There's no paywall on the CNN Lite site https://lite.cnn.com/
Is this the last remaining Ode blog that is currently being updated? https://passthejoeupdates.nfshost.com/
The Vim Flatpak (which includes gVim) has been patched and no longer pegs the CPU. Excellent news for this #Bluefin user https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.vim.Vim
I want to code a simple GUI, and I'm wide open in terms of languages and frameworks
I need to create a desktop GUI that automates publishing to static site generators
Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts is back https://passthejoeupdates.nfshost.com/
What happened to Fry's Electronics - The Silicon Underground https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-frys-electronics/
The "Underground" album by Thelonious Monk is very good. The musicians accompanying Monk are excellent: Larry Gales on bass, Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, Ben Riley on drums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(Thelonious_Monk_album)
Aubrey Plaza’s Wood Milk ad and the controversy around it - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/5/5/23709822/milk-dairy-plant-based-meat-soy-almond-fake-processed
This 1986 KCRW-FM performance by the Dream Syndicate is my favorite out of everything they ever did. And I did see them live a BUNCH of times during this period. My self-recorded cassette broke years ago, and I'm glad to have access to it again. https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/bent-by-nature/dream-syndicate-out-of-the-grey-live-1986
How to install Google Chrome on Fedora Linux quick and easy - Linuxiac
(Note: This post recommends the RPM over Flatpak for speed and disk-space reasons. Flatpak browsers do have some issues, but these are not among them for me. I use the Chrome Flatpak and have been very happy with it.) https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-google-chrome-on-fedora-linux/
Devuan users are at risk, take action to protect your system - Linuxiac https://linuxiac.com/devuan-users-are-at-risk/
Debian 12 Bookworm runs so well, it makes it hard for me to think about moving to Fedora or openSUSE
Debian 12 Bookworm release is planned for June 10, 2023 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00007.html
Debian alert DLA-3398-1 (curl) [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/930001/
GotoSocial recommends Hostwinds for VPNs https://www.hostwinds.com/
You probably know this, but you can't really buy a Raspberry Pi. Here's the availability from Adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/category/176
I love a quiet laptop :: passthejoe https://passthejoe.net/posts/2023_0422_i_love_a_quiet_laptop/
Friction in the Hugo composition process — Part 1 :: passthejoe https://passthejoe.net/posts/2023_0422_hugo_friction-part-1/
The Buffalo News was the crown jewel of Warren Buffett’s news empire. Now it’s just another Lee paper - Poynter https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2023/buffalo-news-owner-lee-enterprises-cuts-layoffs-outsourcing-berkshire-hathaway/
End of life dates for CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Linux 7 are just a few months away | blog.CentOS.org https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/
Ernie Ball introduces Slinky Flatwound Guitar Strings at NAMM 2023 https://blog.ernieball.com/events/ernie-ball-new-at-namm-2023/
Beekeeper Studio is billed as "The SQL Editor and Database Manager of Your Dreams." I installed the Flatpak. https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/
The DBeaver database tool is available as a Flatpak. You KNOW I installed it. https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.dbeaver.DBeaverCommunity
Posting to Mastodon is easier because there's a 500-character limit
I replaced upstream Distrobox with Debian-packaged Distrobox on my recently upgraded Bookworm (12) laptop. My first new Distrobox used a Debian 11 image and has a custom home directory so my config files don't clash with my non-Distrobox home. https://distrobox.privatedns.org/
I'm getting my Debian 12 (Bookworm) system together. It was an upgrade from Debian 11 and went pretty smoothly. The upgrade probably went a lot faster because I run as many Flatpaks as possible (and they update separately). http://debian.org
I just did what looks like a successful upgrade from Debian 11 (Bullseye) to 12 (Bookworm) https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
I just upgraded my Fedora Silverblue 37 VM to 38, and it was very smooth
These are the Flatpak apps I'm running:
AbiWord
Boxy SVG
PDF Arranger
Foliate
Flatseal
Chrome
Extension Manager
Bottles
Texmaker
GIMP
GNOME Boxes
Deja Dup
(GNOME) Web
Rhythmbox
Inkscape
LibreOffice
Firefox
RaspberryPi Imager
Zoom
The Foliate e-book reader is in Debian Bookworm https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/foliate
OpenBSD FAQ: Following -current and using snapshots https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html
OpenBSD -current - Frequently Asked Questions - Solene@ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-03-27-openbsd-current.html
I had to use a new #Apple #Mac desktop recently, and while the "bones" of #MacOS are pretty much the same as they have been, the screen detail is very nice. Also, I hate the way it uses the squiggly road key for everything. It messes with my keyboard-shortcut memory.
How to show a history of installed, upgraded or removed packages in Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint - Linux Uprising Blog https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/01/how-to-show-history-of-installed.html
The gThumb photo editor/viewer is one of my go-to apps in Linux. It allows you to edit JPEG captions, among other photo-editing tasks, and is great for my use case. It's available as a Flatpak and in many distro repos. https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.gThumb
If you find yourself at just about any major university and see the overwhelming number of Mac laptops, you can see how vitally important the Asahi Linux project is to the future of free desktop software https://asahilinux.org/
I installed Distrobox on my Debian 11 system by downloading the latest release and running the install script. Then I used apt to add podman, and now I'm ready to run containers in Debian. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/releases/tag/1.4.2.1
Ubuntu removes Flatpak by default from Kubuntu and other flavors https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-flavor-packaging-defaults/34061/8
As a desktop system, I couldn't ask for better performance that I'm getting from Debian Stable
Today I couldn't get the Vivaldi browser to work without continually, intermittently freezing. I can't keep waiting to click things.
The Debian security patch on libde265 rolled onto my system already. I appreciate Debian's focus on security and LWN's posting of advisories so we know what's happening. https://lwn.net/Articles/923130/
I need to learn how to write a script that takes every file in a directory and its subdirectories, does some regex-type changes, and writes the new files to a new directory.
Is the Twitter API still alive? (Answer is yes if you see this)
Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94 – Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2023/02/09/burt-bacharach-legendary-composer-of-pop-songs-dies-at-94/
Did my app survive the Twitter API crisis of early 2023? If you see this, the answer is yes for today.
I haven't used LibreOffice Writer in a long time, and I have to say I'm enjoying it. Once I zoomed in to make the text bigger, I was good to go.
This post is brought to you by my blogPoster app. It uses the Twitter API, which will no longer be free in a few days. It's a Ruby script coded by and for one person (me). Luckily it still posts to Mastodon and my own microblog. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
I'm back in full-time Vivaldi browser use for work. There are just so many little features here and there that help me get things done. Google should take notes and add all this stuff to regular Chrome.
I'm using mail to monitor unattended upgrades in Debian, and this helped me: How do you open mailx (aka mail) to read old mail when you have no new mail and view a list of old emails? - Super User https://superuser.com/questions/441871/how-do-you-open-mailx-to-read-old-mail-when-you-have-no-new-mail-and-view-a-list
My unattended upgrades in Debian worked!
Jamsync is a open-source version control system that enables software engineers to develop and deploy faster https://jamsync.dev/
Jeff Beck, a true original: Cause We've Ended as Lovers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aWd88rs6JE
How to set up automatic updates on Fedora Linux - Bobby Borisov/Linuxiac https://linuxiac.com/how-to-set-up-automatic-updates-on-fedora-linux/
Strange title for an article about the popularity of CW in amateur radio:
Looking to Ditch Twitter? Morse Code Is Back - Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/morse-code-back-looking-ditch-twitter-180981309/
I had a pretty good day with the Vivaldi web browser. Looks like some bugs got squashed on Linux.
I started using the Vivaldi browser today by mistake -- I pretty much moved to "regular" Google Chrome -- but so far, so good
I needed to replace a couple of plain steel strings on the guitar. I went into my stash of old strings, and everything was a little bit oxidized. Saving guitar strings for a decade = not a great idea. I also had classical wound strings go bad. Old flatwounds seemed OK.
I am doing my first ever Déjà Dup backup. Thanks to @brideoflinux for the encouragement.
I don't know what #Debian is doing to run so quietly on my HP laptop with Intel i7, but I'll take it.
I had to re-generate my Twitter API key, secrets and token after temporarily deactivating my Twitter account https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/authentication/oauth-1-0a
Twitter API test
I don't know if having the same OS (Debian Stable) on both computers makes a difference, or if I'm doing things in a more systematic way, but I have had no Syncthing issues — and I'm syncing 187 GB.
My Debian Stable system wouldn't update from 11.5 to 11.6. I tried apt-get clean, but that didn't work. Instead I removed the package lists with # rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists and then did an apt update. Then I got all the new packages.
With all this talk about The Document Foundation, LibreOffice development and Collabora, I probably should figure out what Collabora even is (and does) https://www.collaboraoffice.com/
The complete CREEM Magazine Archive - /month. This might be worth it. https://archive.creem.com/
I just got started on http://tilde.club. The server runs #Fedora, and it looks like a great community.
Debian is a strange and wonderful project. One of the best things about #Debian is its approach to security. I know that the kernel will always be patched for vulnerabilities.
Every so often, a critical package — like Chromium or Firefox ESR — will not get the patches it needs. I complain, and nobody tries to silence me. I appreciate that. And the ship that is Debian usually rights itself, and a neglected package tends to find new-maintainer life.
While http://centos.passthejoe.net publishes updates for #CentOS Stream 8 and 9, until now http://passthejoe.tilde.institute/centos has only published Stream 8 updates. I am attempting to add Stream 9 to that site. Let's wait and see if it works.
These sites only exists due to the work of @rbowen@mastodon.social — thanks, Rich for your Python script. I hope the sites prove useful. While they were borne out of frustration, the project became a learning experience for me in Hugo, Bash and cross-OS scripting.
I've been posting in the #Fediverse for a couple of years now, and until recent events on #Twitter, there hadn't been quite the critical mass of users to make being here vs. there extremely compelling. Those users are here now, and if these communities (very much plural) survive the growing pains, we will continue to really have something special — and not corporate.
I hate to say it, but I decided to go with the Google Chrome browser from the #Flatpak instead of Chromium from the #Debian repo or #Vivaldi from the project's own repo. I ran #Chromium for YEARS until the project decided to kill sync. I resented being pushed into Google Chrome and ran Vivaldi for awhile. But between bugs, performance issues and lack of a Flatpak, I went from Vivaldi to Chrome. Google's browser is smoother and runs cooler, though I miss the Vivaldi features.
I have been running Debian Stable with as many GUI apps installed as local Flatpaks as possible due to issues with root disk space on my encrypted installation. Instead of a full root, I now have 13 GB free out of 29 GB total. Performance of Debian is always excellent on my 2017 HP Envy laptop, and Flatpaks are quick to start and fast to run. I made this change (to free up the root space) a few weeks ago, and it has been great.
Epson is going to stop selling laser printers. Here's why - Liam Tung/ZDNET https://www.zdnet.com/article/epson-is-going-to-stop-selling-laser-printers-heres-why/
Intentionally making close friends | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33774353
Intentionally making close friends — Neel Nanda https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/43-making-friends
Mastodon isn't just a replacement for Twitter - Nathan Schneider and Amy Hasinoff/Noēma https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/
How do transistors work, anyway? - lcamtuf’s thing https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-do-transistors-work-anyway
Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor assets to bring zero-knowledge encryption to file storage - Paul Sawers/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/dropbox-acquires-boxcryptor-assets-to-bring-zero-knowledge-encryption-to-file-storage/
Goodbye, data science – r y x, r https://ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/
Where does all the cardboard come from? - Matthew Shaer/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/magazine/cardboard-international-paper.html
Ruby adds a new core class called Data to represent simple immutable value objects - Swaathi Kakarla/Saeloun Blog https://blog.saeloun.com/2022/11/22/data-immutable-object.html
Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder – James Wallace Harris/Auxiliary Memory https://auxiliarymemory.com/2017/01/06/rereading-the-soul-of-a-new-machine-by-tracy-kidder/
Marie Kondo your software stack with open source - Mike Melanson https://github.com/readme/featured/open-source-minimalism
Lemmy - A community of leftist privacy and FOSS enthusiasts (it's like federated Reddit) https://lemmy.ml/
Digital books wear out faster than physical books - Internet Archive http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/
Fix choppy YouTube video playback in Firefox and firefox-esr in Debian Bullseye - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/723814/how-to-fix-choppy-youtube-video-playback-enable-webrender-debian-bullseye
I hate to say it, but I decided to try Google Chrome in a Flatpak, and it runs a lot better than Vivaldi, which SHOULD be in a Flatpak at this point (but is not).
Raspberry Pi Zero W is mostly frustration if you try to use the GUI. I forgot how crushingly slow it is. I'm getting the no-GUI build of the OS.
I just got an email from the Mozilla Foundation asking for donations. Then I found this article: Mozilla expects to generate more than in revenue this year https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/13/mozilla-expects-to-generate-more-than-500m-in-revenue-this-year/
Some cool Raspberry Pi projects are available from Guysoft https://guysoft.wordpress.com/
I had no idea you can't get Raspberry Pi board anymore. I've had a couple of Pi Zero W boards in a drawer, and I'm starting to put them back into service. The first is going to be a persistent Syncthing desktop that should help my syncing setup. At this point, I'm using 100% Syncthing and 0% Dropbox.
This is a reminder that I have an independent microblog full of short, social-media style posts http://updates.passthejoe.net
The #Debian installer decided to give my fully encrypted 1 TB drive a 30 GB root, and I didn't take the time to make it bigger. Now I'm running out of space, so my workaround (which IS working) is installing Flatpaks with the --user flag so they go in /home, which is HUGE.
I'm having a problem with stuttering YouTube video in #Firefox — the ESR version — in #Debian Stable. Videos from Twitter, Vimeo and Instagram play fine. All problems clear up in the Firefox Flatpak. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
Does Amazon intentionally slow down your deliveries when you don't have Prime?
Google wore me down. I installed #chrome in #debian from Google's repo.
How to use DALL•E 2 to turn text into AI-generated art - Christina Darby/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-dalle-2-to-turn-your-wildest-imaginations-into-tangible-art/
Have you ever heard of Mosh: the mobile shell? I'm installing in #debian https://mosh.org/
How do you install IntelliJ IDEA in Linux? JetBrains Toolbox, Flatpak, individual tarball, or?
Julian Bream took it to a whole other level with 'J.S. Bach: Lute Suites, Nos. 1 & 2' in 1965. The album is on Spotify. https://www.julianbreamguitar.com/j.s.-bach--lute-suites--nos.-1---2.html
Kotlin and Android | Android Developers https://developer.android.com/kotlin
Complete Kotlin development masterclass 2022 | Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/kotlinmasterclass/
Kotlin for Beginners: Learning Programming With Kotlin | Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/kotlin-course/
The Kotlin Programming Language https://kotlinlang.org/
distrobox-upgrade --all is the key to updating all of your Distrobox instances with one command. Thanks @castrojo for the tip! https://distrobox.privatedns.org/usage/distrobox-upgrade.html
JetBrains/compose-jb: Compose Multiplatform, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb
I had been having trouble with slow starts of firefox-esr in Debian Bullseye, but it seems to be resolved with the latest update https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
I've been back in Debian 11 for a month and a half, and things have been smooth — as expected. Pretty much everything has been running well, and overall the laptop is staying very cool.
My favourite computer, an old Mac - Connor Oliver/Muezza.ca http://muezza.ca/thoughts/favourite_computer/
At $32,500, this is the holy grail: Ed Bickert's blonde 1965 Fender Telecaster https://www.12fret.com/instruments/ed-bickerts-blonde-fender-telecaster-1965/
3-year-old Bugzilla comment fixes font issues in the Firefox Flatpak. I'm running Debian 11, but I expect this fix will work anywhere. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621915#c3
I am more than a little obsessed with mdBook — the documentation/book platform written in #rustlang. Typical: I'm looking into Rust and am too distracted by the docs tooling to move forward. https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/
‘There’s endless choice, but you’re not listening’: Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music - Liz Pelly/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/27/theres-endless-choice-but-youre-not-listening-fans-quitting-spotify-to-save-their-love-of-music
Install the Rust Programming Language https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
I am now using Syncthing on 57 GB of data on my way to 200 GB. I also haven't organized or otherwise even looked at most of these files over the past many years. So eventually I will sync less, I hope. https://syncthing.net
I am setting up Syncthing to sync about 300 GB of data between two computers https://syncthing.net/
When it comes to my HP laptop running quickly and cool, Debian Stable is doing an excellent job
I just installed Syncthing on my Debian laptop and started the service automatically with systemd https://docs.syncthing.net/users/autostart.html#
The reason I have so many updates right now is the release of @Debian 11.5 https://www.debian.org/News/2022/2022091002
Falling back from Fedora Silverblue 36 to Debian Stable 11 fixed a couple of bugs:
In LibreOffice Calc, ctrl-; spits out the date
In Vim, no need to hit Enter to clear command line after cd
(But gEdit scrolling issue WAS fixed in Fedora!)
I've been back in Debian on my laptop for about a week, and it's been uneventfully smooth. I'd probably say the same if I were going from Debian to Fedora instead of Fedora to Debian.
I was on TikTok for 30 days: it is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy - Luiza Jarovsky https://scribe.rip/i-was-on-tiktok-for-30-days-it-is-manipulative-addictive-and-harmful-to-privacy-9e25445a9122
Things like the early (and expert) adoption of PulseAudio, Wayland, Pipewire, the latest GNOME and other innovations keeps me coming back to @fedora, even if I have recently moved to the predictable and quiet @debian Stable
I am enjoying setting up and using my new Debian 11 (Stable) system on my HP Envy laptop. It's this laptop's second time running Debian, and things have been smooth and predictable.
One of the reasons I paused on NixOS was the /nix/store size. My VM filled up pretty quickly. Not ruling it out forever but passing for now. https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/x1sfff/nixstore/
Both Debian and Fedora are my home distros. I go back and forth with them. When I got my first SSD, I put Debian on it. When I got my second SSD, I put Fedora Silverblue on it. Now I've gone back to Debian on the newer SSD. My old iMac has run Debian for a long time.
There were a lot of things I liked about Fedora Silverblue, but the difficulty of developing in Flatpaks wasn't one of them. Toolboxes are great, but the Geany Flatpak couldn't compile or run anything. I would need a separate Geany in every Toolbox.
I got really "attached" to EasySSH in Fedora Silverblue. Now I have it as a package in Debian, and it's all set up. https://github.com/muriloventuroso/easyssh
I wasn't prepared for most Ruby gem installs in Debian 11 to fail unless done with sudo. I really need to switch to rbenv.
Something broke the Clipboard History GNOME Shell Extension in Fedora 36 Silverblue, so I deactivated it and reactivated Clipboard Indicator. Yes, I have both at the ready.
I'm still trying to figure out whether or not @nixos is "worth" adopting. Will it add enough to make up for the learning curve?
Looks like I got my social-posting Ruby app working in @nixos
Bridgetown: Next-generation progressive site generator powered by Ruby https://www.bridgetownrb.com
My dystopian fiction longs for a better world - Veronica Roth/Literary Hub https://lithub.com/my-dystopian-fiction-longs-for-a-better-world/
Speculative journeys: Sci-fi for people who don't really like sci-fi - Jon Raymond/Literary Hub https://lithub.com/speculative-journeys-sci-fi-for-people-who-dont-really-like-sci-fi/
Flatpak apps in heavy rotation:
EasySSH (Do all your ssh sessions in one GUI) Foliate (eBook reader with books from https://standardebooks.org)
The Fedora Flatpak of LibreOffice keeps crashing in Silverblue 36. Fix is to replace with the Flathub Flatpak of LO.
Something in the latest @Fedora 36 update took care of the very rough scrolling in Gedit (which I still use instead of the new Gnome Text Editor due to Snippets and External Tools)
Updates today in @fedora (and @teamsilverblue) for Podman, NetworkManager and Vim
Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. https://standardebooks.org/
Vim 9 is now in Fedora Silverblue (and, I assume, also Fedora Workstation)
Look at how @Debian does security announcements. Other distributions: Do it this way. https://lwn.net/Articles/899688/
You can get support for Debian beyond 5 years by paying for Extended LTS by Freexian https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/
Thanks to the @debian LTS team, all releases get 5 years of support. They are just now ending support for Debian 9 "Stretch" and beginning to support Debian 10 "Buster." https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/
Do you know about Milkman Sound amplifiers? These things look UNREAL. Expensive, but man do they look good. https://milkmansound.com/
I had to re-clone the GitHub repo for this project. I don't clone repos often enough to do it right the first time. I considered doing in on CodeBerg instead of GitHub, and maybe I will move it. Using both at once is too brittle.
2021 was the year of the Ruby desktop - Andy Maleh/dev.to https://dev.to/andyobtiva/2021-was-the-year-of-the-ruby-desktop-2j49
Ruby GUI frameworks - The Ruby Toolbox https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/GUI_Frameworks
I love how Slackware's security alerts make it onto LWN. I find it hard to use a distribution that LWN isn't following in that manner. https://lwn.net/Articles/899363/
Use the power of a JavaScript framework right in your HTML file - Ashish/dev.to https://dev.to/asheeshh/use-the-power-of-a-javascript-framework-right-in-your-html-file-1d88
I don't look at Perl a lot, but I saw these release notes on Perl v5.36.0, and it has me thinking about it. https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.36.0/view/pod/perldelta.pod
Discovering the -c switch for Toolbox is changing the way I do things in Fedora Silverblue
@containertoolbx @teamsilverblue @fedora
It's the time of the week where I say how well @fedora Silverblue 36 is going.
Smooth. Almost another semester of CS in the bag (using the IntelliJ Flatpak), and my daily journalism grind besides that.
Next time I rebase Fedora Silverblue, I'm going to wait until after the release. No beta in production for me. I had no problems with the system, but the upgrade had more glitches than I'm used to. https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-rebase-to-fedora-linux-36-on-silverblue/
Now that I learned how to run commands from Toolbox containers without entering the Toolbox by using -c, I'm going to start scripting with it.
@containertoolbx @fedora @teamsilverblue
I got the Apache @netbeans 13 Flatpak to build and run a C++ program by following instructions to enable the 8.2 Update Center and install the C/C++ module. I also managed to switch to dark mode (Tools->Options->Appearance->Look and Feel). https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb120/#_cc
I recently removed a couple of blog entries about my disappointment in CentOS Stream 8, but the About page on my CentOS Stream updates blog tells it pretty well.
tl;dr hoping for better things in Stream 9.
TIL that you can compile C and C++ programs in the Intellij Flatpak — in Fedora Silverblue, or any other OS presumably — by running gcc (for C) or g++ (for C and C++) in the Intellij terminal or Run Anything dialog (which you get by clicking ctrl twice)
We went to the new Whole Foods where you scan your palm and just walk out with your stuff. Kinda creepy. You can still pay w/o that. A formerly packed store and parking lot was pretty empty.
Toolbx, a developers new best friend! — Christian Fredrik Schaller/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/toolbx-a-developers-new-best-friend/
How to rebase to Fedora Linux 36 on Silverblue — Michal Konečný/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-rebase-to-fedora-linux-36-on-silverblue/
I'm doing all this messing around with CentOS Stream and Fedora Silverblue on the laptop, while the desktop remains on Debian Stable. I don't remember a "bad" Debian release, but Bullseye is a particularly good one. A sweet spot for GNOME (3.38).
I used rpm-ostree to layer vim-enhanced and vim-X11 in Fedora Silverblue. The Vim Flatpak didn't give me console Vim, and Silverblue Vim wasn't picking up my .vimrc.
I have two Toolbox containers for Ruby in Fedora Silverblue, but they share the same files for gems. It has caused some trouble. Better to use Distrobox with a dedicated home, or rbenv/RVM.
Ruby is having issues with OpenSSL 3.0
Ruby developers: On Linux, do you recommend installing all gems with gem install, or using distro packages when available?
The Ruby gems in my app are ... complicated
It's been a difficult semester in computer science. My class is Intro to Data Structures. I have found it hard to find the time to study. I would have liked a class with more (helpful) materials. I had to learn Java OO programming to do the class, so it's been quite an ordeal.
I have been running OpenBSD in a VM, and yesterday I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1. Everything works. https://www.openbsd.org/71.html
For Fedora Silverblue and Kinote users: Simplifying updates for RPM Fusion packages (and other packages shipping their own RPM repos) - Fedora Discussion https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/simplifying-updates-for-rpm-fusion-packages-and-other-packages-shipping-their-own-rpm-repos/30364
I recommend EasySSH as an easy way to manage multiple ssh sessions. And there's a Flatpak. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.muriloventuroso.easyssh
You can learn something new about Vim every day. Today I figured out how to use iab to insert the date via strftime https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Insert_current_date_or_time
Gnome Clipboard History extension looks like a worthy successor to Cliboard Indicator for those running Gnome 42 https://github.com/SUPERCILEX/gnome-clipboard-history
WordPress simplifies pricing with $0 (aka free) and $15/month Pro plans https://wordpress.com/pricing/
So far, @fedora @teamsilverblue 36 beta has been fairly smooth sailing
Comparison of Fedora Flatpaks and Flathub remotes - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/comparison-of-fedora-flatpaks-and-flathub-remotes/
Contribute at the Fedora Kernel 5.17, CoreOS, Cloud, IoT, and Audio test days - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-kernel-5-17-coreos-cloud-iot-and-audio-test-days/
I found this to be very helpful:
14 software architecture design patterns to know | Enable Architect/Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/architect/14-software-architecture-patterns
The Google Chrome web browser is now in Flathub. If you want or need exactly what Google is shipping, now you have a Flatpak. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.google.ChromeDev
Princeton Classics graduate reading lists https://classics.princeton.edu/programs/graduate/reading-lists
Do all the celebrities really know each other? Sounds creepy. And exhausting.
MWC 2022: Lenovo announces ThinkPads, IdeaPads, Chromebooks, ThinkBooks and more | Charles McLellan/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/mobile-world-congress-lenovo-announces-thinkpads-ideapads-chromebooks-thinkbooks-and-more/
Hustle and hype: the truth about the influencer economy - Symeon Brown/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/feb/24/hustle-and-hype-the-truth-about-the-influencer-economy
I hooked up a new cable for our Spectrum service that goes under the house instead of around the eaves. I did the phone wire (from the modem) months ago. I still have to go under the house and let some slack out ...
Debian has really turned things around with Chromium. The security patches have been timely. For me this turnaround is the Linux distro story of 2022. https://lwn.net/Articles/885277/
How I customize Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite - Muhammed Yasin Özsaraç/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/how-i-customize-fedora-silverblue-and-fedora-kinoite/
We live in the most distracted time in human history. Can we reclaim our attention spans? An interview with "Stolen Focus" author Johan Hari - Sean Illing/Vox https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/2022/2/8/22910773/vox-conversations-johann-hari-stolen-focus
Samsung Galaxy S22: How to preorder and get the best deal | June Wan/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-galaxy-s22-how-to-buy-prerorder-best-deals/
Debian has been very proactive in updating the Chromium web browser. It's a very positive development. — Debian Security Announce via LWN.net https://lwn.net/Articles/884073/
Tribute to William "Bill" G Leavitt — Alisdair Macrae Birch https://www.alisdair.com/educator/williamgleavitt.html
My Mentor, William G. Leavitt | Karl Aranjo http://www.karlaranjo.com/my-mentor-william-g-leavitt/
One of CentOS Stream's secret weapons is @containertoolbx, which I'm using to set up development environments without mucking up the entire system.
On @fedora @teamsilverblue, I'd like @GNOME Software to ask me if I'd like to update WITHOUT rebooting right away and have the updated system active on the next boot.
TBH, I'm very much OK with Flatpaks automatically updating on @fedora @teamsilverblue -- just like I am on @debian.
Is there a Reload All Tabs Functionality/Shortcut for Vivaldi? (Answer: yes!) https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/9433/is-there-a-reload-all-tabs-functionality-shortcut-for-vivaldi/13?_=1643819833763&lang=en-US
Now that htop is in EPEL 9, I'm a whole lot more comfortable with @CentOS Stream 9 on the desktop. https://mirror.arizona.edu/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/Packages/h/
Configure Fedora to practice and compose music - Yann Collette/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/configure-fedora-to-practise-and-compose-music/
A @fedora @teamsilverblue observation: It's easier to run rpm-ostree upgrade from the terminal and then shut down for the night than to do the updates from GNOME Software, reboot and then have to shut down after that.
Part of GNOME Shell's 'secret sauce' is mousing to the hot corner to bring up the apps dock on the left. GNOME 40+ moved the dock on the bottom, which is awkward for hot-corner users. The Vertical Overview GNOME Shell Extension fixes that. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4144/vertical-overview/
Ruby on Rails is the one-person framework - DHH https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-one-person-framework-711e6318
It's been nearly a week and I haven't broken @fedora @teamsilverblue on my laptop. Is there a badge for that?
I set up a Ruby development environment in a @fedora Toolbox. This is a great way to work in Linux. I added > 100 packages to the toolbox, and I can dump it and start over without affecting the main system.
I think the @RedHat people involved in @CentOS Stream know it's a marathon and not a sprint. Stream needs time to prove its value. For one thing, it's great to have such a detailed peek at future RHEL.
If for some reason you haven't migrated your @CentOS Linux 8 system to CentOS Stream 8, @AlmaLinux, @rocky_linux or other, now is the time.
I try to play the guitar every day https://passthejoe.net/posts/2021_1227_practicing/
Debian updates Bullseye/Stable to 11.2. And with a new Firefox ESR, it's patched and ready with a very stable GNOME 3.38. https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20211218
Are you looking for an email provider? I recommend @TutanotaTeam (@Tutanota@mastodon.social)
The problem with podcasts is that I don't commute anymore
I'm not sure how I stumbled upon the @esquire newsletter, but there's some great writing there.
Swapping characters, words and lines in Vim - Vim Tips Wiki https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Swapping_characters,_words_and_lines
In my DSL rewiring project, I successfully crimped CAT5 wire to RJ11 connectors on both ends. I started to crimp the RG6, but I couldn't get it tight. I think my wire-stripping technique is not quite right. I'll try again tomorrow.
My CentOS Stream 8 desktop system is super stable and very low on drama
Just wanted to point out that @RedHat did the right thing with @CentOS Stream 8: Today my update automatically installed kernel-4.18.0-348.2.1.el85.x8664.rpm. That's the SAME kernel as the new RHEL 8.5. Hopefully Stream 8 will track the RHEL 8.x kernel from now on. Great move.
I could pretty much play any @fender guitar. I bought a flattop 15 years ago. I haven't bought another guitar since I was a teenager.
I just put on a new set of @ernieball Slinky Pure Nickel strings. I don't know if the pure nickel makes a difference, but these are my first .010s in DECADES. I'm not used to the lightness (coming from .011s), but they sound GREAT. https://www.ernieball.com/guitar-strings/electric-guitar-strings/slinky-classic-rock-n-roll-pure-nickel-wrap-electric-guitar-strings
Another tilde site that looks really good is the Ubuntu-running tilde.team. I'm thinking of starting up an account over there. https://tilde.team/
Thanks go to the admins/devs at tilde.institute, the public-access OpenBSD system, where a bad rsync command on my part blew out my ssh key. They fixed everything, and I'm back in tilde-land. https://tilde.institute
Setting up https with Let's Encrypt certificates is easy on NearlFreeSpeech.net sites. The NFSN script works just about flawlessly. I had to disable a thorny .htaccess on one site to get the script to work (and I hope it will renew. ... We'll see).
How to contribute to CentOS https://wiki.centos.org/Contribute
I'm adding automatic Mastodon tooting to my CentOS Stream Updates script. Scripting Mastodon posting on the server is much easier than Twitter.
Another successful auto-post!: CentOS Stream 8 Updates: November 10, 2021 :: CentOS Stream of Consciousness http://centos.passthejoe.net/posts/2021_1110_centos_stream_updates/
This blog post on CentOS Stream briefly talks about torrents before it runs clear off the rails. http://centos.passthejoe.net/posts/2021_1107_centos_torrents/
My script that automatically runs CentOS Stream updates is now working ... I think. It's not ready for me to open-source just yet, but I will work on it. http://centos.passthejoe.net
TIL that Linux is OK with date --iso-8601, but only date -I works in FreeBSD.
CentOS Stream 8 Updates: November 5, 2021: This was supposed to be an automatic post, but I'm still shaking bugs out of the script. It's only a little ironic that my host runs FreeBSD. Maybe more than a little. http://centos.passthejoe.net/posts/2021_1105_centos_stream_updates/
I am writing a server-side blog-generating script, and since it's meant for a Linux/Unix server, I'm writing it in Bash, not Ruby.
Now that the CentOS Stream updates blog is on its own subdomain, the next steps are to decide if I'll put other CentOS content there (likely) and to automate the package-update posts. http://centos.passthejoe.net
The CentOS Stream updates site is now on its own subdirectory. It looks just like my other site b/c I'm lazy that way, but it is its own Hugo-generated blog. http://passthejoe.net/centos/
Very enlightening post on Async Ruby https://brunosutic.com/blog/async-ruby
The latest CentOS Stream 8 Updates: Oct. 29, 2021 http://passthejoe.net/posts/centos/2021_1029_centos_stream_updates/
A whole lot of @CentOS Stream 8 updates are waiting for you today
In an ideal world, my Twitter-style posts appear here. But the interactivity of Twitter means that this site is more "me." In many cases, that's OK.
The excellent bootable-USB-creator @fedora Media Writer is available for all Linuxes via Flathub https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.fedoraproject.MediaWriter
Karanbir Singh: Stepping down from the CentOS Board https://www.karan.org/posts/stepping-down/
I filed a new bug in Fedora EPEL: 2015259 – Neofetch now requires catimg, which isn't packaged for EPEL
@RedHat @fedora @CentOS @AlmaLinux @rocky_linux https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2015259
This @RedHat documentation is extremely helpful for @CentOS, @rocky_linux and @AlmaLinux users: Installing, managing, and removing user-space components Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/installing_managing_and_removing_user-space_components/index
Fedora Documentation — so good! @fedora https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/
gThumb, the best image viewer and editor on any platform, is now available in a Flatpak for Linux users. https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.gThumb
Debian and RHEL/CentOS are very different animals. While Debian is behind several MONTHS on Chromium, more due to dysfunction than anything else, Debian Stable is holding back on the new Firefox ESR, which has been in CentOS Stream for at least a week. That part is probably intentional.
What AlmaLinux Foundation Membership Means for You - AlmaLinux OS Blog https://almalinux.org/blog/what-almalinux-foundation-membership-means-for-you/
CERN looks at @AlmaLinux, @rocky_linux, @CentOS Stream and @RedHat Enterprise Linux and decides to go with Stream 8 https://indico.cern.ch/event/1070475/contributions/4511844/attachments/2309304/3929738/lfc03-20210915-NoNDA.pdf
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates include a notable upgrade: The Firefox ESR browser goes to 91.2.0.
Not a review of CentOS Stream 8 - Steven Rosenberg/passthejoe.net http://passthejoe.net/posts/2021_1006_not_a_centos_stream_review/
I installed the @vivaldibrowser on two systems — one @fedora, the other @Windows. I already had it on my @CentOS Stream 8 system. For me, sync is table stakes, and Chromium's removal of that integral feature closed the door on both it and Chrome. https://vivaldi.com
There are a whole lot of @CentOS Stream 8 updates waiting for you today or tomorrow
Chromium 93 migrated to @debian Testing today. It hit Unstable on Sept. 19. Still waiting for it to appear in Stable. FYI, last Stable update was 90.0.4430.212 on May 21. For those keeping track, Chromium 94 just came out (and is already in the Flatpak). https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium
I am starting to look at @ubuntu with new (and very favorable) eyes. The relative stability, lack of drama and overall polish are starting to look very, very good.
How to intervene when a manager is gaslighting their employees - Mita Mallick/Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2021/09/how-to-intervene-when-a-manager-is-gaslighting-their-employees
It's Windows 10 test week, and I am here to report that the Edge browser has made many performance improvements. If I were running Windows regularly, I would probably dump Chrome for it.
I upgraded my Windows laptop to Ruby 3.0.2. No drama. It works.
Jim Hall's Gibson ES-175 up close - Jazz Guitar Online https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/guitar-amps-gizmos/62192-jim-halls-gibson-es-175-up-close.html
I didn't know that Jekyll was dead, but Bridgetown's Jared White says his project is next step for Ruby static-site generators https://www.bridgetownrb.com/
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system:
- gdm
- gnome-shell
- llvm-libs
- strace
(plus I installed the updated mutter from a downloaded RPM a week or so ago)
All in all, a light updates day (for me anyway)
There are a lot of CentOS Stream 8 updates available today — including the Mutter fix for the recent regression that was crashing GNOME in Wayland.
Good-bye AdoptOpenJDK. Hello Adoptium! | AdoptOpenJDK Blog https://blog.adoptopenjdk.net/2021/08/goodbye-adoptopenjdk-hello-adoptium/
GitHub kisses passwords goodbye – Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/github-kisses-passwords-goodbye/
Today's updates on my @CentOS Stream 8 system:
- device-mapper-persistent-data
- glusterfs
- libcap
- osinfo-db
- selinux-policy
RHEL surprises me. Somehow, some way, Java 17, Ruby 3.0.2, MySQL 8 and Node 16.7 are now available in @CentOS Stream 8. All but Java are implemented as modules, so you need to tap into it that way. http://mirror.keystealth.org/centos/8-stream/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/?C=M;O=D
This is how CentOS Stream 8 works for packages that aren't the Linux kernel:
The version of mutter in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (and CentOS Linux 8.4) is 3.32.2-57.
The now-old version of mutter (which works) in Stream 8 is 3.32.2-58.
The new version of mutter (which crashes GNOME) in Stream 8 is 3.32.2-59.
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system:
- kernel 4.18.0-338.el8
- NetworkManager
- accountsservice
- bind-utils
- blivet-data
- bpftool
- cockpit
- curl
- dnf
- dracut
- ethtool
- exiv2
- fontconfig
- fstrm
- gdm
- glibc
- gnome-shell
- grilo
- grubby
- hwdata
- iproute
- iptables
- krb5-libs
- libX11
- lua
- mutter
- nmap
- nspr
- os-prober
- plymouth
- rpm
- selinux-policy
- systemd
- vdo
- yum
How do I get notification for new mail in all folders in Evolution? - Ask Ubuntu https://askubuntu.com/a/46583
I don't know if it's @CentOS Stream 8 or @vivaldibrowser, but things are running exceptionally well — and cool — today.
I kid, but @CentOS Stream 8 is SOLID AS A MF ROCK
Gthumb is my go-to photo-editing (yes, I said EDITING) app. I use it ALL THE TIME. It's available on most Linux systems. Thanks to @carlwgeorge for creating the EPEL package. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb
I don't think using Vim is like playing a musical instrument, but it is like operating a complex machine, or maybe playing an instrument at a lower level.
Tonight's CentOS Stream 8 updates for my system
- kernel 4.18.0-331.el8
- ModemManager
- NetworkManager
- bpftool
- curl
- device-mapper
- kmod-kvdo
- lvm2
- selinux-policy
- shadow-utils
- sos
I just saw Fedora Hyperkitty — where the project archives its mailing lists — for the first time. It's a VERY impressive interface. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/
.@AlmaLinux offers live media for GNOME, Xfce and KDE. It's a stunning (and needed) achievement for RHEL-based distros. https://www.reddit.com/r/AlmaLinux/comments/p3um25/almalinux_8_live_media_beta_now_with_kde_and_xfce/
So far, @debian Bullseye is strong on my mid-2011 iMac. In-place upgrade went off without a hitch.
And I thought CentOS 8 Stream confusion wasn't discussed on the CentOS Forum https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=77952
In some ways, @CentOS Stream 8 is ahead of RHEL when it comes to security updates. Notable in this bunch from 8/12/21 are exiv2 and firefox-esr, which were just announced today -- 8/16 -- for RHEL. http://updates.passthejoe.net/2021_0812_061005_today_s_centos_stream_8_updates_on_my_system
Tweeting with blogPoster from Debian 11 running Ruby 2.7.4
I am upgrading the 2011 iMac 27-inch from @debian Buster to Bullseye. So far, so good.
The official @Debian 11 Bullseye release announcement https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814
There's something very exciting about a new @debian release, even though I tested it months ago. The two-ish-year cadence seems to really work. https://micronews.debian.org/2021/1628980288.html
I got a bunch of very timely updates today in @CentOS Stream 8, including Firefox, so that's a plus. The murkiness of kernel updates is annoying, but I have to trust the @RedHat/CentOS developers to keep these systems secure.
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
- NetworkManager
- anaconda
- blivet-data
- cockpit
- device-mapper
- dnf
- dnsmasq
- dracut
- dyninst
- exiv2
- firefox
- firewalld
- gdb
- gnome-session
- gnome-shell
- iproute
- iscsi-initiator-utils
- A lot of iwl firmware
- kexec-tools
- lvm2
- lz4
- mcelog
- mdadm
- mobile-broadband-provider-info
- openldap
- poppler
- rsyslog
- sssd
- subscription-manager
- systemtap
- tpm2-tools
- yum
I did some significant work on the blogPoster microblog/Twitter/Mastodon posting app today. And all of that work is now in the Main branch. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
Atwater Village amp repairer and maker Colleen Fazio https://www.fazioelectric.com/about
Testing new code for Mastodon posting with the http Ruby gem
How L.A.'s indie bookstores survived the COVID pandemic - Dorany Pineda/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-06-16/indie-bookstores-in-la-say-theyre-out-of-the-red
How A Good Used Book's L.A. pop-ups survived COVID-19 - Max Bell/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-08-05/how-l-a-s-most-innovative-pop-up-bookstore-barely-survived-the-pandemic
The firefox-esr package is in MUCH better shape than chromium on Debian systems. It is up to date. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
There hasn't been a new Chromium package in any Debian version (stable, testing or unstable) since May 21. Not great. It's a security mess. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium
I will be returning Mastodon support to blogPoster. I will not be using the mastodon-api Ruby gem. Instead I will do the posting to Mastodon via the http gem. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster/
git rm - How can I delete a file from a Git repository? - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/a/2047477
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
- alsa-sof-firmware
- flatpak
- kmod-kvdo
- nfs-utils
- nvme-cli
- policycoreutils
- selinux-policy
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
- alsa-sof-firmware
- flatpak
- kmod-kvdo
- nfs-utils
- nvme-cli
- policycoreutils
- selinux-policy
Universities often omit any mention of the private companies that help run their online degrees, but these companies typically take a 60 percent cut of tuition, sometimes more. - HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/capitalist-takeover-college/
I tried Fedora's Toolbox utility today in CentOS Stream 8. I wasn't impressed, and it also isn't what I'm looking for. Maybe GNOME Boxes will be better.
While Revue is owned by Twitter, there's no integration of comments (even a Twitter feed) in their newsletters. Substack has comments baked in, and I've seen writers use them to solicit discussion.
The mastodon-api Ruby gem has had trouble for some time. It hasn't worked since Ruby 2.7.1 — at least a year. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-api/issues/49
I'm now developing blogPoster in Ruby 3.0.2 via rbenv. I upgraded the Twitter gem from 6.2.0 to 7.0.0, which means no Mastodon support. If the mastodon-api gem is ever updated, or I find another solution, I'll bring it back. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
- kernel 4.18.0-326.el8
- NetworkManager
- anaconda
- bpftool
- chkconfig
- device-mapper-multipath
- firefox
- gnome-calculator
- gtk3
- sos
- vdo
I am experimenting with rbenv. Right now I'm using Ruby 3.0.2 https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv
Could I use my iMac running Debian to get video off of a digital-tape camcorder? https://www.arsouyes.org/en/blog/2021/2021-07-05_Numerisation_DV
Updates to my CentOS Stream 8 system today (that notably don't include a new kernel EIGHT days after a major vulnerability was patched in RHEL):
- NetworkManager
- bash
- cockpit
- cups-filters
- dhcp-client
- glibc
- gnome-shell
- gsettings-desktop-schemas
- kexec-tools
- mdadm
- microcode_ctl
- sssd
- systemd
- tuned
- webkit2gtk3
Planning the CentOS 8 endgame - Jake Edge/LWN.net https://lwn.net/Articles/862832/
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
- anaconda
- authselect
- gcc
- gnome-shell
- java-11
- man-pages-overrides
- mutter
- openssl
- ostree
- rpm
- samba
- selinux-policy
- subscription-manager
- tigervnc
- util-linux
- xfsprogs
Chromium hasn't been updated for Debian Stable since May https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium
I'm not sure exactly what @vivaldibrowser has done in the past couple of months or so, but I can tell you that it is DEFINITELY ready for prime-time on Linux.
