vs-clojure-first-impressions/

I just asked 23,000 developers what they think of JavaScript. Here’s what I learned. | Sacha Greif https://medium.freecodecamp.org/i-just-asked-23-000-developers-what-they-think-of-javascript-heres-what-i-learned-9a06b61998fa

iPhones start slowing down after a year of use, and that’s way too soon | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/circuitbreaker/2017/12/20/16803190/iphone-slowdown-is-needed-but-also-a-problem

Google Chrome is not the standard | Chris Krycho http://www.chriskrycho.com/2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.html

DHH's answer to 'What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?' | Quora https://www.quora.com/What-makes-Rails-a-framework-worth-learning-in-2017/answer/David-Heinemeier-Hansson

How to run your own mail server https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide

Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/google-will-turn-on-native-ad-blocking-in-chrome-on-february-15/