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