Wanted: More scientists of color for better science - Axios https://www.axios.com/hard-truths-deep-dive-science-race-underrepresentation-scientists-083e0441-a58c-4c47-bf9b-4045aa7589d7.html
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
- NetworkManager
- autoconf
- binutils
- blivet-data
- cockpit
- coreutils
- device-mapper-multipath
- firefox
- glib2
- gnome-shell
- gnome-software
- ibus
- java 1.8.0
- java 11
- kpartx
- man-pages-overrides
- nettle
- nss
- openjpeg2
- parted
- rsyslog
- tuned
- valgrind
- vulcan-loader
- webkit2gtk3
My current setup remains CentOS Stream 8 on the HP Envy laptop. My work browser is Vivaldi, my not-work browser is Firefox. http://centos.org
blogPoster now has a Twitter-only branch in GitHub. Unfortunately that seems to be the direction in which things are heading. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
blogPoster update: Ruby 3.0 is working for Twitter in Windows, but in Linux it'sno-go for the entire app in Ruby 3.0. I thought I could disable Mastodon posting and have it work, but no. Another problem: My Fedora laptop's keyboard is dying again, making testing difficult. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it? - Joshua Benton/Nieman Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/07/usa-today-is-getting-a-paywall-whos-the-audience-for-it/
How does the twitter 7.0.0 Ruby gem play with Ruby 3.0? I'm about to find out.
This is my blogPoster app with an updated Twitter gem and NO mastodon-api gem. Let's see how it works.
Twitter sends me a LOT of ads for video games. Do they know I have zero interest?
I need to set up my blogPoster app with the newer version of the Twitter gem and no mastodon-api gem. If that solves the issues with Ruby >= 2.7, I might leave the unmaintained mastodon-api on the side of the road and make the app Twitter only. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
I read a book. It was "The Big Sleep," by Raymond Chandler. I had never read it before, though I have seen the movie.
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
NetworkManager anaconda centos-backgrounds centos-logos glib2 glibc java 1.8.0 nettle nss selinux-policy sssd vino xorg-x11-server-Xwayland
This site has an archive page. Every post appears via one giant HTML file that I generate on the server. There's a little Javascript that tells you it's the archive page in the right rail. http://updates.passthejoe.net/archive.html
I wasn't in CentOS Stream 8 for a week, and I had quite a few updates waiting for me. RHEL/CentOS is a LOT more dynamic that you'd think. I've seen little bugs get fixed here and there. It's a lot more active than Debian Stable.
I need to run curl with NO output, and I used the --silent switch to do it. You can also use -s, but I like --silent because it tells me what it does.
The mastodon-api Ruby gem has had issues since Ruby 2.7.1 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon-api/issues/49
Now that I'm running Windows 10 without performance-crushing updates looming, it's a fairly pleasant experience. Solve the update problems, @microsoft.
Leo Garcia's Six String Journal is a very strong and informative classical guitar site https://sixstringjournal.com
I read two interviews in one day with musicians who said learning a piece by playing it 100 times all the way through isn't as good as perfecting one section, then another.
You can learn by doing and do by learning
Once you get past the updates and let things "settle" for a day or so, Windows 10 can be a pleasant, productive environment.
Windows 10 works a whole lot better when the mass of backed-up updates is 10 or 20 hours BEHIND you. It takes the OS a lot of time to stop doing whatever it does in the background and offer decent performance. When I reboot, how long before it 'settles' again?
My ruby app lives (and now dies) by its aging gems
It took me days to get my Windows 10 system updated and usable. This shouldn't have to happen. I had an endless loop of failed updates, finally got them started, and it took MANY DAYS to get them all through. The system is half-usable at best when this is happening.
Guitarist Andrea González Caballero plays Isaac Albéniz's "Sevilla" from Suite Española Op. 47. Great playing. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13WsK1xuCWA
Ricardo Viñes plays Albéniz's "Granada" (Serenata) Op. 47 No. 1. The pianist is said to have been the composer's favorite interpreter - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nSMCT8DkZ0
I figured out my cron issue on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. It was the classic "don't forget to CD to your working directory" issue.
We ran out of things to watch and started @nbcthegoodplace on @netflix. Would recommend. I avoided it for years, thinking it was like "Touched By An Angel" (no offense). It is not. First season is GOLDEN.
When the local paper shrank, these journalists started an alternative - Katharine Q. Seeyle/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/business/media/when-the-local-paper-shrank-these-journalists-started-an-alternative.html
I'm still trying to figure out the cron jobs, aka "scheduled tasks" on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I keep changing directories, and they won't run. Looking at the support forum, I am now adding a line to CD into the proper directory. That's a good tip. Will report back.
I did write a script to make an HTML archive of this entire microblog once a day, but I'm still messing around with NearlyFreeSpeech cron
The script that creates the microblogging archive should be a cron job running daily so it's set it and forget it.
I need to write a small script that offers a static HTML page that contains this entire microblogging site. It's very much doable. It's possible to render it in Perl in a few seconds, but it'll be much faster as a static file.
I need to work on migrating this microblog to a static site generator. Probably Hugo.
Thank you, @redhat developers, for fixing this bug in CentOS Stream: 1967125 – SELinux is preventing libcap-ng from 'getattr' accesses on the filesystem /proc. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967125
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates for my system
- NetworkManager
- alsa-utils
- anaconda
- binutils
- bluez
- ca-certificates
- cldr-emoji-annotation
- cockpit
- coreutils
- gcc
- cpp
- cups-filters
- dnf-plugin-subscription-manager
- firewalld
- gnome-session
- gnome-shell-extension
- graphviz
- gupnp
- iscsi-initiator-utils
- java-11
- kmod-kvdo
- krb5-libs
- openjpeg2
- openldap
- pango
- samba
- selinux-policy
- selinux-policy-targeted
- sssd
- subscription-manager
- systemd
- valgrind
- xorg
I am hoping that Flatseal will solve all my Flatpak permissions issues https://github.com/tchx84/flatseal
Company I've never heard of acquires Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosus-acquires-stack-overflow/
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
- kernel 4.18.0-310.el8
- alsa-utils
- autoconf
- bluez
- bpftool
- device-mapper
- dwz
- elfutils
- filesystem
- firefox
- hostname
- kmod
- lvm2
- openssh
- pango
- pcre
- qemu-kvm
- virt-what
- xorg
CentOS/RHEL never had the number of desktop packages that Debian and Fedora have. There are so many gaps. I will either figure out packaging and make what I want, or go back to where I came from. http://centos.org
How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project | Radon/Intuitive Explanations https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
My Windows system would NOT update, so I turned to this thing called Windows 10 Update Assistant. It worked, but the whole thing emphasizes how Windows is NOT easier to maintain than other OSes. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-10-update-assistant-3550dfb2-a015-7765-12ea-fba2ac36fb3f
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system
- kernel 4.18.0.305.3.1.el8
- bpftool
- ethtool
- glib2
- microcode_ctl
- ncurses
- openssl
- polkit
- realmd
- rpm
- sssd
- tuned
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates to my system
- Kernel 4.18.0-305.0.1
- NetworkManager
- Bash
- Bind
- Bluez
- bpftool
- CentOS backgrounds
- CentOS logos
- cockpit
- gcc
- GNOME Software
- Google noto emoji fonts
- lz4
- open-vm-tools
- Ruby 2.5.9
- Systemtap
I have been running CentOS Stream 8 for maybe a couple of months on the desktop at this point, and it is a solid OS. Once you figure out where/how to get your apps (for me it's Copr, EPEL and Flatpak), the whole experience is smooth and uneventful. I did most of a semester's C++ homework (with Geany) and a whole lot of news writing/editing/production.
I'm using the following Flatpaks in CentOS Stream 8
- Dropbox
- PDF Arranger
- Foliate
- PDF Slicer
- Spotify
- Chromium
- GIMP
- Gnote
- GNOME Clocks
- Adwaita
- Zoom
I'm at that point in my final CS program for the semester where I don't quite understand what's happening, but it's compiling, so I'm going with it.
This is that time of the semester when I finally solve the big mystery in my final CS assignment for Intermediate Programming in C++. This time it's manipulating data in structs via pointers. Once I figured out that I needed to make the data types match up, it all came together. I left myself PLENTY of time for this one. It took me about a week and a half to do the main() and four functions. I have three more functions — and a week and a half — to go.
The anxiety of influencers - Barrett Swanson/Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/tiktok-house-collab-house-the-anxiety-of-influencers/
Huge CentOS Stream 8 update today
- Linux kernel
- NetworkManager
- bpftool
- centos-backgrounds
- centos-logos
- coreutils
- cups
- dbus
- device-mapper-multipath
- evolution
- file
- gdm
- glib2
- hdparm
- hostname
- json-c
- mdadm
- ostree
- pam
- python 2 and 3
- selinux-policy
- shadow-utils
- sos
- sqlite
- tigervnc
- unzip
- vdo
- which
- Other libraries and utilities (104 total packages on my system)
Influencer burnout is real - Rebecca Jennings/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/5/25/22451987/influencer-burnout-tiktok-clubhouse
I just discovered @ecoustics, and so far it is awesome https://www.ecoustics.com/
Dreaming of Jazz Kissa in a post-COVID world: Exit to Vintage Street - Eric Pye/ecoustics.com https://www.ecoustics.com/articles/jazz-kissa-post-covid/
How to set up a new Windows 10 PC perfectly in one hour or less | Ed Bott/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-set-up-a-new-windows-10-pc-perfectly-in-one-hour-or-less/
Due to issues with the ownership of Freenode, developers have quit and formed their own project and network https://libera.chat/
Quiet continues for CentOS Stream 8. No updates again today.
Why podcasting is free with Anchor https://blog.anchor.fm/updates/why-podcasting-is-free-with-anchor
I know it's a Spotify podcast content farm, but does Anchor make sense for poscasters? https://anchor.fm/
Spotify's Anchor makes podcasting free and (ostensibly) easy. Is it worth it to go this route? https://anchor.fm/
Another few days with no updates in the quiet CentOS Stream 8 Linux distribution. As I always say, this is how it is supposed to be. We'll see what this week brings. http://centos.org
Donald Trump has a blog that's also a micro blog. It's not a 60-million-follower Twitter feed, but it does the same thing, and he owns and controls the whole damn thing. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk
The @CentOS community is as friendly and knowledgeable as the @Fedora community, and that is a huge plus for picking up either Linux distro. Everybody wants to help.
Every time I have a CS assignment, I think it's impossible and will take me 100s of hours to figure out. I think I'll never be able to do it. Eventually I do "crack the code," you might say. On this last one, I didn't do everything, but everything I did do is done well.
Now is also the time when I mention that I've been running CentOS Stream 8 for maybe a month, and I'm doing all my day-job editing (news stories, photos) and CS homework (C++) with it.
Now is the time in the semester where I say that my CS teachers tell us to use MS Visual Studio, but I do everything with Geany in Linux. A .cpp file tells no tales.
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates
- qt5
- cups
- dracut
- exiv2
- fwupd
- gcc
- glib2
- iproute
- python2
- quota
- sos
- subscription-manager
It's been a quiet few days for CentOS Stream 8 updates. I still need to do my review. http://centos.org
One of the best things so far about CentOS Stream is that I am not a RHEL customer, but I was able to file a bug in Red Hat Bugzilla and then see it resolved. It's like what happens in Fedora, but in CentOS (and near-future RHEL). http://centos.org
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates:
- LibRaw
- NetworkManager
- evolution-data-server
- exiv2
- file
- glib2
- gnome-online-accounts
- java-11
- openssh
- python36
- udisks2
plus a few more
BIG CentOS Stream 8 update today:
- anaconda
- cockpit
- exiv2
- file-roller
- firefox
- glibc
- java
- openssh
- qt5
It has been many days since the last CentOS Stream 8 update. This is how it is supposed to be.
Java for everything - Lawrence Kesteloot https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html
Slackware, which hasn't had a release for nearly a decade, is making a big comeback - Mayank Sharma/TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/news/this-long-lost-linux-distro-is-making-a-big-comeback
This is now the Internet Archive digitizes 78 RPM records https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1386423512810721284
Farming robot kills 100,000 weeds per hour with lasers - Kristin Houser/Freethink https://www.freethink.com/articles/farming-robot
It's been a quiet couple of days for CentOS Stream 8 updates. That's how it's supposed to be.
Why the new Macs are so short of memory - Barry Collins/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/11/11/why-the-new-macs-are-so-short-of-memory/
The CentOS Stream 8 Boot ISO installer is kind of broken. This should be a four-alarm emergency, am I right? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1946347
I wanted to switch Java versions from 8 to 11 in CentOS Stream 8, and this Red Hat tutorial showed how easy it is. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/12/10/install-java-rhel8/
Today's CentOS Stream 8 update: Java
Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates are binutils, file, libxcrypt and pcre
My Mahavishnu Orchestra obsession continues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD36-Zn2bA4
I'm in a heavy Mahavishnu Orchestra phase
Moog, a History in Recordings: In Celebration of the Minimoog - The Bob Moog Foundation https://moogfoundation.org/thom-holmes/
The CentOS Stream 8 installer is kind of broken, and I started a bug on it https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1946347
Today's CentOS Stream 8 update: glibc
A 'big' CentOS Stream 8 update came through tonight: new kernel, Java and a smattering of other packages.
Free RHEL is also RHEL - Rich Lucente and Micael Epley/Breaking Defense https://breakingdefense.com/2021/04/free-rhel-is-also-rhel/
COSMIC desktop to arrive in June release of Pop!_OS 21.04 - System76 Blog https://blog.system76.com/post/648371526931038208/cosmic-to-arrive-in-june-release-of-popos-2104
I am starting a new blog entry: The 2021 Linux laptop rebuild. It is a work in progress. http://passthejoe.net/posts/2021_0411_linux_laptop_rebuild/
With my move to CentOS Stream 8, I reinstalled Hugo and needed to update my old theme. Instead I just tried a new one. http://passthejoe.net/
It's not like I have issues with any Linux distribution on my 2017 HP laptop, but CentOS Stream 8 is exceptionally solid. Sound, suspend/resume, printing (with HPLIP), display, power management. It all works. The update pace is Debian Stable-slow.
It's ok to take a walk without headphones | RadReads https://radreads.co/telic/
After a week with CentOS Stream 8 as my laptop's OS, I can say that it is very solid. To install at this point, get a big USB flash drive and download the huge 10 GB DVD image.
The worst thing about Twitter is you can't go back in your feed. It only collects what has been posted since you began visiting the web site. If I wait 12 hours between visits, I can't see tweets 2, 6 or 10 hours old. Only 0 hours and 12 hours.
Free software's No. 1 mission should be increasing the number of women and under-represented groups (i.e. non-whites) using and developing software and otherwise contributing to projects.
So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists - Colum McCann/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/13/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer-colum-mccanns-tips-for-young-novelists
Review of 'Those Who Can, Teach' by Andria Zafirakou – a lesson in education - Lamorna Ash/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/02/those-who-can-teach-by-andria-zafirakou-review-a-lesson-in-education
'It was her story': Riad Sattouf on the real girl behind his Esther comics - Kim Willsher/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/01/riad-sattouf-the-real-girl-who-narrates-his-esther-comics-esthers-notebooks
An ActivityPub WordPress plugin – Larry Sanger https://larrysanger.org/2021/01/an-activitypub-wordpress-plugin/
Why communities use Slack better than companies 💬 - Luca Rossi/Refactoring https://refactoring.fm/p/why-communities-use-slack-better
I filed my first CentOS bug: 0018142: CentOS Stream 8 Boot ISO doesn't provide or otherwise offer mirrors for installation - CentOS Bug Tracker https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=18142
I am loving the ability to customize @vivaldibrowser by jiggling so many handles in the settings.
I'm sure that @vivaldibrowser has many arrangements that involve advertising and product placement with @Microsoft, @Amazon and even @Google, but the extent of the Google spying HAS to be much less. The fact that I'd rather be spied on by Microsoft should tell you something.
I am leaning hard into @vivaldibrowser for a Chrome base that doesn't phone home to the Google mothership. I don't know if the Chromium ban on using Google sync services ever really happened, but now I don't have to care.
The digital news industry was built on lies - Josh Marshall/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/digital-news-industry-was-built-lies/618490/
Why does Discord not use ads? The questions we asked Discord's CEO - Bobby Allyn/NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/983159051/why-does-discord-not-use-ads-and-why-is-microsoft-interested-we-asked-discords-c
April Fool's online pranks just make me tired and aren't terribly witty either
This is how I got the day of the week to appear in the GNOME top panel in CentOS Stream 8. (Also, this will be in Tweak Tool in the next release) - Tip from Vivek/Technastic https://technastic.com/show-complete-date-time-in-ubuntu-gnome-top-panel/
This is my third day working in @CentOSProject Stream 8, and it is like @debian in that it is very stable and very boring — in a good way.
I generated an ed25519 ssh key for this new CentOS Stream 8 system, and I just found out that I needed two Ruby gems — ed25519 and bcrypt_pbkdf — to make it work with net-ssh.
Interview with Marko Saric of website analytics company Plausible Analytics | In the Good https://inthegood.co/taking-on-google/
Plausible Analytics: Simple, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics https://plausible.io/
If you're running @debian Bullseye (Testing), the login manager now displays "Debian 11."
Google Maps' moat is evaporating - A Closer Look with Joe Morrison https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/google-maps-moat-is-evaporating
If you need to copy/paste pieces of URLs in @vivaldibrowser (and I seemingly need to do this all the time), go to Settings -- Address Bar and click "Show Full Address" to keep your cursor from jumping around when trying to grab out of the bar.
Kevin Roose's 'Futureproof' offers rules to thrive in the age of automation - Dave Davies/NPR (The answer isn't to learn computer science or make your life super efficient). https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977769873/the-age-of-automation-is-now-heres-how-to-futureproof-yourself
The fact that I was able to do work with @vivaldibrowser pretty much immediately says a lot. The browser offered to import my @firefox bookmarks but not Chromium's. That's OK. I got my company's Chrome extension to work, and that was key.
I installed the Vivaldi Browser https://vivaldi.com
Nyxt: A keyboard-based web browser fully configurable in Lisp. https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
The world is stuck with decades of new plastic it can't recycle - Zoë Schlanger https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-world-is-stuck-with-decades-of-new-plastic-it-can-t-recycle
Growing up with Steve Miller - Max Marshall/Texas Monthly https://getpocket.com/explore/item/growing-up-with-steve-miller
How Fanta was created for Nazi Germany - Matthew Blitz/Atlas Obscura https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-fanta-was-created-for-nazi-germany
I finished my C++ assignment.
I learned how to:
- Reference arrays and variables in functions
- Compare and manipulate array elements in loops (This was the purpose of the assignment)
- Get user input of a date with with getline
- Convert strings to ints with stoi
When your parents die - Dave Winer/Scripting News: A very poignant look at what's important in life. Dave is very good at telling these kinds of stories. I appreciate him doing it. http://scripting.com/2021/03/17/155004.html?title=whenYourParentsDie
Here's why Substack's scam worked so well - Annalee Newitz/The Hypothesis https://thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-substacks-scam-worked-so
Charles Ives loved music ... and life insurance. Really. It means you can do two things in life and have it really work out. - Arthur C. Brooks/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/03/having-dual-career-can-make-you-happier/618311/
I enjoy writing the programs in my computer science classes at @LAValleyCollege. I say that now while I'm maybe a third of the way through.
Samsung 970 EVO vs EVO Plus vs PRO: Which is best for you? https://premiumbuilds.com/storage/ssd/samsung-970-evo-vs-970-evo-plus-vs-970-pro/
Interesting take on AWS Lightsail vs. Digital Ocean Droplets: Should I pick DigitalOcean or AWS for my next project? - Corey Quinn/Last Week in AWS https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/should-i-pick-digitalocean-or-aws-for-my-next-project/
How Trader Joe's Two Buck Chuck revolutionized the wine industry - Zachary Crockett/The Hustle https://thehustle.co/how-two-buck-chuck-changed-the-wine-industry
The story of Willie Nelson's guitar, Trigger - Michael Hall/Texas Monthly https://getpocket.com/explore/item/trigger
As of March 16, 2021, @google sync is still working on the Chromium browser in @debian
Debian's apt full-upgrade removes old kernels I no longer need. It's a nice feature. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations_with_the_commandline
How to have Your Own Website for a Year https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/raspberry-pi-website.html
I am fascinated by this website. It's great to find these hidden gems. https://cheapskatesguide.org/
The Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and the Internet https://cheapskatesguide.org/
What to Expect from Old Windows PC's https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/end-of-life.html
BabbleWeb : A Free Website Visitors Comment Script https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/babbleweb.html/
The Photoshop from Adobe CS2 installs in Linux via Wine. It ran OK once but wouldn't run after that despite reinstalls and reboots. It's not a tragedy because my Linux photo workflow is totally worked out. It's in Windows where I have a problem.
The Photoshop from this Adobe Creative Suite 2 ESR download from Archive.org works on Windows 10 https://archive.org/details/Adobe-CS2
From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days - Aaron Bieber https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-fourteen-days.html
How I earn a living selling my open source software - Nemiah https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-earn-a-living-selling-my-open-source-software-476f6bb07e
What is the U.S. Senate filibuster and why is everyone talking about it? - Susan Cornwell/Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-filibuster-explainer-idUSKBN2B22HK
The HEY email service allows paid users to blog by sending emails. That's a very compelling feature. https://hey.com/world/
Today's updates to @debian Bullseye/Testing solved my sound issue. New kernel and firmware. Now when I unplug headphones, sound automatically switches to laptop speakers. As Bullseye inches toward its Stable release, things keep getting better.
I did a @Fedora 33 test today. I could definitely see myself returning. All the positives of community that might come to @centosproject are already there in Fedora, and the projects will be close no matter what. https://getfedora.org/
Hot take: The @Raspberry_Pi 400 is a down payment on an official Raspberry Pi laptop. https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/
From the Archives: 1938 storms change Los Angeles River - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-1938-storms-change-los-angeles-river-20180116-htmlstory.html
How to practice: I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death | Ann Patchett/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/08/how-to-practice
The jazz pianist using a computer program to perform with other musicians in quarantine - Fred Kaplan/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-jazz-pianist-using-a-computer-program-to-play-with-other-musicians-in-quarantine
Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing - Wall Street Journal via Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328428
I didn't know how "far along" my Debian writing project was. I guessed I had 10k words across 7 or 8 text files. I used the wc utility to count the words, and I only have 2,800. That's good for 10 pages.
I was using the 1980s "Unix for Luddites" to play around with nroff and troff, which come from the groff-base package in Debian. But to get "full" functionality, you need to add the groff package, which brings the -me and ms macros onto the system. https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/groff
Now that I opened my long-sealed boxes from the now-closed @ladailynews office (we are working remote), I have my copy of Unix for Luddites and will be writing about my first experiences with Unix and how it led me to where I am today.
The Art of PostgreSQL: a modern PostgreSQL book in 2020 https://theartofpostgresql.com/
Do You Write Code With Your Mouse? A book to use more of the keyboard, less of the mouse. - Matthieu Cneude https://themouseless.dev/
I looked into my Unix past and used nroff to format a short letter. I even defined the .PP macro with info from the 1980s troff manual.
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager in X11 https://swaywm.org/
A Vim guide for advanced users - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-advanced/
A Vim guide for intermediate users - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-intermediate/
Is Vim really not for you? A beginner guide - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-beginner/
My website bio now has descriptions and links to the writing projects I'm working on with hosted Git sites http://passthejoe.net/about/
I am looking into floccus browser bookmarks sync even if Google decides not to bar Chromium browsers from the Chrome sync service https://floccus.org/
Look at this Community Update from @rocky_linux. They are doing it right. This will be a much stronger project than @CentOSProject in terms of governance, community involvement and transparency. All good! https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-february-2021/1934
How Garfield helped me make peace with a culture in decline - Dan Brooks/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/magazine/garfield-twitter.html
I updated the archive links on the right column on Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts http://updates.passthejoe.net/
I very much like writing for Twitter and Mastodon in my own app because I can use the text editor of my choice, write once and post to both microblogging services as well as my own microblog. http://updates.passthejoe.net/
While I'm very much interested in @rocky_linux and @CentosProject Stream, it's hard to see me leaving @Debian. I also could see myself running @Ubuntu, which I haven't done in a long time. https://thenewstack.io/centos-creator-gregory-kurtzer-discusses-his-new-distro-rocky-linux/
I'm on the lookout for PulseAudio 14.2 to make its way into @Debian Bullseye/Testing. It entered Unstable on 1/19/2021. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pulseaudio
A new Chromium browser just made its way into @Debian Buster/Stable and Bullseye/Testing. It's a good sign for the package being maintained going forward. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium
PulseAudio 14.1 is in Debian Testing, 14.2 in Unstable. Hopefully 14.2 will make it into Bullseye to fix my headphones-to-speakers issue. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pulseaudio
This problem with PulseAudio 14.1 not auto-switching from headphones to speakers is also affecting Debian Bullseye/Testing https://forum.manjaro.org/t/pulseaudio-doesnt-switch-to-speakers-when-headphones-unplugged-after-recent-update/49073/6
Inside the secretly lucrative world of solo piano music - Elias Leight/Rolling Stone https://getpocket.com/explore/item/inside-the-secretly-lucrative-world-of-solo-piano-music
Why are there 5,280 feet in a mile? - Ethan Trex https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-are-there-5-280-feet-in-a-mile
The Block Plan at @coloradocollege is a true innovation that I'd never heard of before. Very interesting. https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/blockplan/
Before I could play around with the command line shell for SQLite, I had to install the sqlite3 package in Debian https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html
CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome - Phil Dibowitz — a very persuasive take on why you shouldn't reject what @redhat is doing with @centosproject out of hand. https://jaymzh.medium.com/centos-stream-why-its-awesome-5c45d944fb22
Michael Romero's Beautiful Hugo theme for the @gohugoio static site generator https://github.com/halogenica/beautifulhugo
.@popey uses the Beautiful Hugo theme for his @gohugoio blog https://popey.com/blog/
Living in New York’s unloved neighborhood - Rivka Galchen/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/living-in-new-yorks-unloved-neighborhood
reuixiy's Hugo theme MemE: You can’t spell aWEsoME without MEME! 😝 https://github.com/reuixiy/hugo-theme-meme
I love the Hugo theme MemE that Daulton uses for Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/
My OpenBSD workstation configuration 2018 - Daulton/Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/2018/08/openbsd-workstation/
OpenBSD beginner essentials - Daulton/Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/2018/08/openbsd-essentials/
Syncthing server setup on OpenBSD - Daulton/Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/2020/09/openbsd-syncthing-server/
My OpenBSD desktop experience - Daulton/Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/2018/10/my-openbsd-desktop-experience/
OpenBSD on a laptop - Cullum Smith https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/
Bring old hardware back to life with OpenBSD - Jonathan Garrido/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/10/old-hardware-openbsd
BareGUI for OpenBSD - shep/DaemonForums http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=11178
Installing OpenBSD 6.8 with disk encryption (+ FVWM ricing) - Cristian Henrique https://medium.com/@crhenr/installing-openbsd-6-7-with-disk-encryption-fvwm-ricing-b6fb7e2073e6
LiveCD with OpenBSD - Get a fully featured OpenBSD desktop environment without installing - Gayatri Hitech http://livecd-openbsd.sourceforge.net/
OpenBSD 6.8 lite desktop on an old Thinkpad X60 - Keith Burnett https://www.k58.uk/openbsd.html
FreeBSD on the Desktop ‒ paedubucher.ch https://paedubucher.ch/articles/2020-08-11-freebsd-on-the-desktop.html
OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part II) ‒ paedubucher.ch https://paedubucher.ch/articles/2020-09-12-openbsd-on-the-desktop-part-ii.html
OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I) ‒ paedubucher.ch https://paedubucher.ch/articles/2020-09-05-openbsd-on-the-desktop-part-i.html
Installing OpenBSD 6.7 on your laptop is really hard (not) https://sohcahtoa.org.uk/openbsd.html
mintBSD | OpenBSD desktop configuration https://www.mintbsd.com/
5 reasons the D programming language is a great choice for development - by @aberbamx for @opensourceway https://opensource.com/article/17/5/d-open-source-software-development
The feature that makes D my favorite programming language - by @aberbamx for @opensourceway https://opensource.com/article/20/7/d-programming
Why I use the D programming language for scripting - Lawrence Aberba for @opensourceway https://opensource.com/article/21/1/d-scripting
The @opensourceway newsletter and website are very, very good. The great tips keep on coming. https://opensource.com/
After a long AF wait, the Chromium web browser is back in @Debian testing. I will now say goodbye to the Flatpak and its login/cookie issues. https://tracker.debian.org/news/1229895/chromium-8804324146-1-migrated-to-testing/
Something tells me Chromium is returning soon to Debian Testing/Bullseye https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium
Debian Bullseye ships with Python 3 by default and not Python 2. Also, you'll need to use the python3 command because the /usr/bin/python symlink is deprecated, though you can restore it with the python-is-python3 package. Python2 is still available. https://wiki.debian.org/Python
In Debian Bullseye, GNOME Software handles updates for Flatpak applications. This was broken in Buster (or at least was in my installation). It's one of many nice upgrades in Debian's current Testing branch.
Every time I install Debian, I forget to check the printer box and then wonder why I can't print. Then I install cups and everything works.
The Mediocre Programmer - Craig Maloney http://themediocreprogrammer.com/what-is-the-mediocre-programmer.html#what-is-the-mediocre-programmer
Sonic Pi: Code. Music. Live. https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
The Document Foundation makes a classic mistake: Instead of telling enterprises what's in it for them if they pay for enterprise @libreoffice, they lead with how not doing that affects @tdforg. It's no way to make a sale, either for real $$$ or the other kind of buy-in. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoffice-7-1-community/
GThumb is my go-to photo-editing app. It handles embedded captions in JPG better than most apps, which isn't hard b/c GIMP is seriously lacking in this capability. You can start in GThumb and bring in GIMP or any other program to do further edits. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb
I only upgrade Vim in Windows every few years or so, and honestly, it's a pain in the ass. First I had to keep the installer from deleting my _vimrc, then I had to remember that I needed to change my path. Yeah, this is easier than NEVER NEEDING TO DO THIS in Linux.
I installed the Flatpak of Chromium in Debian Bullseye because there is no deb-packaged version available now (and maybe never). Yes, I do understand that Debian Testing is not ready for prime time. 1/
I couldn't take it any more. I installed the Chromium Flatpak in Debian Buster. My bookmarks synced. My "need Chrome" shift is coming up. I'm not sure if Chromium will ever come into Buster via a package in the Debian repo.
.@CentOSProject Stream 9 will launch in Q2 2021, says this FAQ. When is that in human months? https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates
One of the things I really like about RHEL/@CentOSProject is the ability to choose from 3 different versions of various applications. It's a nice feature (and great for developers).
.@debian is conservative, and so is RHEL/@CentOSProject, even in the form of Stream. For the kinds of uses I have, Stream could really work.
I used ffmpeg on the command line to convert an API video to MP4 so I could upload to Twitter. Very easy — anybody can do it. (I Googled.)
One thing I'd like to see either from @CentOSProject Stream or @rocky_linux: A live image. @Fedora does it, and so should the "enterprise" distros.
The bridge on an acoustic guitar (flattop or classical) is a strange animal. Wht's keeping it stuck down despite the pull of the strings? Glue. Crazy (not the glue, the situation).
Nonfree images get a little bit of visibility on the "Getting Debian" page, albeit at the bottom. Better than nothing. https://www.debian.org/distrib/
The debian-devel mailing list has been burning up with posts on Debian being unfriendly for "hiding" nonfree firmware. While I prefer STARTING with nonfree (and use those images to install), Debian has always been a better second distro than a first for new Linux users. https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
This 2017 HP laptop ran great under Debian Buster and even better with Bullseye. Firefox is easier on resources that Chromium (which Debian was having trouble with BEFORE all this sync drama). https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware
Podcasts & capital: Thoughts on the podcast industry in 2021 - Justin Jackson https://justinjackson.ca/podcasts-and-capital
I know that @robinhood is supposed to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Not so much for @RobinhoodApp.
The Billy Lester story: The great reclusive jazz pianist - NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961290410/lost-and-found-in-yonkers-the-billy-lester-story
I made a combo photo (two mugs as a horizontal) with @GIMP_Official. It's like my geeky bar mitzvah.
When to use (and not to use) SQLite https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
10 uses for WordPress beyond blogging - Samantha Rodriguez/WP Engine https://wpengine.com/resources/extend-wordpress-beyond-blogging/
I love reading 1980s computer magazines, and so should you - Samuel Arbesman/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/i-love-reading-1980s-computer-magazines-and-so-should-you/
Scott Henderson recommend Billy Cobham's "Spectrum" album from 1973 on the @GuitarWank podcast. So great. Everybody is burning. It's a jazz fusion album that KILLS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_(Billy_Cobham_album)
Twitter acquires Revue, which bills itself as "an editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers." Upon first look, it's not terrible, and Substack has a problem. https://www.getrevue.co/
The now-Twitter-owned paid-newsletter offering Revue charges a 5% fee, but Substack charges a still-lowish 10% and has a whole lot of momentum. If it were 30% vs. 5%, we'd have a conversation. Revue has to be technically solid to win this one. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/making-twitter-a-better-home-for-writers.html
Twitter takes aim at Substack with acquisition of Revue, a paid-newsletter company where fee is a rock-bottom 5% https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/making-twitter-a-better-home-for-writers.html
Repl.it is awesome. Why every CS classes that can use @replit doesn't, I don't know. https://repl.it
I love the Fuji apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_(apple)
I took a computer science class last semester and will be taking another one this semester. That is the update.
The new Hugo in Debian Bullseye doesn't work with my old theme. I'm too lazy to upgrade the theme, so I found the old Debian Buster package for Hugo, extracted the executable and stashed it in my Hugo directory. I'll figure things out later. But now the blog lives.
I'm not opposed to nonfree firmware in Debian, but I removed it, and my laptop still runs fine - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2021_0123_debian_firmware_debate/
One thing I gained in Debian Bullseye over Buster: Scanning to a recent HP all-in-one works out of the box. No HPLIP needed.
It would be surprising if Debian Testing were more stable than Debian Stable, and it is not. My in-place upgrade did not work. I did a reinstall. Things are working very well, but not well enough to do the same on my desktop, which will stick with Buster.
Debian Security team member worries Chromium has so many issues that it will be too difficult to maintain in Bullseye without more people involved. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972134#83
Great LWN article on a Debian mailing list debate over the installer, firmware and free (as in Freedom). Most Debian users — myself included — have run into this problem. I THOUGHT I documented my last fix (but who can remember?). https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/843172/21340b641eaa0f62/
Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at - Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale/
It looks like Google really aims to keep Chromium users on Linux from using the Google API to log in for Google Sync https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-packagers/c/SG6jnsP4pWM/m/Y73W4CecCQAJ?pli=1
I didn't know about Ubuntu Core, and now I do https://ubuntu.com/core
Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production workloads and development teams Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-introduces-free-rhel-for-small-production-workloads-development-teams/
You can get this free Adobe Creative Suite 2 from the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/Adobe-CS2
In a thread about hating on Adobe, everyone is mentioning Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, which cost each. One time. No subscription fee. For Mac, Windows and iPad. https://affinity.serif.com
Decluttering low-Earth orbit - It’s time to tidy up space - The Economist https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/01/14/its-time-to-tidy-up-space
I don't know if it's something in Debian Bullseye, or the fact that I'm using Firefox instead of Chromium but my laptop is running MUCH cooler than with Debian Buster. (And MUCH MUCH MUCH cooler than Windows 10, but you knew that already.)
Opinion: Has Trump's reckoning come too late? - Michelle Goldberg/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/opinion/trump-second-impeachment.html
Developer blog platform Hashnode wins funding from Twitter backer - David Prosser/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidprosser/2020/12/15/developer-blog-platform-hashnode-wins-funding-from-twitter-backer
Hashnode is a free blogging service aimed at developers that also offers free domain mapping. So what is the catch? They are certainly raising money. https://hashnode.com/
So far I'm very much enjoying @debian Bullseye. It's very smooth, and everything works. Going from @gnome 3.30 to 3.38 is a nice jump.
GitLab CEO may take company public - Ari Levy/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/gitlab-ceo-eyes-public-market-after-secondary-valued-it-at-6-billion-.html
There's a pristine GM EV1 saved by a secretive caretaker in the depths of a university - Peter Holderith/The Drive https://www.thedrive.com/news/38743/theres-a-pristine-gm-ev1-saved-by-a-secretive-caretaker-in-the-depths-of-a-university
Atomic Kotlin by Bruce Eckel and Svetlana Isakova - Leanpub https://leanpub.com/AtomicKotlin
The problem with Gradle - Bruce Eckel https://www.bruceeckel.com/2021/01/02/the-problem-with-gradle/
Hubble snaps stunning barred spiral galaxy - NASA https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-snaps-stunning-barred-spiral-galaxy
Kuo: New MacBook Pro models to feature flat-edged design, MagSafe, no touch bar and more ports - Juli Clover/MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/15/new-macbook-pro-models-magsafe-ports/
For D&D fans: every issue of Dungeon Magazine is online at archive.org https://archive.org/details/dungeonmagazine
Cleanfeed: Connect & record live with anyone in the world https://cleanfeed.net/
Yale-led effort yields Zoom upgrades for music-making https://music.yale.edu/news/yale-led-effort-yields-zoom-upgrades
The @debian Bullseye freeze has begun, and I did my install yesterday. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/01/msg00002.html
I am setting up my laptop with Debian Bullseye. I just got Git and Ruby working. It's funny that one of Git's dependencies is Ruby. After my attempt to upgrade from Buster to Bullseye bricked the system, the fresh install has been smooth.
Reminder: Please be nice - Adam Piggott/Signal Community https://community.signalusers.org/t/reminder-please-be-nice/21217
The 100 Year Computer - Tales From The Dork Web https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-100-year-computer
I tested my blogPoster app with Ruby 3.0 today, and it works, even though the mastodon-api gem still throws an error (though does work) like it does in Ruby 2.7. http://github.com/passthejoe/blogposter
Variable scope is important in programming
We let Amazon Prime go, and I think they are now purposefully not shipping things for about a week in order to make it take longer
Doing a Ruby 3.0 test. If you see this, it passed.
Site.js: Small Web construction set https://sitejs.org/
I'm listening to Johnny Smith's "Kaleidoscope," one of the albums we had around the house as a kid. So great. And yes, I like exactly the same music as my 86-year-old mother.
Asahi Linux: Porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs https://asahilinux.org
Debian Stable finally gets an up-to-date Chromium browser package https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium
When big brands stopped spending on digital ads, nothing happened. Why? - Dr. Augustine Fou/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/?sh=427cce841166
The CentOS Stream news and rage has really gone quiet
I dropped 2K Twitter followers
COBOL: The code that controls your money - Clive Thompson/Wealthsimple https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money
Password rules are bullshit (2017) - Jeff Atwood https://blog.codinghorror.com/password-rules-are-bullshit/
CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux - Chris Wright/Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux
Ruby gems: Using Linux/BSD packages vs. gem install - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_1229_ruby_gems_package_vs_gem_install/
Ruby users of Linux and BSDs, what do you think of installing Ruby gems from Linux or BSD packages instead of using gem install for all?
I just updated my Ruby gems. Hope I didn't break anything.
My experiment with hosted Git as a way to create and publish things that are not code continues. I now have five writing projects on Github. https://github.com/passthejoe
I reviewed two gauges of @ernieball Earthwood 80/20 Bronze acoustic guitar strings https://github.com/passthejoe/acoustic-steel-strings
I thought my Yamaha dreadnought guitar was 10 years old. I found out it's actually 17 years old. So I wrote a review. Of a guitar I've owned 17 years. https://github.com/passthejoe/yamaha-fg403s
I wrote three recent posts on my WordPress site that I just copied over to my Hugo site. Not sure what I think about posting on WP.com. I spent a lot of time looking at the statistics page. I spend 0 time doing that in Hugo b/c I don't have one. http://passthejoe.net
CentOS replacement Rocky Linux is serious https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-december-2020/1157
Why CentOS Stream and the end of CentOS Linux doesn’t really matter – Steven Rosenberg https://passthejoe.wordpress.com/2020/12/23/why-centos-stream-and-the-end-of-centos-linux-doesnt-really-matter/
CentOS Stream and the end of the CentOS clone: perils, pitfalls, risks and opportunities for Red Hat https://passthejoe.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/centos-stream-and-the-end-of-the-centos-clone-perils-pitfalls-risks-and-opportunities-for-red-hat/
Another great take from @sjvn: Why Red Hat dumped CentOS for CentOS Stream | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-red-hat-dumped-centos-for-centos-stream/
I love having 3 Ruby versions available at the same time with ruby25, ruby26 and ruby27 in OpenBSD. Nice feature.
How this Debian Stable user ended up with Google Chrome from Google’s repository – Steven Rosenberg https://passthejoe.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/how-this-debian-stable-user-ended-up-with-google-chrome-from-googles-repository/
The @debian package for Chromium is very old. Sid and Buster both have version 83. Fedora and EPEL are shipping 87. The Ubuntu Snap is also at 87 (with optional 88 and 89). I had heard that Debian was way behind. And they are.
CentOS team discusses implications of move to Stream with Wikinews (more info here than in most of the stories out there) https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Red_Hat_to_move_focus_away_from_CentOS_in_favour_of_Stream;_CentOS_team_discuss_implications_with_Wikinews
Why do Twitter and Google think I'm interested in wine? I might be, but I have given no indication that suggests this.
“A damn stupid thing to do” — the origins of C | Richard Jenson/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c/
Loeb at first sight: The classics come in red and green | Amanda Kolson Hurley/Designers & Books http://www.designersandbooks.com/blog/loeb-classical-library-design
Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020) | Chris Wilkinson/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/it-still-runs-on-your-imagination-passing-2020-time-with-a-macintosh-quadra-700/
CloudLinux announces release of RHEL fork following Red Hat's CentOS Stream announcement https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux
My take on CentOS Stream:
- It'll be RHEL-ish enough for almost everybody (it's still 8.x)
- You'll probably get fixes quicker
- A new one every 3 years (just like now)
- 5 years of support (instead of 10)
Eastman Guitars is very deep in archtops. They still have one without a pickup (AR805 at the bottom of the page). https://www.eastmanguitars.com/electric_archtop
The CentOS Project just committed suicide - Mehmet Özel/FOSS Post https://fosspost.org/centos-project-suicide/
CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux - Chris Wright/Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux
Meet Rocky Linux: New RHEL fork by the original CentOS creator - Ankush Das/It's Foss News https://news.itsfoss.com/rocky-linux-announcement/
After a morning of drama, I have come to the conclusion that CentOS Stream is not the end of the world and that Red Hat is doing a very (very, very, very) poor job of public relations in explaining it.
After reading many CentOS Stream posts, I think it's going to be the current RHEL release, but ever so slightly rolling. It should work fine as a RHEL clone almost all of the time. The big difference for users is 5 years of support instead of 10.
Fedora's @mattdm says give CentOS Stream a chance https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075503.html
Regarding CentOS Stream and 'enterprise' Linux, I think five years is an appropriate period of support. The two-year cadence for Debian really works for me. Six months is too short. Maybe one year would work.
