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Think globally, microblog locally
Thu, 30 Mar 2017

Learning to code when you’re busy https://medium.com/the-odin-project/learning-to-code-when-youre-really-dang-busy-e223a7f84758

Sat, 11 Mar 2017

Read all of http://manton.org. Deep thoughts on the social and personal web.

Mon, 06 Mar 2017

I install a Netgear AC750 WiFi Range Extender http://stevenrosenberg.net/hugo/post/2017_0304_wifi_range_extender

Wed, 01 Mar 2017

Whiteboard interviews ensure biased hiring in tech, and programmers are calling them out https://theoutline.com/post/1166/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process

Tue, 21 Feb 2017

Tim Buchwaldt: Rails is f*cking boring! I love it. https://medium.com/@timbuchwaldt/rails-is-boring-thats-great-f896e9ab2cb#.djk89skub

Mon, 20 Feb 2017

.@netlify positions itself as a beast on static-site delivery https://www.netlify.com/features/

Choosing a Hugo theme, Part 1 http://stevenrosenberg.net/hugo/post/2017_0219_choosing_a_hugo_theme_part_1/ @golang #Hugo @gohugoio http://gohugo.io

Sun, 19 Feb 2017

Hugo community: Alternatives to Disqus needed more than ever https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/alternative-to-disqus-needed-more-than-ever/5516

Fri, 17 Feb 2017

Aaron Patterson: I am a 'puts' debugger https://tenderlovemaking.com/2016/02/05/i-am-a-puts-debuggerer.html

The @washingtonpost is becoming my go-to. Packed with news and intrigue, costs less than @nytimes.

I got 7-Eleven coffee today, it wasn't bad

Fri, 10 Feb 2017

Is this guitar worth $131,000? https://reverb.com/item/4209723-gibson-goldtop-1957-100-original

Sat, 04 Feb 2017

Free Code Camp computer science and web development pathways https://forum.freecodecamp.com/t/computer-guide-web-development-with-computer-science-foundations-comprehensive-path/64516 https://forum.freecodecamp.com/t/computer-guide-computer-science-and-web-development-comprehensive-path/64470

How focused do you have to be to become a software developer? https://firstdevjob.com/stories/taylor-milliman/

Wed, 01 Feb 2017

Just did a Java update on my workplace Windows desktop. From Sun to Oracle and decades in, the Java updater is still pushing crapware, this time an Amazon app.

Fri, 27 Jan 2017

George Orwell's '1984' is the No. 1 seller on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934 It's also sold out.

Why you might not be getting 5G data service anytime soon https://www.wirelessweek.com/article/2017/01/why-carriers-are-secretly-anxious-about-leap-5g

Thu, 26 Jan 2017

Free Meteor.js hosting is back with meteor-now https://forums.meteor.com/t/super-simple-and-free-meteor-deployments-using-zeit-now/33214

Photos: Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard in the '70s http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/autos/gallery/tbt-cruising-van-nuys-los-angeles

PulseAudio 10.0 now available for Fedora 25 https://fedoramagazine.org/pulseaudio-10-0-fedora-25 (And I can report that it is working)

Wed, 11 Jan 2017

Dell’s new professional-grade laptop is $100 cheaper if you buy it with Ubuntu http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/dell-precision-3520-ubuntu-laptop

Thu, 05 Jan 2017

Ross Mayfield: The coming tech backlash https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coming-tech-backlash-ross-mayfield

Mon, 26 Dec 2016

The last bookbinder on the Lower East Side http://lithub.com/the-last-bookbinder-on-the-lower-east-side

Fri, 16 Dec 2016

My holy grail on self-hosted blogs like this Ode system? Self-hosted comments. Disqus is far from ideal.

Wed, 30 Nov 2016

My new favorite TV show is @BetterthingsFX http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/better-things/about

AdamW on Linux and more: I don’t like computers https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/11/04/i-dont-like-computers

Hacker Noon: Why you shouldn’t use ‘var’ anymore in JavaScript https://hackernoon.com/why-you-shouldnt-use-var-anymore-f109a58b9b70

Use SmtpJS.com to send email with JavaScript http://www.smtpjs.com

Rubyland.news is a new Ruby aggregator http://www.rubyland.news

Tech Beacon: Is object-oriented programming dead? Not by a long shot http://techbeacon.com/object-oriented-programming-dead-not-long-shot

