Making website building fun | GatsbyJS https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2017-10-16-making-website-building-fun/

GatsbyJS: Blazing-fast static site generator for React https://www.gatsbyjs.org/

React.js starter kits https://reactjs.org/community/starter-kits.html

Making Vim great again | Sourcerer Blog (note: this Tweet was composed in Vim, and the blog post linked here has some great .vimrc tips that I'm going to use) https://blog.sourcerer.io/making-vim-great-again-cdfbc281428b

The doctor is in. Co-Pay? ,000 | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/economy/high-end-medical-care.html

What is a DuckDuckGo !Bang? https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Google uses comics to explain Kubernetes container management https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/kubernetes-comic/

Classic Valley diner Du-Par’s will depart Studio City on Jan. 1 | Eater LA https://la.eater.com/2017/12/11/16762720/du-pars-diner-closing-studio-city-january

Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eleven: Annual Uber Losses Now Approaching Billion | naked capitalism https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/12/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-eleven-annual-uber-losses-now-approaching-5-billion.html

Disconnect just a little bit | Modern Human Beings https://modernhumanbeings.com/disconnect-just-little-bit/

Apple touts iMac Pro at Apple.com https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/

FT Person of the Year: Ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler, whose blog post detailing company's problems got #MeToo ball rolling https://www.ft.com/content/b4bc2a68-dc4f-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482

What would you pay to keep your digital footprint 100% private? https://hbr.org/2017/12/what-would-you-pay-to-keep-your-digital-footprint-100-private

'I’m moving you to BCC': A paradox, a politeness, a gift | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/im-moving-you-to-bcc/522885/

I can't stop drinking coffee out of this temperature-regulating mug | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ember-ceramic-mug-rants-and-raves/

How email open tracking quietly took over the Web https://www.wired.com/story/how-email-open-tracking-quietly-took-over-the-web/

iMac Pro, Apple’s most powerful Mac, will be available to order December 14 | 9to5Mac. tl;dr: Base model will cost ,999 https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/12/imac-pro-apples-most-powerful-mac-will-be-available-to-order-december-14/

Zeta Global acquires commenting service Disqus (and the web is already too dependent on it) https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/zeta-global-acquires-commenting-service-disqus/

Storify is going away, and it's the latest cautionary tale about relying on third-party services for your content. (I'm very worried about Disqus, which was just acquired ...) https://storify.com/faq-eol

Storify’s standalone service is shutting down next year | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/storifys-standalone-service-is-shutting-down-next-year/

According to Bits from the DPL (November 2017), Debian is aiming to be one of the choices for the Windows Subsystem for Linux https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/11/msg00002.html

Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows (I heard about it here: https://ariya.io/2017/02/windows-for-web-development) https://chocolatey.org/

The future of work is uncertain, schools should worry now - Education Week https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/09/27/the-future-of-work-is-uncertain-schools.html

What’s College Good For? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/

Mastering Ruby blocks in less than 5 minutes - Mix & Go https://mixandgo.com/blog/mastering-ruby-blocks-in-less-than-5-minutes

The Bitcoin bubble https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/bitcoin-bubble

How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship

Amazon wants a key to your house. I did it. I regretted it. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/07/amazon-wants-a-key-to-your-house-i-did-it-i-regretted-it/?utm_term=.2ef0fdb98056

The FCC still doesn’t know how the Internet works | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/fcc-still-doesnt-know-how-internet-works

Patreon is shifting processing fees from creators to supporters https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/07/patreon-shifting-processing-fees-creators-to-supporters/

The price of bitcoin has doubled in two weeks, now above | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/07/the-price-of-bitcoin-has-doubled-in-two-weeks-now-above-16k/

The world’s most popular audio file format arrives at Wikimedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/12/04/wikimedia-mp3-support/

Forget New York, millennials are flocking to 10 US cities to get a job, buy a home and start a life - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/best-housing-markets-2018-millennial-home-buying-2017-12/

Keylogger found on nearly 5,500 infected WordPress sites https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keylogger-found-on-nearly-5-500-infected-wordpress-sites/

What we learned in 2017 in science, medicine and health - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/science/what-we-learned-in-2017.html

Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again | InfoWorld https://www.infoworld.com/article/3240064/sql/why-old-school-postgresql-is-so-hip-again.html

Taking a second look at the learn-to-code craze https://theconversation.com/taking-a-second-look-at-the-learn-to-code-craze-86597

As Discord nears 100 million users, safety concerns are heard - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety

I booted into my Fedora laptop, and I miss it. It was time to do an update. Even in GNOME Shell, I tend to enjoy using it.

Bitcoin is the revolution – Hacker Noon https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-the-revolution-2aac943acd97

Vine founder Dom Hofmann hints that Vine may be back https://twitter.com/dhof/status/938469576052011008

The '80s software program that made email famous https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb9ad8/eudora-email

What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? | Dave Cheney https://dave.cheney.net/2017/12/04/what-have-we-learned-from-the-pdp-11

Disqus is acquired by marketing technology company Zeta Global (whatever that is) https://blog.disqus.com/disqus-and-zeta

A Bitcoin Frenzy Like No Other Is Gripping South Korea - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/bitcoin-frenzy-like-no-other-has-koreans-paying-a-16-premium

Many of my social-media posts originate here http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/

If you do ANY programming and post to Twitter, you should check out the Twitter API. I'm using it to post, and it's way better than relying on a third-party service that wants to charge you for more than 10 posts a day. (That means you, dlvr.it). It's also faster. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/post-and-engage/overview

I am using Firefox Quantum today for web production (lots of tabs, lots of WP and Google Apps) and it is performing very well. I heard about extensions that will show all tabs w/o scrolling, but they don't work yet with the new version of FF.

The easy guide to changing fonts in Vim | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_font

Setting the font in the GUI | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI

There is a time like the present http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/actually-there-is-a-time-like-the-present

Shouldn't em dashes — in Vim, I mean ― be easier? I made these with ctrl-v u 2014.

Special characters in Vim | Arabesque https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/special-characters-in-vim/

Interview with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress - Mapping The Journey https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/12/01/episode-14-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-founder-of-wordpress/

Apple reportedly prepping crazy cheap 9.7-inch iPad For 2018 launch | HotHardware https://hothardware.com/news/apple-reportedly-prepping-crazy-cheap-97-inch-ipad-for-2018-launch

NY Times scales back free articles to get more subscribers - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles-to-get-readers-to-subscribe

How the index card catalogued the world - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/how-the-index-card-catalogued-the-world/547271/?utm_source=feed&single_page=true

The new Firefox is pretty nice for 'general' browsing, meaning when I don't have 20+ tabs open.

Linux Journal ceases publication with November 2017 issue http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication

50 years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe https://www.space.com/38912-pulsar-discovery-by-jocelyn-bell.html