It looks like CentOS Stream releases will get five years of support https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q6-will-there-be-separateparallelsimultaneous-streams-for-8-9-10-etc
Red Hat resets CentOS Linux — and users are angry - A very good overview from @sjvn for ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-resets-centos-linux-and-users-are-angry/
Keep up to date on Debian Long Term Support at Raphaël Hertzog's blog https://raphaelhertzog.com/
Please support the Debian LTS project https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
CentOS's Johnny Hughes seems more than a little conflicted https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075534.html
This guy has a point on CentOS Stream vs. CentOS Linux vs. RHEL https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075492.html
This view of CentOS Stream as being RHEL a month in the future seems reasonable https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075551.html
Remember the days when CentOS wasn't owned by Red Hat, and there would be huge gaps in activity and releases? This doesn't justify anything. It just flashed into my mind. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html
This guy is NOT happy about CentOS 8 turning into CentOS Stream https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075464.html
Follow this thread on the CentOS-devel mailing list https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075451.html
FAQ - CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream (in which CentOS/IBM kind of sort of answers a few questions) https://centos.org/distro-faq/
The untimely end of CentOS 8 throws quite the monkey wrench into cPanel and the entire shared-hosting world https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html
Remember Scientific Linux? I used to run it. The project ended because CentOS was doing the same thing so well. I can see it making a comeback now. https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/
CentOS founder is starting Rocky Linux, a new RHEL clone, now that CentOS is changing focus https://github.com/hpcng/rocky
Springdale Linux is a longtime RHEL clone - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25350357
Scientific Linux ended when it didn't seem necessary. The move to CentOS Stream probably means more Red Hat clones are on the way. For me, this illustrates why Debian is so important. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345428
Many of the CentOS users who aren't happy with CentOS Stream say they will move to Debian Stable. But I imagine Ubuntu LTS will grab most users. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345428
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream, and people are not happy - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345428
How to defog your windshield in no time this winter - Lifehacker https://lifehacker.com/use-this-method-from-a-former-nasa-engineer-to-defog-yo-1845817132
I have been experimenting with Git and Github as a way of working on writing projects. Hosted Git repositories are not just for programming. https://github.com/passthejoe?tab=repositories
Reviews of steel strings for acoustic guitars https://github.com/passthejoe/acoustic-steel-strings
Reviews of strings for the classical guitar https://github.com/passthejoe/classical-strings
The Zen of Debian (work in progress) https://github.com/passthejoe/zen-of-debian
My Emilio Pujol project is becoming more about his work overall and not just about the 17 variations on Aguado in 'Escuela Razonada' Vol. 4. https://github.com/passthejoe/pujol_variations_on_aguado
Steven Rosenberg on GitHub https://github.com/passthejoe
Steven Rosenberg's newer posts http://passthejoe.net/
Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts http://updates.passthejoe.net/
Steven Rosenberg's frugal technology, simple living and guerrilla large-appliance repair https://stevenrosenberg.nfshost.com/blog/
A whole bunch of new packages means Debian 10.7 has been released https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20201205
Why the release of Ruby 3 will be monumental | Jared White/RUBY3.dev https://www.ruby3.dev/the-art-of-code/2020/11/12/ruby-3-monumental/
C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what's next - Owen Hughes/TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/article/c-programming-language-how-it-became-the-invisible-foundation-for-everything-and-whats-next/
I'm going to try the @EclipseJavaIDE for Java, C++ and Ruby. I didn't know it covered all these languages and more.
I ran out of clean sweatpants. I tried wearing regular pants. How did we ever do that? I had to rip them off my body and find the emergency sweatpants I didn't know I had. Sorry, Levi's, I just can't do it.
ES-175 chronicles - Vasily Ivanenko https://qrp-popcorn.blogspot.com/p/es175-pickup-modification.html
Fender Telecaster jazz box - Vasily Ivanenko https://qrp-popcorn.blogspot.com/2017/01/fender-telecaster-jazz-box.html
1968 Princeton Reverb repairs - Vasily Ivanenko https://qrp-popcorn.blogspot.com/2017/01/1968-princeton-reverb-repairs.html
Why Matthew Yglesias left Vox for the paid-newsletter platform Substack (hint: it's about political correctness in media) - Conor Friedersdorf/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/substack-and-medias-groupthink-problem/617102/
I learned a new Vim thing: Open the last file you closed with :e# http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_1113_vim_tip_open_last_file_you_closed/
Why it pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered - Zaria Gorvett/BBC Future https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-it-pays-to-be-grumpy-and-bad-tempered
Study says Facebook is bad for your emotional and physical health - Minda Zetlin/Inc. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-2-year-study-of-more-than-5-000-people-shows-this-1-activity-destroys-your-emotional-and-physical
After a few months playing the classical (even though it has a pretty nasty crack in the back), I went back to the Fender guitar (Lead I, front half of the humbucker as a single-coil). The Ernie Ball Power Slinky strings (11 to 48) are SO nice. It's hard to say too many good things about them. I have one of the pure nickel versions to try next. https://www.ernieball.com/guitar-strings/electric-guitar-strings/slinky-nickel-wound-electric-guitar-strings/6-string#P02220
Running four sites on NearlyFreeSpeech.net should cost me .92 per month - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_1107_nearlyfreespeechnet_costs/
So I tried to swap the esc and caps lock keys, with the idea being easier access to esc for Vim, but it was a disaster. You can't just move keys around. It's like driving on the wrong side of the road and the wrong side of the car.
Talkyard - is an open-source forum that is available as a service, or to run on your own system. It can also do blog comments. https://www.talkyard.io/
Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit – https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400
Raspberry Pi 400: the desktop PC: It's a Raspberry Pi built into its own keyboard. Get it with everything but a monitor for . https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/
I moved a WordPress blog from one shared host to another. The new host is telling me every day that hackers are making repeated attempts to log into the site to use it for nefarious purposes. WP is definitely a target. I will take steps soon to reduce the risk.
I have made it through week 9 of Computer Architecture and Organization. We're working on x86 assembly. Boolean algebra, K-maps and logic circuits at the beginning were a little rocky, but the assembly language has been more smooth.
I've been playing the classical guitar for about 15 minutes a day for the past few months, mostly from Emilio Pujol's method. Today I hauled out the electric guitar and played from William Leavitt's Vol. 2. Even 15 minutes a day is enough to show improvement over time.
Sorry, but my Twitter feed is boring. I'm not here anywhere near as much, even though I use the Twitter API via a local script to post.
The cheap pen that changed writing forever - Stephen Dowling/BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201028-history-of-the-ballpoint-pen
WordPerfect for DOS Updated http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/
This wasn't my first WP install without a cPanel, but it was the first time I moved an entire WP system (files + database) without any utilities like WP's export/import. It went all right. I need more practice in database admin, and I got some here.
I moved a WordPress blog from one server to another, and boy are my arms tired.
Why I'm Tcl-ish - Colin Macleod https://colin-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/why-im-tcl-ish.html
I had problems with the new Microsoft Edge while my Windows install was updating, but now it's doing great. I imported my Chrome settings — even a Chrome extension — and Edge is doing my daily production.
Perch, the really little CMS https://grabaperch.com
End of the office: The quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home - Simon Usborne/The Guardian https://getpocket.com/explore/item/end-of-the-office-the-quiet-grinding-loneliness-of-working-from-home
Why life has gotten more comfortable but less happy - Arthur C. Brooks/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/why-life-has-gotten-more-comfortable-less-happy/616807/
Keith Jarrett confronts a future without the piano - Nate Chinen/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/arts/music/keith-jarrett-piano.html
Twitter is temporarily changing how you retweet - Jay Peters/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/21524092/twitter-temporarily-changing-retweet-quote-tweet-election
I forgot to mention that I have returned to CS classes at LA Valley College. This semester I'm taking Computer Architecture and Organization.
Americans worry about 2020 being another 2000, but the real worry is another 1876 - Rachel Shelden and Erik B. Alexander/The Washington Post https://www.chron.com/opinion/article/Americans-worry-about-2020-being-another-2000-15660360.php
There was a kernel update in @debian Stable today. I don't know why, but I'm sure all will become clear.
Ruby 2.7 has caused me a lot of problems
I got a SinkShroom. Is it worth the money? - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_1008_sink_shroom/
The original IBM PC keyboard is still being made today in Kentucky, and you can get one for about https://www.pckeyboard.com/
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) – The guitar behind the violin - Pascal Proust/Strings by Mail https://www.stringsbymail.com/articles/niccolo-paganini-1782-1840-the-guitar-behind-the-violin/
No Starch Press is putting out a great-looking book, "Racket Programming the Fun Way," by James W. Stelly. Set for December 2020 publication, an early-access version is available now. The discount code RACKETFUN will get you 35% off through Oct. 16, 2020. The price is reasonable, and I'm tempted. https://nostarch.com/racket-programming-fun-way
My tech setup for recording courses and podcasts — Emma Bostian https://compiled.blog/blog/my-tech-setup
Big @debian Stable update for the firefox-esr browser, going from 68 to 78 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4768
How many decimals of pi do we really need? - NASA/JPL https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/
Having a Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/what-have-you WSL in Windows is > the MacOS command line but < "real" Linux
Shopify’s Lite plan is just /month https://www.shopify.com/lite
‘It’s like Trump said: The cure has been worse than the disease’: A restaurant owner on closing his business during the coronavirus pandemic - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/26/restaurant-owner-closing-coronavirus
SC130: the perfect CP/M & Fuzix computer kit (at !) - Obsolescence Guaranteed http://obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com/2020/01/sc130-perfect-cpm-computer-kit-at-50.html
PiDP-11: Re-creating the PDP-11/70 - Obsolescence Guaranteed https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
PiDP-8/I: Re-creating the PDP-8/I - Obsolescence Guaranteed https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8
Lost cockatiel lands on fishing boat 10 miles off Scottish coast - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-54263087
Substack review: Here’s what to know before you get started - Clara Ainsley McLaren/The Penny Hoarder https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/make-money/substack-review/
MIT's 6.S081 looks like an awesome class. They use a Unix V6 clone and draw on the EXCELLENT Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition. This page includes links to John Lions' book, the Unix V6 source code, and the PDP11/40 Processor Handbook. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/xv6.html
Pandemic spurs journalists to go it alone via email (mostly via Substack) - Sara Fischer/Axios https://www.axios.com/pandemic-spurs-journalists-to-go-it-alone-via-email-613ca2d5-e8d5-4235-9582-48cc028e9d8b.html
Lede: Subscription-driven publishing that bakes in WordPress VIP, Pico for membership manangement, Coral for comments and Mailchimp for newsletters. The product is aimed at both startups and established media. https://joinlede.com/
I can't believe how good a web host NearlyFreeSpeech.net has been — and I end up paying about two bucks a month. When you don't need a VPN (and you probably don't, even if you think you do), it's the way to go.
Facebook leaks show Mark Zuckerberg defending his decisions to angry employees - Casey Newton/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm
Journalists are leaving the noisy internet for your email inbox (or more specifically, Substack) - Marc Tracy/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/business/media/substack-newsletters-journalists.html
I love the design of this site: A Matter of Perspective https://spirals.blog/
The era of Visual Studio Code - Roben Kleene https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/09/21/the-era-of-visual-studio-code/
Linux Journal is back https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-back
Older people have become younger: Physical and cognitive function have improved meaningfully in 30 years — University of Jyväskylä https://www.jyu.fi/en/current/archive/2020/09/older-people-have-become-younger-physical-and-cognitive-function-have-improved-meaningfully-in-30-years
If I had $1 for every PR pitch I get with a dead web link, I'd have about $5 a day #YouHaveOneJob
MyNOR - The yet minor computer. No CPU, no ALU, one NOR-gate is enough. http://mynor.org/
Homebrew Computers Web-Ring https://www.homebrewcpuring.org/
GIGATRON retrocomputer building kit https://www.budgetronics.eu/en/building-kits/gigatron-retrocomputer-building-kit/a-25779-20
Gigatron – TTL microcomputer https://gigatron.io/
Why the Apple II didn’t support lowercase letters - Steve Wozniak https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters
Hubble captures crisp new image of Jupiter and Europa | ESA/Hubble https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2017/
Facebook accused of watching Instagram users through cameras - Robert Burnson/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-18/facebook-accused-of-watching-instagram-users-through-cameras
GitHub - github/renaming: Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories https://github.com/github/renaming
The science behind honey’s eternal shelf life - Natasha Geiling/Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-behind-honeys-eternal-shelf-life-1218690/
Free is evil: tech’s original sin - Jesse Hercules https://medium.com/@jesse.hercules/free-is-evil-d2be55b028d4
Vue v3.0.0 'One Piece' is released https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Google Drive will start to delete trashed files after 30 days starting on Oct. 13 - Chaim GartenBerg/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/17/21441226/google-drive-delete-trash-empty-files-documents-30-days-date
COBOL: Built to last - Mar Hicks/Logic Magazine https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/
Outschool, which started to provide online classes to homeschoolers, is booming during COVID - TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/18/outschool-newly-profitable-raises-a-45m-series-b-for-virtual-small-group-classes/
A sensory deprivation flotation tank almost drowned me - Saffron Huang (tl;dr DON'T go in a sensory deprivation tank) https://saffronhuang.com/post/a-sensory-deprivation-flotation-tank-almost-drowned-me/
Z80 Number Cruncher http://www.andreadrian.de/oldcpu/Z80_number_cruncher.html
Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet: The Social Dilemma is a clever but simplistic drama-documentary - Adi Robertson/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/4/21419993/the-social-dilemma-jeff-orlowski-netflix-movie-review-social-media-algorithms
CD players are back from the dead and now work with Airpods - Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/cd-players-are-back-from-the-dead-and-now-work-with-air-1845091060
On Mullenweg and the Jamstack - Regression or Future? - Matt Billmann/Netlify https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/09/15/on-mullenweg-and-the-jamstack-regression-or-future/
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth makes peace with Ubuntu Linux community - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-ceo-mark-shuttleworth-makes-peace-with-ubuntu-linux-community/
999 real fans - Grant Dever https://www.grantdever.com/999-real-fans/
By using my local blogPoster terminal program to write microblog posts for my own site, Twitter and Mastodon, I can create and publish without having to be on the sites at all. I can look at Twitter or Mastodon (and interact if I choose) when I'm ready. http://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
Tutanota email has been suffering from DDos and DNS attacks for weeks now. The downtime isn't a total deal-breaker. Yet. Hopefully they will figure out a better defense. I like the service. I like the price even better.
I had some Debian Stable with GNOME issues. First, the Chromium browser occasionally dies and won't restart. Second, the Nautilus file manager stops allowing files to be moved. Fix for both is to log out and log back in. That it's happening at all is disturbing.
What's new in Thunderbird 78? tl;dr: dark mode, account setup updates, redesigned composed window, end-to-end encryption support, integrated calendar and tasks https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.0/whatsnew/
We all got flu shots at the pediatrician's office, where they're doing it for the whole family. No lollipops.
How a job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a groundbreaking path in computer science | Lisa Qian/Yale Economic Growth Center https://egc.yale.edu/how-job-yale-1960s-set-susan-eggers-groundbreaking-path-computer-science
Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market. Senators don't buy it - Shannon Bond/NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913328975/google-says-it-doesnt-monopolize-digital-ad-market-senators-don-t-buy-it
I've said a lot of things about @GetSpectrum, but right now the broadband service is ROCK solid, even with 3 work/school-from-homers hitting it simultaneously. Price has been stable and decent, too.
Keeping Time at NIST - Mark Esser/NIST https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/keeping-time-nist
YouTube starts rolling out its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts - Julia Alexander/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436158/youtube-starts-tiktok-competitor-short-form-video-instagram-reels-beta-test
Create a personal website using your LinkedIn account (this is a third-party service that appears to be "free") https://linkedcv.site/
Scientists find a possible sign of life on Venus - Marina Koren/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/venus-life-phosphine-microbes/616342/
UK government under pressure to intervene in Arm sale to Nvidia - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/arm-co-founder-deals-like-nvidia-sale-may-undermine-uks-tech-vision
Why are two million people still getting Netflix DVDs by post? - Amit Katwala/WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/netflix-dvds
Altair 8800 Clone https://altairclone.com/
How do computers generate random numbers? - Aryaman Sharda/Digital Bunker https://digitalbunker.dev/2020/09/08/how-do-computers-generate-random-numbers/
Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54146718
Ask HN: What do you think about 'The Social Dilemma' on Netflix? - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24468533
The mastodon-api gem throws an error in Ruby 2.7, but it still works.
18 Free Hosting Providers for Your Static Website in 2020 · Dev & Gear https://devandgear.com/posts/18-free-hosting-providers-for-your-static-website-in-2020/
Now I'm having a Mastodon issue with Ruby 2.7. I'll have to run some tests.
How many ways and how many times can I misspell 'mastodon'? Many times, it turns out.
When something breaks in an app, paranoia sets in
I had one more URI.open change to make in blogPoster, this time in the "ping your blog" portion of the code. https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html
Testing URI.open changes in Ruby
I fixed the blogPoster code where Nokogiri uses URI.open to pull a web page's title. I only discovered the problem in Ruby 2.7, which is what Ubuntu 20.04 is running. I have Ruby 2.6 on my Windows laptop and 2.5 in Debian Stable. https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html
I am trying to untangle issues with Ruby 2.7 and the Nokogiri gem https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html
Zoom towns and the new housing market for the 2 Americas - Planet Money/NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas
If you want to use Racketlang in the terminal to code in "Legacy" Scheme for SICP, this is how you get a REPL:
$ racket -I r5rs
Mike Tyson: 'Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth' https://indygrit.community/blog/2019/2/9/everybody-has-a-plan-until-they-get-punched-in-the-mouth
SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure http://www.sicpdistilled.com/
R U OK? A conversation could change a life https://www.ruok.org.au/
Time.gov from the National Institute of Standards and Technology is still a thing (and better — and less Java-y — than I remember. https://www.time.gov/
Antonio Lauro's "Valse Venezolano: Maria Luisa" played by Saro Babikian on a 2020 Stephen Hill - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNb9-kgQNuM
Starbucks is borrowing money from you — and you're paying them 10% interest to do it http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/08/starbucks-monetary-superpower.html
I did a classical guitar string review on Augustine Gold and Red sets. Nothing too exciting. The strings are nice. https://github.com/passthejoe/classical-strings
I found a 701-page doctoral dissertation on classical guitar pioneer Emilio Pujol. From 2010. In Spanish. https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/5202
I'm reading a "real" book, even though it's an ebook, and that book is "The Fellowship of the Ring," aka "The Lord of the Rings" Part 1.
Fernando Sor on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=fernando%20sor&and[]=mediatype%3A%22texts%22
Francisco Tárrega on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=francisco%20tarrega
'24 Studies for the Guitar, Op. 100' by Mauro Giuliani - Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/imslp-studies-for-the-guitar-op100-giuliani-mauro
'How You Can Keep Fit' by Rudolph Valentino - Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/HowYouCanKeepFitByRudolphValentino/page/n1/mode/2up
You know what gets better all the time? Fedora Workstation. I'm getting the @fedora bug and might use it for my next build. @Debian has been great, but I miss the Fedora community. And the new bits. https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/
News pro tip: If your video isn't really a video but is instead still images and small clips with words from a poorly written story layered over them, accompanied by horrible music, that's not a video and should instead be a news story with words and pictures.
Pro tip for news sites: If your link doesn't say 'podcast' and it's for a podcast, I'm not happy. Also, podcasts are meant to be accessed via feeds. And I only listen in the car. And now I'm not driving.
Buttondown: a small, elegant tool for producing newsletters https://buttondown.email/
7 versatile Vim commands that are easy to memorize (I knew maybe half of these) https://initialcommit.com/blog/7-versatile-vim-commands
$75 a year for nine small publications? Brick House thinks you'll go for that. - Ben Smith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/business/media/brick-house-journalism-cooperative.html
How a brand of chalk achieved cult status among mathematicians - CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/hagoromo-chalk-great-big-story-trnd/index.html
At the end of the day, @TutanotaTeam is $14 a year. That's significant AF when everybody else wants to for email that won't spy on you like @gmail. https://tutanota.com/pricing/
Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash - Maddie Stone/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-leaving-behind-toxic-trash/
How much is an album worth in 2020: $3.49? $77? $1,000? Maybe $0 - Jon Caramanica/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/arts/music/albums-price.html
I just started a shell account in the tildeverse - and you should, too https://tildeverse.org/
Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety - Clare Wilson/New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251840-mindfulness-and-meditation-can-worsen-depression-and-anxiety/
The case of the top secret iPod - David Shayer/TidBITS https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ipod/
Graphical Linear Algebra https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/
KubeSail | Build your own cloud https://kubesail.com/
8 ways to deploy a React app for free - Ashutosh Singh/LogRocket Blog https://blog.logrocket.com/8-ways-to-deploy-a-react-app-for-free/
We tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok clone. What a dud. - Brian X. Chen and Taylor Lorenz/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/personaltech/tested-facebook-reels-tiktok-clone-dud.html
Forecasting the US 2020 elections | The Economist https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president
We're at that point in the election cycle where it's looking pretty bad for President Trump, but it's not a sure thing that he will lose in November. My gut says he will lose in a landslide, but the whole COVID-USPS nexus of issues adds a degree of uncertainty that throws the election into "anything can happen" territory. A pronounced lack of enthusiasm for Biden, boiling down to "he's not Trump," makes things even harder to predict.
How the Go-Go's found their beat: An oral history | Keaton Bell/Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/go-gos-40th-anniversary-beauty-and-the-beat-oral-history-belinda-carlisle
Uber may shut down temporarily in California https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/uber-may-shut-down-temporarily-in-california.html
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/
Mozilla VPN: 'Mac and Linux coming soon' https://vpn.mozilla.org/
Airbnb was like a family, until the layoffs started - Erin Griffith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/airbnb-coronavirus-layoffs-.html
GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world's open source code to the Arctic - Julia Metcalf/The GitHub Blog https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/
Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/
Introducing a new and improved Twitter API - Twitter Developer Blog https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2020/introducing_new_twitter_api.html
NYT opinion editor Bari Weiss' resignation letter https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
Debian Security Advisory DSA 4714-3 chromium regression update: This is the update that fixed Chromium in @debian Stable after a previous update broke it a little over a week ago. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00129.html
Debian is very responsive to security issues in the Stable distribution https://www.debian.org/security/
My first stop every day is the Debian Security Information page https://www.debian.org/security/
It's 'so far, so good' with today's Chromium update in @debian. No crashes since I installed it. It took about a week to go from bad update to fix. That's about average. In my experience, this kind of thing — a package update that breaks an app — happens about once per distro release. They are generally fixed in between one and two weeks. Sometimes (but not this time) there is a workaround before then. In this case I suffered with the crashes (which seemingly happened at random). I still had Firefox when I needed a non-crashy browser.
The @debian updates for Chromium are here. Let's see if this resolves my frequent crashes
Ever want to see what a 6,800-post Hugo blog looks like? I stumbled upon Rubenerd https://rubenerd.com/archives/
The curse of the Honeycrisp apple: Expensive because everyone loves them, but hard to grow, store or ship - Deena Shanker and Lydia Mulvany/Bloomberg https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-curse-of-the-honeycrisp-apple
Debian is supposed to be old and conservative, but it ships Wayland by default. You can get Flatpaks and Snaps if you want them.
When ‘The Day After’ Terrorized 100 Million Viewers With a Vision of Nuclear War https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-em-the-day-after-em-terrorized-100-million-viewers-with-a-vision-of-nuclear-war
One way the stability of Debian Stable breaks down is when some packages are not so stable. That is the case with Chromium, which doesn't offer a package like Firefox ESR. Chromium is way more up to date. I guess there's no other way to do it.
Git - Basic Branching and Merging https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Basic-Branching-and-Merging
Bug No. 964362 - chromium crash frequently, SEGV_MAPERR - Debian Bug report logs: I'm hopeful that this fix will solve my own Chromium-is-crashing issue in Debian Stable. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964362#31
Here's why these media startups chose to launch while so many other outlets are going under - Kerry Flynn/CNN Business: I'm most interested in @berkeleyside and @Oaklandside — two news nonprofits in the Bay Area. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/new-media-companies-pandemic/index.html
LibreOffice: the next five years Jonathan Corbet/LWN.net — Even though I am using a lot of Google Docs/Sheets, I am still a LO user, and the project's health and direction are important. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825598/21fb7c2a3f9358e7/
There was a Ruby security update for @Debian Stable https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4721
Who will win the presidential election, Biden or Trump? The Economist has an ongoing forecast. https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president
I'm running Chromium in Debian with the --disabled-extensions switch, and it's not crashing
Another Chromium bug reported in Debian: #964362 - chromium crash frequently, SEGV_MAPERR https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964362
Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web. https://grain-lang.org/
I'm cleaning up the blogPoster code with an eye toward a rewrite
Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages John/Coggeshall/LWN.net https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825005/6440c82feb745bbe/
Bugs in package chromium -- Debian Bug report logs https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=chromium
I can confirm that Chromium remains very crashy in Debian Buster on my HP Envy 15 laptop
Nope. Xorg or Wayland, Chromium is still crashy AF in Debian Stable.
Doing a test: Maybe the Chromium crashes I have been experiencing in Debian Stable are due to Wayland. I'm in an Xorg session now. We'll see what happens.
The Slack Social Network – Stratechery by Ben Thompson https://stratechery.com/2020/the-slack-social-network/
Bug 964334 - segfault repeatedly (Chromium) - Debian Bug report logs: This could be the bug taking down Chromium in Debian Stable. The last update fixed the issue on my 2011 iMac but not on my 2017 HP Envy. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964334
Bug 963548 - Received signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR (in Chromium) - Debian Bug report logs. I'm not sure if this is the bug that's making my Chromium crash, but I do know that Chromium 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u2 is crashing regularly. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=963548
Bug 964161 - chromium: high cpu load and frequent crashes - Debian Bug report logs (I'm pretty sure this bug is affecting me) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964161
I just changed the name of a variable I use about 50 times in one program
The same day I tweet how Debian is better/faster/stronger than MacOS and also better than Windows 10, I spend some time using the new Windows Terminal with Git and Ruby, and it all goes very well
Dave Winer is too important to think he's accomplishing nothing - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0704_dave_winer/
My mid-2011 27-inch iMac is a very nice machine with Debian 10. GNOME is great on a 9-year-old computer.
Washington NFL sponsor FedEx requests that team change its name - Ursula Perano/Axios https://www.axios.com/washington-redskins-nfl-team-fedex-0b351929-8297-4db5-8cc6-d1aedcb740e3.html
Americans reflect on Independence Day amid racism reckoning - Fadel Allassan/Axios https://www.axios.com/americans-fourth-july-racism-independence-5cd54a59-1756-48af-af64-a427b27e352a.html
Still enjoying @replit. It takes the friction out of coding.
While I've been testing Hey.com email, I'm probably going to stick with @TutanotaTeam because at €12 per year (about $13.50), the value is too good. https://tutanota.com/pricing
I'm trying the Workspace Isolated Dash GNOME Shell Extension. Will this solve my problem where I'm in one workspace and when I open a file, it opens in a different workspace because I already have the app open there? https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/887/workspace-isolated-dash/
True suburban story: After weed-whacking for 30 or 40 minutes, boy are my armms tired. The weed whacker is heavy AF.
Recode's Land of the Giants podcast featuring @DelRey seems like the best podcast ever. Now all I have to do is listen to it. Not driving has put quite the dent in my podcast listening, meaning I've stopped doing it. https://pod.link/landofthegiants
The programming language that wants to rescue the world from dangerous code (tl;dr: it's Rust) - Tom Krazit/Protocol https://www.protocol.com/rust-programming-safety-security
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/
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
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
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
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
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/
'Delete and re-draft' on @MastodonProject is a genius feature that @Twitter should adopt
Why do Apple fans think its a hardship for one of the WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE COMPANIES to "afford" to run its app store. Look at this ZDNet article that thinks Apple should maybe CHARGE DEVELOPERS MORE just for the privilege of making apps for Apple devices. https://www.zdnet.com/article/should-apple-raise-its-99-developer-program-fee-or-scrap-it-entirely/
Nikita Prokopov loves Syncthing, and so do I https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/
I just got my Hey.com invite ... and I'm in there http://hey.com
30-hour-long production of James Joyce's Ulysses to air for Bloomsday - The Irish Post https://www.irishpost.com/news/30-hour-long-production-of-james-joyces-ulysses-to-air-live-across-the-world-186750
36 guitarists play 36 Caprices Op. 20 by Legnani - This Is Classical Guitar https://www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/complete-36-caprices-op20-legnani/
The favorite books, programming and otherwise, from @aspittel https://welearncode.com/books/
At LA Times, rancor over racial equity roils newsroom - David Folkenflik/NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/874530954/rancor-erupts-in-la-times-newsroom-over-race-equity-and-protest-coverage
I have come to the conclusion that it's not worth it to push to two remote git repos
Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main - Scott Hanselman https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterTaoMain.aspx
The scrappy rise of Fender's early sales team: From lap steels to Teles - Tony Bacon/Reverb News https://reverb.com/news/the-team-that-made-fender-a-household-name
My MO is starting a blog post about one thing and having it be mostly about another thing about halfway through. Then I have to mess with the title so it sort of, kind of, hangs together.
An interview with Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto - Evrone https://evrone.com/yukihiro-matsumoto-interview
I had a 'free' Google Cloud Platform VPS, and while the server was running, I didn't have a domain pointing at it. Google started charging me anyway, and I couldn't figure out why from the billing. I stopped the server. Maybe AWS or Azure do their 'free' tier better.
Twitter is trying out a new feature that gently suggests you actually read an article before sharing it - Aaron Holmes/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/new-twitter-feature-sharing-articles-without-opening-them-2020-6
Antifa activists seize control of Seattle neighborhood and declare “autonomous zone” - Christopher F. Rufo/City Journal https://www.city-journal.org/antifa-seattle-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone
David Heinemeier Hansson interview - Evrone https://evrone.com/dhh-interview
The @debian security team updated the Linux kernel due to several vulnerabilities https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00103.htm https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00102.html
Handle Ruby exceptions with the begin and rescue keywords - Jesus Castello/RubyGuides https://www.rubyguides.com/2019/06/ruby-rescue-exceptions/
blogPoster can now send to a Mastodon instance. The code is very rough, and documentation (such as it is) is inline. But it works.
I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD | Jeff Geerling https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/im-booting-my-raspberry-pi-4-usb-ssd
Apple plans to announce ARM transition for all Macs at WWDC 2020 | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/apple-plans-to-announce-arm-transition-for-all-macs-at-wwdc-2020/
Old code gets younger every year - Marianne Bellotti/Medium https://medium.com/@bellmar/old-code-gets-younger-every-year-3bd24c7f2262
Delete to the end of a sentence in Vim with d)
I just installed Microsoft Visual Studio Community, and the installer DOESN'T drop a shortcut on the desktop. I don't recall the installer asking about it. This Stack Overflow page shows you where to find the .exe so you can do it yourself. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37438064/where-is-the-microsoft-visual-studio-community-executable-located
Ever since an in-place upgrade to Debian Buster, my Raspberry Pi has been losing its network connection about once a day. I'm too lazy to reinstall the OS, so I set cron to reboot twice a day.
'This is a big hit': Van Nuys cleans up after peaceful protest became a destructive evening by @AriPlachta @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2020/06/02/this-is-a-big-hit-van-nuys-cleans-up-after-peaceful-protest-became-a-destructive-evening/
Free online whiteboard for remote collaboration from @MiroHQ https://miro.com/l/remote-collaboration
FlatLaf Dark look and feel in @netbeans is really nice
I'm testing @netbeans and tweeting about it to take my mind off of all that's going on. Not working too well, but there it is.
I am working a split shift so I'll be in the chair later for protest/riot coverage across LA. I try really hard not to get political on Twitter because of what I do. The division, inequality and lack of leadership in this nation have led to this, and I'm sad to see it.
First JavaFX works out of the box in the @apache @netbeans daily build, and now C++ (with a Netbeans 8.2 plugin) also works. Amazing progress. https://netbeans.apache.org/
I just downloaded a daily build of @netbeans, and I am very happy to say that I was able to start, build and run a JavaFX project with no issues. Thank you to all developers working on the IDE.
The @OpenBeans build of @NetBeans includes bundled JavaFX libraries, C/C++ support and online Maven support. Thanks @emilianbold. http://www.openbeans.org/comparison.html
We are very lucky to have @debian. Thank you to all who put it together.
Frameworkless Movement: Developers interested in developing applications without frameworks http://frameworklessmovement.org/
Linux security hardening and other tweaks - @blakkheim https://vez.mrsk.me/linux-hardening.html
There is now an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 for , and Raspbian has been renamed Raspberry Pi OS https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/
Why use @BeakerBrowser? - Beaker Docs https://docs.beakerbrowser.com/why-use-beaker
Beaker Browser: A peer-to-peer browser for Web hackers https://beakerbrowser.com/
Rediscovering the small Web - Parimal Satyal/Neustadt.fr https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/
Free Unix shells at Polarhome http://polarhome.com/
Slack CEO: Microsoft is ‘unhealthily preoccupied with killing us’ - The Verge (Slack says Teams is primarily a video platform. It's really a Slack killer.) https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270421/slack-ceo-stewart-butterfield-microsoft-teams-competition
Have you ever thought of using IntenseDebate comments on your not-WordPress blog? I'm thinking about it. https://intensedebate.com/home
C++ has become more Pythonic - Jeff Preshing https://preshing.com/20141202/cpp-has-become-more-pythonic/
c++ - Why is "using namespace std;" considered bad practice? - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1452721/why-is-using-namespace-std-considered-bad-practice
A new cross-platform open source C++ framework - Jeff Preshing https://preshing.com/20200526/a-new-cross-platform-open-source-cpp-framework/
Work from home is dead, long live work from anywhere – Danny Crichton/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/18/work-from-home-is-dead-long-live-work-from-anywhere/
Remembering the nearly 100,000 lives lost to coronavirus in America - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html
More big moves from Microsoft: Windows Package Manager - Demitrius Nelon/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/
Microsoft is very much committed to rapid development with its Windows Subsystem for Linux - Craig Loewen/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-build-2020-summary/
Microsoft open-sources GW-BASIC | Rich Turner/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/
Fedora Silverblue, an introduction for developers - Nick Hardiman/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-silverblue-brings-future-tech-to-the-desktop/
IDEs and text editors for writing C++ code on a large scale - Daniel Martin/Inside PSPDFKit https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2020/ide-text-editors-cpp-large-scale/
Microsoft’s new Windows Package Manager is already better than the Windows Store - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21264739/microsoft-windows-package-manager-preview-download
The state of the AWK - Ben Hoyt/LWN.net https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/820829/5bf9bf8bb9d6f2bf/
It is POURING rain in the Valley
I spent some time this weekend trying to get a NetBSD desktop going. It's a muuch heavier lift than OpenBSD -- by orders of magnitude.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation now has a very nice program available to put Raspbian and other OSes on SD cards. https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
I haven't done a NetBSD install in quite a while. I have the image on a USB, so now's the time.
Changes in the Seventh Edition of 'JavaScript: The Definitive Guide' - David Flanagan https://davidflanagan.com/2020/05/03/changes-in-the-seventh-edition.html
With the OpenBSD 6.6 install I just did, Chromium and Firefox are running well (instead of not at all at times). Geany core dumps on every exit.
A lot has changed in OpenBSD over the past 12 years, except its default Fvwm look is exactly the same.
tl;dr I ran a LOT of OpenBSD 12 years ago.
I had a question about Fvwm configuration in OpenBSD, and Google gave me my own blog post from 12 years ago. http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2008/04/10/configuring-fvwm-in-openbsd-an/
What is a mask valve, and why are cities banning them? - Mark Wilson/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90496717/what-is-a-mask-valve-and-why-are-cities-banning-them
Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever - Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-will-allow-employees-to-work-at-home-forever
Most detailed ever photograph of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' goes online - Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/most-detailed-ever-photograph-of-the-night-watch-goes-online
I set up Vim to compile and run C++ programs, and we mowed the lawn with a manual push mower #QuarantineLife
I used a modified version of this .vimrc add to compile and run C++ programs from Vim https://goyalankit.com/blog/compile-and-run-cpp-program-from-vim
Cleanup on aisle everywhere: A day in the life of supermarket workers during coronavirus - Brittny Mejia/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-10/coronavirus-supermarket-worker-grocery-store-vons-day-in-the-life
The Debian 10.4 update was bigger than I remember the previous Buster updates being. https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200509
Sometimes Facebook is a little broken
When all is said and done, I've spent an enyoyable afternoon using Windows 10. Nothing froze.
Running Windows is OK until that time of day when every window freezes for no particular reason
Upgrading my now-dying 2012 laptop to Fedora 32 probably won't happen - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_upgrading_to_fedora_32_probably_wont_happen/
Installing OpenBSD on a USB flash drive. Do not recommend. - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_openbsd_on_a_usb_flash_drive/
The problem with Conexant's Flow.exe and Firefox has been fixed in Windows - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_windows_firefox_conexant_flow_fixed/
My Ode.io site is very fast. The software is good, and so is my host. http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/
I also installed Cisco AnyConnect in Linux. I hope to spend as little time using it as possible.
Mac migration pain (read it for the info on Perl and MySQL in modern MacOS) - Tim Bray https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/25/Mac-Migration
I needed to set up the Cisco VPN software for work, so I decided to do it in Windows 10. I spent a couple of days in Windows. It was good until it wasn't.
Golang has been through a lot since Go 1.11 in Debian Buster. Instead I installed Go 1.14 from buster-backports. https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/golang
GitHub Codespaces: Get the full Visual Studio Code experience without leaving GitHub https://github.com/features/codespaces
Zoom acquires Keybase in effort to beef up video-communications platform's security through encryption - Zoom Blog https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering/
How to create a personal file server with SSH on Linux | Jim Hall/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/3/personal-file-server-ssh
How the coronavirus pandemic has shattered the myth of college in America - Masha Gessen/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-shattered-the-myth-of-college-in-america
College choice: Reopen and risk virus spread or face financial ruin - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/02/colleges-reopen-decision-coronavirus-229609
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it – Jatan Mehta https://jatan.blog/2020/05/02/ubuntu-snap-obsession-has-snapped-me-off-of-it/
Digital.gov uses the @GoHugoIO static-site generator to build about 10K pages in 32 seconds https://gohugo.io/showcase/digitalgov/
If you partitioned your disk and didn't allow enough space for applications to live in your /home directory, you are not going to be happy with Flatpaks https://flatpak.org/
Quite a few @debian security updates in the past couple of days: tiff, nodejs, openjdk-8, linux (the kernel), openldap https://www.debian.org/security/
I am prepared to say that my in-place dist-upgrade of a @raspberrypi Zero W was not a success. It keeps losing its WiFi connection, and Wicd is no help. I will re-image with a fresh Raspbian Buster.
The Bandwidth Alliance is a group of forward-thinking cloud and networking companies that are committed to discounting or waiving data transfer (also known as bandwidth) fees for shared customers. https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
DigitalOcean announces VPC — Virtual Private Cloud - Rafael Rosa/DigitalOcean https://blog.digitalocean.com/vpc-trust-platform/
The pandemic will change American retail forever - Derek Thompson/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/how-pandemic-will-change-face-retail/610738/
Some overwhelmed parents are giving up on distance learning and abandoning at-home schooling - Caroline Alphonso/The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-growing-cohort-of-overwhelmed-parents-unengaged-children-drop/
In a crisis, radio should be bigger than ever — so why isn't it? - Samantha Hissong/Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/radio-coronavirus-crisis-985533/
Coronavirus: An oral history of the day everything changed - Garrett M. Graff/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/an-oral-history-of-the-day-everything-changed-coronavirus/
Celebrating ‘Hey Jude,’ the Beatles’ most open-hearted masterpiece - Rob Sheffield/Rolling Stone https://getpocket.com/explore/item/hey-jude-at-50-celebrating-the-beatles-most-open-hearted-masterpiece
I was looking around in old directories and found the instructions/workarounds I wrote down for running CentOS 5
When I complain about an open-source project on Twitter and am not asking for support on Twitter, don't complain about my asking for support on Twitter and then instruct me to ask for support on your mailing list. Your software isn't ready. Your tone is lousy.
Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops - Matthew Miller/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/
Kdenlive 20.04 is out. I always say I should try this video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/04/kdenlive-20-04-is-out/
Instagram is Facebook. Are you cool with that?
File under 'terrible,' cross-file under 'IDGAF': Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos and videos on computers https://manualdousuario.net/instagram-photos-videos-unlogged-on-computers/
I am now running two @raspberrypi Zero W boards. The "new" one is using an old SD card and is doing a long Buster upgrade. The "old" one is now doing a dist-upgrade from Stretch to Buster. https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/
Permanent.org: Secure cloud storage with a one-time payment to 'take control of your digital legacy' https://www.permanent.org/
Rules of thumb for a 1x developer - Mickey Muldoon https://muldoon.cloud/programming/2020/04/17/programming-rules-thumb.html
GNU's advanced distro and transactional package manager — GNU Guix https://guix.gnu.org/
GNU Shepherd is an alternative to Systemd https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-04/msg00010.html
Looks like this OpenSSL security fix has already moved to #Debian Stable. https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20200421.txt
Just got an openssl update for #Debian Stable
Final bits from the outgoing Debian project leader - Sam Hartman https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/04/msg00012.html
Another Git update for #Debian https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4659
Apple's new iPhone SE has no credible Android alternative - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-new-iphone-se-has-no-credible-android-alternative/
This worked for me: How to open a terminal from Nautilus - Ryan Lerch/Fedora Magazine (Fedora doesn't ship with the required package. Debian does.) https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-open-a-terminal-nautilus/
This article pretty much has me convinced: Reasons to give OpenSUSE a try - NewsLagoon https://newslagoon.com/reasons-to-give-opensuse-a-try/17928/
Workstream is "a super fast, virtual computer you can use for anything" https://workstream.paperspace.com/
For about $1,100, Vintage 47 Amps of San Pedro will make you a sweet amp that sounds like an early-1940s Gibson model http://www.vintage47amps.com/VA-185G/
Apple announces new iPhone SE starting at https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/iphone-se-a-powerful-new-smartphone-in-a-popular-design/
🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog - Joel Hooks https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
Debian sends security updates for Thunderbird and Git https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4656 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4657
Try gh, GitHub's new CLI - John Papa https://johnpapa.net/try-githubs-new-cli-gh/
WriteFreely is free and open source software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community. https://writefreely.org/
This is the Fediverse Network list of Pleroma instances https://fediverse.network/pleroma
An introduction to the Pleroma microblogging server - Lainblog. tl;dr Pleroma has fewer moving parts. https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/
Pleroma is a free, federated social network server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon and other ActivityPub implementations. https://pleroma.social/
This is Git gold: Pushing to multiple remote repositories using Git - Casey Scarborough http://caseyscarborough.com/blog/2013/08/25/pushing-to-multiple-remotes-using-git/
New task for me: Figure out how to post to a Mastodon site from a local app https://joinmastodon.org/
In Windows, the net-ping Ruby gem needs the win32-security gem in order to run. I found this out after a few crashes and a look at the net-ping documentation. https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/net-ping/
Opposite of a platform for DPL 2020 - Sam Hartman (current Debian Project Leader on why he is not running for the position this year) https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2020/03/msg00000.html
This is the debian-user list email that announced the Debian User Forums way back in 2004. https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/09/msg00014.html
Debian is testing the use of a Discourse forum. The project's members have stedfastly kept just about all communication to email only. The longtime Debian User Forums (http://forums.debian.net) is independent of the project. https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00074.html
Debian has released security updates in recent days for @firefox and #Chromium https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4655 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4653 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4654
A little more Clojure - Uncle Bob/Clean Coder Blog http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/04/09/ALittleMoreClojure.html
Mathematics for the adventurous self-learner | Neil Sainsbury https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner
The software industry's greatest sin: hiring | Neil Sainsbury https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-hiring
The @GNOME desktop just crashed. Doesn't happen often. Firefox and Chromium saved my tabs, and Vim saved almost all of my changes, but still ...