Cybersecurity analyst fixes what's broken in NTP (and there was a LOT to fix) http://boingboing.net/2016/11/29/ntp-the-rebirth-of-ailing-fa.html

Tue, 29 Nov 2016

The European Ruby Revolution http://devonestes.herokuapp.com/the-european-ruby-revolution

Fri, 25 Nov 2016

Gizmodo: A Stupid Simple Router for Super Lazy People http://gizmodo.com/a-stupid-simple-router-for-super-lazy-people-1764670728

Sun, 20 Nov 2016

freeCodeCamp: A Gentle Introduction to Data Structures - How Linked Lists Work https://medium.freecodecamp.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-data-structures-how-linked-lists-work-5adc793897dd

Gizmodo: Deleting the Facebook App Could Save Up to 20 Percent of Your Android's Battery Life http://gizmodo.com/deleting-the-facebook-app-could-save-up-to-20-percent-o-1789189589

Honeybadger: A Rubyist's Guide to Big-O Notation http://blog.honeybadger.io/a-rubyist-s-guide-to-big-o-notation/

Fri, 04 Nov 2016

Sacha Greif: A study plan to cure JavaScript fatigue https://medium.com/@sachagreif/a-study-plan-to-cure-javascript-fatigue-8ad3a54f2eb1

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Can I Program Yet? Notes as I Learn Coding and Software Development by Darga http://blog.dargacode.com and http://dargacode.com/

Twitter is broken due to a DDoS attack. The AP story I pulled downplays it quite a bit -- it's not just the East Coast, and it is continuing into the afternoon. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-dyn-attack-20161021-snap-story.html

Mon, 17 Oct 2016

I just discovered the Ember Weekend podcast https://emberweekend.com

Creating encrypted documents with Vim https://linux-audit.com/using-encrypted-documents-with-vim/

Jazz Advice indeed has a lot of good jazz advice http://www.jazzadvice.com

Sun, 16 Oct 2016

Bloc: I’m Considering a Coding Bootcamp: Should I learn JavaScript or Ruby? https://blog.bloc.io/im-considering-a-coding-bootcamp-should-i-learn-javascript-or-ruby/

Wed, 12 Oct 2016

One guy's Google interview prep can be everybody else's computer-science tutorial https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university

Sun, 04 Sep 2016

I could almost run OpenBSD 6.0. http://www.openbsd.org/60.html. When I'm allowed to abandon Citrix on an ice floe, that is.

More on what TrueOS (ex-PC-BSD) is all about https://www.trueos.org/more-on-trueos/

PC-BSD has rebranded as TrueOS. Doesn't run on AMD/ATI, so I can't try it https://www.trueos.org/2016/09/01/pc-bsd-evolves-into-trueos/

Fri, 02 Sep 2016

Blogging with Markdown, Dropbox and Rails by Piotr Chmolowski http://pchm.co/posts/blogging-with-markdown-dropbox-and-rails

Thu, 01 Sep 2016

The Ruby Weekly newsletter led me to Sam Koblenski's excellent tech-heavy blog http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com. I especially like the Tech Book Face Offs http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/search/label/Tech%20Book%20Face%20Off

Mon, 29 Aug 2016

We ate at @oleegousa twice this weekend -- it's that good. My new No. 1 at @WestfieldFS #ShermanOaks

Why Linus likes the GPL license more than the BSD

Fri, 26 Aug 2016

Our 13-year-old can't wrap her head around life without the Internet and smartphones. How can I blame her?

I've been thinking about the pre-web, pre-smartphone days. That is all.

It feels like a month since I took the Twitter and Google News apps off of my phone. Still have them on the tablet, but not the phone.

The great people at @laptopkeys got me typing 'n' once again

Thu, 25 Aug 2016

Shopify is a huge e-commerce web-site provider, and they use Ruby on Rails https://engineering.shopify.com

Sat, 20 Aug 2016

Yelp, thank you for withholding your content because I'm using a tablet and don't want your stupid app.

Fri, 19 Aug 2016

Will Fedora 22 OpenShot run on Fedora 24 and solve the "OpenShot 2.x is horrible" issue? Only one way to find out.

You think you can do what you do on a laptop with a tablet if you add a keyboard and mouse. But you can't. Creating content remains a "real" computer's game.

Wed, 17 Aug 2016

Audacity is having a screen-rendering issue in Fedora 24. Bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347053