Gustavo Arellano, ex-OC Weekly, on the death of the alt-weekly in general http://reason.com/archives/2017/11/04/the-death-of-the-alt-weekly-as-told-by-a

Audacity 2.2.0 adds MIDI playback, revamps menus, more help links http://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-2-2-0-released/

JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON that aims to make it easier for humans to write and maintain by hand http://json5.org/

MINIX — The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular-os-in-the-world-thanks-to-intel.html

How to Get a Programming Job Straight Out of High School (from malisper.me) http://malisper.me/how-to-get-a-programming-job-straight-out-of-high-school/

Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites – Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/local-storage-and-how-to-use-it/

Using the Web Storage API - Mozilla Developer Network https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API/Using_the_Web_Storage_API

JavaScript: Storing Data on The Client with LocalStorage (via Treehouse Blog) http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/storing-data-on-the-client-with-localstorage

Is Ruby on Rails Still Worth it in 2017? | Codementor https://www.codementor.io/brookecampbell/is-ruby-on-rails-still-worth-it-in-2017-5wxguk5xn

Create a Console Application in Ruby https://ruby.unicorn.tv/articles/create-a-console-application-in-ruby

React is taking over front-end development https://medium.freecodecamp.org/yes-react-is-taking-over-front-end-development-the-question-is-why-40837af8ab76

RubyMotion allows you to write apps for iOS and Android, but you have to use a Mac to do it. http://www.rubymotion.com/

A beginner's guide to Kotlin (from Bugsnag Blog) https://blog.bugsnag.com/introduction-to-kotlin/

Adopting Kotlin at Udacity https://engineering.udacity.com/adopting-kotlin-c12f10fd85d1

I had to check the character count because either the Twitter API or the Ruby gem goes haywire if you go > 140 characters.

Do you need a VPN? (from the Mozilla Internet Citizen blog) https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/08/29/do-you-need-a-vpn/

The Twitter gem for Ruby is sending this tweet. I turned off IFTTT for the /updates directory.

GitHub - sferik/twitter: A Ruby interface to the Twitter API. https://github.com/sferik/twitter

GitHub - sferik/t: A command-line power tool for Twitter. https://github.com/sferik/t

The Blog Poster app I have been coding is operational but a huge mess. I need to clean up the code, making it more modular, and then I will release it. While the app is helping me write both local and social posts, I am still using IFTTT for the last mile -- putting the social posts on Twitter.

The endgame is to have this app directly send the social posts to Twitter and possibly the rest of the posts, too.

While this blog currently posts automatically to Twitter, I turned off Twitter's automatic posting to Facebook some time ago. I don't ignore Facebook as much as I used to - mostly due to the large amount of jazz guitar activity on the platform - but I don't need everything I do here to be over there.

The Web began dying in 2014, here's how - by André Staltz https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html

I am using RubyInstaller for Windows for all my Windows Ruby needs https://rubyinstaller.org/

Why I Still Use Vim by @caspervonb via Medium https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6

Opening a file in Ruby with different modes https://blog.udemy.com/ruby-file-open/

What are the Ruby File.open modes and options? Stack Overflow spells it out. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3682359/what-are-the-ruby-file-open-modes-and-options

Ruby's File.open and the need for f.close -- from your pals at Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4795447/rubys-file-open-and-the-need-for-f-close