I am using the Dark Theme Toggle @GNOME Shell Extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1518/dark-theme-toggle/
Updating your @GNOME Shell Extensions in @firefox from the GNOME web site can be dicey in @debian stable. An update broke Tray Icons, so I replaced with TopIconsFix. Don't update extensions that are not broken. https://extensions.gnome.org/
I speak Vim. Sort of. I probably can order in a Vim-speaking restaurant. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki
To make a long story short, I am trying to manually install a GNOME Shell extension using this LinuxConfig.org tutorial https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-gnome-shell-extensions-from-zip-file-using-command-line-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux
FuryBSD is a desktop system powered by FreeBSD https://www.furybsd.org
Twitter lets you turn off "personalization and data" settings. Do this to blunt @twitter's ability to "personalize" ads, track you across the web and "share" (aka sell) that data to its "business partners." https://twitter.com/settings/account/personalization
It won't cure coronavirus, but LAUSD sweetens your life with the recipe for its famous coffee cake http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0408_lausd_coffee_cake_for_coronavirus/
There are just about 2,500 entries in my microblog of short posts. http://updates.passthejoe.net
I installed @racketlang in @debian Buster. sudo apt install racket brings in the whole thing, including the DrRacket IDE. https://racket-lang.org
I added the Dark Theme Toggle GNOME Shell Extension. Happy to say that it works. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1518/dark-theme-toggle/
I tried to use emacs today. That is all.
My Zen of Debian project is now on Codeberg.org https://codeberg.org/passthejoe/zen-of-debian
Sourcehut - hosted repositories and CI for hackers https://sourcehut.org/
7-month-old Hacker News thread on the Unison File Synchronizer, of which I'm a big fan. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627903
Why software projects and packages have the names they do - Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName
How to make your own yeast for baking - Justine Calma/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking-covid-19-shortage-make-it-yourself-bread
Free hosted Git service Codeberg.org launched at the beginning of 2019 https://blog.codeberg.org/codebergorg-launched.html
Codeberg.org is a free Git hosting service for free-software projects. They use @giteaio. http://codeberg.org
The hottest free agent in L.A. is a 69-year-old waitress from now-closed Nate ’n Al’s - Daniel Miller/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-04-03/coronavirus-nate-n-als-waitress-gloria-leon
Here's how Bird laid off 406 people in two minutes - Ben Bergman/dot.LA https://dot.la/bird-layoffs-meeting-story-2645612465.html
3 free meals a day for all in New York City https://www.schools.nyc.gov/freemeals
They all retired before they hit 40. Then this happened. - Steven Kurutz/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/style/fire-movement-stock-market-coronavirus.html
The woman who lives 200,000 years in the past - Katherine Rowland/Outside Online https://www.outsideonline.com/2411125/lynx-vilden-stone-age-life
A message to our users - Zoom https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/
Jazz guitar great Bucky Pizzarelli dies of coronavirus at 94 - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/music/bucky-pizzarelli-dead-coronavirus.html
These are the common compose key sequences that can render special characters. I'm using @gnome to access these. - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_combinations
I just figured out that @gnome has a 'compose key' feature to make it easy to enter special characters like accented letters. I set right ctrl as my compose key. https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/tips-specialchars.html.en
Campus is closed, so college students are rebuilding their schools in Minecraft - Pearse Anderson/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21200972/college-students-graduation-minecraft-coronavirus-school-closures
OMG, an @sdtimes article that I actually want to tweet: Eclipse Foundation offers open-source alternative to Visual Studio Code https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/eclipse-foundation-offers-open-source-alternative-to-visual-studio-code/
I made another blog post, this time about a 19th-century classical guitar http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0330_amazing_torres_classical_guitar/
I wrote my first blog entry in a long time. Only for those who care about classical guitar technique. http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0330_nails/
Appearance improvements — with lots of choices — for @Apache @NetBeans 11.3 are strong https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb113/index.html#_appearance
Thank you to the @netbeans team for the 11.3 release with so many improvements. From the easy-to-see visual fixes and upgrades to better JavaFX integration, this is an important release. More thanks for Flatpak packaging. http://netbeans.apache.org/
Bail out journalists. Let newspaper chains die. - Ben Smith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-journalists-newspapers.html
Debian's apt and GNOME's Software Center will not update your Flatpak application. Run this in a terminal:
$ flatpak update
I figured this out in the Flatpak documentation. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html
Social distancing can’t last forever. Here’s what should come next. - Brian Resnick/Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/26/21192211/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-end
How Aristotle created the computer - Chris Dixon/The Atlantic https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-aristotle-created-the-computer
Where did all the saxophones go? - Kelsey McKinney/The Outline https://getpocket.com/explore/item/where-did-all-the-saxophones-go
New @debian team: Debian Social. Nice cupcake! https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial
Official communication channels for Debian - Bits from Debian https://bits.debian.org/2020/03/official-communication-channels.html
Updates from @debian for bluez and icu https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4646 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4647
The untold origin story of the N95 mask - Mark Wilson/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90479846/the-untold-origin-story-of-the-n95-mask
How Kinfolk magazine defined the millennial aesthetic … and unraveled behind the scenes - Lisa Abend/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/03/how-kinfolk-magazine-defined-the-millennial-aesthetic-and-unraveled-behind-the-scenes
The coronavirus crisis proves the internet should be a public utility — Ephrat Livni/Quartz https://qz.com/1826043/the-coronavirus-crisis-proves-internet-should-be-a-public-utility/
96 coronavirus cases in the San Fernando Valley: Which communities have the most? – Steven Rosenberg/LA Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2020/03/24/96-coronavirus-cases-in-the-san-fernando-valley-which-communities-have-the-most/
Turing Pi: A 7 node Kubernetes cluster on your desk https://turingpi.com/
Coronavirus symptoms could include lost sense of smell, doctors warn - Michael Brice-Saddler/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/23/coronavirus-sense-of-smell/
Two years with Rust - Marc Brooker http://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/03/22/rust.html
Webamp is Winamp 2 in your browser - and it plays files on your local drive https://webamp.org/
Adafruit is deemed an essential service during coronavirus outbreak and is shipping orders for health care professionals and urgent needs only. See their extensive manufacturing equipment. https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/03/22/covid/
Yes, there is an open-source alternative to Zoom. It's called Jitsi Meet. https://jitsi.org/
The great toilet paper scare of 1973 - Priceonomics https://priceonomics.com/the-great-toilet-paper-scare-of-1973/
The @debian Security team updates Chromium https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4645
We scored some supplies from the corner market/liquor store. No lines, no waiting, much social distance.
On Reddit: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA about COVID-19/Coronavirus https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/
Why do so few people major in computer science? | Dan Wang https://danwang.co/why-so-few-computer-science-majors/
Build this 8-bit home computer with just 5 chips - Matt Sarnoff/IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-this-8bit-home-computer-with-just-5-chips
Things I can do in an effort to "save" my broken OpenBSD 6.6 laptop (aside from a reinstall): pkg_check -f (check package information and force removal of "bogus" info), pkg_delete -X (delete all packages). Worth a try. https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_delete
Since it now seems so easy, I upgraded an OpenBSD 6.5 laptop to 6.6:
# syspatch
# sysupgrade
# pkg_add -u
Things were OK until the package upgrade. Maybe I can fix it, but it's easy enough to blow the whole thing away and start again. http://openbsd.org
There is a @mozthunderbird update available for @debian https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/t/thunderbird/thunderbird_68.6.0-1_changelog
NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off - The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/19/nasa_cloud_data_migration_mess/
1981 Fender Lead I - Crave Guitars http://www.craveguitars.co.uk/home/features/instruments/feature-1981-fender-lead-i/
My "The Linux Setup" on Linux Rig from 2011. I'm still running Debian with GNOME with gThumb for photo editing. Except it's GNOME 3 instead of 2. https://linuxrig.com/2011/06/19/the-linux-setup-steven-rosenberg-los-angeles/
The Write Stuff for C128 - AmigaLove https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1387
We are all home due to coronavirus, and my wife is doing a conference call on @zoom_us, and it is amazing in terms of audio/video quality
Text processing in the shell - Balthazar Rouberol and Etienne Brodu https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/text-processing-in-the-shell
.@Dropbox is rewriting its sync engine in @rustlang - Sujay Jayakar/Dropbox https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine
Extend the life of your SSD drive with fstrim - Alan Formy-Duval/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/2/trim-solid-state-storage-linux
Mitt Romney and Andrew Yang say give people money - Adam Harris/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-romney-yang-money/608134/
NsCDE: Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM https://github.com/nscde/nscde
Jeff’s letter to the Angular team and community - Jeff Cross (tl;dr The Angular team at Google is a toxic hellhole) https://medium.com/@jeffbcross/jeffs-letter-to-the-angular-team-and-community-5367934a16c9
We are NOT referring to restaurants as "restos." No.
GitHub acquires npm https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
One last party, one last dance, then goodbye: College students decamp in the age of covid-19 - Karen Weintraub and Susan Svrluga/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/03/15/one-last-party-one-last-dance-then-goodbye-college-students-decamp-age-covid-19/
Mass amateurization - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_amateurization
A coronavirus cautionary tale from Italy: Don't do what we did - Mattia Ferraresi/The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-cautionary-tale-italy-dont-do-what-we-did/
I started a new project on GitHub. It's gonna be lit. Or shit. Too early to tell.
How to talk to your boomer about COVID-19 - Nick Allen/Medium https://medium.com/@nickpallen/how-to-talk-to-your-boomer-about-covid-19-ff082a6bf1c3
Layoffs are coming - Jacob Kaplan-Moss https://jacobian.org/2020/mar/13/layoffs-are-coming/
Coronavirus and the remote work experiment no one asked for – Matt Mullenweg https://ma.tt/2020/03/coronavirus-remote-work/
Growing up with Steve Miller - Max Marshall/Texas Monthly https://getpocket.com/explore/item/growing-up-with-steve-miller?utm_source=pocket-newtab
There will be a new edition of David Flanagan's "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" from @oreilly in June 2020. This weighty book was last revised in 2011, an eon ago in JS years. https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Most-Used-Programming-Language/dp/1491952024/
The #coronavirus trend in LA County: 3/9 - 2 new cases, 3/10 - 1 new case, 3/11 - 6 new cases, first death, 3/12 - 3 new cases, 3/13 - 8 new cases, 3/14 - 11 new cases. http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/
Hours at all @ralphsgrocery stories are now 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Thank you to all the employees who are working under extremely difficult conditions due to #coronavirus panic buying.
Did my last market run for some time. It was bananas. Except they had no bananas.
Bananas have died out once before - Jackie Turner/Aeon https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bananas-have-died-out-once-before
Working from home: Lessons learned over 20 years & a shopping list - Dustin Kirkland https://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2020/03/working-from-home.html
How to install Ubuntu with the new Raspberry Pi Imager | Rhys Davies/Ubuntu Blog https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-install-ubuntu-with-the-new-raspberry-pi-imager
Hey kids, there was a time when nobody had email, internet or cell phones. They called it "everything before the '90s."
I love the @debian system, but I love the @fedora community and philosophy more.
5 ways to count files in a directory in Linux - Linux Handbook https://linuxhandbook.com/count-files-directory-linux/
There are @firefox ESR and @ChromiumDev updates available for @Debian Stable (Buster) https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4638
Upgrading @openbsd looks easier than ever with the new sysupgrade command. https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade.8
I spent some time running Windows 10 today. Back in Debian now.
Something tells me that the Windows Task Manager does not track a whole bunch of sketchy Microsoft processes.
Bug fixes I'm making on blogPoster in the near future include: preventing crashes when networking is down, eliminating final underscore in post paths. http://github.com/passthejoe/blogposter
I just discovered the net-ping Ruby gem, which I'm going to use to test for a live Internet connection and keep my blogPoster script from crashing. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21081639/how-to-ping-for-reachability-of-remote-host-in-ruby/21081715
I use Gvim instead of console Vim much of the time. I like being able to click the mouse around and select text that way.
I heard about the new GTK website on @latenightlinux. It is very good. The first example you see is a JavaScript app. I am very interested. https://www.gtk.org/
Things I've added to my @debian-running iMac: Git, Ruby and the Nokogiri, Twitter and net-sftp Ruby gems (plus all the dependencies they brought with them).
My @debian-running mid-2011 iMac is now at the point where I can use my blogPoster script on it to write these updates. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
I love this live election results page from @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/29/us/elections/results-south-carolina-primary-election.html?action=click&module=ELEX_results&pgtype=Interactive®ion=RaceTitle
NearlyFreeSpeech.net estimates that my two sites (one production, one non-production) will cost me $1.96 per month. Total. For both.
I went to the downtown LA area near City Hall and Little Tokyo at night for the first time in a long time. A LOT of homeless. Hundreds of tents.
In this @debian install, I didn't do encrypted LVM, or LVM at all. I went for straight partitions, one for swap, one for /. I'm changing my philosophy on partitioning. #KeepItSimple
I installed Debian Buster on a mid-2011 iMac. I went for a dual boot with MacOS, using the REFInd boot manager to make it slightly more civilized. I used the nonfree-firmware Debian installer but still had to add firmware to get the Radeon card to work. #FunWithRunLevel3
Unless I'm incorrect, @debian Live images used to all ship with nonfree firmware, but now they don't, though live images with nonfree firmware are available in the nonfree "area"
Unix as IDE - Tom Ryder: TONS of great tips here https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/
How to prepare for coronavirus in the United States - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/26/how-to-prepare-for-coronavirus/?arc404=true
I now have two sites on @nfsn. http://updates.passthejoe.net and http://passthejoe.net
Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts has moved to a new hosting provider and is now being actively updated by the blogPoster script via SFTP. http://updates.passthejoe.net/
I replaced ftp with sftp in my blogPoster Ruby script that posts to Twitter and a personal microblog
Getting the user and permissions right for files and directories where Perl CGI programs write to files via the Apache web server is a delicate operation.
Use Haven to turn your old Android phone into a monitoring device that detects motion, sound, vibration and light. https://github.com/guardianproject/haven
The most famous teen basketball players go to Sierra Canyon - Reeves Wiedeman/The Intelligencer https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/sierra-canyon-basketball-team.html
Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? - Anisa Purbasari Horton/BBC Worklife https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200212-could-micro-credentials-compete-with-traditional-degrees
Date Formatter Ruby gem makes it easy to configure strftime formats. I remember Golang being this easy, so glad to see this for Ruby. https://github.com/feedreader/pluto/tree/master/date-formatter
Once again, @davidallen909 makes the Inland Empire look like a million bucks: Molly sells Molly’s Souper in Upland but stays on at homey restaurant https://www.dailybulletin.com/2020/02/18/molly-sells-mollys-souper-in-upland-but-stays-on-at-homey-restaurant/
Thank you, @twitter, for randomly refreshing my timeline while I'm in the middle of reading a tweet.
I went back to work on the effort to convert my blogPoster Ruby script to a class-based program
Debian has released a security update for the Evince document viewer https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4624
If you look at the Slackware Linux web site, the project appears to be frozen in time. But development continues, and the distro is up to date. If you want a Linux that doesn't use systemd, this is it. http://www.slackware.com/
Customizing mini 4WD racers for high speeds on a small scale - Ars Technica Video. (I did not know in any way that this was a thing. It's like 1960s slot car racing for the 2020s. https://arstechnica.com/video/watch/customizing-mini-4wd-racers-for-high-speeds-on-a-small-scale
The @debian project has released a @firefox ESR security update for Stable (aka Buster). https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4620
Windows 7 bug prevents users from shutting down or rebooting computers | Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-7-bug-prevents-users-from-shutting-down-or-rebooting-computers/
How your laptop ruined your life: Smartphones aren’t the only killers of work-life balance - Amanda Mull/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/laptops-killed-work-life-balance/606334/
The age of decadence: Cut the drama. The real story of the West in the 21st century is one of stalemate and stagnation. - Ross Douthat/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/sunday/western-society-decadence.html
If you want to code in C/C++ in @netbeans, you can run @coolbeans instead http://openbeans.org/blog/2019/open-source.html
It's great to see @openbeans, the @netbeans distribution, going open source. thanks @emilianbold http://openbeans.org/
@debian is released approximately every two years. That means Debian 11 should go stable about mid-2021. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
Uses This / Alice Maz is where I learned about @voidlinux https://usesthis.com/interviews/alice.maz/
Void Linux - the strangely overlooked distribution - Andrew Powell/The Linux Rain https://www.thelinuxrain.com/articles/void-linux-the-strangely-overlooked-distribution
Void Linux review: It's a Linux and BSD hybrid - John Paul/It's FOSS https://itsfoss.com/void-linux/
Void Linux: built from scratch for full independence - Jack M. Germain/LinuxInsider https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Void-Linux-Built-From-Scratch-for-Full-Independence-85703.html
DistroWatch review of Void Linux (2018) https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20181217#void
@Void Linux is a rolling distro that uses the runit init system (instead of systemd) and its own xpbs package manager. It is not a fork of anything, say developers. https://voidlinux.org/
Twitter, should tweets end with a period? Just wondering.
If your "job" is cold-calling people on the phone with the intent of selling them things they don't want or need, or outright scamming them, please quit now and do ANYTHING else.
You CAN get a Gibson ES-330-like guitar in the form of Heritage's H-530 https://heritageguitars.com/pages/h-530
If I were in the market for an ES-175, I'd seriously look at Heritage's H-575 https://heritageguitars.com/pages/h-575
Mini projects built with HTML5, CSS & JavaScript. No frameworks or libraries - Brad Traversy https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects
Scrappy start-up Iowa Starting Line is the 'it' read for political insiders - Michael M. Grynbaum/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/media/iowa-caucus-media-starting-line.html
Classical music by candlelight in an L.A. church - Malia Wooten/Secret Los Angeles https://secretlosangeles.com/classical-music-by-candlelight-in-a-stunning-la-church
gThumb is my photo-editing app of choice for Linux. It does everything well and handles IPTC caption data in a way that GIMP has promised but never delivered. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb
The history of the Trapper Keeper - Erin McCarthy/Mental Floss https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52726/history-trapper-keeper
Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit - Ian Coldwater https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec
Revolution Pi brings Raspberry Pi into industrial-PC space https://revolution.kunbus.com/revolution-pi-series/
There is a new @debian security update for python-apt https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4609
dev.to, aka @ThePracticalDev, acquires @CodeNewbies. I can't tell if this the way it was supposed to happen. https://dev.to/devteam/special-announcement-from-dev-4oi
What is 'comprehensible input' in language teaching? A Latin teacher blogs about it here. https://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/
Vimwiki: A personal wiki for Vim http://vimwiki.github.io/
Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It - Nat Eliason https://www.nateliason.com/blog/roam
Two big @debian security updates today: openjdk-11 and chromium https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/threads.html
I replaced my @debian Backports 5.2 Linux kernel with 5.4 and then had to replace that with 5.3. The GUI kept freezing. All is well now with the 5.3 kernel.
Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow - Jay Peters/The Verge (I will miss the Secure Shell ...) https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21067907/google-chrome-apps-end-support-lune-windows-macos-linux
College degrees used to make families wealthier. That’s no longer true - Benjamin Reeves/Worth https://www.worth.com/college-degrees-used-to-make-families-wealthier-thats-no-longer-true/
Running Linux on your smartphone: everything you need to know in 2020 https://tuxphones.com/2020-everything-running-linux-smartphone-guide/
San Diego homeless survival guide - Doreen Traylor https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/
Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years - Feargus O'Sullivan/CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/01/amsterdam-architecture-history-canal-houses-urban-design/604921/
GoatCounter – Simple web statistics. No tracking of personal data. https://www.goatcounter.com/
Free 'Language Learning With Netflix' extension teaches you how to speak Spanish, French, Japanese and more while watching movies https://soranews24.com/2020/01/12/free-language-learning-with-netflix-extension-makes-studying-japanese-almost-too-easy/
Firefox package for OpenBSD 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates due to being too complicated https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200109141600
I mentioned the Liquorix kernels for Linux today. If speed is your thing, they are very much worth using for @debian or @ubuntu. I have had much success with them, though now I use the Debian @backports kernel. https://liquorix.net/
A @firefox ESR security update for @Debian Stable https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4600
The Ruby Reference https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubyref/
Substack is a way to publish subscription content on the web. You can publish for free, or charge readers a monthly fee. https://substack.com/about?utm_source=menu
Interactive Vim tutorial https://www.openvim.com/
Frameworkless JS https://frameworkless.js.org/
How to start a blog using Hugo - Flavio Copes https://flaviocopes.com/start-blog-with-hugo/
For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity - Adam Belz/StarTribune.com http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/
Ancient Greek textbooks roundup - Ryan Baumann (aka @ryanfb) https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2018/03/02/ancient_greek_textbooks_roundup.html
Resources for reading Homeric Greek - Ryan Baumann (aka @ryanfb) https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2019/02/25/resources_for_reading_homeric_greek.html
My business card runs Linux - George Hilliard https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/
This page is designed to last: a manifesto for preserving content on the Web - Jeff Huang https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
When you hit esc and forget you're not in Vim, and you lose your changes in a web form
I don't know how to package software for Windows, Mac or Linux, but it's a vital skill that I'd like to learn
Dear open-source programmer or maintainer: If I write a tweet that is critical of your project's packaging or functionality, I'm not asking you for tech support. And I'm really not crazy about you complaining that I'm asking for something that I'm not.
There have been two recent @debian security updates: Ruby and Thunderbird https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4586 https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4585
Preserve This Podcast: An Andrew W. Mellon grant-funded project hosted by the Metropolitan New York Library Council to help podcasters protect their work against the threats of digital decay http://preservethispodcast.org/
Security update: @debian is updating @firefox https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4580
20 VPS providers to shut down on Monday, giving customers two days to save their data - Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-vps-providers-to-shut-down-on-monday-giving-customers-two-days-to-save-their-data/
Verizon kills email accounts of archivists trying to save Yahoo Groups history - Liam Tung/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-kills-email-accounts-of-archivists-trying-to-save-yahoo-groups-history/
Apple's new monster ,000 Mac Pro is about to ship - Daphne Leprince-Ringuet/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-new-monster-6000-mac-pro-is-about-to-ship/
Alex Bartsch — Covers 2: Retracing more record sleeves around the world http://www.alexbartsch.com/more-covers
Alex Bartsch — Covers: Retracing reggae record sleeves in London http://www.alexbartsch.com/covers
Big @debian security update today for the #Chromium browser https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4575
I have been running Debian Stable on this laptop for more than 3 months, and it has been a lovely experience. The relentless pace of updates in Windows 10 and Fedora drove me to it.
I love how I'm automatically running Debian 10.2, and all I had to do is keep up with regular apt update/upgrades. Check /etc/debian_version to see what you are running.
Canadian jazz guitarist Ed Bickert dies at 86 https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/jazzblog/rip-ed-bickert
I am installing my first Flatpak application from Flathub, and it is taking a long time. Maybe the second one goes more quickly. https://flathub.org
The state of Java IDE packaging in Linux is not so good. Netbeans and Eclipse didn't even make it into Debian Buster, and the Netbeans in Sid is version 10 when I want 11. Ubuntu also packages Netbeans 10. I can't figure out anything for Ubuntu 19.10.
I still think the M.2 NVMe SSD is the tech MVP of the late 2010s. It's a total game-changer in terms of desktop/laptop performance. I now can't stand using PCs with magnetic hard drives.
Happy 25th year, blogging. You've grown up, but social media is still having a brawl by John Naughton/The Guardian leads with @davewiner as one of the first bloggers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/12/blogging-twenty-five-years-old-all-grown-up
Residents flee San Francisco because of costs - Marco della Cava/USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/
I have an aluminum laptop, and I see no advantage over plastic. Aluminum will dent before plastic will break.
I'm not trying to hate on Medium's "business model," why is it even remotely attractive in a world where WordPress.com won't charge you or your readers, where dev.to is beginning to dominate the developer-blog space, and where you CAN run your own server in the closet or cloud?
I've gotten a lot of paywalled Medium links today. Unless you, the writer, are making some serious Medium money — and I know you're not — consider running your own site or choosing a free platform like ... all the others.
Who really killed Blockbuster? Ben Unglesbee/Retail Dive https://www.retaildive.com/news/who-really-killed-blockbuster/564314/
A love letter to Clojure (Part 1) - Gene Kim. Great post. https://itrevolution.com/love-letter-to-clojure-part-1/#why-i-love-lisps-now
You, your cellphone and a disaster: What to do when communications go wonky - Jason H. Harper/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-09/shelter-me-you-your-cellphone-and-a-disaster-what-to-do-when-communications-go-wonky
An open letter to the new owners of Meteor - Sacha Greif https://medium.com/@sachagreif/an-open-letter-to-the-new-owners-of-meteor-353d64780b20
I just started using Evolution - I am going full @GNOME, it appears
It's nice that in @racketlang GUI programming is treated like something you might want to do https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/index.html
Ruby gtk3 GUI applications ARE cross-platform - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2019_1006_ruby_gtk3_is_crossplatform/
A new chapter for Meteor - Geoff Schmidt/Meteor Blog (My take: It's not a ringing endorsement that "most of" the Meteor.js team abandoned it for Apollo Graph QL) https://blog.meteor.com/a-new-chapter-for-meteor-7b684320be4c
Canadian tech holding company Tiny acquires JavaScript app platform Meteor – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/tiny-acquires-meteor/
Lovely playing on Herb Ellis and Freddie Green's "Rhythm Willie" album, which also features Ray Brown, Jake Hanna and Ross Tompkins. Who doesn't love Herb? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfgcgupbIb4
Here she is, the safest driver in Los Angeles - Ethan Varian/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/style/safest-driver-los-angeles.html
How Kerrygold butter conquered America - Elizabeth G. Dunn/Bloomberg <20191002kerrygold_butter.txt>
What happened at WeWork? - Reeves Wiedeman/New York Magazine http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-happened-at-we-why-wework-postponed-its-ipo.html
Don Cherry & John Coltrane - The Avant Garde: I am crazy into this album right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6inXbK1rk
Creating a Linux desktop application with Ruby using GTK+ - Lazarus Lazaridis (Now that I'm no longer daily-driving Windows, I just might try this) https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/01/25/creating-a-gtk-todo-application-with-ruby.html
JavaScript vs Pharo - Richard Kenneth Eng https://itnext.io/javascript-vs-pharo-d4fbf15578ee
Red Hat's CentOS 8 arrives: Here's what you get with it - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hats-centos-8-arrives-heres-what-you-get-with-it/
What is CentOS Stream? https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSStream
File under 'that was quick': CentOS 8 released only a week after CentOS 7. CentOS Stream rolling release also announced. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023449.html
Post-apocalyptic Glendale — yes, Glendale — in Netflix's 'Daybreak' - Glendale News-Press https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/story/2019-09-24/netflix-daybreak-glendale-greg-kasyan
Will Trump be impeached? Let’s look at this wiggling dial - The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/1781/will-trump-be-impeached-lets-look-at-this-wiggling-dial
Fix 'Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported' in Debian - Linux Uprising Blog (I had this problem on my new Debian Buster system) https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/09/fix-username-is-not-in-sudoers-file.html
You could learn a language by watching Netflix: They have programming in so many languages, and if there are subtitles available in your language, you can't help but pick up a lot of phrases.
Apple’s new Mac Pro to be made in Texas - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to-be-made-in-texas/
I made a website that will go away in 30 days https://sdnotes.com/passthejoe
Easily make a website that goes away in 30 days https://sdnotes.com/faq
Medievalists.net is a great web site about the Middle Ages. Very engaging. http://www.medievalists.net/
Fedora Workstation 31 – Whats new — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/09/23/fedora-workstation-31-whats-new/
Is the era of the + graphing calculator coming to an end? - Zachary Crockett/The Hustle — check this out, @bloomtasticmath https://thehustle.co/graphing-calculators-expensive/
Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1908) on the x86_64 architecture https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023405.html
I try to spend >= for a phone
Why the Apple Store is the worst place to buy your new iPhone 11 - Jason Perlow/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-the-apple-store-is-the-worst-place-to-buy-your-new-iphone-11/
I would love to run CentOS/RHEL as a boring, stable alternative to Fedora, but there are nowhere near enough packages, and I want to go outside the repos as little as possible. That is why I run Debian.
Are you waiting for CentOS 8? This page from the project shows how far along they are. tl;dr: No CentOS 8 until 7.7 is finished. https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8
I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds - The story of tilde.club by Paul Ford (2014) https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf
Welcome to ~tilde.club~ https://tilde.club/
Can a Raspberry Pi 4 really replace your PC? - J.A. Watson/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/can-a-raspberry-pi-4-really-replace-your-pc/
Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that’s a good thing) | Scott Gilbertson/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/debian-10-playing-catch-up-with-the-rest-of-the-linux-world-thats-a-good-thing/
The myth of the autistic jerk - Brandon Weaver/DEV Community https://dev.to/baweaver/the-myth-of-the-autistic-jerk-3kjl
See a super-close-up image of Mars – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/6453/valles-marineris-hemisphere-enhanced/
MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms, fall 2011 - 42 videos on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61Oq3tWYp6V_F-5jb5L2iHb
11 forgotten books of the 1920s worth reading now - Bob Batchelor/Literary Hub https://lithub.com/10-forgotten-books-of-the-1920s-worth-reading-now/
I've been using Syncthing to mirror files in Linux, Windows, MacOS and OpenBSD, and it's working - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2019_0914_syncthing/
The rise of the electric scooter - Jeff Atwood https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-rise-of-the-electric-scooter/
Should we take a few long holidays, or lots of short ones? - Tim Harford http://timharford.com/2019/09/should-we-take-a-few-long-holidays-or-lots-of-short-ones/
The Fedora Discussion forum is VERY #Silverblue heavy https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/latest
Printing in Debian 10: CUPS isn't in the default desktop if you forget to check the box during installation - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2019_0911_printing_in_debian/
Printing in Debian 10: CUPS isn't in the default desktop installation - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2019_0911_printing_in_debian/
The Bird and the Bee on the poetry of Van Halen – Kory Grow/Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bird-and-the-bee-van-halen-interview-873383/
AP sparks linguistic pandemonium with hyphen guidance update - Merrill Perlman/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/associated-press-hyphen.php
I am now running Debian 10 Buster with the Backports kernel
OpenBSD is now my workstation - Chris Humphries https://sogubsys.com/openbsd-is-now-my-workstation-operating-system/
Pairing @debian Stable with Flatpaks seems like a very good way to go
I let the @debian installer autopartition the drive, and had I know it would be a problem, I would have made /boot MUCH bigger than 250 MB so I wouldn't have to deal with space issues.
I don't know what happened -- could be a bug fix -- but I am now running the stock @debian kernel with no i2c touchpad issues. I'm not crazy about /boot filling up. I don't remember this happening the last time I ran Stable, and it doesn't happen on encrypted @fedora.
On my @debian 10 system with encrypted LVM, /boot is running out of room. It only has 250 MB, and I had whatever kernels Debian installed and then a Liquorix kernel. I got rid of all the Liquorix kernels and then the older Debian kernels.
Today's update on my @debian Stable system took care of multiple security issues in @firefox-esr https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4516
Windows 10 issues — unpredictable updates, random slowdows, unresponsive Desktop Search — sent me running to @debian, which has been running like butter
Windows 10 1903: Buggy update slows PCs, breaks Desktop Search, says Microsoft - Liam Tung/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-1903-buggy-update-slows-pcs-breaks-desktop-search-says-microsoft/
Debian supports Flatpak, which I'm definitely going to try https://flatpak.org/
Don't Break Debian from the Debian Wiki offers a lot of good advice https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
Pro tip: There are @debian images to run the distribution live and install it that include non-free firmware. I used a live image both to test and install Debian Buster. https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/
Debian 10 Buster with GNOME 3: I didn't expect it to be this fast, but that could be the SSD talking - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2019_0902_debian_10_first_impressions/
From zero to React - Liam Ross https://www.liamross.me/from-zero-to-react/
Are people really still dependent (or even using) iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, or whatever it is they call their audio services? I'm thinking not so much, but what do I know?
I have written A LOT of @debian articles over the years. A whole lot. http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/
I wrote an article about using @debian Squeeze with Backports in 2012 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2012_0104_debian_backports_kernel
I forgot about @debian Backports. I wrote about it in an old blog post, and it still exists. It might be a better source that Liquorix for newer kernels to use with Debian Stable, though Liquorix is very Debian-centric. https://backports.debian.org/
I wrote an even earlier post on upgrading @debian Squeeze to Wheezy http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2012_0629_upgrade_squeeze_to_wheezy
I wrote about upgrading from @debian Squeeze to Wheezy in 2012 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2012_1130_debian_wheezy_improvements
I wrote about Debian 9 Stretch and my feelings about @debian back in 2017 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2017_0618_debian_9_stretch_is_the_new_stable
Yep, I blogged about the #Liquorix kernel for @Debian in 2011 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2011_0223_debian_squeeze_and_the_liquorix_kernels_i_update_with_aptitude
The #Liquorix kernel has solved my touchpad-logging-flood issue in @debian Buster. I'm sure I blogged about the last time Liquorix saved my bacon, and that time was probably in 2010. http://liquorix.net
I was a huge user of Debian Etch (2007-08), Lenny (2009-10) and Squeeze (2011), with some time out for Fedora 13-15 (2010-11) before I returned to Debian Squeeze (2011-12), then Fedora 18-30 (2013-2019). Now I'm back on Debian Buster (and it's still 2019).
Another thing @debian has in its repo: JavaFX/OpenJFX for Java 11 https://packages.debian.org/buster/openjfx
One of the reasons I wanted to run @debian is that it has EVERYTHING in its repos. And it does. I just found Leiningen. While I love @fedora, Debian's huge repo allows me to manage nearly everything via apt. https://packages.debian.org/buster/leiningen
I'll say it again: swapping an M.2 NVMe SSD for a spinning hard drive is a total game-changer
Is Perl 6 being renamed? (plus thoughts on the Perl 5/Perl 6 divide) - Ovid http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html
Why Clojure? - Uncle Bob http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.html
If you must run Windows 10 - TinyApps.org https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811300700_windows_10_ltsc.html
A Book from Alan Turing … and a mysterious piece of paper — Stephen Wolfram https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/08/a-book-from-alan-turing-and-a-mysterious-piece-of-paper/
I'm enjoying the slow pace of updates on @debian 10 Buster. I had one new package yesterday and none today. Right now I don't need anything to be new, so Debian Stable is a good place to park.
If you are using a dark theme in Linux (like Adwaita Dark in GNOME) with Firefox and are having problems with black-on-black or white-on-white form fields, this 2-year-old fix still works https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283086#c7
The evolution of dial telephones http://www.arctos.com/dial/
Xfce 4.14 tour – Xfce https://www.xfce.org/about/tour
Why I love my paper dictionary - Austin Kleon https://austinkleon.com/2017/08/17/why-i-love-my-paper-dictionary/
So far, Debian GNOME on an M.2 SSD is killing Windows 10 on a spinning hard drive. It's not like it's a fair fight, but the performance gain is real and really huge. I didn't realize how much of a bottleneck a magnetic hard drive can be.
Debian has more rough edges than Fedora, and I'm still trying to get .exe files to run in GNOME without drama, but I wanted to have more apps packaged and a much quieter update cycle.
Everything is faster with a cheap M.2 SSD. I was able to get one super cheap, although it's almost too small at 250GB, and Debian Buster is FLYING on it.
The dev.to website is built with Ruby on Rails on the back end, JavaScript on the front end https://dev.to/devteam/dev-went-open-source-one-year-ago-today-and-we-have-so-much-more-planned-530f
This is the most minimal blog I've ever seen. And I like it. https://txt.black/~jack/
Java for everything (2014) https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html
NY Times public editor: The readers versus the masthead - Gabriel Snyder/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/nyt-headline-trump-mass-shootings.php
Will tumult in the Racketlang world send people running to Common Lisp? https://lisp-lang.org/
The vegetarians who turned into butchers - Melissa Clark/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/dining/butchers-meat-vegetarian-vegan.html
I just figured out multiple desktops on the Mac. I also figured out how to make Finder objects bigger. The only problem is that when I upload an image in the browser, the icons are still too small.
Google Cloud nuked the web server on my VM - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2019_0805_google_cloud_nuked_my_server/
Check out my new @GoHugoIO site using the Pixyll theme by @azmelanar http://passthejoe.net/
How phones made the world your office, like it or not - Jeff Giles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/how-phones-made-the-world-your-office-like-it-or-not.html
Secret of a New York farm stand's success: An eye for the next big thing - Priya Krishna/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/dining/norwich-meadows-farm-vegetables.html
If you need Java, I suggest getting it from AdoptOpenJDK. For Windows, they offer JDK versions 8, 11 and 12, all with MSI installers. Plus, you don't need to sign up with Oracle. https://adoptopenjdk.net/
NW.js: A new way of writing native applications using web technologies HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL https://nwjs.io/
Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30. This is what happens next. - Monojoy Bhattacharjee/What’s New in Publishing https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/google-unlocks-33-of-publisher-paywalls-on-july-30-this-is-what-happens-next/
Humans will never colonize Mars - George Dvorsky/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/humans-will-never-colonize-mars-1836316222
How America's plastic recycling is broken - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-recycling-landfills
Young Instagram users give up privacy in search of metrics - Sarah Frier/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-26/young-instagram-users-give-up-privacy-in-search-of-more-metrics
I don't begrudge @disqus making money, but the ads that run with comments are click-bait eyesores. Pros who want what Disqus provides should pay for the service and nuke the ads. 1/
SFTPgo: A full-featured and highly configurable SFTP server written in Golang https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
Why the dockless scooter industry is going after a repossessor and a bike shop owner - Amy Martyn/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20696405/dockless-scooters-share-repo-men-repossessor-lawsuit-tow-yard-lime-bird-lyft-uber-razor
What is the difference between an existential threat and just a plain ol' threat? Asking for a friend.
So far, Windows File Manager is SLAUGHTERING OS X Finder in terms of functionality. The question isn't why Windows File Manager is so good but why OS X Finder is so bad.
Lang Lang is back: A piano superstar grows up - Michael Cooper/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/arts/music/lang-lang-piano.html
I remembered this blogPoster bug, which I coded a fix for a few weeks ago and forgot about, because I just crashed the script on a long post.
I have a patch for a blogPoster bug in which articles with too-long titles get too-long filenames and crash Ruby. I just have to deploy the fix. I did it outside blogPoster, now I have to do in the repo.
This 2011 iMac won't run anything newer than OS X High Sierra (10.13). It will be supported for another year and two months. Is nine years or so long enough for Apple to support a computer? Don't know, don't care. Q: When will I put Debian on it? A: Probably soon.
This 2011 iMac has Photoshop. Kind of a meh for me, but I'm seeing what it's all about. I still prefer IrfanView for web photos because I'm quicker with it. And it's quicker in general.
2011 iMac: Mac packaging is a mess, just like all other packaging. Traditional Mac packaging is great and hides a lot of messy stuff. But now there's the Apple App Store, and lots of free-software developers package stuff differently. It's confusing.
More on the 2011 iMac: I stuffed it with 20 GB RAM a while ago. It has a 1 TB spinning drive buried within. You need to remove the screen to get it out, so that ain't happening. It runs OK. Not better than you'd expect, maybe, but OK.
I did enough work on the 2011 iMac with 27-inch monitor to use it for production today. First, I REALLY miss the HD resolution that my HP laptop (and new iMacs, for that matter) offer. Once you go HD, UHD or 4K, you really can't go back. Second, I KNOW it's a 2011 computer.
No CS Degree: Working developers with no CS degree (it's a web site full of them) https://www.nocsdegree.com/
Apache NetBeans 11.1 is out. Pros: A lot of rough edges in the UI have been fixed. Con: Still no Windows installer.
Snoopy taught me how to be a writer - Ann Patchett/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/snoopy-taught-me-how-to-be-a-writer/2019/07/12/8db3ce3c-a31b-11e9-b7b4-95e30869bd15_story.html
This guy works at an Amazon warehouse, and he wrote about it - Kevin Mims/Quillette https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-journalism/
I just ordered toilet paper from @WhoGivesACrapTP
Instead of @disqus, I'm thinking of creating @reddit posts for each comment-worthy entry and linking that in the text
I think @disqus is worth paying for, but I will probably stop using it anyway. If you can handle the spam, straight WordPress is probably the best way to do comments. They are native to your platform. Native comments are too hard for most blogs.
More on the 27-inch iMac 2011: Adding memory is fairly easy. I stuffed it with 20 GB awhile ago. Swapping the hard drive is a shit show. You have to REMOVE THE SCREEN. #KillMe
I have come into possession of a 27-inch iMac 2011. It runs much hotter than the 2019 version that replaced it. You really notice the non-Retina display. For Mac, Apple App Store is GARBAGE and should be killed with fire.
The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan, here's why and how you can add one | Jeff Geerling https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-4-needs-fan-heres-why-and-how-you-can-add-one
KansasFest is an annual Apple II convention in Kansas City, MO. It's going on right now. https://www.kansasfest.org/
The definitive guide to personal newsletters - Revue https://medium.com/@revue/the-definitive-guide-to-personal-newsletters-85b82ada546d
How to build your own paid newsletter and the people who are doing it - Revue https://blog.getrevue.co/how-to-build-your-own-paid-newsletter-and-the-people-who-are-doing-it-3c3073ad495a
Why I’m leaving Medium | Tiago Forte/Praxis (Long but very good read) https://praxis.fortelabs.co/why-im-leaving-medium/
This is very interesting: Memberful — Sell memberships to your audience: Super easy. Works with Stripe, WordPress and MailChimp. @fortelabs is using it. https://memberful.com/
Why AC won the electricity wars - Roots of Progress https://rootsofprogress.org/why-ac-won
Learn web development with the Mozilla Developer Network https://beta.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn
Firefox Developer Edition https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/?utm_campaign=css_grid_learn_more_2
Amazon offers to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data - Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-prime-day/amazon-offers-10-to-prime-day-shoppers-who-hand-over-their-data-idUSKCN1UB164
I should probably be using a "real" @Raspberry_Pi, a Model 3 or 4, instead of a Zero, but I am that cheap
I'm doing a software update for @Debian Buster on the @RaspberryPi Zero W. I used @balenaio Etcher to make the image. It's probably easier than making a "regular" Linux ISO and installing it.
Apache @netbeans 11.1 is slated for release on 7/15/2019 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Release+Schedule
The design of this Get Pocket home page is nice, and the article design is even better https://getpocket.com/explore/trending
There's a problem with @reddit, and it's not working
Racket is an acceptable Python - Christopher Lemmer Webber https://dustycloud.org/blog/racket-is-an-acceptable-python/
I have two websites running off the @raspberry_pi Zero W in the closet. The second is a copy of my microblog. http://updates.passthejoe.net
It's alive: This website is being served by a @raspberry_pi Zero W in my coat closet http://passthejoe.net
The house brand picks from @stringsbymail are cheap and available in a variety of thicknesses https://www.stringsbymail.com/guitar-accessories-2/guitar-picks-360/strings-by-mail-picks-3012/
I can get my favorite picks, D'Andrea Pro Plec, at @stringsbymail https://www.stringsbymail.com/guitar-accessories-2/guitar-picks-360/dandrea-picks-3265/dandrea-pro-plec-789/
Why do electrical plugs have three prongs? http://amasci.com/amateur/whygnd.html
Choosing the wrong lane in the race to 5G | Jessica Rosenworcel/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/choosing-the-wrong-lane-in-the-race-to-5g/
Learning Golang — from zero to hero | Milap Neupane Blog https://milapneupane.com.np/2019/07/06/learning-golang-from-zero-to-hero/
The death watch for the X Window System (aka X11) has probably started - Chris Siebenmann https://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space/blog/unix/XDeathwatchStarts
I have taken the next step in my home web server project: I used Free DNS to point a subdomain at my IP address, and I went into my router's port forwarding to direct port 80 requests to the Raspberry Pi's local IP address on the home network.
I have changed my mind about the new Fedora 30 icons, meaning I now like them. Having the boot/splash screen incorporate the laptop's own boot splash is a really nice bit of polish. Fedora always quietly brings innovation to the Linux desktop.
Now some families are hiring coaches to help them raise phone-free children - Nellie Bowles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/style/parenting-coaches-screen-time-phones.html
In case I haven't mentioned it lately, I recommend @StringsByMail and @JustStrings for all your musical-instrument string needs. Amazon's "free" shipping is overrated, especially when you are overpaying on the front end.Both of these companies will take care of you.
