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Think globally, microblog locally
Sat, 27 Jun 2020

I like Pete Davidson, but I don't $19.99-to-stream-his-new-movie like him. I'd consider it for $10 and will definitely do it for $5.

I love these clean electric guitar sounds http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0627_clean_guitar_sounds/

You're showering too much - James Hamblin/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/hygiene-is-overrated/612235/

Fri, 26 Jun 2020

L.A. Times faces painful reckoning over race in staff, pages - Meg James and Daniel Hernandez/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-06-24/los-angeles-times-black-lives-matter-diversity

A guide on re-creating Hey’s features in Fastmail - Nuno Donato https://www.nunodonato.com/2020/06/25/a-guide-on-re-creating-heys-features/

New York City's mail chutes are lovely, ingenious, and almost entirely ignored - Luke Spencer/Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-york-citys-mail-chutes-are-lovely-ingenious-and-almost-entirely-ignored

Thu, 25 Jun 2020

One thing I didn't anticipate: In WSL, adding software and updating via apt is a bit creaky. While adding my Ruby development environment (including gcc and make), I had a couple of freezes and errors. I made it work, but "real" Linux is faster and easier.

I've been getting my Windows 10 development and journalism production environment together. The thinking is that if I have to be in Windows, I'll be able to make it work.

Why are there so many errors in WSL apt upgrades? - Microsoft Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#why-are-there-so-many-errors-when-i-run-apt-get-upgrade

WSL commands and launch configurations - Microsoft Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config

Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation - Microsoft Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/

JavaScript and who made it - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2020/06/24/152038.html?title=javascriptAndWhoMadeIt

I figured out my Ruby gem conflict between the twitter and mastodon-api gems. Instead of twitter 7.0.0, using twitter 6.2.0 eliminates the problem of dueling http gems (3.x vs. 4.x) https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

Wed, 24 Jun 2020

Should I kill spiders in my home? An entomologist explains why not to - Matt Bertone/The Conversation https://getpocket.com/explore/item/should-i-kill-spiders-in-my-home-an-entomologist-explains-why-not-to

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

Anna Pietrzak is a wonderful guitarist - Guitar Salon International https://www.guitarsalon.com/blog/?p=33197

TwitVim: Twitter client for Vim https://github.com/twitvim/twitvim

Use Vim to send email and check your calendar - Kevin Sonney/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/1/vim-email-calendar

Improve Linux system performance with noatime - Jim Hall/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/6/linux-noatime

Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion - David Pierce/Protocol https://www.protocol.com/hey-email

LA County health staff get threats of death, violence amid coronavirus pandemic, Director Barbara Ferrer says – Tyler Shaun Evains/Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2020/06/22/la-county-health-staff-get-threats-of-death-violence-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-director-barbara-ferrer-says/

So I've been testing the Hey.com and Tutanota email services. One thing I learned is that Gmail isn't SO terrible — except for THE SPYING (under the guise of advertising). I suspect Google is doing a whole lot with your data.

What empty seats in Tulsa tell us about Trump 2020 - David Weigel/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2020/06/21/the-trailer-what-empty-seats-in-tulsa-tell-us-about-trump-2020/5eece958602ff12947e90ab7/

Trump rally: How the president's triumphant return to the campaign trail went from bad to worse - CNNPolitics https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/trump-campaign-trail-coronavirus/index.html

Nurses post startling examples of what being 'recovered' from COVID-19 can look like - Annie Reneau/Upworthy https://www.upworthy.com/nurses-post-startling-reminders-of-what-being-recovered-from-covid-19-can-look-like

Sun, 21 Jun 2020

Wireless is a trap - Ben Kuhn/LessWrong 2.0 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8hxvfZiqH24oqyr6y/wireless-is-a-trap

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s lost dissertation - David C. Brock/Computer History Museum Blog https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/

Writing in git vs. blogging - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0621_writing_in_git_vs_blogging/