Apple confirms it degrades your old iPhone | Forbes.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2017/12/20/apple-iphone-kill-switch-ios-degrade-cripple-performance-battery

Cable TV’s password-sharing crackdown is coming | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/cable-tv-s-password-sharing-crackdown-is-coming

The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/apollo-triumph/

Apple plans combined iPhone, iPad & Mac apps to create one user experience | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/apple-is-said-to-have-plan-to-combine-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps

Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed | BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42425857

Bitcoin: Seven questions you were too embarrassed to ask | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoin-a-beginners-guide/

A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet | André Staltz https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html

Oh, shit, git! How to get out of bad situations in git, explained in plain English http://ohshitgit.com/

Endless streaming services are frustrating consumers https://blog.peer5.com/you-favourite-show-is-on-another-platform-endless-streaming-services-and-frustrated-consumers/

Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail program now has a paid staff and isn't a dead project -- and I approve wholeheartedly https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/12/new-thunderbird-releases-and-new-thunderbird-staff/

I'm looking at cloud servers, and Vultr.com seems like the cheapest, starting at $2.50 per month https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

EffectiveDiscussions: Another commenting system https://www.effectivediscussions.org/

New embedded comments for static sites | KajMagnus' Blog -- another commenting system, among those mentioned in this Hacker News article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956056 https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/

GitHub - gka/schnack: Simple node app for Disqus-like drop-in commenting on static websites https://github.com/gka/schnack

Say hello to Schnack.js: A new Disqus-like commenting drop-in for static websites https://www.vis4.net/blog/2017/10/hello-schnack/

Moving from Disqus to schnack for blog comments | blog.webkid.io https://blog.webkid.io/moving-from-disqus-to-schnack/

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

iteration: A weekly podcast about development and design through the lens of amazing books, chapter-by-chapter. We do our best to be code-agnostic but we talk a lot about Rails, JavaScript, React, React Native, design, business and startups. https://iteration.simplecast.fm/

PuTTY Begone! Microsoft will ship an OpenSSH client | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/13/putty-begone-microsoft-will-ship-an-openssh-client/

The retail apocalypse is fueled by no-name clothes, and Amazon wants in | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/the-retail-apocalypse-is-fueled-by-no-name-clothes

Business is booming for America’s survival food king | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-22/business-is-booming-for-america-s-survival-food-king

My social-posting app -- currently a command-line script -- allows use of any text editor in your path, and I am running it in Windows 10. Notepad (not the ++ I use for everything else) works well, but I am using Vim, and my Vim skills are improving rapidly.

Facebook conceded it might make you feel bad. Here's how to interpret that. | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/technology/facebook-blog-feel-bad.html

Why is Facebook admitting that social networks can be bad for our health? | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/16/16783020/facebook-study-social-media-research-post

Snapchat is still the network of choice for U.S. teens — and Instagram is Facebook’s best shot at catching up | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/16/16783570/snapchat-instagram-teenagers-rbc-survey-favorite-app

Facebook bravely admits that it is a problem and suggests we spend more time on Facebook https://qz.com/1158984/is-facebook-fb-bad-for-you-facebook-says-it-is-and-the-company-has-a-solution/

The case against reading everything | The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/the-case-against-reading-everything/

While Twitter allows 280-character tweets, not consciously trying to write that long means that if you're aiming to write a "normal" tweet, you can go over without having to think about it and edit so much. It quickens the process.

The cover price of the New Yorker magazine is .99. Something tells me they are not counting on selling lots of magazines ... wherever magazines are sold. Maybe they just want to make subscribers feel like they're getting a deal.

My year of no shopping | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/shopping-consumerism.html

White House launching redesigned website on Friday | TheHill (Note: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ now runs on WordPress) http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365031-white-house-launching-redesigned-website-on-friday

Firefox is on a slippery slope | Drew DeVault https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html

Aristotle’s timeless advice on what real friendship is and why it matters https://medium.com/personal-growth/aristotles-timeless-advice-on-what-real-friendship-is-and-why-it-matters-c0878418343f

OpenBSD doesn't like Mozilla shenanigans in new Firefox, is killing ability for upstream to add unwanted extensions for shady promotional purposes https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=151337184303007&w=2

You can find my "original" social-media posts created on a computer at http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/ and on Twitter. Not on Facebook. (I turned that off.)

Firefox may have damaged its own name to promote Mr. Robot | wccftech https://wccftech.com/firefox-damaged-user-trust-promote-mr-robot/

Let's just say that when WordPress is out of its comfort zone and relies on third-party development for basic functionality, things happen

Hard Questions: Is spending time on social media bad for us? | Facebook Newsroom (Remember, this is from Facebook ... not from somebody who is not from Facebook) https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us/

Review of The UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook | Dan Moore (This book really needed an update, you can see from the review how much newness is in it)
http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2538

The case for .NET in the classroom (this guy really loves .NET) http://luisquintanilla.herokuapp.com/2017/12/14/dotnet-in-the-classroom/

How a DIY network plans to subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet monopoly | Motherboard http://nycmesh.net https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gv5qb4/how-a-diy-network-plans-to-subvert-time-warner-cables-nyc-internet-monopoly

Motherboard and Vice are building a community Internet network | Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5djd7/motherboard-and-vice-are-building-a-community-internet-network-to-protect-net-neutrality

Netflix rips net neutrality repeal: ‘This is the beginning of a longer legal battle’ | The Hill http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364937-netflix-rips-net-neutrality-repeal-this-is-the-beginning-of-a-longer-legal

62 rare nuclear test films have been declassified and uploaded to YouTube https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/62-rare-nuclear-test-films-have-been-declassified-and-u-1821302584

Jim Chanos: We think Tesla is worth zero https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/jim-chanos-we-think-tesla-is-worth-zero.html

Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California | State Sen. Scott Wiener https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/now-that-the-fcc-has-repealed-net-neutrality-lets-adopt-it-in-california-fa3bd02101ee

Facebook will launch pre-roll video ads in 2018. You don't them. Facebook didn't them. But here we are. | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/14/16776314/facebook-watch-pre-roll-video-ads-video-2018

Millennials are screwed | The Huffington Post (This is literally dizzying to read. The graphics and animations might induce a seizure.) http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/

iMac Pro: Apple releases its most expensive computer – starting at £4,899 | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/14/imac-pro-apple-expensive-computer-creative-professionals

Google has its own domain-name service: Google Domains https://domains.google/#/

Using GraphQL & Node.js Express to build a neat e-commerce app https://codeburst.io/using-graphql-node-js-express-to-build-a-neat-e-commerce-app-af2e4997f3f6

Can a for-profit business be socially responsible? – written by my friend Julia Scott (aka @JScottMarketing) https://medium.com/@julia_42310/can-a-for-profit-business-be-socially-responsible-1a4d845a3433

Twitter will now let you publish an entire tweetstorm all at once | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/12/16764470/twitter-tweetstorm-feature-threads-longer-tweets

Patreon to world: 'We messed up' https://gizmodo.com/patreon-to-world-we-messed-up-1821260027

Patreon says, 'We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change' https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/

Taking React-based static-site generator Gatsby.js for a spin | dev.to https://dev.to/ardennl/taking-gatsby-for-a-spin-4je

Will robots take our children's jobs? | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/style/robots-jobs-children.html

I was wrong about Bitcoin. Here's why. | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/technology/bitcoin-predictions.html

Sexual harassment cases show the ineffectiveness of going to HR | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/business/sexual-harassment-human-resources.html

Web Performance 101 -- also, why is Gatsby so fast? | GatsbyJS https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2017-09-13-why-is-gatsby-so-fast/