Way, way back in the day, I used to use GHS Nickel Rockers. The packages used to be cooler looking. https://www.stringsbymail.com/electric-guitar-strings-8/ghs-403/nickel-rockers-681/
Nobody but @ghsstrings offers flatwounds like these Pat Martino custom sets https://www.ghsstrings.com/products/16696-pat-martino-flatwounds?category_id=1964816-custom-electric-guitar
I'm creating a new Raspbian image for a web server project using my @RaspberryPi
I just downloaded a Raspbian image for my @RaspberryPi Zero W. Flashing to the Micro SD was easy with the @balena_io Etcher software https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
You're worthwhile, even when you make mistakes - Rachael McQuater/Atomic Object https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/06/30/mentoring-you-are-worthwhile/
I love how an article on Raspberry Pi 4 operating temperature leads to a Hacker News thread about the optimal air-conditioning setting in homes and offices around the world https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20320860
Jony Ive is leaving Apple, but his departure started long ago - Tripp Mickle/WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-is-departing-apple-but-he-started-leaving-years-ago-11561943376?mod=rsswn
Hello Rails: A modern course designed to help you start using and understanding Ruby on Rails fast - Andy Leverenz https://hellorails.io/
I say this with no hyperbole: @Firefox is one of the most important projects we have, and it should be used, supported and celebrated. @Mozilla's decision to focus on privacy and performance means that you don't have to run Google Chrome if you care about those things.
WordGrinder on GitHub: A word processor which gets the hell out of your way and lets you get some work done https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder
WordGrinder is a word processor that runs in your Linux, Mac or Windows terminal https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/
Finland's news in Latin: 'For such a crazy idea we had a remarkable run' Jon Henley/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/28/finland-latin-news-radio-bulletin-nuntii-latini-cancelled-30-years
Google's new reCaptcha has a dark side - Katharine Schwab/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side
Subway (as in sandwiches) got too big. Franchisees paid a price. - Tiffany Hsu and Rachel Abrams/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/business/subway-franchisees.html
A unicorn lost in the Valley, Evernote blows up the 'fail fast' gospel - Erin Griffith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/business/evernote-what-happened.html
New tool aims to bring Python apps to Windows, Mac and Linux desktops for people who have never heard of Python - Liam Tung/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-language-pythons-existential-threat-is-app-distribution-is-this-the-answer/
Upcoming features in Fedora 31 Workstation - Paul W. Frields/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/upcoming-features-in-fedora-31-workstation/
Those Koch Industries ads on @axios are starting to work on me. It's like, "hey, we aren't just a firehose of GOP campaign cash, we also MAKE ACTUAL THINGS."
Reinventing Firefox for Android - Mozilla.org https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventing-firefox-for-android-a-preview/
I got some developer responses to my Firefox/Conexant/Flow bug, and I added some replies to their questions. Thanks to the Mozilla people who are looking into this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555726
The new Apache NetBeans website is built with the JBake static site generator written in Java. I appreciate that they're dogfooding one of the few Java-bases SSGs as listed on https://www.staticgen.com. https://github.com/apache/netbeans-website/tree/master/netbeans.apache.org#tooling
C/C++ support is slated to come to Apache NetBeans in September 2019 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+Release+Roadmap
NetBeans 11.1 and 12.1, including installers, are set to be released on July 15, 2019 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Release+Schedule
Apache Netbeans 11 does have installers for Mac, Linux and Windows, but they are deemed "experimental" at this point https://github.com/rtaneja1/incubator-netbeans/tree/installer-bin-11vc4/nbbuild/installer/binaries
I clicked on a thing, and now my Twitter is in dark mode and also redesigned
JGT Review: Sadowsky Guitars LS-15 & SS-15 - Jazz Guitar Today https://jazzguitartoday.com/2019/04/jgt-review-sadowsky-guitars-ls-15-ss-15/
This "Learning Synths" page from Ableton is a blast!! https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
What's Salesforce? https://tryretool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/
Note to Windows 10: Just because I'm hitting the ESC key in GVim, it doesn't in any way mean I need the Edge browser to open with an unhelpful Windows Help screen.
Yes, I need a newer WSL than Ubuntu 16.04. I will upgrade at some point.
My Unison test on NearlyFreeSpeech.net was a success: NFSN uses the current version of the Unison File Synchronizer, but no Linux distros package it. I built it from source on Ubuntu 16.04 in the WSL, and it works like butter. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
The Amazon Lightsail FAQ is extensive https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/
Even though Amazon Lightsail starts at .50/month, they kind of want you to pair it with a /month managed database. But I think you can use a database from within your VPS, though it won't be as beefy. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/
Amazon sees its Lightsail VM product as a gateway drug to EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/features/
When it comes to price, performance and bandwidth Amazon Lightsail (basically a VM) is looking pretty attractive https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi: It’s good enough to run its own launch website with tens of millions of visitors | Mythic Beasts https://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-on-raspberry-pi/
Since I disabled @conexantsystems's awful Flow.exe (by renaming it _Flow.exe so the Conexant drivers can't find it), I can run @firefox again. It's an ugly hack, but it's all that works in Windows 10.
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is out: Faster CPU, GPU, dual-screen 4K, up to 4GB for | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-is-out-faster-cpu-gpu-dual-screen-4k-up-to-4gb-for-55/
Hey there, @medium writer, they're probably not paying you, so I'm not crazy about paying them ...
I would have dumped @googlechrome for @firefox already if @ConexantSystems' terrible audio driver didn't wreck the performance of thousands of HP laptops, including mine https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555726
Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy. - Geoffrey A. Fowler/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/?utm_term=.744d8f025e70
Reminder to law enforcement PIOs: If your way of distributing images to the media is to embed them in Word documents, you are not doing it right
Mattermost raises million to advance its open source Slack alternative - Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/19/mattermost-raises-50-million-to-advance-its-open-source-slack-alternative/
Slack's direct listing may render the IPO obsolete - Michael J. Coren/Quartz https://qz.com/1642378/slacks-direct-listing-may-render-the-ipo-obsolete/
Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production https://fullstaqruby.org/
Publishing simple books with Jekyll - Bradley Taunt https://bradleytaunt.com/2019/06/20/publish-with-jekyll/
iRedMail: Free, open-source mail server solution https://www.iredmail.org/
Mail-in-a-Box: Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box https://mailinabox.email/
Bill Gates wrote much of the code in the TRS-80 Model 100 https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm#tc35
The TRS-80 Model 100, journalism workhorse of the 1980s - Wayne Lorentz http://wayne.lorentz.me/This_TRS-80/
Facebook: I'm there for the jazz guitar and old-technology posts
Not to copy other bloggers, though I'm totally doing just that, I'm thinking of adding an e-mail newsletter. E-mail is newly "hot" because it's a direct connection that doesn't involve a smarmy social-media interloper
I really don't like seeing the cheesy Disqus ads Disqus on my blog. Disqus deserves to make money, but I'm reluctant to pay. Like other bloggers, I might start creating "discussion" links on Reddit or Hacker News. Also, who needs the extra JS that loads with Disqus?
I've seen a few people delete their Facebook accounts more due to lack of interest than anything else. They are mostly moving to Instagram, so it's all in the family, so to speak.
I don't know what's worse, a company that only responds to your complaint when you shame them on social media, or one that DGAF even then
Why Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles - Bengt Halvorson/Motor Authority https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-purging-touchscreens-from-its-vehicles
The Unison file synchronization tool is too fragile. I need to find another way. Client and server need the exact same Unison version in order for sync to work, and it's getting harder to make that happen.
This @NewYorker article on @ewarren (aka Elizabeth Warren) is so long, I can't read it in one sitting. I'll have to wait for the paper magazine to come out. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/can-elizabeth-warren-win-it-all
Say what you will about @Microsoft, but they are putting money and people behind efforts to provide more tools for developers well beyond the MS-only languages and frameworks https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/
Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java | The Visual Studio Blog https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-visual-studio-code-java-installer/
The Ruby Style Guide https://rubystyle.guide/
The new Dropbox sucks - Daring Fireball https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks
I would be running Firefox right now if it weren't for @BangOlufsen and @ConexantSystems' broken audio driver https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555726
Apple reveals 'Lisa': Its million gamble (1983) - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/apple-reveals-lisa-its-50-million-gamble-207032
GIMP is never going to fix IPTC captions. If they haven't done it by now, it's never going to happen. https://www.gimp.org
It's not like I'm all that and a bag of chips, but writing on Twitter is better than reading on it
A brief history of how your privacy was stolen (by Google and Facebook, that is) - Roger McNamee/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/opinion/google-facebook-data-privacy.html
Eleventy is a static-site generator written in JavaScript that is extensible and light weight. Consider it an alternative to Jekyll, Hugo and Gatsby. https://www.11ty.io/
Java for everything - Teamten.com https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html
Time Machine-style backup with rsync - Laurent Cozic https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup
An orbit map of the solar system - Eleanor Lutz/Tabletop Whale http://tabletopwhale.com/2019/06/10/the-solar-system.html
MacBook Pro problem costing turned out to be a /home/public//cgi-bin/ode.cgi fix - Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/11/macbook-pro-problem/
Mozilla is launching paid, premium features in Firefox - Katharine Schwab/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90362208/even-more-evidence-that-firefox-wants-to-be-the-anti-chrome
Meet the new Dropbox desktop app (Windows and Mac, no Linux) https://www.dropbox.com/features/new
The next big thing in fashion? Not washing your clothes - Elizabeth Segran/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90359188/the-next-big-thing-in-fashion-not-washing-your-clothes
(Why) I’m stepping down from my WordPress marketing role • Joost de Valk https://joost.blog/why-im-stepping-down-from-my-wordpress-marketing-role/
He loves the direction Apple is taking with the Mac – Marco.org https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening
They See It. They Like It. They Want It. They Rent It. - Sapna Maheshwari/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/style/rent-subscription-clothing-furniture.html
I'm worried that gem install in Ruby brings in dependencies from that program that could be better installed from the Fedora repositories
Fedora upgraded Ruby from 2.5 to 2.6, and I had to do a gem update in order to get it working. I'm hazy on which gems I have installed as Fedora packages and which are from gem install.
I've heard a lot of ES-335 and ES-330-type guitars lately, and I really love the sounds
Forestry.io is a CMS for static sites created with Hugo, Jekyll, VuePress and Gatsby. For up to 3 collaborators per site, it's free. https://forestry.io/
I tried to turn a JRuby program into a jar with Warbler, but it doesn't want to work in Windows. Coming out with a jar file that you can "just run" with Java would seem to be THE reason to use JRuby instead of regular Ruby.
Calling Java from JRuby - JRuby Wiki https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/CallingJavaFromJRuby
JRuby is a neat trick for sure. The part I need to figure out is how you go from JRuby to a JAR file that can be run like any other Java app.
JRuby already told me to replace the deprecated Dir.exists? with Dir.exist. I should get on that.
I'm using JRuby instead of MRuby (aka "regular" Ruby) to run my blogPoster app to post to Twitter and http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net
Trying jruby to run my blogPoster Ruby script
Why Excel is a startup killer, and how the riches are in the niches - Ross Simmonds/Foundation https://foundationinc.co/lab/the-saas-opportunity-of-unbundling-excel/
TrueOS, formerly PC-BSD, now focused on servers (but desktop packages are available) https://www.trueos.org/more-on-trueos/
Project Trident: A FreeBSD desktop system based on TrueOS https://project-trident.org/
Say no to Electron! Using JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop application - Renato Athaydes https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/saynotoelectronusingjavafxtowriteafastresponsivedesktopapplication
LibreOffice drops 32-bit Linux support. My take: If you NEED 32-bit, your hardware is so old, you should just run Abiword or Geany and be happy with it. If you're running 32-bit on 64-bit hardware, stop that shit. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/libreoffice-6-3-32bit-linux-support
It's very slick how TNW (aka The Next Web aka thenextweb) is a single-page-app with an infinite scroll and a URL in the browser bar that changes as you scroll from one article to the next. Nice. https://thenextweb.com
Why does macOS Catalina use Zsh instead of Bash? Licensing - Matthew Hughes/The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina-use-zsh-instead-of-bash-licensing/
Remember the '10,000 hours' rule for success? Forget about it - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/books/review/david-epstein-range.html
Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18651872/apple-macos-catalina-zsh-bash-shell-replacement-features
Up to 25 cups of coffee a day safe for heart health, study shows - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/health/coffee-heart-health-arteries-scli-intl-gbr/index.html
Apple introduces 'Sign in with Apple' to help protect your privacy – Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/apple-sign-in-privacy/
Sometimes when I see a promoted tweet and it's actually relevant, I will follow the account. And if it's a legit "ad," I will just let it pass by. Clickbate promoted tweets get muted.
We're buying into a giant lie about plastic - Alex Lubben/VICE News https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwn4mj/were-buying-into-a-giant-lie-about-plastic
At least one Vim trick you might not know - Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/intermediate-vim/
The Next browser, written in common LISP https://next.atlas.engineer/
Remembering Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019), inventor of quarks - Stephen Wolfram https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/remembering-murray-gell-mann-1929-2019-inventor-of-quarks/
The world's oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995 - Daniel Oberaus/Vice https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain
Got lucky today with Firefox and the Conexant audio driver in Windows. I turned off all of the Conexant services (which believe it or not doesn't affect the sound), and Conexant's Flow.exe isn't making a mess of things. Without that issue, Firefox is a lovely browser that spys a whole lot less.
Modern gear for the swing guitar player, 2019 update - Jonathan Stout https://www.campusfive.com/swingguitarblog/2019/4/19/what-should-i-buy-modern-gear-for-the-vintage-player-2019-update
Now I think I know what's crashing my Ruby microblogging script: Trying to save files with file names that are too long. That's an easy fix.
We have a lot of HP laptops in the house, and I'm NOT saying that a metal case is better than plastic. Aluminum will bend/dent before plastic will break.
Uber’s path of destruction - Hubert Horan/American Affairs Journal https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/
Who's taking on Walmart? Dollar General, Aldi and even Amazon - Axios https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-cefdd0af-06af-406f-837e-317a18f170ba.html?chunk=0#story0
git - How to change line-ending settings - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10418975/how-to-change-line-ending-settings
Using Hugo, GitLab Pages, and Cloudflare to create and run this Website - Thomas Kainrad (Note: This is a VERY GOOD tutorial that makes a great case for using GitLab Pages' CI/CD features) https://tkainrad.dev/posts/using-hugo-gitlab-pages-and-cloudflare-to-create-and-run-this-website/
I'm trying to track down an error that is crashing the Ruby script that handles these posts. I'm not sure if the crash happens due to longer post length or "special" characters. It seems to happen when I'm discussing C++. But now, of course, that error is NOT happening.
Apache NetBeans (now in version 11) doesn't have C/C++ support but is committed to adding it. (Disclaimer: I used to use NetBeans for C++ when I didn't want to run Visual Studio) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+Release+Roadmap
Jodd: Micro-frameworks, and small, developer-friendly tools and utilities for Java https://jodd.org/
Why freeCodeCamp left Medium (tl;dr it's the paywall) https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/we-just-moved-off-of-medium-and-onto-freecodecamp-news-heres-how-you-can-use-it/279929
Amazon is poised to unleash a long-feared purge of small suppliers - Spencer Soper/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/amazon-is-poised-to-unleash-long-feared-purge-of-small-suppliers
A boost for Java on the client - Gluon https://gluonhq.com/a-boost-for-java-on-the-client/
Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web - Andrew Betts https://trib.tv/2019/05/28/cake-or-death-amp-and-the-worrying-power-dynamics-of-the-web/
Dropbox Plus storage doubling to 2 TB https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/plus-professional-updates
Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/uber-will-start-deactivating-riders-with-low-ratings/
Months later, I'm still battling problems on my HP laptop with the Conexant audio driver's Flow.exe program eating gobs of CPU when Firefox is running. If I wanted to bang my head against the wall over driver issues, I'd just run Linux.
I just did the Node.js/Express "Hello World" example https://expressjs.com/en/starter/hello-world.html
LAUSD looks to revive cursive in the classroom. Here’s what that looks like at a Pacoima school – great story by @ethanvarian via @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/05/26/lausd-looks-to-revive-cursive-in-the-classroom-heres-what-that-looks-like-in-a-pacoima-classroom/
Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool is as good a reason as any to use @racketlang. You can start generating great-looking documentation pages almost immediately. If I only use this one Racket feature, I'll be happy. https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html
When your programming language is all about publishing to the web (or elsewhere), I'm immediately more interested. In this case it's Pollen and @racketlang https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
The east San Fernando Valley (Van Nuys/North Hollywood/Sherman Oaks/Studio City) needs a @sproutsfm
Byte Magazine's LISP issue from August 1979 (archive.org via Hacker News) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08
Why the hell is the ‘race to 5G’ even a race? - Nilay Patel/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leadership-china-fcc-lte
Chinese developers fear losing GitHub access to trade war | Masha Borak/Abacus https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/chinese-developers-fear-losing-open-source-tech-trade-war/article/3011463
Byte Magazine from August 1981 on Smalltalk. Look at it for the ads alone. (Link via Hacker News) https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg on Kara Swisher podcast Recode Decode - Eric Johnson/Vox https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/27/18639284/duckduckgo-gabe-weinberg-do-not-track-privacy-legislation-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-interview
I forget this every time: When you upgrade Fedora and a Dropbox popup asks you to download the daemon again. DON'T DO IT. Result will be Dropbox reindexing your entire Dropbox folder.
I'm doing the Fedora 29-30 upgrade (scorecard: 28-29 was fine, 27-28 not so much, all good from about 15 or 16 to 27)
I am loving the new terminal feature of Vim 8.1, especially in Windows 10 (hint: get it with :term)
I'm playing with #golang and @qtproject, and in Windows 10 it looks like I need TDM-GCC to make it work http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/
Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 - The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/30/atari-800-vs-commodore-64-the-brief-tale-of-two-8-bit-home-computers/
Why is SpaceX launching all of those Starlink satellites? (tl;dr global broadband internet) https://www.starlink.com/
Devblog - A dead simple blogging platform for developers by Hashnode https://hashnode.com/devblog
It's official: @netbeans is now a top-level project at the Apache Foundation @TheASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces51
How computing's first 'killer app' changed everything (tl;dr it's VisiCalc) - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47802280
While the OpenJDK version of Java doesn't even have a Windows installer, Python not only has an installer, it also has a version in the Microsoft Store. It's like they WANT users.
Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 update? | Steve/Microsoft Dev Blog - (There is a Python 3.7 you can install NOW in the Microsoft Store) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-10-may-2019-update/
What’s new in JavaScript ES2019 - Niall Mahere/Clubhouse.io: New flat() method for arrays, trimStart() and trimEnd() for strings are all extremely useful https://clubhouse.io/developer-how-to/whats-new-in-javascript-es2019
Fedora Silverblue is immutable, container-based and all that Fedora users are talking about https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/
OpenJDK not offering installers for Windows users is a very bad thing. I can do the manual install, but I can't think of another programming language that makes you do this.
I spent considerable time futzing with OpenJDK 12 in Windows, going back to Oracle's JDK 8, and trying to get JavaFX 12 to work. I messed with Netbeans 8.2, then 11, then back to 8.2. That the JDK "story" after Version 8 is so shaky, it's a problem.
Excellent introduction to Git https://areknawo.com/git-basics-the-only-introduction-you-will-ever-need/
The beauty of calculus - @stevenstrogatz https://frankeprogram.yale.edu/event/steven-strogatz-lecture-april-26-2019
This New York Times Gen X package is massive https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/14/style/generation-xers.html
Creating a free VPN via Google Cloud — Sei's Notes https://blog.sei.sh/creating-a-free-vpn-using-google-cloud
Behind Twitter’s plan to get people to stop yelling at each other - Nicole Nguyen/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/behind-twitters-plan-to-get-people-to-stop-yelling-at-each
Human composting. Yes, human composting is a thing, it turns out. - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-human-composting-washington-green-burial-inslee-20190513-story.html
Substack is a "simple" way to start a paid email newsletter https://substack.com/
One man’s quest to rid Wikipedia of exactly one grammatical mistake - Andrew McMillen/Backchannel https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-10508842caad
Amazon offers employees and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses – Sarah Perez/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/amazon-offers-employees-10k-and-3-months-pay-to-start-their-own-delivery-businesses/
Uber's losses reach double digits in IPO debut debacle/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-13/uber-shares-decline-for-second-day-in-u-s-pre-market-trading
Uber stock is taking a beating https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/uber/real-time
How decades-old hippie soap brand Dr. Bronner's became a touchstone of wellness culture - Kieran Dahl/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/8/18535403/dr-bronners-soap-label-castile
Math teachers should be more like football coaches - The New York Times @BloomtasticMath https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/math-teaching-football.html
In #Vim 8.1, you can bring up your OS's terminal in a split window with the commands :terminal and :term
While Vim 8.1 is considered "a minor release," adding a terminal that you can use for debugging, compiling, doing commits in git,or whatever else you want, is a major feature https://www.vim.org/vim-8.1-released.php
Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs - Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exclusive-idUSKCN1SJ0X1
Was Shakespeare a woman? - Elizabeth Winkler/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/who-is-shakespeare-emilia-bassano/588076/
How to use advanced rsync for large Linux backups | Alan Formy-Duval/Opensource.com (Note: this is an EXCELLENT article) https://opensource.com/article/19/5/advanced-rsync
I made my first three abbreviations (using ab) in Vim to kick out boilerplate text. I had been using macros, but @CarlaSchroder's #LinuxCookbook showed me how abbreviations do this better.
Microsoft is putting a ton of work into making Windows 10 more attractive to developers. The new terminal and vast improvements in WSL 2 only continue that trend. They are aiming to convert Mac and Linux developers, and I can see that happening.
A look at Fedora 30's new features | Anderson Silva/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/19/5/fedora-30-features
Social media and boredom: How technology is changing our emotions - Sean Illing/Vox https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18510958/social-media-addiction-boredom-loneliness-society-technology-smart-phones
Career spotlight: Misha Euceph, KPCC – Nicholas Quah/Hot Pod News https://hotpodnews.com/career-spotlight-misha-euceph-kpcc/
How to make a podcast - Misha Euceph https://www.howtomakeapodcast.org/
I compare the huge public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) with Digital Ocean and two shared-hosting providers (HostGator and NearlyFreeSpeech.net) for the small user http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/web_hosting/2019_0506_hosting_with_google_nfsn_digital_ocean_or_hostgator
Free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 for developers https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download
Notable in the new RHEL 8.0: Fractional scaling in GNOME 2.28, dnf is now yum, app streams (like Fedora Modular) and no Perl, Python or Ruby in the default https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.0_release_notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has been released https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8
This article on the problems at the Apple Stores is interesting. My recent iMac purchase experience bears this out. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/apple-store-locations-reviews-show-customer-service-in-decline
My current existential crisis: Stick with Windows 10, or go back to Linux (and yes, I know nobody wants to hear about it)
The 'future book' is here, but it's not what we expected | Craig Mod/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/future-book-is-here-but-not-what-we-expected/
Microsoft's new Terminal is open source https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
Windows gets a new terminal – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/windows-gets-a-new-terminal/
Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-visual-studio-online-an-online-code-editor/
Goodbye AWS: Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes, Part 1 - Ev Kontsevoy/Gravitational https://gravitational.com/blog/aws_vs_colocation/
Why you should start binge-reading right now - Ben Dolnick/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/why-you-should-start-binge-reading-right-now.html
Why Go? – Key advantages you may have overlooked - YourBasic Go https://yourbasic.org/golang/advantages-over-java-python/
Local newspapers are failing to make the digital transition larger players did — and are in danger of vanishing - Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/graphics/local-newspapers-stark-divide/
Dooce.com’s Heather Armstrong was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart. - Chavie Lieber/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead
Smartphone shipments: Apple down 30%, Samsung down 8%, But Huawei up 50% - John Koetsier/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/05/01/smartphone-shipments-apple-down-30-samsung-down-8-but-huawei-up-50
While @hostgator might not have everything, and their Ruby is old (in keeping with their CentOS 6 base), it looks like they have ALL the Ruby Gems installed -- like thousands of them
I really like what I see with @ProtonMail
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET has Clojure, Java, Golang, Erlang, Haskell, Node, Perl, Python 2 and 3, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala and even TCL, LISP, Scheme, Guile and Racket. Ruby Gems include Rails, Jekyll and Nokogiri (but no Sinatra). They do have Hugo. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
Twitter is boring AF. Sorry, Twitter.
The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program - Jason Del Rey/Vox https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping
How a Canadian chain is reinventing book selling - Alexandra Alter/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/books/booksupdate/indigo-books-canadian-chain.html
Building a site with Jekyll on NearlyFreeSpeech.net - Jesse Squires https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/building-a-site-with-jekyll-on-nfsn/
.@carlaschroder's Linux Cookbook is 14 years old, and I am still getting tips from it (I've gotten rid of countless tech books much younger, FYI). I use lots of macros in Vim, but now I'm going to explore abbreviations (ab) and mappings (map), which are in her .vimrc
PWA vs. React Native https://www.kirupa.com/apps/pwa_vs_react_native.htm
Paid email newsletters are proving themselves as a meaningful revenue generator for writers - Alan Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/writers-have-been-trying-to-support-online-themselves-for
All the details on Librem One by Purism - mail, chat, social and VPN that doesn't track you or sell your data https://librem.one/
.@BryanLunduke emphasizes that you pay for Purism's Librem One with money, not with your every last shred of your privacy. It's a different way of imagining our connected world. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/purism-launches-librem-one-suite-privacy-protecting-no-track-no-ad-apps-and-services
Purism, the company that makes privacy-respecting laptops, is now launching a 'bundle of ethical services': chat, mail, VPN and social media that vow to never track you https://puri.sm/
Faith, friendship and tragedy at Santa Fe High - Skip Hollandsworth/Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/remembering-sabika-sheikh-pakistani-student-killed-santa-fe-school-shooting/
Better looking fonts for Fedora - silenc3r/GitHub https://github.com/silenc3r/fedora-better-fonts
You should have a personal web site - Mark Christian https://writing.markchristian.org/2019/04/29/personal-web-sites/
Announcing the release of Fedora 30 - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/
The new @Fedora Discussion forum is about 99% @teamsilverblue-related. I understand to some extent why Silverblue is interesting, but it's not like "regular" Fedora is horrible and this is some kind of software savior.
Red Hat takes over stewardship for the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 projects from Oracle - Sugandha Lahoti/Packt Hub https://hub.packtpub.com/redhat-takes-over-stewardship-for-the-openjdk-8-and-openjdk-11-projects-from-oracle/
I believe in what @neovim is doing, but I use Gvim at least half the time, and Neovim's GUI story isn't very clear
I forgot to mention that I run 64-bit Vim in Windows. And yes, I will die on this hill.
I replaced Vim 8.0 with 8.1 on my Windows 10 PC. That's the kind of renegade I am.
Show HN: 1MB - Free and easy static website hosting - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19772097
1MB is a free and easy static website host https://1mb.site/
So we are going to #AvengersEndGame at 8:30 on Sunday. That's a.m., people.
I now have a successfully upgraded OpenBSD 6.5 system, but it should have been easier. Selecting upgrade after running install65.fs and miniroot65.fs from a USB drive left me with 6.4. I had to download and copy a 6.5 bsd.rd into my / and use that to boot and install.
After a kernel panic yesterday, today I hooked up the OpenBSD 6.4 drive and my HP Pavilion g6 laptop booted with no trouble. Time for the 6.5 upgrade.
Even though I used it a few days ago, yesterday my OpenBSD 6.4 laptop wouldn't boot. I wanted to upgrade to 6.5, but a kernel panic is getting in the way.
I am slowly and deliberately creating a second web site in the Google Cloud. This will be a replacement for my social-updates blog, which currently lives on shared hosting. I will then probably move my main blog to the Google Cloud. So much for being wary of Google, right?
Renting instead of owning, and taking it to the extreme - Sam Sanders/NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/715107132/the-affluent-homeless-a-sleeping-pod-a-hired-desk-and-a-handful-of-clothes
Tweets have a short shelf life
Kyle Simpson: I've forgotten more JavaScript than most people ever learn - Amsterdam JSNation https://medium.com/@amsterdamjs/kyle-simpson-ive-forgotten-more-javascript-than-most-people-ever-learn-3bddc6c13e93
The most measured person in tech is running the most chaotic place on the Internet - Daisuke Wakabayashi/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/business/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki.html
This LA band made a music video tribute to the city's not-so-classic car culture - Mike Roe/LAist https://laist.com/2019/04/17/modern_time_machines_malaise_for_days_music_video.php
Apple owes everyone an apology, and it should start with me, specifically - Casey Johnston/The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7315/apple-keyboards-still-suck-insanely-bad
Taming data with JavaScript – Brian Greig/A List Apart https://alistapart.com/article/taming-data-with-javascript/
Responsible JavaScript: Part I – Jeremy Wagner/A List Apart https://alistapart.com/article/responsible-javascript-part-1/
339 bytes of responsive CSS - Gaurav Koley (I love these simple-CSS hacks) https://blog.koley.in/2019/339-bytes-of-responsive-css
The joys of reading a print newspaper - Andrew Ferguson/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/andrew-ferguson-joys-reading-print-newspaper/586792/
58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere - jrl.ninja https://jrl.ninja/etc/1/
Congress is about to ban the government from offering free online tax filing. Thank TurboTax. — Justin Elliott/ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-the-government-from-offering-free-online-tax-filing-thank-turbotax
The great Sriracha battle is coming to America - Sophie Alexander and Randy Thanthong-Knight/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-06/thaitheparos-sriraja-panich-sriracha-comes-to-the-u-s-market
Flesh made wood: The invention of artificial refrigeration - Rebecca Woods/The Appendix http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/flesh-made-wood-the-invention-of-artificial-refrigeration
I lied when i said we did everything we could - Lane Wilson, MD https://opmed.doximity.com/articles/i-lied-when-i-said-we-did-everything-we-could
Linux Mint's sobering update: A rare glimpse into the personal struggles developers face - Jason Evangelho/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/04/08/linux-mint-sobering-update-developer-struggles-community
Indeed, it seems that Google IS forgetting the old Web | Stop at Zona-M http://stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/indeed-it-seems-that-google-is-forgetting-the-old-web/
How do you choose a cloud-computing platform? It's like the wild West out there. http://passthejoe.net/cgi-bin/ode.cgi/cloud/2019_0407_choosing_a_cloud
I'm experimenting with the free tier on @googlecloud. Here's a post from a blog I set up. http://passthejoe.net/cgi-bin/ode.cgi/google_cloud/2019_0407_google_cloud
Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life - Amanda Ruggeri/BBC Capital http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190401-why-worthless-humanities-degrees-may-set-you-up-for-life
Honestly, what drove me to Vim for news writing/editing was the inability of Notepad++ to allow the editing of macros. Also, macros are mysterious and brittle in Geany. Plus I wanted to use the same editor in Windows, Linux and BSD.
Why there’s so little left of the early internet - Stephen Dowling/BBC http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet
Rep. @KatieHill4CA has her first 2020 opponent, Republican @suzettemartinez Valladares - @KevinModesti @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/rep-katie-hill-has-her-first-2020-opponent-republican-suzette-valladares/
For families who want a greener San Fernando Valley, check out the Paper Earth Fair this Sunday in Tarzana @AriPlachta @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/for-families-who-want-a-greener-sf-valley-check-out-the-paper-earth-fair-this-sunday/
Did you vote provisionally in November 2018 in California? Your ballot was probably counted @JeffHorseman @ladailynews @pressenterprise https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/vote-provisionally-in-november-2018-your-ballot-was-probably-counted/
LA honors Jane Goodall as she turns 85 @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/la-honors-jane-goodall-as-she-turns-85/
Exotic animals seized from hip-hop producer Mally Mall’s home in Encino @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/exotic-animals-seized-from-hip-hop-producer-mally-malls-home-in-encino/
Man convicted of second-degree murder in 2017 crash that killed a woman in North Hills @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/04/man-convicted-of-second-degree-murder-in-2017-crash-that-killed-a-woman-in-north-hills/
Metro introduces another piece in the puzzle that will help get passengers to LAX without a car – @stevscaz @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/metro-introduces-another-piece-in-the-puzzle-that-will-help-get-passengers-to-lax-without-a-car/
LA committee backs million in state funds for Sylmar Armory homeless shelter @reporterliz @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/la-committee-backs-3-million-in-state-funds-for-sylmar-armory-homeless-shelter/
Police chase of reportedly stolen truck in Van Nuys ends with 4 hurt; one person in critical condition https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/3-seriously-injured-in-violent-wreck-in-lake-balboa-following-police-chase-of-stolen-vehicle/
Suspect in Nipsey Hussle murder being held on million bail, but no charges yet – @jcain @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/03/suspect-in-nipsey-hussle-murder-being-held-on-7-million-bail-but-no-charges-yet/
The future of undersea Internet cables – Sarvesh Mathi/The Journal Blog https://blog.usejournal.com/the-future-of-undersea-internet-cables-f3e5f77de019
When this eBook store closes, your books disappear too - Dave Lee/BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367
Privacy is just the first step, the goal is data ownership - Keith Axline https://thetoolsweneed.com/privacy-is-just-the-first-step-the-goal-is-data-ownership/
The Back Page: Dinner Out with...Tommy Tedesco, Jimmy Bruno, John Pisano, Frank Zappa and Joe Pass - Jazz Guitar Today https://jazzguitartoday.com/2019/04/the-back-page-dinner-out-with-tommy-tedesco-jimmy-bruno-john-pisano-frank-zappa-joe-pass/
I created the 'hello-world' project in @GatsbyJS. There are 28,790 files in that directory. I'm a @nodejs newbie, but any way you slice it, that is a whole lot of files.
I’ll never be a regular at Koreatown’s OB Bear, but I’m glad to be a guest - Frank Shyong/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ob-bear-koreatown-dodgers-20180401-htmlstory.html
I finally got my Git-Gatsby.js situation figured out. I needed to install Git on Windows so it worked not just in Git Bash but also in CMD and PowerShell.
To run @gatsbyjs in Windows, you need to be in the Git Bash shell, not CMD or PowerShell -- "How to get started" tutorial doesn't mention this
It's not a good look for Node that when you install the LTS on Windows that you end up with the wrong (and incompatible) version of NPM and have to use this fix to make it right: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-windows-upgrade
I feel the pull of @GatsbyJS https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
At the Google Plus home page, you can find this comforting sentence: "Other Google products (such as Gmail, Google Photos, Google Drive, YouTube) were not shut down as part of the consumer Google+ shutdown and you can continue using those products." Gee, thanks Goog! https://plus.google.com/
Keeping up with the Kardashian cash flow - Amy Chozick/The New York Times (in case you want to read a really long NYT take on America's other first family) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/style/kardashians-interview.html
The @BostonGlobe has a 0 story paywall. That is all.
Linux Journal at 25 - Doc Searls https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-25
Being a middle-aged junior programmer – Tomas Forsman https://medium.com/@forsman.tomas/being-a-middle-aged-junior-ca7d643d9356
SPARCbook 3000ST - The coolest '90s laptop - Jason Eckhert http://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/3/14_SPARCbook_3000ST_-_The_coolest_90s_laptop.html
The story of DEC's PDP-1, or what you could buy for ,000-,000 in the early 1960s https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/timeline/pdp-1story.htm
How ketchup became the great equalizer | Amy Bentley/The Saturday Evening Post https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/the-history-of-ketchup/
The way I look at desktop/laptop computing has changed now that I use a Roku for most TV viewing and an Android phone for things like Google Hangouts
Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse - Sam Saffron https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/03/31/why-i-stuck-with-windows-for-6-years-while-developing-discourse
Performance of Mozilla Firefox has been surprisingly good. I don't know what they're doing, but it's working. The Windows version is really working for me.
Ruby 2.4 to 2.5: I can feel the speed improvement
Once you start opening a bunch of tabs, Microsoft's Edge browser starts eating a lot more CPU than Firefox with the same pages open
Productivity isn't about time management. It's about attention management. - Adam Grant/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html
I made a web page in Google Cloud http://passthejoe.net
I am having a lot of fun playing with a Debian 9 VM in the Google Cloud
I'm at a point of detente with Windows 10. Everything is working well enough.
I installed @golang 1.12 so I can play around with it
The Twitter gem won't install in Ruby 2.6. It will install in Ruby 2.5, so that's what I'm upgrading to.
Why GNU grep is fast - Mike Haertel https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html
Why I miss Rails | David Chanin https://chanind.github.io/rails/2019/03/28/why-i-miss-rails.html
You can now search really old AP Stylebooks and guides online – Kristen Hare/Poynter https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/you-can-now-search-really-old-ap-stylebooks-and-guides-online/
Google has already given you a free Debian Linux VM with 5 GB of storage https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell
Integer is a nice minimal WordPress theme from @ThemePatio. It costs for one year of support https://themepatio.com/themes/integer/
Yes, you should blog - Blair Reeves http://blairreeves.me/2019/01/10/yes-you-should-blog/
Taking control of your internet - Blair Reeves http://blairreeves.me/2019/03/08/taking-control-of-your-internet/
Always Own Your Platform http://alwaysownyourplatform.com/
Apple will sell you a refurbished iPhone SE for -299 https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/clearance
Announcement and release notes for Bionicpup64 8.0 http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-bionic/bionicpup64/release-bionicpup64-8.0.htm
Bionicpup64 8.0 CE is Puppy Linux that uses Ubuntu 18.04 packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
This is Xenialpup 7.5, the version of Puppy Linux I am using. I am running the UEFI version. http://blog.puppylinux.com/xenialpup-released
If you want a live Linux with persistence, pickings are slim. I couldn't get a persistent version of Ubuntu running. I don't think Knoppix does persistence. So I turned to a distro I first ran more than 10 years ago: Puppy Linux, which was built for persistence.
I made my first git commit from the Puppy Linux (XenialPup) system that I'm using on my HP Envy 15t laptop. XenialPup is based on Ubuntu 16.04.
For Sale: This massive, obsessive and (probably) obsolete VHS boxing archive - Alex Vadukul/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/nyregion/boxing-vhs-archive.html
Apple's reinvention as a services company starts for real on Monday - Mark Gurman/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-23/apple-s-reinvention-as-a-services-company-starts-for-real-monday
A 30-million page library is heading to the moon to help preserve human civilization - Corey S. Powell/NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/30-million-page-library-heading-moon-help-preserve-human-civilization-ncna977786?
There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train. But I did it anyway. - Caity Weaver and Holly Andres/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html
A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online - Keith Axline/The Tools We Need https://thetoolsweneed.com/a-few-simple-steps-to-vastly-increase-your-privacy-online/
Notes about migrating to Hugo · Fatih Arslan https://arslan.io/2017/11/30/notes-about-migrating-to-hugo/
Modern Labor pays you to learn to code https://modernlabor.com/
No Medium — build your own site, please https://nomedium.dev/
Supercharging Vim: Navigate files instantly - Matt Layman https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/supercharging-vim-navigate-files-instantly/
Gmail confidential mode now available to G Suite customers https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/keep-data-secure-with-gmail-confidential-mode-beta.html
I am using the @LinuxLive USB Creator to make a live @Ubuntu 18.10 stick with persistence http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
Original Apollo moon mission press kits in PDF https://www.apollopresskits.com/apollo-presskit-directory
Some humans can sense Earth’s magnetic field, experiment suggests - George Dvorsky/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/fascinating-experiment-suggests-some-humans-can-sense-e-1833377029
Open source doesn’t make money because it isn’t designed to make money - Ian Bicking http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2019/03/open-source-doesnt-make-money-by-design.html
Inside Garageband, the little app ruling the sound of modern music – Amy X. Wang/Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/apple-garageband-modern-music-784257/
As costs skyrocket, more U.S. cities stop recycling - Michael Corkery/New York Times https://share.qz.com/news/2338977/body/
Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 - Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html
OSDisc.com is still there to provide Linux and BSD CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives of most operating systems https://www.osdisc.com
Install GNOME 3.32 on Fedora 29 using Paul Carroty's Copr repository https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/paulcarroty/Gnome_3.32/
I spent the morning using the Microsoft Edge browser, knowing full well that MS is going to kill it in favor of a Chromium-based offering. You could do worse that Edge, for sure. It's a smooth program on Windows 10.
How the Discord chat platform went mainstream - Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-discord-went-mainstream-influencers/584671/
Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-31-4-trillion-digits-of-archimedes-constant-on-google-cloud
Your first progressive web app - Pete LePage/Google Developers https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/codelabs/your-first-pwapp/
Desktop progressive web apps with Google Chrome are now supported on all desktop platforms - Google Developers https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/desktop
Leaderless Debian - Jonathan Corbet/LWN.net https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/782786/1b0334c3a2a9d8b1/
Firefox Send provides free file transfers while keeping your personal information private - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/
Free @dropbox accounts now have a three-device limit https://www.dropbox.com/help/account/computer-limit
A (partial) defense of Debian - John Goerzen http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9971-a-partial-defense-of-debian
Fedora Discussion is a new forum for ... Fedora discussion - Ryan Lerch/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/discuss-everything-fedora/
One thing I picked up from PureOS: Tilix, a GUI terminal with easy split screens. I just added it to Fedora with dnf install tilix.
DaVinci Resolve 15 offers cross-platform video editing for Windows, Mac OS and Linux https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
Reaper digital audio workstation software isn't free but does run on Windows, Mac OS and "experimentally" on Linux https://www.reaper.fm/
Daylight saving is here. Suppose we made this time change our last? - Kirk Johnson/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/daylight-savings-time.html
Why the eight-hour workday doesn't work — Travis Bradberry/Quartz at Work https://qz.com/work/1561830/why-the-eight-hour-workday-doesnt-work/
The comment moderator is the most important job in the world right now - Ryan Broderick/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-comment-moderator-is-the-most-important-job-in-the
The top 100 novels of all time found in libraries around the world - OCLC https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/library100.html
Cheaper domain registration with Cloudflare (thanks for the tip @wesbos) https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
I know where the hosts file is in Linux, now I know where it is in Windows https://windowsable.com/hosts-file-in-windows-10-locate-edit-and-manage/
I needed a cross-platform text editor that allowed for full editing of search/replace macros. By cross-platform, I mean Windows/Linux at a minimum. Now I'm very comfortable editing all kinds of writing in Vim.
The Proof CMS is produced by @marquee https://www.marquee.studio/secret-sauce
This is @mmcphate's California Sun newsletter, which is getting better and better https://www.californiasun.co
Proof is the CMS @mmcphate uses to produce the California Sun newsletter https://www.proof.pub/
Riot and rock 'n' roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s - Hadley Meares/Curbed LA https://la.curbed.com/2019/3/7/18244871/sunset-strip-whisky-riots-bars
I was testing #PureOS and discovered Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator. It makes running a terminal with multiple windows super easy. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/
Notepad++ 7.6.4 released without code signing, with Markdown https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.6.4-released.html
Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing - Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-add-tor-browser-anti-fingerprinting-technique-called-letterboxing/
Converging on convergence: PureOS is convergent, welcome to the future – Jeremiah Foster/Purism https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-convergent-welcome-to-the-future/
Christopher Parkening - The GuitarCoop interview https://guitarcoop.com.br/en/guitarcoop-interview-series-christopher-parkening/
This Twitter account could disappear tomorrow, and every post created with my blogPoster script would still be on my self-hosted microblog http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net/
Beautiful Racket: Why language-oriented programming? Why Racket? - Matthew Butterick https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-lop-why-racket.html
La Vie en Code https://www.lavieencode.net/
Every Linux networking tool I know - Julia Evans https://wizardzines.com/networking-tools-poster/
iPhone sales are falling, and Apple's app fees might be next - Michael Liedtke/Associated Press https://apnews.com/5d1b1584438f479abae8488fa2189698
The backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla - Billy Baker/The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/04/the-backyard-mechanic-who-taking-tesla/Sv1l8q2sxpQvTFMp13VFwM/story.html
'War and Peace': The greatest of all novels - Gary Saul Morson/The New Criterion https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/3/the-greatest-of-all-novels
The servant economy: Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses - Alexis C. Madrigal/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/
I'm really enjoying reading @ManningBooks #programming titles, especially the #GetProgramming series. You can trust them for quality (not a given with all publishers). I'm actually using the #LiveBook versions more than the PDFs.
Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories – Herb Caudill/Medium https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewrite-stories-635e4c8f7c22
Getting started with the cat command | Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/19/2/getting-started-cat-command
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says he’ll reorient the company towards encryption and privacy - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/06/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-says-hell-reorient-company-towards-encryption-privacy/?utm_term=.a1d2e4ef720e
I didn't realize that my Fedora 29 system didn't have the power-saving utility tuned installed. TecMint has a nice tutorial and explainer. https://www.tecmint.com/tuned-automatic-performance-tuning-of-centos-rhel-servers/
Ed Bickert, Canadian jazz guitarist with singular approach, dies at 86 https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/jazzblog/rip-ed-bickert
I upgraded Fedora 28 to Fedora 29 using these @fedora Magazine instructions. Seamless this time. https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-28-fedora-29/
This Old App is an interesting podcast about making apps, and it also has a very, very nice website that would be great for any podcast. My only question: Why the totally random, computer-generated filenames? https://thisoldapp.online/
Shared scooters don't last long https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last-long
1TB microSD cards are now a thing - Sam Byford/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/25/18239433/1tb-microsd-card-sandisk-micron-price-release
How to start the ahavi and dbus (aka messagebus) daemons in OpenBSD with rcctl http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Avahi-daemon-dbus-daemon-td280928.html
Xfce looks great on this laptop in OpenBSD, and it took very little effort on my part. Fonts display as good as Fedora, maybe better. And Xfce is very fast on this 2012-era HP laptop with a dual-core AMD CPU and 8 GB RAM.
I always think I can use Fvwm in OpenBSD, but it's not easy. Cwm is the new hotness, relatively speaking, but it's not for me right now, anyway. I did do some setup in Fvwm, adding my apps to the menu, and I do like having so many virtual desktops.
OpenBSD starts to get useful for me when I put Xfce on it. Now I have the fonts looking good, and it's easy to launch things. I used a couple of tutorials to get it done. None of them are complete. I will try to do one. I'm getting my .vimrc set up so I can do my work with it.
Krita and digiKam are very crashy in OpenBSD 6.4. I'm looking for an image-editing solution that allows editing of IPTC metadata (i.e. the captions in JPEGs). GIMP still won't do it. But gThumb will, and that's what I'm going to use.
How I ditched my phone and unbroke my brain - Kevin Roose/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html
These New Yorkers have been doing the same thing for 50, 60, 70 years — and love it too much to stop - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/jobs-love-decades.html
America’s professional elite: wealthy, successful and miserable - Charles Duhigg/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/elite-professionals-jobs-happiness.html
My original post on the problems with Firefox, Windows 10, the Conexant audio driver and Flow. @HP finally updated the Conexant driver, but the behavior is the same. I'll probably use this solution again. https://passthejoe.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/i-had-to-switch-from-firefox-to-chrome-in-windows-10-and-im-not-happy-about-it/
I'm back with @firefox after a few weeks of @googlechrome in Windows 10. I had "reasons" for switching to Chrome, one of which was the Conexant audio driver, which makes Flow go nuts and eat CPU only when FF is running. Easiest fix: Kill flow in Task Manager.
How to learn EmberJS in a hurry – Jen Weber/Ember-ish https://medium.com/ember-ish/how-to-learn-emberjs-in-a-hurry-c6fdeae256a0
The Rise of the WeWorking Class - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/wework-coworking-office-space.html
COI - Chat Over IMAP is a universal chat protocol that is free, open, easy, safe and does not require developers to build or maintain a server https://www.coi-dev.org/
48 amazing JavaScript open source for the past year (2019) - Mybridge https://medium.mybridge.co/48-amazing-javascript-open-source-for-the-past-year-v-2019-ce51cdd10fb9
Should Twitter get rid of follower counts? – Lance Ulanoff/The Upgrade https://medium.com/s/the-upgrade/should-twitter-get-rid-of-follower-counts-6fa736fff3ae
More than 2,500 lecture slides on programming in C++ - Michael D. Adams/University of Victoria https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/cppbook/downloads/lecture_slides_for_programming_in_c++-2019-02-04.pdf
Seoul prepares to rip out its manufacturing heart, a neighborhood home to 10,000 shops and 50,000 tradespeople - Chris Michael/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/20/end-of-an-era-seoul-prepares-to-rip-out-its-manufacturing-heart
Leading a meaningful life at older ages and its relationship with social engagement, prosperity, health, biology, and time use | PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/116/4/1207
I’ve used Dvorak for 10 years, and I’m here to tell you it’s not all that - Jon Porter/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/17/18223384/dvorak-qwerty-keyboard-layout-10-years-speed-ergonomics
My Windows 10 laptop pretty much died for three days -- the disk was at 100% solid. Then it miraculously returned to the living. I think it was choking on a software update.
I now have @syncthing running on two Windows PCs, an @OpenBSD PC and a @Raspberry_Pi Zero W
Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market-share needle – Ron Miller/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/google-and-ibm-still-trying-desperately-to-move-cloud-market-share-needle/
How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t do it. - Kurt Wagner/Recode https://www.recode.net/2019/2/12/18222558/kara-swisher-jack-dorsey-twitter-interview-conversation-karajack-livetweet
How white space killed an enterprise app (and why data density matters) - Christie Lenneville/UX Collective https://uxdesign.cc/how-white-space-killed-an-enterprise-app-and-why-data-density-matters-b3afad6a5f2a
Using lftp to synchronize folders with a FTP account | Linux.com (I am going to try this) https://www.linux.com/blog/using-lftp-synchronize-folders-ftp-account
Quick reminder that Details/Summary is the easiest way ever to make an accordion | Chris Coyier/CSS-Tricks (and i want to try this ASAP) https://css-tricks.com/quick-reminder-that-details-summary-is-the-easiest-way-ever-to-make-an-accordion/
Help! None of my projects want to be SPAs | Jason Goldstein https://whatisjasongoldstein.com/writing/help-none-of-my-projects-want-to-be-spas/
What it’s like to work inside Apple’s ‘Black Site’ - Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-black-site-gives-contractors-few-perks-little-security
OpenBSD on a laptop - Cullum Smith: This is one of the best guides out there on how to get OpenBSD set up. I've done maybe half of the things he suggests. https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/
I'm leverging the fact that if a $35 @RaspberryPi works at all, a $5 to $10 @RaspberryPi can probably do ONE thing adequately
I am doing a project with a @Raspberry_Pi, and I didn't want to spend $ 35 on the Pi 3 B+, so I went for the Pi Zero W at $10. I would have gotten the non-WiFi version for $5, but I'm feeling just a little flush and don't want to bother with wired networking.
They were deported as kids. Now the Rubio sisters are California lawmakers – by @kevinmodesti for the @SGVTribune https://www.sgvtribune.com/2019/02/08/they-were-deported-as-kids-now-the-rubio-sisters-are-california-lawmakers/
Scripts to recursively chmod directories only and files only - Brian Zerangue/GitHub https://gist.github.com/bzerangue/3b210b009e8d934b4a68
I say this again, read @davewiner's http://scripting.com
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is much faster than Git Bash or Cygwin. I only wish it were even more baked in to the Windows desktop.
I vaguely remember that Facebook had/has a business-focused product that is basically just like Facebook, but without your friends/family and strictly for business. That could have competed with Slack, but the brand is too toxic. Google has Hangouts/Chat (or whatever they call it), but maybe Google Plus was a better solution. All of those products are languishing. So the morale of said story to startups is to find an original idea that's not easy, and you might just have the field to yourself. Even LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, could have played in the space. I really don't know why Slack pretty much stands alone, but it's sure good for them.
I know we all hate on Slack because it went from oddity to constant nag, but it's still way, way better than email for the real-time communication that genuinely improves how we do our jobs and actually saves time and effort. I'm surprised that Google/Microsoft don't want to compete in this space.
I remember building and applying patches to OpenBSD in the 5.x era. Now with syspatch, it's crazy easy to keep your base system up to date.
Not only is Syncthing available for OpenBSD, but you can install it with pkg_add https://syncthing.net
OMG, I'm already using Syncthing. I just downloaded and started running it. I didn't think it would be so easy. https://syncthing.net/
I'd love to get rid of Disqus. I just changed my ad "preferences" so only one ad is showing, not a ton of them. I don't begrudge Disqus making money, and I'd almost rather pay to make the ads go away, but I would prefer comments to be "native" to my blogging platform.
Does blogPoster work in OpenBSD? If you see this post, the answer is yes.
State of Clojure survey 2019 analysis – Daniel Compton https://danielcompton.net/2019/02/06/clojure-survey-2019
State of Clojure 2019 survey results - Alex Miller/Clojure.org https://clojure.org/news/2019/02/04/state-of-clojure-2019
The rise of the robot reporter - Jaclyn Peiser/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html
Slack says it has filed to go public - but not with an IPO - Olivia Zaleski/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/messaging-platform-provider-slack-says-it-s-filed-to-go-public
Patreon CEO: Business model is not sustainable, company seeing growth - Brandon Gomez/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/crowd-funding-platform-patreon-announces-it-will-pay-out-half-a-billion-dollars-to-content-creators-in-2019.html
From WordPress to Hugo, a mindset transition | Regis Philibert https://regisphilibert.com/blog/2019/01/from-wordpress-to-hugo-a-mindset-transition/
How do you turn around the culture of a 130,000-person company? Ask Microsoft's Satya Nadella — Simone Stolzoff/Quartz at Work https://qz.com/work/1539071/how-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-rebuilt-the-company-culture/
It's been years, but I forgot that OpenBSD doesn't support the Atheros 9485 WiFi chipset. They didn't then (circa 2012/14), they don't now (2019).
I didn't realize that merging git branches locally and on GitHub are two different things. The same is true for deleting branches. It's confusing, but I'm figuring it out. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster
While Twitter doesn't allow you to edit posts (and probably for good reason), I can fix hastily written posts on my personal microblog: http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net
Learning git by doing: I just figured out how to create a branch, merge my changes with the master and then change back to the master branch. Now I can work on features without breaking the master!
If you see a URL at the end of this post, blogPoster can now add them to a "raw" entry (one that doesn't originate with a live URL) http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net
He reconstructed Tom Brady’s knee. Now the Rams' doctor is rooting for L.A. - Dylan Hernandez/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/sports/super-bowl/la-sp-super-bowl-elattrache-hernandez-20190130-story.html
Rams’ male cheerleaders make NFL history at the Super Bowl - Bill Plaschke/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/sports/super-bowl/la-sp-super-bowl-rams-cheerleaders-20190130-story.html
I learned Vim through sheer will, using it all the time and seaching when I didn't know how to do something. I'm sure I could do the same with Emacs, but do I have that same will (especially now that I am so comfortable in Vim?
Idea: A paywall you can buy out - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2019/01/23/194216.html
This is why doctors still use pagers | Marissa Laliberte/Reader's Digest https://www.rd.com/health/healthcare/hospital-pagers/
From books to bullets: inside Amazon's push to 'defend' America Levi Pulkkinen/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/31/amazon-defense-cloud-computing-pentagon-jeff-bezos
How Finland solved homelessness | Laura Paddison/HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homelessness-finland-housing-first_us_5c503844e4b0f43e410ad8b6
Google Plus for consumers will shut down on April 2, 2019 – Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/google-for-consumers-will-shut-down-on-april-2nd/
Apple was warned about alarming FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week - Chris Welch/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18202398/apple-facetime-bug-warned-eavesdropping
Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/
Watch all of these videos from @theoae on Baroque and early Classical instruments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVabz8LneI4&list=PLa0I2f4DpWlonE2ESxBKRg8Ft-ttK4_Eh
Recursion alert — This Twitter post has a life of its own, outside of Twitter. It lives here: http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net/
Write.as 'ends' its Medium integration, but it looks like what really ended it was Medium closing its API. Moral of this ever-repeating story: Own your content, control your content. https://write.as/blog/ending-our-medium-integration
Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS that gives the company near total access to data on a phone in exchange for a gift card (and yes, this is a real thing) - Casey Newton/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/1/30/18203349/facebook-research-app-apple-shutdown
Parmigiano-Reggiano: Italy’s practically perfect food - Amanda Ruggeri/BBC http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190127-italys-practically-perfect-food
From 'Hello World' to VP Eng – Nick Caldwell (This is an inspiring article) https://blog.devcolor.org/career-journey-part-1-3bdddf1f87a
World's oldest periodic table chart found in St Andrews | University of St Andrews news https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/worlds-oldest-periodic-table-chart-found-in-st-andrews/
Meet the 'cleanfluencers', the online gurus who like things nice and tidy - Arwa Mahdawi/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/29/meet-the-cleanfluencers-the-online-gurus-who-like-things-nice-and-tidy
Most people with addiction simply grow out of it - Maia Szalavitz/Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/social-justice/people-addiction-simply-grow-widely-denied-91605
Longwave broadcasting retains listeners - James Careless/Radio World https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/longwave-broadcasting-retains-listeners
Your TV is now a computer, but not in a good way - Alexis C. Madrigal/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/smart-tvs-are-dumb/581059/
Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics from Brown University using the D3.js library (trust me, it's excellent) https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/
The Mac App Store welcomes Office 365 - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/the-mac-app-store-welcomes-office-365/
Zuckerberg plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger - Mike Isaac/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html
Marie Kondo, 'Fyre Fraud,' and TV's millennial burnout - Sophie Gilert/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/marie-kondo-fyre-fraud-and-tvs-millennial-burnout/580753/
Pharo - Pharo 7.0 released https://pharo.org/news/pharo7.0-released
Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a shorter option - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/article-the-canadian-researcher-who-coined-the-one-minute-workout-has-an-even/
Amazon ruined online shopping - Ian Bogost/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/amazon-made-online-commerce-bewildering/580660/
So I'm switching from Firefox to Google Chrome for my news editing work because one of my co-workers coded a Chrome Extension that makes everything we do easier. But by the end of the day today, my 8 GB desktop was chugging, with almost all of the memory gone.
I don't want to lose track of the comprehensive websites of Rob MacKillop, who has done a lot of thinking, a lot of playing and has made a lot of videos of himself playing everything from jazz and "orchestral" guitar (think Mel Bay) to classical guitar without nails, the lute and theorbo. There's a lot to explore. So far I really love his playing on the classical guitar with gut (real gut) strings, which I didn't even know were still a thing you could get.
Here are the sites, which I'm dropping here before I lose them:
The guitar he plays that I really like is by Simon Ambridge
Thrift stores donations are up, thanks to Marie Kondo's "Tidying Up" on Netflix - AJ Willingham and Andrea Diaz/CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/entertainment/marie-kondo-konmari-tidying-up-netflix-trnd/index.html
Battle of the Ax Men: Who Really Built the First Electric Rock ‘n’ Roll Guitar? | Collectors Weekly https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/who-really-built-the-first-electric-rock-n-roll-guitar/
Dog poop bags are a menace. But what's the green alternative? - Jemima Kiss/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/15/dog-poop-bags-plastic-alternatives
Spirited Media, the Billy Penn and Denverite parent company, is helping build Newspack, the subscription-revenue component for WordPress.com publishers - Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/01/heightening-the-cms-race-wordpress-com-and-news-revenue-hub-devise-a-toolkit-for-local-newsrooms/
Automattic aims to help publishers generate membership revenue on WordPress.com (yes, .com, not .org) with Newspack https://newspack.blog/
A post of mine got into Hacker News: If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18890417
The embroidered computer - Irene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/
Happy Birthday, Ruby! - Dave Thomas https://github.com/ruby-no-kai/ruby25/blob/master/dave_thomas.en.md
Composing Software: The Book – Eric Elliott/JavaScript Scene https://medium.com/javascript-scene/composing-software-the-book-f31c77fc3ddc
How .8M in seed funding started Gatsby as an open source company - Changelog https://changelog.com/founderstalk/59
The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons & Dragons makes its way to the Inland Northwest - Chey Scott/Inlander https://www.inlander.com/spokane/nearly-45-years-after-its-creation-a-fantasy-game-played-with-paper-pencil-and-dice-is-having-its-biggest-year-yet-in-the-inland-northwest-a
The LaTeX fetish (Or: Don’t write in LaTeX! It’s just for typesetting) – Daniel Allington (2016) http://www.danielallington.net/2016/09/the-latex-fetish/
Not a good look for Zuck: Zuckerberg San Francisco General’s aggressive tactics leave patients with big bills - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/7/18137967/er-bills-zuckerberg-san-francisco-general-hospital
The melting pot of JavaScript – Dan Abramov/Increment https://increment.com/development/the-melting-pot-of-javascript/
Where to download all the books that just entered the public domain - Motherboard - Caroline Haskins/Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvq99b/how-to-download-the-books-that-just-entered-the-public-domain
Embracing Apple's boring future - Ian Bogost/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apples-earnings-stumble-could-improve-iphone/579445/
NBA players love coffee (and need it) - Baxter Holmes/ESPN http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25667397/the-game-day-caffeine-routine-keeps-portland-trail-blazers-nba-most-well-traveled-team-running
Considering app vs. website? It’s 2019: Build a website. - Julie Enthoven/Atrium https://www.atrium.co/blog/founders-should-build-website-not-mobile-app/
Blockchain in the art world: the pros and cons - James Pickford/Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/1c5062d8-900b-11e8-bb8f-a6a2f7bca546
Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science - Margaret M. Fleck http://mfleck.cs.illinois.edu/building-blocks/
Free algorithms book by University of Illinois Professor Jeff Erickson http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/
I used to write for Sports Illustrated. Now I deliver packages for Amazon. - Austin Murphy/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/what-its-like-to-deliver-packages-for-amazon/578986/
CoolBeans: An IDE for Java, PHP and more http://coolbeans.xyz/
Apollo 8's Earthrise: The shot seen round the world - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/science/earthrise-moon-apollo-nasa.html
El Niño shows more signs of developing in the Pacific Ocean - Andrew Freedman/Axios https://www.axios.com/el-nino-is-developing-in-pacific-ocean-winter-2019-9d878cf0-a7a5-45e5-8459-b041f209e199.html
Majority of mass shooters finance their weapon stockpiles with credit - Zachary Basu/Axios https://www.axios.com/mass-shooters-finance-guns-credit-cards-847a08de-7070-4ff6-96ec-c99598294dc4.html
More jazz guitar straight talk from Bruce Forman and Scotty Henderson on the GuitarWank podcast (not nearly as much profanity as Jimmy Bruno) https://www.guitarwank.com/
My new guilty pleasure is the stream-of-consciousness videos by jazz guitar great Jimmy Bruno. It's straight talk with plenty of profanity. https://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyBrunoJazz/videos?shelf_id=2&sort=dd&view=0
We should replace Facebook with personal websites - Jason Koebler/Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites
Bakers upset with missing tips on Hershey's Kisses candy - Associated Press https://apnews.com/69faedee136f49de9886bca8fe7d0ea1
Is it obvious that you need to follow @davewiner?
The Fresno Bee and the war on local news - Zach Baron/GQ https://www.gq.com/story/fresno-bee-and-war-on-local-news
Prime and Punishment: Dirty dealing in the billion Amazon Marketplace - Josh Dzieza/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-marketplace-scams-seller-court-appeal-reinstatement
The 2-year-old Instagram influencers who make more than you - Katharine Schwab/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90278778/the-2-year-old-instagram-influencers-who-make-more-than-you-do
Rising Instagram stars are posting fake sponsored content - Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/influencers-are-faking-brand-deals/578401/
The Pixel 3 is proof that Google doesn't care about hardware - Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/the-pixel-3-is-proof-that-google-doesnt-care-about-hard-1831096115
It's 2018, and the iPhone is still super annoying - Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/its-2018-and-the-iphone-is-still-super-annoying-1831096584
Why you'll still need Wifi when 5G is everywhere, according to the Wi-Fi Alliance - David Nield/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/why-youll-still-need-wifi-when-5g-is-everywhere-accord-1831167997
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
Can you grow a startup on the side? - Justin Jackson https://justinjackson.ca/sideproject
The rise, lean, and fall of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg - Anne Helen Petersen/BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/sheryl-sandberg-facebook-lean-in-superwoman-supervillain
Now Windows 10 can make you an unwitting beta tester - Chris Hoffman/How-To Geek https://www.howtogeek.com/398226/now-windows-10-has-c-b-and-d-updates.-what-is-microsoft-smoking/
Word Processing Using UNIX, by Sue Robinson, University of California Lick Observatory Technical Reports (1982) https://www.scribd.com/document/395768306/Word-Processing-Using-UNIX
Einstein on the only productivity tip you’ll ever need to know - Mayo Oshin/ Quartz at Work https://qz.com/work/1494627/einstein-on-the-only-productivity-tip-youll-ever-need-to-know/
My dad's friendship with Charles Barkley | Shirley Wang/Only a Game https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley
SIPC says it has serious concerns about Robinhood's new product - Julie Verhage/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-14/sipc-says-it-has-serious-concerns-about-robinhood-s-new-product
Posting evergreen content on Medium is a terrible idea - Behind the Scenes of Nomad Gate https://bts.nomadgate.com/medium-evergreen-content
Robinhood launches no-fee checking/savings with Mastercard & the most ATMs – Josh Constine/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/13/robinhood-free-checking-and-savings-accounts/
Kerrygold Dubliner is my new favorite cheese, and they have it at Costco https://www.kerrygoldusa.com/products/dubliner-cheese/
Drive with your hands at '9 and 3' instead of '10 and 2' - Nick Douglas/Lifehacker https://lifehacker.com/the-way-you-hold-your-steering-wheel-could-seriously-in-1830984310
On self-publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” - Jeremy Kun https://medium.com/@jeremyjkun/on-self-publishing-a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics-1472b7511c99
The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s https://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1218/kelly.html
Why WordPress needs Gutenberg (& the future of page builders) - ProfitPress https://profitpress.com/why-wordpress-needs-gutenberg-and-the-future-of-page-builders/
Opinion | Hate Amazon? Try living without it - Nona Willis Aronowitz/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/hate-amazon-try-living-without-it.html
Dear iPhone — it was just physical, and now it’s over - Katie Reid/Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-dear-iphoneit-was-just-physical-and-now-its-over
Accidentally from macOS to Windows and WSL - Matt Silverlock - request/response https://blog.questionable.services/article/accidentally-macos-wsl-windows-development/
We All Face Rejection. https://rejected.us/
WordPress 5.0: A Gutenberg FAQ – Matt Mullenweg https://ma.tt/2018/11/a-gutenberg-faq/
Facebook’s internal tensions are spilling beyond the company’s walls - BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebooks-tensions-zuckerberg-sandberg
Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside your home to steal vehicles - Taylor Simmons/CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/car-thefts-rising-1.4930890
Lime and Bird are each worth 10B+ - FutureEngine https://www.futureengine.org/articles/scooters-are-worth-10b
Emacs Rocks! http://emacsrocks.com/
Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features – Josh Constine/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/facebook-allows-competitors/
Leaving NYC for Nashville - Wes McKinney http://wesmckinney.com/blog/leaving-nyc-for-nashville/
Facebook employees calling former colleagues to look for jobs outside - Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/02/facebook-employees-calling-former-colleagues-to-look-for-jobs-outside.html
In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent - Ellen Sheng/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/03/in-silicon-valley-wages-are-down-for-everyone-but-the-top-10-percent.html
The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps are trying to reinvent our work day – Tony Lystra/GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2018/new-word-processor-wars-fresh-crop-productivity-apps-trying-reinvent-workday/
I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that's a big problem for social media companies - Christina Farr/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html
What makes BeOS and Haiku unique – The OS Voyager https://osvoyager.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/what-makes-beos-and-haiku-unique/
Bitcoin is close to becoming worthless - Atuyla Sarin/MarketWatch https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-is-close-to-becoming-worthless-2018-12-03
Ansel Adams’ pictures of Los Angeles recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs https://medium.californiasun.co/ansel-adams-los-angeles-32a812bdb7db
I follow 2,242 accounts on Twitter, and it's kinda noisy
Introduction to CSS | Eric Tirado/Scrimba.com https://scrimba.com/g/gintrotocss
Introduction to HTML | Eric Tirado/Scrimba.com https://scrimba.com/g/ghtml
Introduction to ES6+ | Dylan C. Israel/Scrimba.com https://scrimba.com/g/gintrotoes6
Introduction to JavaScript | Dylan C. Israel/Scrimba.com https://scrimba.com/g/gintrotojavascript
Scrimba is a powerful new way of learning code. Play around with the instructors code any time, right in the player. https://scrimba.com/
Learn React for free | Bob Ziroll/Scrimba.com https://scrimba.com/g/glearnreact
Every Clojure Talk Ever - Alex Engelberg and Derek Slager - YouTube (This is hilarious - watch it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPaby7suOc
Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? -Jon Beltran de Heredia/ViEm http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
America is poorer than it thinks - Noah Smith/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-26/poverty-in-america-greater-than-statistics-indicate
The Greatest Leap, part 2: The 50/50 bet that won the Space Race for America | Eric Berger/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/apollo-guts
Sedans aren’t dead. American sedans are. - Joe Nocera/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-29/chevrolet-sedans-suffer-while-toyota-and-honda-hang-on
When it comes to technical books, I'd rather deal directly with @pragprog, @ManningBooks @leanpub or @Apress than go through Amazon. It's a shame that @OReillyMedia doesn't sell direct anymore.
The thing about @JustStrings and @StringsByMail is that both companies are staffed by music enthusiasts who care about their products and their customers. At this scale, Amazon doesn't come close. Prices are all over the place, and you often don't know who you're buying from.
Amazon isn't better for everything (or even many things). For guitar strings, I buy from @JustStrings and @StringsByMail. Both have great prices, huge selection and excellent customer service - and it's all very consistent.
An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands - Jason Del Rey/Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/11/29/18023132/amazon-brand-policy-changes-marketplace-control-one-vendor
Listen to shortwave radio on the internet with wide-band WebSDR in Enschede, the Netherlands http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
‘Emerging’ as a writer — after 40 - Jenny Bhatt/Longreads https://longreads.com/2018/11/28/emerging-as-a-writer-after-40/
Google Container by Perflyst: This Firefox add-on is a fork of the Facebook Container add-on that prevents Google from tracking you around the web https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-container/
"Tech crash echo": It's beginning to feel a bit like 2000 - Vineer Bhansali/Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/vineerbhansali/2018/11/26/tech-crash-echo-its-beginning-to-feel-a-bit-like-2000
By using Vim as my editor for news stories, I'm now getting more comfortable with it as my coding editor
This company makes shavers ... for your back https://bakblade.com/
Remember calling for the time? You can still do it https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/services/telephone-time-day-ttds
Open source is not about you - Rich Hickey/GitHub (as an aside, it looks like GitHub Gists as blog posts is a thing) https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9
Google workers ask bosses to cancel the company’s secret, censored search engine for China - Davey Alba/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/china-google-workers-letter-cancel-company-secret-dragonfly
The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history - The Economist https://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/24/facebook-should-heed-the-lessons-of-internet-history
The case for slowing everything down a bit - Ezra Klein/Vox https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/11/19/18101274/google-alphabet-facebook-twitter-addiction-speed
Is it finally time for media companies to adopt a common publishing platform? Jesse Knight/Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/is-it-finally-time-for-media-companies-to-adopt-a-common-publishing-platform/
Dell XPS 13: The best Linux laptop of 2018 - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-xps-13-the-best-linux-laptop-of-2018/
Gitless: A simple version control system built on top of Git https://gitless.com/
As deadly flames approached, a mother called her daughters to say goodbye - Corina Knoll/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-the-last-call-20181122-story.html
Why does this contemporary bicycle maker use wood for the frame? https://materiabikes.com/2018/10/24/why-wood/
Five Black Fridays at the mall food court - Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/21/18104973/black-friday-mall-coffee-worker-experience-gloria-jeans
The homeless crisis is getting worse in America’s richest cities - Noah Buhayar and Esmé E Deprez/Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities
Nine of every 10 Silicon Valley jobs pays less than in 1997 - Leonardo Castañeda/San Jose Mercury News https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/18/silicon-valley-wages-have-dropped-for-all-except-highest-paying-jobs-report/
The State of JavaScript 2018 https://stateofjs.com/
Is this a new way forward for "small" GUI programs? http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/programming/2018_1118_maybe_some_things_can_be_a_web_program
YouTube starts showing free Hollywood movies with ad breaks | Garret Sloane/Ad Age https://adage.com/article/digital/youtube-starts-showing-free-hollywood-movies-ad-breaks/315631/
20 years of open source Erlang: OpenErlang Interview with Robert Virding - Erlang Solution blog https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/20-years-of-open-source-erlang-openerlang-interview-with-robert-virding.html
Facebook is a normal sleazy company now - Siva Vaidhyanathan/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/facebook-is-a-normal-sleazy-company-now.html
Kathy Hoffman had had enough. So she ran. And won. - Karen Tumulty/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-31-year-old-had-had-enough-so-she-ran-and-won/2018/11/14/cd6a7046-e6c2-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html
Who does Facebook fire after a bombshell New York Times story? - Kurt Wagner/Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/11/15/18095967/facebook-new-york-times-story-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg-fired
Facebook responds to New York Times article on Russia, Muslim ban, fake news, sex-trafficking legislation and Android vs. iPhone https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/
What to do if you leak data on Github https://github.com/GitGuardian/APISecurityBestPractices/blob/master/Leak%20Mitigation%20Checklist.md
Facebook blamed George Soros for anti-Facebook movement: NYT - Troy Wolverton/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-george-soros-critics-nyt-2018-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta is open to customers - Red Hat Customer Portal https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/beta
The Windows 10 October 2018 update (1809): Let's try this again - Brett Howse/AnandTech https://www.anandtech.com/print/13592/the-windows-10-october-2018-update
Canonical extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux support to 10 years - Sean Michael Kerner/ServerWatch https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/canonical-extends-ubuntu-18.04-lts-linux-support-to-10-years.html
Quitting Instagram: She’s one of the millions disillusioned with social media. But she also helped create it. - Elizabeth Dwoskin/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/14/quitting-instagram-shes-one-millions-disillusioned-with-social-media-she-also-helped-create-it/
Firms trying to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says - Jeff Cox/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/firms-trying-to-fill-jobs-should-try-paying-more-feds-kashkari-says.html
Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026
Slate is a completely customizable framework for building rich text editors https://docs.slatejs.org/
I used to be homeless — and here's what everyone gets wrong about it - Mark Anthonhy DiBello/Yahoo https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/used-homeless-apos-everyone-gets-201049080.html
Private by design: How we built Firefox Sync - Tom Ritter/Mozilla Hacks https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu -- yet - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-shuttleworth-is-not-selling-canonical-or-ubuntu-yet/
Amazon has its own distribution of OpenJDK https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
Qualtrics is a family business, one that SAP just bought for billion - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-12/how-one-family-built-8-billion-startup-far-from-silicon-valley
Host a static website on GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/product/pages/
Building a simple static site generator using Node.js - Victor Parmar/SmallData https://smalldata.tech/blog/2018/08/16/building-a-simple-static-site-generator-using-node-js
The Year 10,000 problem - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem
These are the things Apple customers hate the most (there's a lot) | Chris Matyszczyk/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-are-the-things-apple-customers-hate-the-most-theres-a-lot/
Fedora Toolbox — Hacking on Fedora Silverblue - Debarshi's den https://debarshiray.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/fedora-toolbox-hacking-on-fedora-silverblue/
Fedora Toolbox ready for testing! — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2018/10/23/fedora-toolbox-ready-for-testing/
Scripting Java 11, shebang and all - Nicolai Parlog/blog@CodeFX https://blog.codefx.org/java/scripting-java-shebang/
Why doctors hate their computers - Atul Gawande/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers
The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s - Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/the-new-york-times-is-digitizing-more-than-5-million-photos-dating-back-to-the-1800s/
The History of Unix, Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs
Homelessness is a tragedy the U.S. can afford to fix - Noah Smith/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-21/ending-homelessness-is-a-job-for-the-federal-government
How to improve math class | Jo Boaler/Time http://time.com/4970465/how-to-improve-math-class/
Before envelopes, people protected messages with letterlocking - Abigail Cain/Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-people-do-before-envelopes-letterlocking
Why are tech companies making custom typefaces? - arun.is https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/
Computer programming as an art - Donald E. Knuth (click the PDF link to read this December 1974 paper from Communications of the ACM) https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361612
Why Pharo might be the future of software development - Richard Kenneth Eng/The Cohort by App Academy https://blog.appacademy.io/pharo-future-software-development/
Yelp craters as much as 32% as advertisers abandon the site - Sara Salinas/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/yelp-craters-30percent-as-advertisers-abandon-the-site.html
Apple admits to hardware quality problems with iPhone X, MacBook Pro - Thurrott.com https://www.thurrott.com/apple/191172/apple-admits-to-hardware-quality-problems-with-iphone-x-macbook-pro
What does an orchestral conductor actually do? - Clemency Burton-Hill/BBC http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141029-what-do-conductors-actually-do
Tech CEOs are in love with their principal doomsayer - Nellie Bowles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/business/yuval-noah-harari-silicon-valley.html
So you wanna be a chef — Anthony Bourdain http://ruhlman.com/2010/09/so-you-wanna-be-a-chef%E2%80%94-by-bourdain-2/
Bussed out: How America moves thousands of homeless people around the country - Outside in America/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study
Milky Way devoured a galactic challenger, astronomers reveal - Nadia Drake/National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-milky-way-galaxy-ate-dwarf-backward-stars-astronomy
Twitter is finally giving our chronological timelines back - Ivan Mehta/TNW https://thenextweb.com/apps/2018/11/01/twitter-is-finally-giving-our-chronological-timelines-back/
Flickr, now owned by SmugMug, changes its free accounts https://blog.flickr.net/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/
'Hey, you're a developer. That means there's a 100 percent chance you're using a Macbook,' says developer who writes blog post that gives "brew" installation instructions with no acknowledgment that non-Mac-using developers exist.
Make your Firefox browser a privacy superpower with these extensions | The Firefox Frontier https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/make-your-firefox-browser-a-privacy-superpower-with-these-extensions/
Tiny books fit in one hand. Will they change the way we read? - Alexandra Alter/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/business/mini-books-pocket-john-green.html
I have 1,500 followers, and my tweets draw between 50 and 200 "impressions," as Twitter calls them, per post. Retweets are rare. Twitter is a different game for those with 50k, 100k and more followers.
Thank you for this story @AntonieWrites: Granada Hills Jewish Community Center shooting survivors and their relatives reflect on a more-deadly ending in Pittsburgh rampage https://www.dailynews.com/2018/10/31/pittsburgh-rampage-taps-memories-of-hate-fueled-attack-at-granada-hills-jewish-community-center/
OpenBSD has virtual machines - OpenBSD FAQ http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html
Twitter should kill the retweet - Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/twitter-should-kill-retweet/574321/
The Growth of Reddit - QuillBot Blog https://blog.quillbot.com/subreddit-growth-over-time/
Announcing the release of Fedora 29 - Matthew Miller/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/
IBM acquires Red Hat | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-acquires-red-hat/
IBM to acquire Raleigh-based Red Hat for billion | Richard Stradling and Zachery Eanes/Bradenton Herald https://www.bradenton.com/news/nation-world/national/article220764180.html
The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy RedHat for – Josh Constine/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/biggest-software-acquisition/
IBM is acquiring Red Hat for billion - Becky Peterson/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-a-deal-to-acquire-redhat-the-software-company-valued-at-20-billion-2018-10
IBM acquires Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-hybrid-cloud-provider
Learning by copying the textbook - Eugene Wallingford http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-09.html#e2018-09-05T15_58_36.htm
A dark consensus about screens and kids begins to emerge in Silicon Valley - Nellie Bowles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html
Snapchat loses 2M more users in Q3 as shares sink to new low – Josh Constine/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/snapchat-q3-2018-earnings/
Is Gutenberg the end or a new beginning for WordPress? - Iain Poulson/Delicious Brains https://deliciousbrains.com/wordpress-gutenberg/
Google is making it easier to wipe out your search history - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18017832/google-search-privacy-changes-2018
Palm rises from the dead as a zombie brand, launches tiny smartphone | Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/palm-rises-from-the-dead-as-a-zombie-brand-launches-tiny-smartphone/
7-Zip is also a file manager? I didn't know. https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/14522-latest-7-zip-update.html#post328499
What's new in WordPress 5.0 (How to prepare for Gutenberg) - Brian Jackson/Kinsta https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-5-0/
Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the ‘data industrial complex’ – Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/apples-tim-cook-makes-blistering-attack-on-the-data-industrial-complex/
Lavender's soothing scent could be more than just folk medicine - JoAnna Klein/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/science/lavender-scent-anxiety.html
How we wrote a textbook – Tim Wheeler (The book is about computer science, but what interests me here is how they put the book together using LaTeX) http://tim.hibal.org/blog/how-we-wrote-a-textbook/
This Perl Goes To 11 http://perl11.org/
Google News app bug is using up gigabytes of background data without users’ knowledge - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/22/18011028/google-news-app-bug-background-data-overage-charge
How many hours do we really need to work? - Jory MacKay/RescueTime https://blog.rescuetime.com/how-many-hours-should-we-work/
Fruit, veg and family life – why Spaniards are living longer - Sam Jones/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/19/spaniards-living-longer-researchers-credit-diet-lifestyle-fruit-veg-family-life
Dangit, git! http://dangitgit.com/
Why toilets are still made of porcelain - Rachel Swaby/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/5930537/why-toilets-are-still-made-of-porcelain
How IBM’s ThinkPad became a design icon - Harry McCracken/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90145427/how-ibms-thinkpad-became-a-design-icon
Watch NASA release 450,000 gallons of water in 1 minute - CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/watch-nasa-release-450000-gallons-of-water-in-1-minute/
Redline Smalltalk: Smalltalk on the JVM http://www.redline.st/
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback https://pharo.org/web
Even after Microsoft's fix, Windows 10's 1809 update is still botching file operations - Gizmodo Australia https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/10/even-after-microsofts-fix-windows-10s-1809-update-is-still-botching-file-operations/
Endless OS is a Debian-based Linux distribution in which the root filesystem is read-only and managed by OSTree and using Flatpak for applications https://verummeum.com/blog/2018/10/21/endless-os-review-2018/
I love the design of this Hugo site, defn.io, by Bogdan Popa https://defn.io/
Playing around with Racket - Bogdan Popa https://defn.io/2018/10/21/racket/
Open platforms like Android unlock potential - Ayanna Howard/Google's The Keyword blog https://www.blog.google/technology/developers/open-platforms-android-unlock-potential/
Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl https://webperl.zero-g.net/
FT8 - tipping point for ham radio? Gerald, K5SDR/FlexRadio https://www.flexradio.com/ft8-tipping-point-for-ham-radio/
If printed dictionaries are history, what will children sit on to reach the table? | Michael Adams/National Endowment for the Humanities https://www.neh.gov/article/if-printed-dictionaries-are-history-what-will-children-sit-reach
Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows—it’s how it develops it | Peter Bright/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsofts-problem-isnt-shipping-windows-updates-its-developing-them/
Uber is testing an on-demand staffing business called Uber Works - Sean O'Kane/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/18/17995398/uber-works-staffing-business-test-trial
What do you do with a slide rule? https://tryretool.com/blog/the-slide-rule/
See data structures in action with interactive animations - David Galles/University of San Francisco https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/
What's in the App Academy curriculum? I'm only looking because it looks like you can access the entire course for free. https://www.appacademy.io/immersive/curriculum
How you can change the world by learning data structures and algorithms - Adrian Mejia https://adrianmejia.com/blog/2018/04/04/how-you-can-change-the-world-learning-data-structures-algorithms-free-online-course-tutorial/
How Lisp became God's own programming language - Two-Bit History https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html
33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts
Raspberry Pi-sized LattePanda Alpha runs Windows 10, offers MacBook-like specs - Nick Heath/TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/article/raspberry-pi-sized-lattepanda-alpha-runs-windows-10-offers-macbook-like-specs
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on its quick rise and faster fall - Alex Blumberg/Intelligencer http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2018/10/andrew-mason-on-groupon.html
Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard - Rachel Metz/MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611620/why-we-cant-quit-the-qwerty-keyboard/
Twitter and Salesforce CEOs bicker over who is helping the homeless more - Gabrielle Canon/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/12/jack-dorsey-marc-benioff-homelessness-twitter-san-francisco
Why are CVS receipts so long? An investigation. - Rachel Sugar/Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/10/17956950/why-are-cvs-pharmacy-receipts-so-long
A future where everything becomes a computer is as creepy as you feared - Farhad Manjoo/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/technology/future-internet-of-things.html
I installed JRuby, and I already had 'regular' Ruby on my Windows 10 system. Can you guess what happened?
The dreaded Windows update 1809 took console Vim out of my path. I added it back. (I use both GVim and console Vim almost all the time in Windows and, when I run it, Linux)
This is a test http://stevenrosenberg.net
JRuby https://www.jruby.org/
The way I learn programming is by making stupid little programs
I am looking into Shoes, the easiest little GUI toolkit for Ruby http://shoesrb.com
Chess game using Racket's pasteboard - Alex Harsanyi https://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/10/chess-game-using-racket-s-pasteboard.html
Why futurism has a cultural blindspot Tom Vanderbilt/Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/why-futurism-has-a-cultural-blindspot-rp
Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career | joshuahu.io https://www.joshuahu.io/blog/quitting/
Hackaday.io | The world's largest collaborative hardware development community. https://hackaday.io
The 555 timer chip and how it got that way | Dan Maloney/Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/the-555-and-how-it-got-that-way/
What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/what-we-lose-by-reading-100000-words-every-day/2018/10/04/72dea000-b212-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.36b801454468
A long list of complaints about static site generators - Florens Verschelde https://fvsch.com/static-site-generators/
École 42, a free, teacher-less university founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel is schooling thousands of future-proof programmers — Quartz https://qz.com/1054412/a-french-billionaires-free-teacher-less-university-is-designing-thousands-of-future-proof-employees/
Learn Git Branching https://learngitbranching.js.org/
The Netflix vs. Amazon Prime Video war is making piracy cool again – Chris Mills/BGR https://bgr.com/2018/10/07/netflix-vs-amazon-prime-video-original-content-piracy/
The Dutch reach: A no-tech way to save bicyclists’ lives - Tanya Mohn/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/smarter-living/the-dutch-reach-save-bicyclists-lives-bicycle-safety-drivers.html
9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6,000-word leaked memo on survival – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/chat-not-snap/
I am taking a Ruby program that's a giant procedural script and rewriting it with classes. I was going to do this in Java, but the description of classes in "Head First Ruby" by Jay McGavren was so good, I decided to stick with the original language.
