A whole bunch of free programming books (really web sites ... but still interesting) from @launchschool https://launchschool.com/books

Introduction to Programming With Ruby by @launchschool https://launchschool.com/books/ruby/

It’d Be A Business Miracle If Tesla And Uber Succeed At All https://jalopnik.com/it-d-be-a-business-miracle-if-tesla-and-uber-succeed-at-1819766253

Learn Git Branching https://learngitbranching.js.org/

Your technical skills are obsolete: now what? https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/23/obsolete-skills/

Join our startup, we’ll cut your pay by 40%! https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/09/18/when-startups-pay-less/

Big risk to Netflix is an Amazon per month stream service: analyst https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/big-risk-to-netflix-is-an-amazon-7-per-month-stream-service-analyst.html

Readspike - Simple news aggregator https://readspike.com/

Top 10 Java Blogs for Programmers of All Levels https://stackify.com/java-blogs-for-programmers-of-all-levels/

Flatiron coding school to pay for making false claims - NY Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/flatiron-coding-school-pay-375g-making-false-claims-article-1.3561462

Understanding Git - Explain it like I'm 5 https://hackernoon.com/understanding-git-fcffd87c15a3

Meet the judge who codes - and decides tech's biggest cases https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber

Programmers should welcome a paradigm shift https://hmemcpy.com/2017/10/becoming-foolish/index.html

From WordPress to Hexo - Silvestar Bistrovic https://www.silvestarbistrovic.from.hr/articles/a-guide-to-static-site-generators-using-hexo-and-wordpress/

Basics of the Unix Philosophy http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

The Art of Unix Programming http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/

Diversity in open source, and Jekyll's role in it https://jekyllrb.com/news/2017/10/19/diversity-open-source/ https://jekyllrb.com/news/2017/10/19/diversity-open-source/

Ode - A Simple Personal Publishing Platform For the Web https://ode.io/

Ode - a simple blogging system https://ode.io/home https://ode.io/home

If and Else | The Bastards Book of Ruby http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/chapters/ifelse/

Ruby for Beginners http://ruby-for-beginners.rubymonstas.org/index.html

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

Beginning Ruby: The Book to Learn Ruby Programming http://peterc.org/beginningruby/

Sinatra, a simpler Ruby web framework http://www.sinatrarb.com/intro.html

Padrino - The Elegant Ruby Web Framework http://padrinorb.com/

What is ruby? http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/

The Udacity Flying Car Nanodegree Program https://www.udacity.com/flying-car -- this appears to be a real thing, people of the world

Run your Meteor app anywhere with Meteor Up http://meteor-up.com

A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms from @pragprog https://pragprog.com/book/jwdsal/a-common-sense-guide-to-data-structures-and-algorithms

I wouldn't be using Ode at the 1,000+ post mark if I didn't think it was the best thing out there

WordPress is dumping React over Facebook patent clause https://ma.tt/2017/09/on-react-and-wordpress

I'm working on a program that connects to a server via FTP. I tried hacking at it in Node, Java and now Ruby. Good thing Ruby is magic.

Rob Eshman, longtime Jewish Journal editor-in-chief and publisher, to leave post for writing projects http://jewishjournal.com/opinion/rob_eshman/223784/rob-eshman-long-time-jewish-journal-editor-chief-publisher-leave-post-writing-projects

LA School Report: Equity and urgency beat out respect and transparency as board chooses core values for LAUSD http://laschoolreport.com/equity-and-urgency-beat-out-respect-and-transparency-as-board-chooses-core-values-for-lausd

I updated my Fedora laptop after not touching it for more than a month. I miss the Fedora Linux environment, but Windows 10 hasn't given me a reason to dump it just yet.

When Firefox started shipping with http://getpocket.com, I wasn't terribly interested. But I keep coming across web pages I'd like to read later, and I decided to install it on Chrome. So far it's great.

Vue.js compares itself to other JavaScript frameworks https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html

Paul Shan: Why I prefer Ember.js over Angular & React.js http://voidcanvas.com/prefer-ember-js-angular-react-js

WordPress developers debate JavaScript frameworks https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/05/24/javascript-chat-summary-for-may-23rd

It's one of the last Blockbuster Video stores, and its Twitter feed is hilarious https://twitter.com/loneblockbuster

The Mystery of L.A. Billboard Diva Angelyne's Real Identity Is Finally Solved http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/angelyne-la-billboard-diva-30-years-1025678

We had a meeting on Google Meet yesterday -- was surprisingly good, even with crappy WiFi connection https://meet.google.com

The Twitter web site looks different today https://twitter.com

The crippling problem restaurant-goers haven't noticed but chefs are freaking out about https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/12/the-crippling-problem-people-who-eat-at-restaurants-havent-noticed-but-chefs-are-freaking-out-about

The nit-picking glory of the New Yorker's Comma Queen https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_norris_the_nit_picking_glory_of_the_new_yorker_s_comma_queen

Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia and the Jews http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/242079/happy-birthday-jerry-garcia

My Windows Subsystem for Linux blog workflow: Vim, Unison, wget, curl (and I can probably eliminate one of the last two)

I'm still running Windows 10 and doing my blog workflow in the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Reddit raised $200 million, is going on a hiring spree and redesigning web site https://www.recode.net/2017/7/31/16037126/reddit-funding-200-million-valuation-steve-huffman-alexis-ohanianv

I just turned off link shortening in https://ifttt.com/settings. Hope this works for Twitter.

At the present moment, I am feeling good about my IFTTT applets.

I now have IFTTT applets for social and 'normal' posts, and I am testing them.

Now that dlvr.it is limiting posts per day per social account to 10, I am revisiting IFTTT for my automatic social posts.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/238195/zuckerberg-public-enemy-no-1

What happens when you leave the subject line blank in an Ode post and start it on line 3?

Answer: It works, but it also messes up my archive page because there is no title to put in the listing that serves as text for the link.

The lack of a title doesn't stop the site from working, and the permalink at the bottom of the post still works.

I see other bloggers doing this with the "micro blog" posts they write in their traditional blogs, and a few systems/themes provide support for title-less posts.

But in the interest of not breaking my archive page, I'm going to stick with titles for my Ode-generated social media posts.

Should I sell my ham radio gear? Maybe. If I had the time, I'd do more homebrew (as in making my own equipment from parts, not anything to do with intoxicating beverages).

VE7SL leads me to http://www.amateurradio.com, which has a killer URL and is a pretty good site.

There's a lot of good reading at http://ve7sl.blogspot.ca, the VE7SL Amateur Radio Blog. Love the homebrew and old gear articles!

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation https://www.wired.com/2017/04/tim-berners-lee-inventor-web-plots-radical-overhaul-creation

Been a long time since I used PuTTY in Windows to ssh into a server. Using it again and looking into plink.