Rob Pike's 5 rules of programming http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

Joan Feynman, 1927-2020, astrophysicist known for her discovery of the origin of auroras https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/feynman.cfm

What is MasterClass actually selling? - Carina Chocano/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/what-is-masterclass-actually-selling/614200/

Classic Google Sites is going away — migrate to new Google Sites by December 2021 https://support.google.com/a/answer/9958187

The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth - Sarah Jeong/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/21355465/tiktok-us-china-information-nationalism-aonline-propaganda

N O D E Zine https://n-o-d-e.net/index.html

Crunchbangplusplus | Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro https://crunchbangplusplus.org/oldindex.html

WordPress.com launches new P2 to take on internal communication tools – Romain Dillet/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/06/wordpress-com-launches-new-p2-to-take-on-internal-communication-tools/

Georgia school reopening photo worse than it appears - Molly Hensley-Clancy and Caroline O'Donovan/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/georgia-school-reopening-photo-paulding-county

How the 2020 pandemic is a replay of 1918 - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2020/08/04.html#a163817

My Vim "style" includes doing things with the mouse, so I use gVim much of the time

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2e in Unofficial Texinfo Format (tl;dr looks great) http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/

The coronavirus is never going away - Sarah Zhang/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/coronavirus-will-never-go-away/614860/

Why should you learn Vim in 2020? - Nikola Đuza/Pragmatic Pineapple 🍍 https://pragmaticpineapple.com/why-should-you-learn-vim-in-2020/

27-inch iMac gets a major update - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/27-inch-imac-gets-a-major-update/

Meet The 19th*, a new gender and politics news organization by women and for women – Tom Jones/Poynter https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/meet-the-19th-a-new-gender-and-politics-news-organization-by-women-and-for-women/

Some YouTubers are selling subscriptions to their channels — and make big money doing it - Lucas Shaw and Mark Bergen/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-03/youtube-influencers-charge-for-subscriptions-after-coronavirus-hits-ads

How link-begging became the most annoying search engine tactic - Ernie Smith/Vice https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889d8b/how-link-begging-became-the-most-annoying-search-engine-tactic

Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A all at once - Dieter Bohn/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/3/21352032/google-pixel-5-4a-5g-price-release-date-specs

One-Third of New York's small businesses may be gone forever - Matthew Haag/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/nyc-small-businesses-closing-coronavirus.html

C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust – The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/c-creator-bjarne-stroustrup-weighs-in-on-distributed-systems-type-safety-and-rust/

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover https://standardebooks.org/

GITenberg is a collaborative, open-source community dedicated to publishing ebooks in the public domain https://www.gitenberg.org/

Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US - Kate Cox/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/microsoft-in-talks-to-acquire-tiktok-after-trump-ultimatum/

I was looking at Emilio Pujol's guitar method and was intrigued by his variations on an exercise by Aguado, so I decided to write about it. I'm doing it as a CC-licensed project on GitHub. https://github.com/passthejoe/pujol_variations_on_aguado

Perl 7 is coming, and it's more like Perl 5 than Perl 6 - Sawyer X/nntp.perl.org https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257565.html

Deleting older Linux kernel images in Debian and Ubuntu - nixCraft https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-delete-old-kernel-images-command/

Donald Knuth: The Yoda of Silicon Valley - Siobhan Roberts/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html

I take it back. WordPress Dashboard response in Chrome on Windows 10 is as bad as ever. The lag is back.

I'm not working today. It's not a 'production' day. But I'm in Windows 10, and it's running well. I'm not sure if MS fixed something, or it's something I'm doing (or not doing)

A bold new chapter for Fedora Workstation — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/04/24/a-bold-new-chapter-for-fedora-workstation/

Debian News -- Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200801

Fedora Workstation: Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/04/28/fedora-workstation-swamp-draining-for-6-years/

Normally Google Chrome runs very poorly in Windows 10 when I'm using the WordPress Dashboard, but today the lag was gone in both Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Did recent updates fix something?

GNOME is not the default for Fedora Workstation — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/05/07/gnome-is-not-the-default-for-fedora-workstation/

Grub security issue fixed in Debian https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4735

Let's throw the kitchen sink at COVID-19 and get back to normal by October - Washington Post Editorial Board https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-it-would-take-to-get-back-to-normal-by-october/2020/07/27/a8886854-d02d-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html

Dear @getspectrum, between phone calls, emails and postal mail, you have asked me to subscribe to Spectrum TV well over 1,000 times. I think we both know it's never going to happen.

Zucchinis linked to rare poisonings in England | Food Safety News https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/07/zucchinis-linked-to-rare-poisonings-in-england/

The AWS bill heard around the world - Chris Short https://chrisshort.net/the-aws-bill-heard-around-the-world/

Want to improve Firefox performance on Linux? Enable WebRender - OMG! Ubuntu! https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/firefox-enable-webrender-linux

On Portland's streets: Anger, fear, and a fence that divides - Associated Press https://apnews.com/1dd1bb39093a3691f4e78093787ab877

One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat - David Pierce/Protocol https://www.protocol.com/neeva-search

Raphael Herzog's @debian Handbook — updated for Buster — is Debian's secret weapon https://raphaelhertzog.com/2020/07/24/the-debian-handbook-has-been-updated-for-debian-10/

The new Facebook design? Honestly, I don't hate it. It's a huge improvement.

I now have 4 Debian Stable systems: A 2017 HP laptop, a 2011 Mac desktop, and 2 Raspberry Pi Zero W boards

The last time I quit using Debian Stable — in 2013 — it was when my laptop died. I can see once again how nice it is to have the system working so consistently. I did this Debian Stable installation in late 2019.

The first best seller: Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela' - Pamela Regis/Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/first-best-seller

Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts but quick to reduce them - JP Koning http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/06/banks-are-slow-to-increase-rates-on.html

Pro tip: When you misspell the name of a variable, things break

I set up a cron job and forgot to send the output to /dev/null

I am looking at these Hugo themes:

• Manis

• Hermit

• Noteworthy

• Etch

• Fuji

• Anatole

@gohugoio https://themes.gohugo.io/

Before I become your doctor, you have been intubated for weeks - Dr. Anna DeForest/New England Journal of Medicine https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2016293

I took the car out to charge the battery Sunday afternoon after my AAA jump-start, and I decided to drive by Mission San Fernando. On the baseball field across the street, there was a game going on. Two full teams, uniforms, the whole nine yards. Like COVID isn't a thing.

I don't want to be a founder and I don't think you do either | Carol's Blog https://carolchen.me/blog/founding-bad/

The last reporter in town had one big question for his rich boss - Dan Barry/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/alden-global-capital-pottstown-mercury.html

The Zen of Erlang - Fred Hebert https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

This is my first time "successfully" running blogPoster with Ruby 2.7, and the script is generating a couple of warnings about calling methods in a way that is now deprecated. I'll have to see if I can figure out what's happening. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

My Fedora 30-to-32 upgrade was a success. I knew it was going to take a long time, and Fedora didn't disappoint me. Still, I welcome a successful and uneventful upgrade, and I've bought myself another year on this laptop unless I want to install something else.

Stories from 300 developers who got their first tech job in their 30s, 40s, and 50s - Quincy Larson/Free Code Camp https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stories-from-300-developers-who-got-their-first-tech-job-in-their-30s-40s-and-50s-64306eb6bb27/