How do you take a picture of a black hole? With a telescope as big as the Earth - Seth Fletcher/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-as-big-as-the-earth.html
How China used a tiny chip to infiltrate U.S. companies - Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
Why I’m worried about Google: I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t. - Matthew Green/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/google-is-losing-users-trust.html
Clojure is cool - Ahungry.com http://ahungry.com/blog/2018-09-09-Clojure-is-Cool.html
Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your-2fa-phone-number-to-target-you-with-ads/
How bad maps are ruining American broadband - Karl Bode/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17882842/us-internet-broadband-map-isp-fcc-wireless-competition
Is coding becoming obsolete? (Part I) – Zeroqode Blog https://blog.zeroqode.com/is-coding-becoming-obsolete-part-i-4a2cf88f8b48
Manyverse is a social network off the grid https://www.manyver.se/
Self-solving Rubik's cube https://media.dmm-make.com/item/4462/
Ungoogled Chromium: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Why I’m done with Chrome – Matthew Green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
I will trade a bigger audience for control of my own content. (This post also lives at http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net)
Our React-native experience at Drops (so far) – Mark Szulyovszky – Medium | tl;dr They like it https://medium.com/@itchingpixels/our-react-native-experience-603e3343730
Carnegie Mellon is saving old software from oblivion - Mahadev Satyanarayanan/IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/carnegie-mellon-is-saving-old-software-from-oblivion
How do you decaffeinate coffee? - Stephen Dowling/BBC http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180917-how-do-you-decaffeinate-coffee
JavaFX 11 is released, and the project now has its own website https://openjfx.io/
10 apps to add features to Windows 10 - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/10-apps-to-add-features-to-windows-10/
Is California a good role model? - Thomas B. Edsall/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/california-economy-inequality-mobility.html
Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads - Rani Molla/Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/9/10/17797720/amazon-is-stuffing-its-search-results-pages-with-ads
Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy? - Evan Osnos/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy
Facts and stories about antique computers - Ed Thelen (an extensive list of links) http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/index.html
Computing Before Computers (1990 book on the history of computing going back to 1600 AD) http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CBC-Ch-01.pdf
Academy scraps 'Popular Film' Oscars category after industry backlash - @TVAnita/Urban Hollywood 411 https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/09/06/academy-scraps-popular-film-oscars-category/
Scooter use is rising in major cities. So are trips to the emergency room. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/scooter-use-is-rising-in-major-cities-so-are-trips-to-the-emergency-room/2018/09/06/53d6a8d4-abd6-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html
Introduction To Calculus With Derivatives (a very interesting and accessible take on the subject) http://adit.io/posts/2018-02-18-Introduction-To-Calculus-With-Derivatives.html
Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth's climate. If true, this adds a lot to the current climate-change debate. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ancient-farmers-glaciers-profoundly-earth.html
Hard lessons (thanks, Amazon) breathe new life into retail stores - Michael Corkery/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/retail-walmart-amazon-economy.html
Dr. Bronner's Soap is a trendy million company — Simone Stolzoff/Quartzy https://qz.com/quartzy/1374780/dr-bronners-soap-is-a-trendy-120-million-company/
More on blogPoster in a GUI: I like apps written in the QT toolkit, and I bet that JavaFX is also pretty good, but these frameworks add a lot of complexity to what is still a fairly simple Ruby console app.
More on blogPoster going GUI: While there are better GUI toolkits than Tk, and languages that haven't abandoned the desktop GUI, Ruby and Tk seems like the most "standard" of pairings, and this project is simple enough that it'll probably work just fine.
While I haven't yet made my Ruby-coded blogPoster app (which is posting this entry) either modular or class-based (I still plan to to do that), I am starting work on the GUI version with Tk and the help of the http://tkdocs.com tutorial.
Warmoth Custom Guitar & Bass Parts offers a dizzying number of options for creating the solidbody guitar you want while avoiding the trouble of woodworking and finishing. Plus all bodies and necks are made in the USA http://www.warmoth.com/
S100 Computers: A web site for S-100 bus computer owners - This is a very deep site on how to make S-100 bus computers work in the 2010s http://www.s100computers.com/index.html
Stop future proofing software – George3d6 https://medium.com/@george3d6/stop-future-proofing-software-c984cbd65e78
The Rails doctrine - David Heinemeier Hansson (2016) https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/
Virgin Mobile is selling Android phones, but they don't put storage or memory in the specs
Six-chip Z80 board runs CP/M from a CF card https://github.com/linker3000/Z80-Board
Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing - The Economist https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/09/01/silicon-valley-is-changing-and-its-lead-over-other-tech-hubs-narrowing
The overprotected American child: Parents and communities are figuring out ways to give their children more independence—and it just may help them to become less anxious, more self-reliant adults - Andrea Petersen/WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-overprotected-american-child-1527865038?mod=djmc_pkt_ff
Twitter is testing suggestions of accounts to unfollow - Axios https://www.axios.com/twitter-is-testing-suggestions-of-accounts-to-unfollow-3229b5d9-77dd-4c88-92ae-fb1e69d05d07.html
Mozilla: Changing our approach to anti-tracking https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-our-approach-to-anti-tracking/
Money for nothing: Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In the future, who will still work for a paycheck? - Atossa Araxia Abrahamian/The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work
The world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995 - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain
Getting Started with React – An Overview and Walkthrough – Tania Rascia https://www.taniarascia.com/getting-started-with-react/
See all eight planets in one night - Sky & Telescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/see-all-eight-planets-in-one-night/
‘Digital shackles’: the unexpected cruelty of ankle monitors - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/28/digital-shackles-the-unexpected-cruelty-of-ankle-monitors
Real world SSD wearout – okmeter.io blog https://blog.okmeter.io/real-world-ssd-wearout-a3396a35c663
The bridge of desperation: The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has led to one of the largest mass migrations in Latin America’s history - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Venezuela_bridge
How Hollywood is racing to catch up with Netflix - Cynthia Littleton/Variety https://variety.com/2018/digital/features/media-streaming-services-netflix-disney-comcast-att-1202910463/
Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work? - Rayne Ellis/Mashable https://mashable.com/2018/08/18/how-recycling-works
I delivered packages for Amazon and it was a nightmare - Alana Semuels/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/amazon-flex-workers/563444/
The unlikely return of Birkenstock - The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/cathy-horyn-on-birkenstocks-unlikely-rise.html
Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps. Now Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay up. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/24/thousands-amazon-workers-receive-food-stamps-now-bernie-sanders-wants-amazon-pay-up/?utm_term=.3d6b73c5294d
What is this weird Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work? – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter-army-of-amazon-drones-cheerfully-defending-warehouse-work/
AWS' answer to Digital Ocean is Lightsail, which has been around since 2016. This is the first I've heard of it. https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/aws-cuts-the-price-of-most-of-its-lightsail-virtual-private-servers-in-half/
Mathematica at 30: We’ve come a long way (but you haven’t seen anything yet!) - Stephen Wolfram http://blog.wolfram.com/2018/06/21/weve-come-a-long-way-in-30-years-but-you-havent-seen-anything-yet/
GitLab 11.2 released with live preview in the Web IDE and Android project import https://about.gitlab.com/2018/08/22/gitlab-11-2-released/
What if banks were publicly owned? In LA, this may soon be a reality. | David Dayen/HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/public-bank-los-angeles_us_5b6bef33e4b0ae32af954495
Let’s all go back to Tumblr | Jeremy Gordon/The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back
We don't run cron jobs (2016) - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17805829
We don’t run cron jobs at Nextdoor – Wenbin Fang/Nextdoor Engineering https://engblog.nextdoor.com/we-don-t-run-cron-jobs-at-nextdoor-6f7f9cc62040
Fedora Silverblue is a new way of putting together a Linux desktop with rpm-ostree for 'fully atomic upgrades, easy rollbacks,' and Flatpak desktop applications for 'stronger isolation' and more reliable upgrades. https://teamsilverblue.org/
Use bundler/inline to make sure users get the Ruby gems needed to run your script https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/970jus/rewriting_a_shell_script_on_ruby/e47dj1z
Stop hiring for culture fit - Patty McCord/Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-to-hire
Punctuation that failed to make its mark - Keith Houston/BBC.com http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151104-punctuation-that-failed-to-make-its-mark
What does immersing yourself in a book do to your brain? | Maryanne Wolf/Literary Hub https://lithub.com/what-does-immersing-yourself-in-a-book-do-to-your-brain/
TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes - Tom Ross/GitHub https://github.com/umpox/TinyEditor
Don't do what you love for a career -- do what makes you money - Catherine Baab-Muguira/Quartz https://qz.com/819233/do-what-you-love-is-bad-advice-work-for-money-not-for-passion/
Electric scooters are illegal in the UK because of 1835 law - Shona Ghosh/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-scooters-illegal-1835-highways-act-2018-8
Is this the end of the TV writers’ room as we know it? | Joy Press/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/the-end-of-the-tv-writers-room-as-we-know-it-mini-rooms
In Ruby, global variables work, but you're supposed to use instance variables when you can, so I made the switch on all the variables in this Twitter-posting app. If you see this, it worked.
Facebook wanted us to kill this investigative tool - Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wanted-us-to-kill-this-investigative-tool-1826620111
Snap’s drop in active users could signal a social media peak - Kate Conger/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/technology/snapchat-users.html
I'm learning a crazy amount of Vim by using it every day. I look up how to do the things I need to do (and Vim can do just about anything), and I've written search/replace macros for the hard stuff. Repetition is the key.
China still sorting through its bike-share graveyards - Alan Taylor/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/china-abandoned-bike-share-graveyards/566576/
Where Vim came from - Two-Bit History https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html
Why so many poor kids who get into college don’t end up enrolling - Alvin Chang/Vox https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17639142/poor-kids-college-dont-enroll
Commit often, perfect later, publish once - Seth Robertson/Git Best Practices https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/
It bears repeating: @firefox is very much a usable browser. If you think there is too much Google in your life, pair it with @DuckDuckGo and see how it works for you.
Dollar stores are thriving – but are they ripping off poor people? - Joe Eskenazi/The Guardian US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/28/dollar-store-ripping-people-off-poverty-inequality
The expensive education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley - Kara Swisher/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/the-expensive-education-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-silicon-valley.html
When you try to use Vim commands in a WordPress Dashboard window
As Google Maps renames neighborhoods, residents fume - Jack Nicas/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html
Why a typical home solar setup does not work with the grid down - and what you can do about it - Russel Graves https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-setup-does-not-work-off-grid.html
The hardest thing about search/replace macros in Vim is figuring out how to deal with line breaks. I have lots of situations where having cr-lf line endings is helpful in search/replace, but that's not a thing in Vim.
I'm using Vim as my main Windows text editor to edit news stories because my usual go-to Win editors - Notepad++ and Geany - are both bad at search/replace macros. I'm learning a lot of Vim due to brute repetition.
SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure - Tom Hall http://www.sicpdistilled.com
Time to get Audacity - the free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing - for my Windows 10 laptop https://www.audacityteam.org/
10 reasons to ignore computer science degrees | CIO https://www.cio.com/article/3293010/hiring-and-staffing/10-reasons-to-ignore-computer-science-degrees.html
I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences. - Sunil Sandhu https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/i-created-the-exact-same-app-in-react-and-vue-here-are-the-differences-e9a1ae8077fd
How Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50 million pages of newspapers in his living room - Alexandria Neason/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tom-tryniski-fultonhistory.php
The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere — Ephrat Livni/Quartzy https://quartzy.qz.com/1342058/the-most-relaxing-vacation-you-can-take-is-going-nowhere-at-all/
LeBron James’ barbershop talk show ‘The Shop’ lands at HBO - @TVAnita/Urban Hollywood 411 https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/07/27/lebron-james-barbershop-talk-show-the-shop-lands-at-hbo/
‘Black-ish’ creator Kenya Barris leaving ABC Studios - by @TVAnita/Urban Hollywood 411 https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/07/27/kenya-barris-leaving-abc-studios/
Nautilus 3.30 offers improvements to GNOME's file manager - Carlos Soriano https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2018/07/27/nautilus-3-30/
The billion plan to turn Hoover Dam into a giant battery - Ivan Penn/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/energy-environment/hoover-dam-renewable-energy.html
Racket (aka @racketlang) is so easy to upgrade. I went to v7.0 and upgraded the language and the Dr. Racket IDE in one easy operation
Notable change in Racket v7.0: On Windows, an --embed-dlls flag for raco exe creates a truly standalone, single-file ".exe" that embeds Racket's DLLs https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/07/racket-v7-0.html
Why I’m deleting all my old tweets | Emily Dreyfuss/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/im-deleting-all-my-old-tweets
Microfilm lasts half a millennium - Crag Saper/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/microfilm-lasts-half-a-millennium/565643/
San Francisco Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at Facebook and other tech companies - Leanna Garfield/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-free-cafeteria-food-facebook-ban-2018-7
Amazon could never replace libraries. Here’s everything we offer that Amazon doesn’t. - Amanda Oliver/Vox https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/7/26/17616516/amazon-silicon-valley-libraries-forbes
Learn Vanilla JS: Open source list of paid and free resources to learn vanilla JavaScript - Snipcart https://github.com/snipcart/learnvanillajs
You should learn vanilla javaScript before JS frameworks - Francois-Xavier P. Darveau/Snipcart https://snipcart.com/blog/learn-vanilla-javascript-before-using-js-frameworks
Slack is buying HipChat - Dina Bass and Ellen Huet/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software
Atlassian announces partnership with Slack, will no longer offer Stride https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership
Newsletters are immortal – Dave Pell https://medium.com/@davepell/newsletters-are-immortal-9887b1a5dc6a
Why the confirm password field must die - UX Movement http://uxmovement.com/forms/why-the-confirm-password-field-must-die/
One System, Universal Service? – Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/one-system-universal-service/
Windows 10 now uses machine learning to stop updates installing when a PC is in use - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17614842/microsoft-windows-10-updates-reboot-pc-machine-learning-feature
Facebook stock drops more than 20% after warning that revenue growth will take a hit - Max A. Cherney/MarketWatch https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-stock-crushed-after-revenue-user-growth-miss-2018-07-25
Jane Austen’s first buyer? Probably a prince she hated - Jennifer Schuessler/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/books/jane-austen-prince-regent.html
MITS Altair 8800 simulator https://s2js.com/altair/sim.html
The world economy runs on GPS. It needs a backup plan - Paul Tullis/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/the-world-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan
Cashless stores and restaurants are on the rise - Henry Grabar/Slate https://slate.com/business/2018/07/cashless-stores-and-restaurants-are-on-the-rise-to-the-delight-of-credit-card-companies.html
When media startups face big-city newspapers - Corey Hutchins/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/colorado-sun-denver-post-civil.php
Running your application for free on AWS - Parikshit Agnihotry http://p.agnihotry.com/post/the_free_stack_aws/
Vienna's affordable housing paradise | Adam Forrest/HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_us_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0
If the Dems lose against Trump in 2020 with a hard-left candidate, the party may swing back to the center -- unless the economy -- and principally a larger gap between rich and poor -- leads the Democrats to veer further left.
If Democrats regain the White House in 2020 with a hard-left approach, that will transform the party in much the same way that Trump has remade the GOP. Dems will appeal to a similarly small core constituency with an eye toward pushing more of the country further to the left.
My prediction: The Democrats will go hard left against Trump in 2020. It'll either be Elizabeth Warren (though listening to her on the stump shows that she's not yet ready) or a Bernie Sanders type minus 30 to 40 years. Outside chance that it's Bernie Sanders himself.
Using AWS with React Native https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/03/05/AWS-app-sync.html
We need a new model for tech journalism - James Ball/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/tech-journalism.php
What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps and why? - Indie Hackers https://www.indiehackers.com/round-table/what-tech-should-you-use-in-2018
Work less, get more: New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success' - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/work-less-get-more-new-zealand-firms-four-day-week-an-unmitigated-success
Project Fuchsia: Google is quietly working on a successor to Android - Mark Bergen and Mark Gurman/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/google-team-is-said-to-plot-android-successor-draw-skepticism
Beatrice Tinsley, astronomer who saw the course of the universe - Dennis Overbye/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/obituaries/overlooked-beatrice-tinsley-astronomer.html
Apple confirms 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard has 'membrane' to 'prevent debris from entering the butterfly mechanism' - Joe Rossignol/MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/19/apple-confirms-2018-mbp-keyboard-prevents-debris/
and Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg
Best Buy should be dead, but it's thriving in the age of Amazon - Susan Berfield and Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-19/best-buy-should-be-dead-but-it-s-thriving-in-the-age-of-amazon
Build Android apps in PicoLisp without an Android SDK https://picolisp.com/wiki/?pilbox
Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat | Arielle Pardes/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-introduces-subreddit-chat
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's interview with Kara Swisher on Recode Decode: Full transcript https://www.recode.net/2018/7/18/17575158/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview-full-transcript-kara-swisher
Walmart reportedly considers cloning Netflix to beat Amazon - Rhett Jones/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/walmart-may-build-a-netflix-clone-to-stick-it-to-amazon-1827682696
When a tech reporter doesn’t use much tech - David Streitfeld/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/personaltech/tech-reporter-does-not-use-tech.html
America’s electoral system gives the Republicans advantages over Democrats - The Economist https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/07/12/americas-electoral-system-gives-the-republicans-advantages-over-democrats
Google Cloud Platform Blog: Improving our account management policies to better support customers - Ben Treynor Sloss/GCP Blog https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-our-account-management-policies-to-better-support-customers.html
Google gets slapped with billion EU fine for Android antitrust abuse – Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/google-gets-slapped-5bn-by-eu-for-android-antitrust-abuse
Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Netflix, Amazon | Valentina Palladino/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/walmart-may-launch-a-video-streaming-service-to-battle-netflix-amazon
Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17585396/google-android-eu-fine-response
S3 suspend for the Lenovo X1 Carbon 2018 - fiji-flo/GitHub https://github.com/fiji-flo/x1carbon2018s3
vim-zen: Barebones Vim Plugin Manager - prakadanish/GitHub https://github.com/prakashdanish/vim-zen
Start to finish: Deploying a React app on DigitalOcean - Julien Tregoat/Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/start-to-finish-deploying-a-react-app-on-digitalocean-bcfae9e6d01b
Social media’s dial-up ancestor: The bulletin board system - Kevin Driscoll/IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/social-medias-dialup-ancestor-the-bulletin-board-system
These Barbie typewriters can send secret messages, and yes, this is for real - Crypto Museum http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/
To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of romance writer gamed Amazon's algorithm - Sarah Jeong/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal
Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication - Ana Sandoiu/Medical News Today https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322463.php
I've never heard of Refinery29, but they do slideshows right -- and that's a rarity https://www.refinery29.com/netflix-hidden-gems
Why use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps? https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien/diary/44356
How smart speakers are changing the way we listen to music | Eric Harvey/Pitchfork https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-smart-speakers-are-changing-the-way-we-listen-to-music/
If you see this post, I have succeeded in moving the configuration portion of my blogPoster Ruby script to its own file, which I call into the main file with Ruby's require_relative
I have been doing some work on the blogPoster Ruby script in preparation for sharing the code, and if you see this post, I didn't break it
Building a progressive web app with Gatsby, a static site generator - Michelle Barker/Our Name Is Mud https://ournameismud.co.uk/journal/building-a-progressive-web-app-with-gatsby
Get a progressive web app running in just 20 minutes using gatsby.js - Melissa McEwen/Rollout Blog https://rollout.io/blog/progressive-web-app-running-20-minutes
After all I said about not being on StatusNet/GNU Social in years, I just started an account on quitter.im (the instance I used to use at quitter.se is dead)
I have used Identi.ca (still available), StatusNet/GNU Social (the network I was on, quitter.se, seems dead now) and Diaspora, but those are pretty much confined to open-source software users. Twitter is news-centric and otherwise has a very wide reach.
I prefer reading Hacker News and Reddit, but those aren't sites where you can or should post a lot. For that, there's Twitter, and probably also Google Plus, though I can't remember the last time I posted there.
I used a lot of social networks, but all have fallen by the wayside except for Twitter. It retains the simplicity of a text post and fits my "posting style"
I created my own blogPoster app because I wanted to make the act of writing and publishing a social media update to my own site and Twitter as seamless and easy as possible
When I'm coding and all my tools are working, the operating system doesn't matter
What we need instead of another huge social network is a bunch of smaller platforms that are built on blogs and the open web - Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/2018/07/13/replacing-billionuser-platforms.html
Google Cloud steps up storage game to court Hollywood, launches Filestore - Larry Dignan/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-steps-up-storage-game-to-court-hollywood-launches-filestore
Thank you for your help NoSQL, but we got it from here - Rick Negrin/MemSQL Blog http://blog.memsql.com/nosql/
How I got banned for life from Airbnb - Jackson Cunningham/Medium https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba
How ‘Fortnite’ became the most popular video game on Earth - Brian Feldman/New York Magazine http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/07/how-fortnite-became-the-most-popular-video-game-on-earth.html
'Find your passion' is awful advice: A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers - Olga Khazan/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/find-your-passion-is-terrible-advice/564932
A full-spec updated 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro will cost you ,699 | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-full-spec-updated-15-inch-apple-macbook-pro-will-cost-you-6699
Apple's surprise MacBook Pro update further strains its relationship with pros - David Gewirtz/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-surprise-macbook-pro-update-further-strains-its-relationship-with-pros
Was Trump’s election a ‘Sputnik moment’ for civics education? – Beau Yarbrough/Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2018/05/30/was-trumps-election-a-sputnik-moment-for-civics-education/
In Alabama, a small-town paper is figuring out digital advertising — and they’re doing it live - Marlee Baldridge/Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/in-alabama-a-small-town-paper-is-figuring-out-digital-advertising-and-theyre-doing-it-live/
Social media has taken the wind from the sails of the open web - Rob Reed/Ode https://ode.io/off-topic/rob/technology/internet/social-media-taken-wind-from-webs-sails.html#social-media-taken-wind-from-webs-sails
This is a test: Sending directly to the social blog
Appropriate Uses For SQLite - SQLite.org https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
In praise of the 30-hour work week – Valerie Aurora https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/06/17/in-praise-of-the-30-hour-work-week/
Wi-Fi security is starting to get its biggest upgrade in over a decade - Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/6/26/17501594/wpa3-wifi-security-certification
Is Silicon Valley doomed to become the next Detroit? - Andrew L. Russell and Lee Vinsel/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90201098/is-silicon-valley-doomed-to-become-the-next-detroit
The Haskell School of Music: From Signals to Symphonies (PDF) - Paul Hudak/Yale University Department of Computer Science http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/HSoM.pdf
Microsoft is putting Slack on notice — Mike Murphy/Quartz https://qz.com/1325993/microsoft-is-offerring-a-free-version-of-its-slack-competitor-teams/
Graffiti targeting Amazon spreading in Seattle – Taylor Soper and Kurt Scholsser/GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2018/photos-graffiti-targeting-amazon-jeff-bezos-illustrates-animosity-toward-tech-giant-seattle/
Downloading your Twitter data - Kyle Conroy https://kyleconroy.com/your-twitter-data
Microsoft launches free version of Teams | Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-launches-free-version-of-teams/
Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich - Maddy Savage/BBC http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180709-unlike-most-millennials-norways-are-rich
Microsoft matches Slack with a free version of its Teams chat app - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563710/microsoft-teams-free-version-slack-competitor
The scooting life: are electric scooters worth the trouble? | Nikil Saval/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-scooting-life-are-electric-scooters-worth-the-trouble
The next Facebook? Alma Campus raises $1 million for a college social network with an academic bent | Anna Hensel/VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/alma-campus-raises-1-million-for-a-college-social-network-with-an-academic-bent/
Why you hate contemporary architecture | Brianna Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson/Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture
Microsoft is updating the Windows Notepad app for the first time in years - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563704/microsoft-windows-notepad-app-update
Why Kubernetes is the new application server - Rafael Benevides/Red Hat Developer blog https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/06/28/why-kubernetes-is-the-new-application-server/
Overlooked No More: Bette Nesmith Graham, who invented Liquid Paper - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/obituaries/bette-nesmith-graham-liquid-paper.html
Google Cloud Platform - The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It's Mostly Good) - Daniel Compton/Deps https://www.deps.co/blog/google-cloud-platform-good-bad-ugly/
Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them? - Daniel Miller/L.A. Times http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ca-cm-times-art-20180712-htmlstory.html
What is the minimal web? - mnmlist http://mnmlist.com/w/
Google Cloud Platform launches Los Angeles region - Google Cloud https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/la/
Delivering WordPress in 7KB | Jack Lenox/CSS-Tricks https://css-tricks.com/delivering-wordpress-in-7kb/
Apple updates MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-updates-macbook-pro-with-faster-performance-and-new-features-for-pros/
The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea - DHH/Signal v. Noise https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3
Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm - BBC News (covers Boulder Daily Camera and Denver Post) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44688274
How to install (Let's Encrypt) free SSL in Hostgator - The David Web https://thedavidweb.com/install-lets-encrypt-free-ssl-hostgator/
Open Source at Write.as https://write.as/open-source
Write.as — Distraction-free blogging and writing platform https://write.as/
Matt Baer is the creator of Write.as https://write.as/matt/who-is-this
Sky-high deductibles broke the U.S. health insurance system - John Tozzi and Zachary Tracer/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-26/sky-high-deductibles-broke-the-u-s-health-insurance-system
No, I have no side code projects to show you | Ezekiel Buchheit/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-have-side-code-projects-show-you-ezekiel-buchheit/
How I fully quit Google (and you can, too) – Nithin Coca/Medium https://medium.com/s/story/how-i-fully-quit-google-and-you-can-too-4c2f3f85793a
Employers will do almost anything to find workers to fill jobs — except pay them more - Michael Hiltzik/Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-employment-20180710-story.html
Let’s celebrate Hugo’s 5th birthday | Bjørn Erik Pedersen/Hugo (There is a lot of info here on the Hugo static site generator) https://gohugo.io/news/lets-celebrate-hugos-5th-birthday/
Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway – Jonathan S. Geller/BGR https://bgr.com/2018/07/10/apple-1password-acquisition-deal/
AT&T's doomed plans to turn HBO into Netflix - David Sims/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/att-changing-hbo/564635/
Currents: A quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud - Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/june-2018/
Firefox and the 4-year battle to have Google to treat it as a first-class citizen - Chris Duckett/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-and-the-4-year-battle-to-have-google-to-treat-it-as-a-first-class-citizen
Is the world running out of sand? The truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands - Neil Tweedie/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jul/01/riddle-of-the-sands-the-truth-behind-stolen-beaches-and-dredged-islands
The Twitter API wasn't working for me. Was it Twitter, or was it me?
The Beyoncé* of Marching Bands, or Shake, Shake, Shake, Shako Your Booty, Part Deux – Drawerspace In A Cluttered Mind https://drawerspace.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/the-beyonce-of-marching-bands-or-shake-shake-shake-shako-your-booty-part-deux/
How GitHub became the nexus of software automation | Scott Fulton III/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-github-sneaked-up-on-us-to-become-the-nexus-of-software-automation/
I have a program that's super ugly and hackish, but it works.
I'm still OK with using Windows 10. That is all.
North Brother Island is New York City's post-apocalyptic playland - Dave Mosher/Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/north-brother-island-photo-tour-2017-9
Publii - An open-source static-website building tool for every skill level, from beginner to developer https://getpublii.com/
Isn’t it time we declared our independence from bloatware? - Vlad Savov/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/4/17533926/windows-ios-android-bloatware
From industrial engineering to web development - Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/industrial-engineering-web-dev/
Becoming a software engineer with no degree- Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/becoming-a-software-engineer-with-no-degree/
How to become a data scientist without a CS degree - Dmitri Brereton/Self-Taught Jobs https://selftaughtjobs.com/how-to-become-a-data-scientist-without-a-cs-degree/
Why the world should adopt a basic income - Guy Standing/The Economist https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/04/why-the-world-should-adopt-a-basic-income
Easy way to build Node JS RESTful APIs - Deval Kasundra/ProgrammingSchool https://www.programmingschool.io/easy-way-to-build-node-js-restful-apis/
Flutter is not React - Tobe Osakwe/Flutter Talk https://flutter.thosakwe.com/posts/flutter-is-not-react
React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity (tl;dr they stopped using it) - Nate Ebel/Udacity https://engineering.udacity.com/react-native-a-retrospective-from-the-mobile-engineering-team-at-udacity-89975d6a8102
Say hello to full employment - Annie Lowrey/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/07/hello-full-employment/564527/
Slow reading: the antithesis of speed reading - The Indy https://www.theindy.us/slow-reading/
How to back up your /home directory in the Windows Subsystem for Linux without losing permissions before killing your old WSL and installing a new one from the Windows Store (revised 7/2018) http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/windows/linux_on_windows/2017_1013_backup_before_installing_new_wsl
Node.js breaks into the top 5 - Hacker News hiring trends (May 2018) https://www.hntrends.com/2018/may-node-js-breaks-into-top-5.html
Reason Town: A podcast about the ReasonML language https://reason.town/
Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes Racket as its newest member project https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/jun/12/racketjoins/
Google to developers: We take down your extension - because we can - Wladimir Palant https://palant.de/2018/07/03/google-to-developers-we-take-down-your-extension-because-we-can
I spent two weeks trying to charge electric scooters for extra cash. What I got was a lot of headaches. - Nathanael Buckley/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/charging-bird-scooters-overnight-is-like-a-much-less-fun-version-of-pokemon-go.html
Cities need to stop selling out to big tech companies. There's a better way - Greg LeRoy and Maryann Feldman/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way
An Introduction to FXRuby — SitePoint https://www.sitepoint.com/an-introduction-to-fxruby/
fxruby is another way to make GUIs in Ruby https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/fxruby
Ruby 2D: A promising way to make GUI programs with Ruby http://www.ruby2d.com/
Build UIs in Clojure with Seesaw https://github.com/daveray/seesaw
The evolution of the Windows command line – Rich Turner/Microsoft Developer https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/06/27/windows-command-line-the-evolution-of-the-windows-command-line/
A University of Wisconsin campus pushes plan to drop 13 majors — including English, history and philosophy - Valerie Strauss/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/21/university-of-wisconsin-campus-pushes-plan-to-drop-13-majors-including-english-history-and-philosophy/?utm_term=.92019e3a2d8b
How Facebook punked and then gut punched the news biz – John Marshall/Talking Points Memo https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-facebook-punked-and-then-gut-punched-the-news-biz
How the blog broke the Web - Amy Hoy/Stacking the Bricks https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/
Snapchat’s decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns - Helena Fitzgerald/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17366528/snapchat-decline-internet-ghost-towns
Bird's million in 4 months is the poster child for Silicon Valley - Julie Bort/Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/birds-400-million-in-4-months-is-the-poster-child-for-silicon-valley-2018-6
Get an OpenBSD virtual machine in Amsterdam https://openbsd.amsterdam/
Facebook’s retreat from the news has painful for publishers — including Slate - Will Oremus/Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/facebooks-retreat-from-the-news-has-painful-for-publishers-including-slate.html
Microsoft releases 125 million building footprints in the US as open data - Bing Maps Blog https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data/
That time I had Steve Jobs keynote at Unix Expo - Chris MacAskill/Cake https://www.cake.co/conversations/rZXhqtP/that-time-i-had-steve-jobs-keynote-at-unix-expo
More Unicode circles that you can use in Vim and other editors - Mark Tolonen/Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/a/12982461
Space is full of dirty, toxic grease - Hannah Devlin/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/27/space-is-full-of-dirty-toxic-grease-scientists-reveal
If you need a bigger 'bullet,' try the Unicode character 'BLACK CIRCLE' (U+25CF) https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25cf/index.htm
An appreciation: Harlan Ellison was a trendsetting writer, a Hollywood maverick, a way-cool Valley guy — and, yes, an often nice fellow – Bob Strauss/Daily News aka @bscritic https://www.dailynews.com/2018/06/28/harlan-ellison-genius-writer-hollywood-maverick-valley-cool-and-yes-often-nice-guy/
The @medium model for collecting money and paying it out looks great. Here is what they say: Each member's /month subscription is distributed proportionally to the stories that the individual member engaged with that month. https://medium.com/creators
How to type a bullet character in Vim http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/How-to-get-rounded-bullet-list-character-tp5726926p5726927.html
The architects of this building in Romania used Morse code to "sign their names" - toromio/Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/8ujutr/the_architects_of_this_building_in_romania_used/
When using Vim macros in your vimrc, (which I do heavily), here's how to type an <esc> https://stackoverflow.com/a/4010918
Amazon Linux WorkSpaces is some kind of virtual desktop thing from AWS. You can also do it with Windows. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-linux-workspaces/
Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall - Zachary Crockett/The Hustle https://thehustle.co/why-nobody-ever-wins-the-mall-car-giveaway
Big tech isn’t the problem with homelessness. It’s All of Us - Adam Rogers/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-isnt-the-problem-with-homelessness-its-all-of-us/
An invisible rating system at your favorite chain restaurant is costing your server - Caroline O'Donovan/BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/ziosk-presto-tabletop-tablet-restaurant-rating-servers
How did Google get so big? — 60 Minutes/CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-google-get-so-big/
GraalVM is a unversal virtual machine that runs applications in more languages that I can list in this post: JS, Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, C(++), etc. https://www.graalvm.org/
On Lisp by Paul Graham - a link to a download of the 1993 book http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
Amazon, the brand buster - Julie Creswell/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/business/amazon-the-brand-buster.html
The power of simplicity - Paul Okstad http://pokstad.com/2018/05/20/power-of-simplicity.html
Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo - Danny Guo https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/migrating-from-jekyll-to-hugo/
London Trust Media Holdings buys IRC.com https://irc.com/
Stanford grads dish out life advice for high school and college in what kind of, sort of looks like a book https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCX52XIG6LE6GpC8e7feQyQ1JG-ATCUZ/view
React Native at Airbnb - Gabriel Peal (TL;DR: Airbnb is winding down use of React Native and will return to "regular" native development, meaning separate apps for iOS and Android) https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c
Should we use React Native? – Charlie Cheever/Expo https://blog.expo.io/should-we-use-react-native-1465d8b607ac
This entire web site is worth looking at for a deep dive into the history of technology: Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com
Testing out a new future for Consumer Reports - Karen K. Ho/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/consumer-reports-wirecutter.php
A first look at desktop metrics | Will Cooke/Ubuntu blog https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/06/22/a-first-look-at-desktop-metrics
Twitter ‘smytes’ customers, turns off security service a half-hour after 6 a.m. announcement – Sarah Perez/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
Facebook Groups may soon charge monthly subscription fees for access - Shannon Liao/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17484876/facebook-groups-monthly-subscription-service-fees-access
When your program crashes at the same time, every time, you know something's wrong
Former Citrix chief Mark Templeton takes over at cloud start-up DigitalOcean - Jordan Novet/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/digitalocean-new-ceo-former-citrix-chief-mark-templeton.html
Proton Native - React Native for the desktop, cross compatible https://proton-native.js.org
More transparency and control in your Google account - The Keyword/Google https://www.blog.google/topics/safety-security/more-transparency-and-control-your-google-account/
The death of a once great city: The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence | Kevin Baker/Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-city-gentrification/
How Twitter made the tech world's most unlikely comeback - Alan Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-twitter-made-the-tech-worlds-most-unlikely-comeback
WordPress.com owner buys Atavist, maker of subscription-offering publishing software - Benjamin Mullin/WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/wordpress-com-owner-buys-atavist-maker-of-subscription-offering-publishing-software-1529597700
Why would you need an ssl certificate for localhost? - Let's Encrypt https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey - Edith Hall http://edithhall.co.uk/books/the-return-of-ulysses
Classics for the people – why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks (2015) - Edith Hall/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/20/classics-for-the-people-ancient-greeks
Basic income could work — if you do it Canada-style - Brian Bergstein/MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611418/universal-basic-income-works-if-you-do-it-canada-style/
YouTube blocks Blender videos worldwide, Blender starts its own video service called PeerTube — Ton Roosendaal/blender.org https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
Why women don't code - Stuart Reges/Quillette https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/
BitTorrent has been sold to blockchain startup for an alleged million - Muhammad Jarir Kanji/Neowin https://www.neowin.net/news/bittorrent-has-been-sold-to-blockchain-startup-for-an-alleged-140-million
Teach yourself Racket - Prabhakar Ragde https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flaneries/TYR/
Netflix: Why AT&T bought Time Warner and Comcast and Disney want Fox - Alex Sherman/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/netflix-why-att-bought-time-warner-and-comcast-and-disney-want-fox.html
Goodbye, Denver Post. Hello, Blockchain. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/business/media/denver-post-blockchain-colorado-sun.html
Delivering WordPress in 7KB - Jack Lenox https://blog.jacklenox.com/2018/06/04/delivering-wordpress-in-7kb/
Windows 10 April 2018 Update now open to all, thanks to machine learning - Peter Bright/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/windows-10-april-2018-update-now-open-to-all-thanks-to-machine-learning/
State of React Native 2018 - Sophie Alpert/Engineering manager on React at Facebook https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14/state-of-react-native-2018
Not only is the Mac Mini outdated, it's no longer mini - John Gruber/Daring Fireball https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/06/14/snellintosh
Fund managers are preparing for a crash - Dion Rabouin/Yahoo Finance https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fund-managers-say-see-next-economic-crash-looming-144251620.html
Inside the facility where Kodak brings film back to life | Popular Science https://www.popsci.com/inside-kodak-factory-photos
The market for driverless cars will head towards monopoly - The Economist https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/06/09/the-market-for-driverless-cars-will-head-towards-monopoly
How Firefox is using Pocket to try to build a better news feed than Facebook - Casey Newton/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17446660/mozilla-firefox-pocket-recommendations-ceo-nate-weiner-interview-converge-podcast
Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast – Danny Crichton/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/12/netflix-and-alphabet-will-need-to-become-isps-fast/
Podcasts are feeds: If it doesn't have an RSS feed it isn't a podcast - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2018/06/10/192326.html
Our big loop: I want people to be able to put up their own web servers. Not companies. Not people with Computer Science degrees. People. Anyone. Everyone. - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2018/06/13/131758.html
Google and HTTP: I've been writing about Google's efforts to deprecate HTTP, the protocol of the web. This is a summary of why I am opposed to it. - Dave Winer http://this.how/googleAndHttp/
Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot - John Myers/LA Times http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-split-three-states-20180612-story.html
11 Javascript utility libraries you should know in 2018 - Jonathan Saring/Bits and Pieces https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade
Scripting News: I fear Google's control of the web http://scripting.com/2018/06/12/140329.html
RIP Macintosh: 1984–2018 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/Computerworld https://www.computerworld.com/article/3280944/apple-mac/rip-macintosh-1984-2018.html
It looks like Google’s going to launch a podcast app - Shoshana Wodinsky/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/12/17453006/google-podcast-app-launch
Compare Git hosting alternatives at GitComp https://gitcomp.com/
11 ways to speed up WordPress - Ahsan Parwez/CodeinWP https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/ways-to-speed-up-wordpress/
How to rinse your recyclables without wasting water - Nick Douglas/Lifehacker https://lifehacker.com/how-to-rinse-your-recyclables-without-wasting-water-1826764672
Mozilla: Our past work with Facebook - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/11/our-past-work-with-facebook/
Homeland Security’s massive new database will include face recognition, DNA, and people's 'non-obvious relationships' - Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/hart-homeland-securitys-massive-new-database-will-include-face-recognition-dna-and
Twenty years later, everything is the Truman Show - Julie Miller/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/truman-show-anniversary-jim-carrey-peter-weir-laura-linney
The decline of the MacBook Pro - Danny Guo https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/the-decline-of-the-macbook-pro/
The bullshit-job boom: For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose. Is there any good left in the grind? - Nathan Heller/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom
I can't believe that @ftrain's What is Code? article for Bloomberg is 3 years old. Best take on "modern" software development this decade https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
It's easy to get to zero inbox when you 'delete all'
GitHub is Microsoft's .5 billion undo button - Paul Ford/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button
Shields down: Happy people don't leave jobs they love - Rands in Repose http://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/
Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17252838
What does a gitea site look like? Look at Charles Reid's https://git.charlesreid1.com/explore/repos
Can Facebook be cut down to size? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/opinion/facebook-china-privacy-data-security.html
Why the Mac you know has no future - and what Apple might make instead when it blows up an aging platform - Jason Perlow/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-wwdc-2018-served-as-macs-death-sentence/
Gitea is a lightweight code hosting solution written in Go, and that means you get a binary that runs just about anywhere (and on anything) https://gitea.io/en-US/
Phabricator: GitHub and GitLab alternative. The project's slogan: Every application your project needs, all in one tool. https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/
Everyone complaining about Microsoft buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution - Peter Bright/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/everyone-complaining-about-microsoft-buying-github-needs-to-offer-a-better-solution/
Twitter finally makes its way to the S&P 500 | AlphaStreet https://news.alphastreet.com/twitter-finally-makes-its-way-to-the-sp-500/
Want more time? Get rid of the easiest way to spend it (tl;dr: stop using social media on your phone) - Raptitude https://www.raptitude.com/2017/06/want-more-time-get-rid-of-the-easiest-way-to-spend-it/
Zach Tellman: On Composition - Clojure SYNC 2018 https://clojuresync.com/zach-tellman/
tl;dr: They use ARM chips - ASUS NovaGo, HP Envy x2 Always-Connected PCs now available at Microsoft Store | Windows Central https://www.windowscentral.com/asus-novago-hp-envy-x2-always-connected-pcs-now-available-microsoft-store
A MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM might be about to launch – BGR http://bgr.com/2018/06/04/macbook-pro-2018-release-date-soon-specs-geekbench/
American tech giants are making life tough for startups - The Economist https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/02/american-tech-giants-are-making-life-tough-for-startups
Hello, GitHub - Nat Friedman https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/
Apple jams Facebook's web-tracking tools - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44360273
Apple’s new product features are an admission of guilt | Casey Johnston/The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4810/apples-new-product-features-are-an-admission-of-guilt
Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers - The Official Microsoft Blog https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/
How 5G is going to make smartphones ugly again – BGR http://bgr.com/2018/06/02/5g-smartphones-release-date-cost-design/
Donald Trump: Could the US president pardon himself? - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40693249
Your home is under 'staggering levels of surveillance' - Jem Collins/The Essential https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/smart-homes-surviellance/
Learning Web development in 2018? Go with Lambda School - JJ Ashcraft/Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/lambda-school-coding-bootcamps-86af85b7c3f7
A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops - Hermione Hoby/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/02/new-york-remaining-independent-bookshops-booksellers-ungar-bohbot
Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker - Kristian Freeman/Byteconf https://medium.com/byteconf/stripe-is-building-a-ruby-typechecker-d6cd7cee6abf
Microsoft is said to have agreed to acquire GitHub - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github
Dockless bikes: Are they bad for station-based bike-sharing systems? - Alissa Walker/Curbed https://www.curbed.com/2018/5/30/17390264/bike-sharing-dockless-bicycles-cities
What can Aristotle teach us about the routes to happiness? - Edith Hall/Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-aristotle-teach-us-about-the-routes-to-happiness
How WIRED Lost ,000 in Bitcoin https://www.wired.com/story/wired-lost-bitcoin
YAKS - Comments for your static websites https://yaks.it/
Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails - Dan Falk/NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/why-some-scientists-say-physics-has-gone-rails-ncna879346
Stop calling them 'social': Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et al are the new mainstream media - Mary McNamara http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-mcnamara-social-media-20180602-story.html
Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/2-billion-startup-github-could-be-for-sale-microsoft-2018-5
'Tis the season to write Clojure - Chris James http://www.quii.co.uk/Tis_the_season_to_write_Clojure
How to host your own private git repositories - Evan Klitzke https://eklitzke.org/how-to-host-your-own-private-git-repositories
Lobotomizing GNOME - Evan Klitzke (This is about taking control of your GNOME desktop; a very interesting read) https://eklitzke.org/lobotomizing-gnome
Arkady Babchenko: 'Murdered' Russian journalist is alive - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44307611
KCBS-KCAL anchor @ElsaRamonOnAir on why she left TV news - story by @tvanita with updates on @andreafujiitv, @WhitJohnson and @RickGarciaNews https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/05/29/former-kcbs-kcal-anchor-elsa-ramon-on-why-she-left-tv-news-exclusive/
This happened to me: clojure - Leiningen tries to call java.exe from a wrong/missing JDK - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22191986/leiningen-tries-to-call-java-exe-from-a-wrong-missing-jdk#22222935
This line had my solution:
- Does your leiningen user profile ~/.lein/profiles.clj have a :java-cmd setting ?
Yes, mine did. I vaguely remember doing that when trying to configure Emacs in "Clojure for the Brave and True."
Getting a working development environment and wrapping one's head around how Clojure programs are constructed and distributed is quite a barrier. It's not like I've gotten over it.
