.@realdonaldtrump and @passthejoe (that's me) joined @twitter about the same time - 2009. Sure, he has more followers, but I just crossed 1K
Unearthed my circa-1980 Next Whole Earth Catalog, the web before the Web http://www.amazon.com/The-Next-Whole-Earth-Catalog/dp/0394707761
Ornette Coleman remembered by Neneh Cherry aka @misscherrylala http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/27/ornette-coleman-remembered-by-neneh-cherry-jazz-saxophonist
JDK 1.8 for OpenBSD http://openports.se/devel/jdk/1.8
OpenBSD 5.8 looks very good http://www.openbsd.org/58.html Even offers JDK, which I don't remember from 4.4 days
Great introduction to @OpenBSD at http://www.openbsdjumpstart.org
Was prepared to hate Netbeans, but I kind of like it
Go's net/http not fast enough? Fast HTTP is up to 10 times faster https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp #golang
At this point, I've probably been running Fedora a lot longer than I ever ran Debian.
I am following too many people on Twitter. That is all.
Confession: I love reading Penelope Trunk. Her subject (life and work) is compelling, as is what I think is her brutal honesty http://blog.penelopetrunk.com
Researchers say iPod Touch is the most secure mobile device due to lack of SIM card http://www.zdnet.com/article/want-a-secure-privacy-smartphone-the-experts-suggest iPhone is second-best
7 reasons to develop your next web app with @meteorjs http://www.sitepoint.com/7-reasons-develop-next-web-app-meteor from @sitepointdotcom
Mumble returns to @Fedora https://fedoramagazine.org/mumble-returns-fedora
Perl is Back and Ready to Roll with the Big Data Crowd http://thenewstack.io/perl-back-ready-roll-big-data/
@pragdave on @elixirfountain https://soundcloud.com/elixirfountain/elixir-fountain-2015-09-25-dave-thomas
Saša Jurić: Why #Elixir http://theerlangelist.com/article/why_elixir
Clark Kampfe: #Elixir is not #Ruby http://zeroclarkthirty.com/2015-11-01-elixir-is-not-ruby.html
Jerel Unruh: Why I'm excited about #Elixir and #Phoenix http://jerel.co/blog/2015/11/why-im-excited-about-elixir-and-phoenix
#Elixir School http://elixirschool.com/
Aaron Lebo: The UNIX philosophy and Elixir as an alternative to Go http://lebo.io/2015/06/22/the-unix-philosophy-and-elixir-as-an-alternative-to-go.html #elixir #golang
Geek News Radio is about to begin http://sixgun.org/geeknewsradio @geeknewsradio
Wishing @MethodDan a speedy and full recovery http://danlynch.org/blog/2015/11/wheel-of-fortune
A great list of GNOME Shell extensions from @reddit
44 degrees at 5:30 a.m. in Van Nuys
Facebook vs. Tsu -- it's complicated http://www.wired.com/2015/11/facebook-banning-tsu-rival-social-network
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