I'm sure that people use fireplace.vim and do so successfully, but I can't get it to do anything when I follow the instructions at https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace
Mainframes and supercomputers, from the beginning till today - The CPU Shack Museum http://www.cpushack.com/2018/05/27/mainframes-and-supercomputers-from-the-beginning-till-today/
Chip Hall of Fame: Zilog Z80 microprocessor - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/chip-hall-of-fame-zilog-z80-microprocessor
Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover https://standardebooks.org/
Making a Case for Making a Case – Fraulini Guitars http://fraulini.com/2016/03/making-a-case-for-making-a-case/
How Fender is bringing serverless to rock 'n roll - The Cloudcast No. 348 http://www.thecloudcast.net/2018/05/the-cloudcast-348-bringing-serverless.html
Beginner's guide to Big O Notation and Time and Space Complexity - TechTalko http://www.techtalko.com/2018/04/11/beginner-guide-to-big-o-notation-time-and-space-complexity/
London Tube Heartbeat http://tubeheartbeat.com/london/
Why is your location data no longer private? — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/why-is-your-location-data-no-longer-private/
'A fun adventure, not a business': The Weather Channel stops publishing video on Facebook - Digiday https://digiday.com/media/the-weather-channel-has-walked-away-from-facebook-video/
Fread offers a whole lot of paywalled news services - including @washingtonpost, @WSJ, @WIRED, @NewYorker, @TheEconomist, @Telegraph and more - for a month. If this isn't the future, I don't know what is. https://www.getfread.com/
Code to joy: Is learning to code in middle age a fool's errand or a committed act of digital citizenship? - Andrew Smith https://www.1843magazine.com/features/code-to-joy
Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript with explanations and links to further readings - trekhleb https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms
Email as we know it is drowning in spam, forged phishing mails, and other scams and hacks. It's going to get worse before it gets better. - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/email-is-dangerous/560780/
Starting in 2019, Californians won't be allowed to drive around without license plates (and yes, that is a thing) - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/07/steve-jobs-loophole-closed-california-wants-temporary-license-plates/
AsteroidOS is an open-source operating system for your smart watch https://asteroidos.org
Where the Yanny and Laurel meme comes from - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/yanny-and-laurel-true-history/
The vehicle of the future has two wheels, handlebars, and is a bike - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/vehicle-future-bike/
After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost - John O'Nolan and Hannah Wolfe https://blog.ghost.org/5/
The untold story of Robert Mueller's time in the Vietnam War - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/robert-mueller-vietnam/
JavaScript is good, actually - Ash Furrow https://ashfurrow.com/blog/javascript-is-good-actually/
Completely Silent Computer | tp69 https://tp69.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/completely-silent-computer/
What if JavaScript wins? – Anil Dash https://medium.com/@anildash/what-if-javascript-wins-84898e5341a
Windows 10 tip: Use an ISO file to create a bootable USB flash drive - ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-use-an-iso-file-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive/
Rich Hickey on problem solving and Clojure 1.9 (transcript of the Conversations about Software Engineering podcast http://www.case-podcast.org/20-problem-solving-and-clojure-19-with-rich-hickey/transcript
What Are Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook ‘Stories’? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/smartphone-stories-snapchat-instagram-facebook/559517/
Woz on the importance of HP in the creation of Apple http://www.loopinsight.com/2018/05/14/woz-on-the-importance-of-hp-in-the-creation-of-apple/
Google’s plan to make tech less addictive - Mark Wilson/Co.Design https://www.fastcodesign.com/90171307/googles-plan-to-make-tech-less-addictive
Working LEGO pinball machine built from 15,000 bricks https://www.brothers-brick.com/2018/05/09/working-lego-pinball-machine-built-from-15000-bricks-features-benny-in-all-his-classic-space-glory-exclusive-feature/
The HP-35: An origin story - Codex 99 http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html
Build your own 'insert technology here.' A curated collection of project-based programming tutorials. https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x
It doesn't have to be crazy at work - Basecamp https://basecamp.com/books/calm
Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, GNOME is back—and Ubuntu has never been better - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/ubuntu-18-04-the-return-of-a-familiar-interface-marks-the-best-ubuntu-in-years/
The biggest Fedora 28 reinstallation hurdle was getting the installer to "take" my original root partition. I had to check the box for overwriting it. There should have been some guidance. Instead I had to figure it out. It was an educated guess.
When I re-installed Fedora 28, I was able to keep my /home partition. It wasn't exactly a seamless process, as this is a dual boot with a now-ancient Windows 8 (not even point-1) and an encrypted Fedora.
After years of generally seamless Fedora upgrades, I had to re-install Fedora 28 after a failed upgrade left my Fedora 27 installation unbootable. It was something having to do with the keys, even though I had secure boot turned off. The old install was crufty anyway.
Google wants to cure our phone addiction. How about that for irony? - Matt Haig (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/10/google-phone-addiction-app
In order to upgrade to Fedora 28, I am using dnf autoremove to kill out 443 packages
Announcing the release of Fedora 28 - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-28/
Windows Notepad finally understands everyone else's end of line characters - ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-notepad-finally-understands-everyone-elses-end-of-line-characters/
Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/google-duplex-will-call-salons-restaurants-and-pretend-to-be-human-for-you/
The economics of writing a technical book – Justin Garrison https://medium.com/@rothgar/the-economics-of-writing-a-technical-book-689d0c12fe39
Lyme disease vaccine: The frustrating reason there isn’t one for humans - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness
Q&A with Yvette Pasqua, chief technology officer for Meetup https://wearevcgc.com/spring2018/yvette-pasqua
1980s computer controls school district's heat and AC http://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-controls-grps-heat-and-ac_20180329064517550/1086705524
1,000 True Fans http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
Subscription hell: How not to do paywalls – Danny Crichton/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/06/subscription-hell/
Mark Zuckerberg annouces 'Clear History' feature for Facebook https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104899855107881
Proton Native - React Native for the desktop, cross compatible https://proton-native.js.org
Say yes to the progressive web - Larry Seltzer/HPE https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/say-yes-to-the-progressive-web-1805.html
In 'Elastic,' a physicist argues that the mind needs time to play - Louise Fabiani https://undark.org/article/book-review-mlodinow-elastic/
The United States of Japan - Matt Alt/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-united-states-of-japan
‘I had to guard an empty room’: The rise of the pointless job - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job
Jeff Bezos' advice to Amazon employees: Don't aim for work-life balance; it's a circle - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezo-advice-to-amazon-employees-dont-aim-for-work-life-balance-its-a-circle-2018-4
De-Googling my phone - Martin Pitt https://piware.de/post/2018-05-01-android-degoogle/
A magical ten seconds of the Shirelles - Elon Green/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-magical-ten-seconds-of-the-shirelles
Searching for a future beyond Facebook - Jacob Silverman https://longreads.com/2018/05/01/searching-for-a-future-beyond-facebook/
For news editing over the past few weeks, I've gone from Google Chrome to Firefox and from Notepad++ to gVim. I have most of the bookmarks I need in Firefox (the big exception being dozens of NWS forecasts) and I have Vim macros to take care of text processing.
The five best books on computer science and programming, according to MIT's Ana Bell https://fivebooks.com/best-books/programming-computer-science-ana-bell/
Why good people leave large tech companies - Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2017/07/11/why-good-people-leave-tech-large-companies/
Working outside the tech bubble - Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2017/08/12/working-outside-the-tech-bubble/
Why Uber is the revenge of the founders - Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2017/10/24/uber-the-revenge-of-the-founders/
Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America - Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2018/02/02/janesville-a-story-about-the-rest-of-america/
Have you heard about Steve Blank? https://steveblank.com/
I'm using Gvim for all of my news writing/editing, so I'm getting a lot of Vim practice
Are you really Facebook’s product? The history of a dangerous idea - Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html
You know you're in trouble when you see the headline 'Can Kim's Peacemaking Efforts Be Trusted?' and you think they're talking about Kim Kardashian when it's really about Kim Jong Un.
Mahavishnu Orchestra - 'Between Nothingness & Eternity (Live)' Can you tell I'm exploring early jazz fusion? This live album is stunning. Love the interplay. Like all good fusion, everybody is burning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmNkGQm1YE4
I keep listening to Chick Corea's first "Return to Forever" album. I love the players and the vibe. I have a newfound interest in Chick and bassist Stanley Clarke. I really love the electric piano - it's like an electric guitar, piano and vibes rolled up into one instrument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TcSK6MYkpU
Tabasco sauce is in a battle for its very survival - Michael Isaac Stein https://earther.com/tabasco-sauce-is-in-a-battle-for-its-very-survival-1825510123
Editing news stories in Vim: I figured out how to make macros and boosted my productivity by switching from Notepad++. Gvim works better when going between web browser and editor in Windows. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros
I'm starting @Udemy's Complete Java Masterclass on the recommendation of @soniagupta504 https://twitter.com/soniagupta504/status/988110466923675648
Getting laid off in tech: The myth of upper middle-class security – Aakash Japi https://hackernoon.com/getting-laid-off-in-tech-4e3efed8649b
"Farewell - ETAOIN SHRDLU" (1978) - last day of hot metal type at the New York Times https://vimeo.com/127605643
Part of Twitter's appeal is its lack of financial success, real or imagined. It's like they just can't muster being as evil as Facebook.
I'm not 'deleting' my Facebook account, if that's even possible. I'm just not using Facebook. I never used the mobile app, and I'm not opening it on my desktop.
Firefox now has built-in screenshots, but it took me going to this page to figure it out https://screenshots.firefox.com/
What comes after the social media empires - BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/facebook-youtube-fragmentation
The Windows Subsystem for Linux endgame is a full Linux desktop accessible from within Windows 10. How is this not where Microsoft is going?
How do I make this program? (An article written before I got started with my Ruby script to create and post social updates and then send them to Twitter) http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/programming/2017_0912_how_do_i_make_this_program
How to back up your /home directory in the Windows Subsystem for Linux without losing permissions before killing your old WSL and installing a new one http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/windows/linux_on_windows/2017_1013_backup_before_installing_new_wsl
When I don’t recommend Clojure – vemv.net https://blog.vemv.net/when-i-dont-recommend-clojure-2597039536ce
Yes, you should delete facebook – Nat Eliason https://medium.com/s/story/yes-you-should-delete-facebook-heres-why-bc623a3b4625
Another year in newspapers; how many more? – an excellent column by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin's @DavidAllen909 https://www.dailybulletin.com/2018/04/21/another-year-in-newspapers-how-many-more/
I added Markdown syntax highlighting for Notepad++ with a "user defined language" file I got from this Github repo https://github.com/Edditoria/markdown-plus-plus
I am using the Tree Style Tab add-on for @firefox, and it's a bit of a game-changer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
Not sure how I stumbled on @ThePracticalDev, but I like it http://dev.to
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior: I'm not sure what led me to the early albums of Chick Corea's Return to Forever (I think it was Brian Eno's "Music for Airports," or Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint"), but here's another excellent album. Chick burns as usual, and this is a great showcase for guitarist Al Di Meola. The playing is heavy, the tones, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqiC5_88cVQ
Sexual harassment was rampant at Coachella 2018, where Teen Vogue reporter says she was groped 22 times https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sexual-harassment-was-rampant-at-coachella-2018
Chick Corea/Return to Forever - 1972: I love the instrumentation and vibe of this record - kind of a quiet fusion with electric piano and bass with flute and otherworldly vocals. How can you not love Chick on the Fender Rhodes electric piano? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TcSK6MYkpU
Job interviews for programmers now often come with days of unpaid homework — Quartz at Work https://work.qz.com/1254663/job-interviews-for-programmers-now-often-come-with-days-of-unpaid-homework/
I’m Ben and I am a Rails developer - Ben Halpern https://dev.to/ben/im-ben-and-i-am-a-rails-developer-1j67
Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-gdpr-latest-data-ad-tracking-opt-out-stop-ads-marketing-a8310031.html
ClojureScript, beginners' home page http://clojure-script.org/
Cherry MX Board Silent: The keyboard for professionals - ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/cherry-mx-board-silent-the-keyboard-for-professionals/
Today's most important article you'll read all day: How to save your privacy from the Internet’s clutches – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/14/how-to-save-your-privacy-from-the-internets-clutches/
The iPhone changed our lives. Now Apple needs to tackle addiction - Tony Faddell/WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tony-fadell-apple-iphone-addiction-control-design
I built a progressive web app and published it in 3 app stores. Here’s what I learned - Judah Gabriel http://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-it-in-3-app-stores-heres-what-i-learned/
My day-job Firefox transition is going well. I have been creating and arranging the bookmarks I need. I sync those bookmarks so I have them on all PCs. Tasks still on Chrome: Getting weather information across SoCal (that's a LOT of bookmarks) and Google Maps screen-grabs, which render more clearly on Chrome than FF.
The Finns who refuse to give up on Sailfish OS - Engadget https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/01/jolla-sailfish-os-team-interview-mwc/
The missing building blocks of the Web – Anil Dash https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc
The most important article you will read today: It's time to rebuild the web - by Mike Loukides for O'Reilly Media https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/its-time-to-rebuild-the-web
It's not like Google didn't have an unfair advantage in collecting data with its ubiquitous search engine, free and functional email and apps, as well as a phone OS, but it also controls the web browser that most of us use. There are other browsers besides Firefox, but for me it stands alone, and its importance today cannot be overstated.
Go: the good, the bad and the ugly - Sylvain Wallez https://bluxte.net/musings/2018/04/10/go-good-bad-ugly/
Build a JSON API with Hugo's custom output formats - Forestry.io: This is huge: Using the Hugo static blogging system as the engine for an API. https://forestry.io/blog/build-a-json-api-with-hugo/
Key to avoiding Firefox tab scrolling: Maximum of 16 tabs (at least on my laptop screen)
To get around the problem in Firefox where you can't see all of your tabs without using scroll buttons (if you have a lot of tabs), I am going to try to uses more windows, and I am making bookmark folders that I can use to populate individual windows more quickly.
I'm doing another serious Firefox test. I already use it for most of my non-day-job browsing, but having so many bookmarks set up in Google Chrome plus Firefox's tab issue (you can only fit so many on the screen before you have to use scroll buttons) has kept me in Chrome.
(Puts tinfoil hat on) The worst thing is a smartphone. It's like we're all wearing a wire AND a tracking device at all times. Facebook is telling us how creepy it is in terms of how much data it collects, and while that is oddly refreshing, Google, Amazon, Apple, Twitter and others are being suspiciously quiet about what they do and how much control we have over it.
The question is becoming, "Should we avoid being tracked, and how can we do it?" It sounds very tinfoil hat but likely includes all commercial social-media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat), everything Google, Apple and Amazon, and all branded browsers.
I'm really getting into using multiple desktops in Windows 10. Coming from a desktop Linux background, it's yet another thing that Windows is doing that makes a Linux user more comfortable.
How can I copy text to the system clipboard from Vim? - Vi and Vim Stack Exchange https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/84/how-can-i-copy-text-to-the-system-clipboard-from-vim
The Macros page is a powerful on from the Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros
Fascinating story: Nikon versus Canon - A story of technology change https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/nikon-versus-canon-a-story-of-technology-change-45777098038c
Uber acquires dockless bike-share startup Jump - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/9/17213994/uber-acquires-dockless-bike-share-jump
How to use Cloudflare's DNS service to speed up and secure your internet | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-cloudflares-dns-service-to-speed-up-your-internet-and-protect-your-privacy/
The most important article you will read all day: How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/
Facebook urged to make GDPR its 'baseline standard' globally – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/09/facebook-urged-to-make-gdpr-its-baseline-standard-globally/
GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate looks great but still can't really work with IPTC metadata, which is a hard requirement for an image editor that I can use. I've been waiting more than 10 years, so I'll keep using IrfanView and digiKam. https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/03/26/gimp-2-10-0-rc1-released/
Denver Post rebels against its hedge-fund ownership - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/business/media/denver-post-opinion-owner.html
Ask Hacker News: Where have you registered your domains and why? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16784074
Starbucks picked an odd time to force WiFi customers to cough up personal data – GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2018/starbucks-picked-odd-time-force-wifi-customers-cough-personal-data/
Cruising Van Nuys Blvd. in the late 1970s - photos from 1978-79 taken mostly in front of 6454 Van Nuys Blvd., then a J.C. Penney that looked to be already closing, now the Valley Professional Building at the corner of Van Nuys Blvd. and Gilmore Street. http://vnbcruisinglate70s.com
I took a few weeks off of using Xenialpup (aka Puppy Linux) until I could figure out a setup that would take the pup_save off of my Windows hard drive and put it on a USB flash drive. Did that. First boot didn't work, but second did. Keeping fingers crossed.
SpaceX can't broadcast Earth images because of a murky license - CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-cant-broadcast-earth-images-because-of-a-murky-license/
Early days: the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide. This isn't the first interesting link I've found from the Rachel by the Bay blog. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/06/learn/
Why is everyone so busy? - In search of lost time - The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why
Using Vim in my project has really helped my skills in that editor. That's what working with a couple dozen small Vim files per day will do for you.
I had to ssh into a server yesterday and set up a small script and a cron job, and I could feel how different that process was now that I can do more with Vim.
I can move around in files much more easily, and I know the basics of copy/move/paste, which is more than I could say before.
Clojure is trying to push me in the Emacs direction, and maybe I could get comfortable with that editor, but the universality of Vim/Vi is hard to ignore.
I got NordVPN working via OpenVPN in Fedora Linux. It wasn't as easy as in Windows, where there's a turnkey app, but these instructions worked both in the console and via NetworkManager, and I recommend you use the latter. https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/linux/openvpn/
If you want to run exa, a modern replacement for ls, via a binary package, systems that offer them are Mac OS's Homebrew, and Arch and Fedora Linux. Nothing yet for Debian or Ubuntu, as far as I can tell. https://the.exa.website/
GitHub - magnars/stasis: Some Clojure functions for creating static websites. https://github.com/magnars/stasis
Clojure Features: Or why you should stop worrying about features and just use Clojure | Benjamin Zaporzan http://benzaporzan.me/blog/2018/3/29/clojure_features_or_why_you_should_stop_worrying_about_features_and_just_use_clojure/
I needed to set my classpath for Java in Windows, and despite this page saying it's obsolete, it worked for Win 10. Now I can keep my Java libraries in one directory and use them wherever I'm working on a program. https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/15inout/classpath.html
There's a spy in the house, and it's name is Alexa (or its Google equivalent). People seem to be OK with this, and it is disturbing. I'm worried that the act of using a smarphone is no better in terms of how we're being tracked by corporations. From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/media/amazon-google-privacy-digital-assistants.html
GNOME 3.28 is coming to Fedora 28. Here's what's new and improved - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/gnome-3-28-released-coming-fedora-28/
Which JavaScript frameworks are the fastest? - JavaScript Report https://javascriptreport.com/js-frameworks-fastest/
There are Rust apps in Fedora - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applications-today/
The Palmer Method of Business Writing (This is what handwriting the way I learned it is supposed to look like it) https://archive.org/details/PalmerMethod1935
Improving handwriting with Spencerian penmanship - Page Flutter https://pageflutter.com/spencerian-penmanship/
State of Clojure survey 2018 analysis – Daniel Compton https://danielcompton.net/2018/03/28/clojure-survey-2018
Uber is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here's How to Avoid It https://therideshareguy.com/uber-is-ripping-off-frequent-riders-and-heres-how-to-avoid-it/
Will we ever reach 'peak storage'? https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/27/17168088/cheap-storage-warehouse-self-storage-real-estate
I am experimenting with multiple desktops in Windows 10 https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-multiple-desktops-in-windows-10/
Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked - Mozilla https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/
How I erased 5000+ Facebook comments and likes - Jaruzel http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/How-I-Erased-5000-Facebook-Comments-and-Likes
What is the Fediverse? https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/
Donald Trump is radically transforming his White House. He's been president for 1 year - CNNPolitics https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/trump-cohn-bolton-tillerson-mcmaster/index.html
Web sites are more secure when they allow users to paste passwords - National Cyber Security Centre (UK) https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/let-them-paste-passwords
Cutting ‘Old Heads’: Age discrimination at IBM - ProPublica https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/
Polo is a new, advanced file manager for Linux that is written in Vala. It is available in COPR for Fedora https://fedoramagazine.org/4-cool-copr-february-2018. Here is the project site: https://teejee2008.github.io/polo/
How to add fonts to Fedora - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/add-fonts-fedora/
There is now a Fedora Podcast https://x3mboy.fedorapeople.org/podcast/
9 influential JavaScript developers you should follow - JavaScript Report https://javascriptreport.com/9-influential-javascript-developers-you-should-follow/
The ultimate guide to JavaScript frameworks - JavaScript Report https://javascriptreport.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-javascript-frameworks/
Uber self-driving car that killed pedestrian was operated by felon https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/20/operator-self-driving-uber-vehicle-killed-pedestrian-felon/441051002/
There is a lot of good content in @_jsreport (aka JavaScript Report) https://javascriptreport.com/
I was introduced to @axios (subscribe to newsletters at http://signup.axios.com) by @inafried. The newsletters are an excellent way to keep up with things Trumpish and otherwise, even if the sponsors of those emails aren't exactly beloved by all (Koch Industries, pharmaceutical giants ... others that have a huge stake in steering public debate)
How and why mkdev moved to Vue.js https://mkdev.me/en/posts/how-and-why-mkdev-moved-to-vue-js
Gitlab: Why we chose Vue.js https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/20/why-we-chose-vue/
Facebook is using us. It is actively giving away our information. It is creating an echo chamber in the name of connection. It surfaces the divisive and destroys the real reason we began using social media in the first place - human connection. – John Biggs https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/deletefacebook/
Self-driving Uber car hits, kills pedestrian in Arizona - WCPO https://www.wcpo.com/news/arizona-police-investigating-self-driving-uber-car-involved-in-crash-overnight
Great playing by Paul Desmond, Jim Hall, Connie Kay and many others on "Feeling Blue" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZaUByp-AX4
Apple is secretly developing its own screens for the first time - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/apple-is-said-to-develop-displays-to-replace-samsung-screens
A fork on Github is no fork (mainly when you fork something from a private repo and that repo's owner doesn't keep paying, your repo will also be inaccessible) https://www.niels-ole.com/ownership/2018/03/16/github-forks.html
An overview of desktop Ruby GUI development in 2018 - Saverio Miroddi https://saveriomiroddi.github.io/An-overview-of-ruby-gui-development-in-2018/
Why is SQLite coded in C? (tl;dr: performance, compatibility, low-dependency, stability) https://sqlite.org/whyc.html
My free year of 25GB @dropbox and 100GB of @microsoft @onedrive are both ending. @dropbox promised me a "discount": the same /year that everybody pays. @google wants for a TB, but they will give 100GB for . @office365 gives 5TB for . Everybody wants .
Thread Reader helps you unroll a full Twitter thread on a dedicated, beautifully designed page to allow an easy read of the whole story https://threadreaderapp.com/
Urn: A Lisp implementation for Lua http://urn-lang.com/
John Coltrane made some mysterious pitch diagrams, and Lucas Gonze, with inspiration from Yusef Lateef, made some of his own https://medium.com/@lucas_gonze/coltrane-pitch-diagrams-e25b7d9f5093
Blogs that use Frog, a static-site generator written in @racketlang http://stevenrosenberg.net/racket/2018/03/blogs-that-use-frog.html
Which rsync should I use for Windows? https://manjaro.site/rsync-windows/
California lawmaker's bid for year-round Daylight Saving Time gain momentum http://www.montereyherald.com/government-and-politics/20180310/state-bids-for-year-round-daylight-saving-time-gain-momentum
Premium Twitter feeds are for suckers - The Outline (I did not know this was even a thing) https://theoutline.com/post/3597/premo-premium-twitter-feeds?zd=2&zi=f5jnmlh4
What’s it like to ride in a self-driving car? – The Economist https://medium.economist.com/whats-it-like-to-ride-in-a-self-driving-car-24015c69cc48
Your brain needs to forget in order to grow - Ferris Jabr http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went-rp
Why I turned down an interview with Google – Jackson Kelley https://sjkelleyjrblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/why-i-turned-down-an-interview-with-google/
Your data is crucial to a robotic age. Shouldn't you be paid for it? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/business/economy/user-data-pay.html
Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation – Steve Yegge https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-doesnt-necessarily-need-innovation-95cea96d0eeb
Why I left Google to join Grab – Steve Yegge https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84
I finally gave in and started an account on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/news
A new era of batteries spells trouble for gas in America - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/a-new-era-of-batteries-spells-trouble-for-natural-gas-in-america
Debian GNU/Linux Now Available for WSL In The Windows Store - Bleeping Computer https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/debian-gnu-linux-now-available-for-wsl-in-the-windows-store/
I have been using Ubuntu on the WSL for a long time now. I don't even have the "current" version (on the Windows side; the Ubuntu system itself is up-to-date 16.04). I'm not sure if I will swap Ubuntu for Debian at this point because Ubuntu is working, and with a console-only system the differences are not as noticeable.
Debian GNU/Linux for WSL now available in the Windows Store – Microsoft: I didn't think that Debian would "beat" Fedora to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it did. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/03/06/debian-gnulinux-for-wsl-now-available-in-the-windows-store/
For two months, I got my news from print newspapers. Here's what I learned. - The New York Times: Of all the links I posted this week, read this one. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html
Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/amazon-alexa-devices-strange-laughter
Florida lawmakers vote to stay in Daylight Saving Time all year long - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/07/us/florida-year-round-daylight-saving-time-trnd/index.html
Thomas Guide maps: The rise and fall of Los Angeles' directional holy grail - AirTalk, 89.3 KPCC (FYI to non-Angelenos and Generation Z -- we ALL used to have a copy of this hefty map book in our cars) http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2018/03/07/62065/thomas-guide-maps-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-los-ang/
The NYT writes an obit for Ada Lovelace, the mathematician who wrote the first computer program https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-ada-lovelace.html
JavaFX will be removed from the Java JDK - InfoWorld https://www.infoworld.com/article/3261066/java/javafx-will-be-removed-from-the-java-jdk.html
The future of JavaFX and other Java client roadmap updates - Oracle Java Platform Group, Product Management Blog https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-future-of-javafx-and-other-java-client-roadmap-updates
I'm going through The Racket Guide @racketlang https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/index.html
Is loneliness a health epidemic? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/sunday/loneliness-health.html
People don't actually know themselves very well, according to science - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/you-dont-know-yourself-as-well-as-you-think-you-do/554612/
Why being a loner may be good for your health - BBC http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180228-there-are-benefits-to-being-antisocial-or-a-loner
I wanted to buy this domain, but I just learned that it costs $19,888: http://racketeer.com/. This one is a relative bargain at $3295: http://theracketeer.com. Maybe I'll get a .io ... or go for something completely different.
I am playing with http://racket-lang.org, and I don't know how deep I will want to go with it.
The DrRacket IDE is refreshingly simple, and already I've been able to figure out how to scrape a web page and grab elements with a regex. Getting the development environment set up is world's easier than with Clojure (though I've been dabbling in Zach Oakes Nightcode https://sekao.net/nightcode to get a feel for that language).
Pros for Racket include that its team cares about desktop GUIs, the documentation is excellent, and there's a great static-blog compiler called Frog https://github.com/greghendershott/frog. Cons: Not a lot of people are using Racket for non-academic purposes. But the lack of a Ruby Nokogiri-like library made me learn a new regex pattern that I'm probably going to use in my Ruby app BlogPoster to eliminate Nokogiri as a dependency. (Related side note: the Ruby Twitter Gem is a HUGE dependency that I probably should be more focused on ditching, and if I implemented this app in Racket, I'd have to do without it. In Clojure, I could probably lean on a native library, or use something from Java.)
I have not been excited about Twitter recently. My BlogPoster script allows me to create entries and NOT post them to Twitter, and I may do that a bit this week. Whether they're on Twitter or not, my social updates are at http://stevenrosenberg.net/updates/.
Working with URLs in Racket - Luis Quintanilla: I fired up DrRacket and gave this a try, and it's as easy as it looks. Needless to say, this kind of thing is exactly what I'm looking for. http://luisquintanilla.herokuapp.com/2017/12/13/working-with-urls-racket/
The Racket Manifesto http://felleisen.org/matthias/manifesto/
I just discovered the @fngeekery podcast by @stevenproctor and downloaded a bunch of episodes. Looks great so far. https://www.functionalgeekery.com
A programmable programming language (it's Racket) - Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/3/225475-a-programmable-programming-language/fulltext
Lisp is for lovers | lisp.sh http://lisp.sh/
Racket comes with DrRacket, a simple-to-use IDE that lets you "choose" a Racket language and make stuff happen pretty quickly https://racket-lang.org/
Racket, which is a Scheme, which is a Lisp, can do a desktop GUI: The Racket Graphical Interface Toolkit http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/index.html
Inside the OED: Can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the Internet? - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/23/oxford-english-dictionary-can-worlds-biggest-dictionary-survive-internet
This SVG always shows today’s date – Terence Eden's Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/02/this-svg-always-shows-todays-date/
'MAS*H' oral history: Untold stories from one of TV's most important shows - Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/mash-oral-history-untold-stories-one-tvs-important-shows-1086322
Startup called Whimsical goes all in on Clojure, ClojureScript and React/Reagent https://whimsical.co/tech/how-we-built-whimsical/
Apple in China: who holds the keys? – Matthew Green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/01/16/icloud-in-china/
Google's AMP: the missing controversy – Ferdy Christant https://ferdychristant.com/amp-the-missing-controversy-3b424031047
Scripting the Vim editor, Part 1: Variables, values, and expressions - Damian Conway - IBM https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html
A serious push for free college in California - The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/a-serious-push-for-free-college-in-california/
The meaning of 'middle class,' in Silicon Valley, anyway - Palo Alto Online https://paloaltoonline.atavist.com/the-meaning-of-middle-class
Facebook’s next project: American inequality - A Stanford economist is using the company's vast store of personal data to study why so many in the U.S. are stuck in place economically - Politico https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/facebook-inequality-stanford-417093
Securing your Linux web server – 'Linux in Action' author David Clinton https://hackernoon.com/securing-your-linux-web-server-2be683c223eb
Why it’s so hard to actually work in shared offices (it's really about WeWork) - The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/why-its-so-hard-to-actually-work-in-shared-offices/
The beauty of the COBOL programming language - DevOps.com https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/
Amazon doesn’t just want to dominate the market—it wants to become the market - The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/amazon-doesnt-just-want-to-dominate-the-market-it-wants-to-become-the-market/
'Just an ass-backward tech company': How Twitter lost the Internet War - Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war
The Facebook armageddon: The social network's increasing threat to journalism - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/facebook-media-buzzfeed.php
A Clojure learning journey - Robert Stuttaford https://www.stuttaford.me/2018/02/18/a-clojure-learning-journey/
Browse without baggage in Firefox: Set Tracking Protection to always on - The Firefox Frontier blog https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/tracking-protection-always-on/
twitter-api for Clojure by Adam Wynne https://github.com/adamwynne/twitter-api
The Micro text editor showcases the power of Go as a cross-platform programming language. It really seems to be write once, compile and then run everywhere. Maybe I should consider Go for console app development. Can Go easily do GUIs? https://micro-editor.github.io/
Don Marti's blog strikes me as very important reading. He is a former Linux Journal editor who is now an open-source strategist at Mozilla. Lots of good information on Internet privacy and ad shenanigans. https://blog.zgp.org/
So you want a console text editor for Windows https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/
Why is Salesforce taking over skyscrapers around America? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/2/8/16990236/salesforce-skyscraper-san-francisco-skyline
Peter Thiel, retreating from Silicon Valley's tech scene, is moving to L.A. - LA Times http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-peter-thiel-20180215-story.html
Classroom desk replaced by IKEA couches, beanbags and rocking chairs. Will it help students learn? - LA Times http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-school-seating-20180215-story.html
Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand
Why ad companies love google’s ad blocker, but hate Apple’s privacy features - How-to Geek https://www.howtogeek.com/342297/why-ad-companies-love-googles-ad-blocker-but-hate-apples-privacy-features/
Astrophotographer spots Elon Musk's Tesla roadster cruising through space (video) - Space.com https://www.space.com/39699-astrophotographer-spots-elon-musks-roadster-in-space-video.html
Email is your electronic memory - FastMail Blog https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electronic-memory/
Real-world 4G LTE vs. 5G test benchmark: 14x bandwidth - React, etc. https://react-etc.net/entry/real-world-4g-lte-vs-5g-test-benchmark-14x-bandwidth
What students know that experts don't: School is all about getting the credential, not building skills http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-caplan-education-credentials-20180211-story.html
Who killed the junior developer? – Melissa McEwen https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/who-killed-the-junior-developer-33e9da2dc58c
I'm using MSN's Politics page. Lots of @NYTimes and @WAPO, no paywalls https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/
All she has to do to collect a million lotto jackpot is make her name public. She refuses. - Washington Post https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/all-she-has-to-do-to-collect-a-dollar560-million-lotto-jackpot-is-make-her-name-public-she-refuses/ar-BBJ4Jsr
Influential guitar author and editor Tom Wheeler dies - Reverb News https://reverb.com/news/influential-guitar-author-and-editor-tom-wheeler-dies-at-70
Zombie processes are eating your memory - Random ASCII https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/zombie-processes-are-eating-your-memory/
Is JavaScript trash? — Part 1 – Julien Etienne https://medium.com/@julienetienne/is-javascript-trash-part-1-5310ac4e20d0
Self-Education for Web Developers, a guide for beginners in programming - mkdev.me https://mkdev.me/en/book
When to use SQLite https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html
It's not lost on me that setting up the Leiningen environment (or whatever you call it) for Clojure is both easier to do and understand in Windows than it is in Fedora. I'm glad there is now a package for Debian, but Fedora needs one, too.
The power of Clojure: Debugging — Cambium Consulting https://cambium.consulting/articles/2018/2/8/the-power-of-clojure-debugging
In web development, everything easy is hard again – Frank Chimero https://frankchimero.com/writing/everything-easy-is-hard-again/
I installed the Clojure project Leiningen on Fedora Linux via the script. It's not the kind of thing that Linux users generally use to install things. I finally got it to work, though. Windows installation is much easier. https://leiningen.org/
Twitter and Snap's success could be bad news for publishers - Axios https://www.axios.com/twitter-snap-ad-revenue-publishers-digital-media-f81061d7-993c-433b-b7b0-3d7e698f9b44.html
Facebook testing 'downvote' button for comments - Axios https://www.axios.com/facebook-testing-downvote-button-for-comments-1518192287-60041627-d1ee-4dcc-bd82-07fbe8182cbb.html
WeWork: The perfect manifestation of the millennial id - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/wework-the-perfect-manifestation-of-the-millennial-id/550922/
Meet the dogs of Chernobyl – the abandoned pets that formed their own canine community - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/05/dogs-chernobyl-abandoned-pets-stray-exclusion-zone
My advice for coding bootcamp graduates - Ross Williamson https://thinkfaster.co/2018/02/my-advice-for-coding-bootcamp-graduates/ tl;dr: You need to know Big-O, so take classes on Data Structures and Algorithms, and Probability and Statistics either at community college or online, and when you do this, put it on your resume.
Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16973914/tvs-crt-restoration-led-gaming-vintage
Plagiarism software unveils a new source for 11 of Shakespeare's plays - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/books/plagiarism-software-unveils-a-new-source-for-11-of-shakespeares-plays.html
How to know when a child's flu turns serious - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/well/family/children-flu-infants-deaths-influenza-complications-fever-breathing-symptoms.html
Read Exploring ES6 by Axel Rauschmayer for free http://exploringjs.com/es6/
JavaScript Allongé, the "Six" Edition - read it for free at Leanpub (where you can also buy it) https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read
Creating a simple GTK+ to-do application with Ruby - iridakos https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/01/25/creating-a-gtk-todo-application-with-ruby
Thunderbird - yep, the email program - meets its users - The Mozilla Thunderbird Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/02/what-thunderbird-learned-at-fosdem/
Schnack - simple self-hosted comment system for static websites https://schnack.cool/
With the third edition of Eloquent JavaScript now available in draft form, there is no time like the present for diving in https://eloquentjavascript.net/3rd_edition/00_intro.html
Fans of Eloquent JavaScript have been waiting for the book's third edition for a very long time. A draft of Marijn Haverbeke's groundbreaking book is now here. https://eloquentjavascript.net/3rd_edition/
A Gatsby.JS tutorial https://www.gatsbyjs.org/tutorial
REPL-driven development - a talk about Clojure by Stuart Halloway https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Halloway_Stuart/REPLDrivenDevelopment.md
Turning Twitter’s feed on its head – Florian Schulz https://medium.com/@getflourish/turning-twitters-feed-on-its-head-9565af1728c8
Priority Bicycles: How to build a better bicycle - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/everettpotter/2018/02/04/priority-bicycles-how-to-build-a-better-bicycle
Why Ruby on Rails applications should consider adding Go to their stack - Sphere Software https://sphereinc.com/why-ruby-on-rails-applications-should-consider-adding-go-to-their-stack/
The need for speed: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress ecosystem - Search Engine Land https://searchengineland.com/need-speed-google-dedicates-engineering-team-accelerate-development-wordpress-ecosystem-291214
The key to managing time is managing your priorities - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/the-key-to-managing-time-is-managing-your-priorities-2018-1
The punk rock Internet – how DIY rebels are working to replace the tech giants - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/01/punk-rock-internet-diy-rebels-working-replace-tech-giants-snoopers-charter
To 'like' or retweet, that is the question (and a fundamental disconnect) in Twitter. I'm not sure which is better, or why there are two ways to do what is essentially the same thing. What if I don't "like" something but want other people to see it?
At Center for Humane Technology, former Silicon Valley movers/shakers outline how "our society is being hijacked by technology" http://humanetech.com
The rise of the social media fembot - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/arts/fembot-poppy-lil-miquela-kylie-jenner.html
Over the past month or so, every time I saw a tweet about the Eagles, I thought, "People seem overly concerned about the 'Hotel California'-singing Eagles, and seriously, who gives AF?" Then I realized it was the other Eagles.
Nobody cares, nor should they, but I'm following too many people on Twitter, and you probably are, too.
Modern CSS explained for dinosaurs – Actualize https://medium.com/actualize-network/modern-css-explained-for-dinosaurs-5226febe3525
Congratulations Super Bowlers -- 7-10 splits for all my friends!
I made @DuckDuckGo my default search engine in @firefox. I already have plenty of Google in my life.
Sriracha is for closers: Welcome to WeWork, the 8-year-old, billion 'shared space' nerve center of the New New Economy http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/money/a14443776/wework-sriracha-is-for-closers/
If you’re so successful, why are you still working 70 hours a week? - Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-still-working-70-hours-a-week
I'm 'practicing' Emacs. I have avoided it ever since I knew what it was. The ecosystem is vast, the keystrokes mostly foreign. It's a different language than Vim, that's for sure.
Pandora lays off 5% of staff, expands hiring in Atlanta - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/pandora-lays-off-5-of-staff-expands-hiring-in-atlanta-2018-1
I went from about 30 feeds in Tweetdeck to nine, and (not surprisingly) it runs a lot better. You can only do so much with a big hunk of JavaScript.
I quit Twitter and it feels great - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/opinion/quitting-twitter-lindy-west.html
Shotcut is a free, cross-platform video editing platform https://www.shotcutapp.com/features/
Bitcoin tumbles as crypto bubble shows signs of bursting - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/bitcoin-drops-below-8-500-as-cryptocurrency-misery-continues
It's time for a serious talk about the science of tech "addiction" - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-for-a-serious-talk-about-the-science-of-tech-addiction/
Women once ruled computers. When did the Valley become Brotopia? - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-01/women-once-ruled-computers-when-did-the-valley-become-brotopia
PayPal slammed after eBay snubs it for another payment partner - Markets Insider http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/paypal-stock-price-slammed-after-ebay-snubs-it-for-another-payment-partner-2018-2-1014807308
Twitter is opening up its full archive to the broader developer community -- but it'll cost you - TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/01/twitter-is-opening-up-its-full-archive-to-the-broader-developer-community/
Why you cannot quit Amazon Prime, even if maybe you should - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/31/why-you-cannot-quit-amazon-prime-even-if-maybe-you-should/?utm_term=.4c41509c4266
All code is disposable, just as it should be - Matthew P. Jones https://exceptionnotfound.net/all-code-is-disposable-just-like-it-should-be/
Kodak's dubious blockchain gamble - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/kodak-blockchain-bitcoin.html
How I built a disposable email service in two hours - Lukas Klein https://medium.com/@lukas.klein/how-i-built-a-disposable-email-service-in-two-hours-7dd942d96d78
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to start health-care company targeting U.S. staffs - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-to-set-up-a-health-company-for-staff
An introduction to the Web::Simple Perl module, a minimalist web framework - Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/18/1/introduction-websimple-perl-module-minimalist-web-framework
My Delorean runs Perl - Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/18/1/my-delorean-runs-perl
How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry - Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-two-bored-1970s-housewives-helped-create-the-pc-industry
Say what you will about Facebook (and I do), but the jazz guitar community on that service is very strong
Windows emergency patch: Microsoft's new update kills off Intel's Spectre fix - ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-emergency-patch-microsofts-new-update-kills-off-intels-spectre-fix/
Ivy is a static website generator built in Python. It's small, elegant, and easy to use. http://mulholland.xyz/docs/ivy/
With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there's a likely culprit - The Conversation https://theconversation.com/with-teen-mental-health-deteriorating-over-five-years-theres-a-likely-culprit-86996
Most of what you’re going to read today is pointless https://medium.com/personal-growth/most-of-what-youre-going-to-read-today-is-pointless-4b774acff368
Here’s why you should stop revealing your salary history in California - Derek Ling https://medium.com/@derekling_56594/heres-why-you-should-stop-revealing-your-salary-history-in-california-d16a043b8d13
The startling link between sugar and Alzheimer's - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551528/?single_page=true
The dirty war over diversity inside Google - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-dirty-war-over-diversity-inside-google
Mayor quits FCC committee, says it favors ISPs over the public interest - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/fcc-broadband-committee-wants-to-restrict-publicly-owned-networks/
'Space graffiti': astronomers angry over launch of fake star into sky - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/26/space-graffiti-astronomers-angry-over-launch-of-fake-star-into-sky
VPS for $1 a month? Yes https://www.chicagovps.net/
How (and why) i run my own DNS servers – zwischenzugs https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/26/how-and-why-i-run-my-own-dns-servers/
What gig workers can learn from romance writers - BBC http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180119-what-gig-workers-can-learn-from-romance-writers
I've been using the Podbean podcast player for Android. It's not bad. Most shows appear to be available, and you can add RSS for those that aren't. It beats using the standard, non-podcasty Android audio player, which I was doing before. https://www.podbean.com/podcast-app-iphone-android-mobile
The one thing Amazon lacks, and why it matters a ton - No Black Mirror, Thanks http://noblackmirrorthanks.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-one-thing-amazon-lacks-and-why-it.html
Yondr wants to neutralize your phone and un-change the world - WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-yondr-smartphones/
Code less, think more ... incrementally! – gitconnected https://levelup.gitconnected.com/code-less-think-more-incrementally-98adee22df9b
Why social media bosses don’t use social media - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/23/never-get-high-on-your-own-supply-why-social-media-bosses-dont-use-social-media
Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation – Steve Yegge https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-doesnt-necessarily-need-innovation-95cea96d0eeb?r=1
Waze Carpool: It's a thing. Should Uber be worried? https://www.waze.com/carpool/
Is there a ticking time bomb under the Arctic? | NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575220206/is-there-a-ticking-time-bomb-under-the-arctic
Milton's 'Paradise Lost' is 350 years old, and it's the greatest epic poem in English | The Weekly Standard http://www.weeklystandard.com/miltons-morality/article/2011211
Nextcloud vs ownCloud – The whole story | CiviHosting https://civihosting.com/blog/nextcloud-vs-owncloud/
Tronc and Axios are in talks for a news partnership | WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/tronc-and-axios-are-in-talks-for-a-news-partnership-1516726574
Amazon's HQ2 is going to the Washington, D.C. area, says D.E. Wilson, and the reason is AWS https://medium.com/@dwilson22180/amazons-hq2-here-s-where-it-s-going-13b862a47431
A man bit a smartphone battery as a test, and it exploded | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923200/china-customer-bites-iphone-battery-replacement-explosion
Snapchat to let users share stories outside its mobile app | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-23/snapchat-to-let-users-share-stories-outside-its-mobile-app
Post-work: The radical idea of a world without jobs | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs
Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserable | Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/facebook-is-sad.html
Why discrete math is important | Art of Problem Solving https://artofproblemsolving.com/articles/discrete-math
DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/
Will work for no benefits: The challenges of being in the new contract workforce | NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/579720874/will-work-for-no-benefits-the-challenges-of-being-in-the-new-contract-workforce
Complaining about low pay online ‘destroyed my life’ | New York Post https://nypost.com/2018/01/20/complaining-about-low-pay-in-an-open-letter-online-destroyed-my-life/
Is your child a phone 'addict'? | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/well/family/is-your-child-a-phone-addict.html
Should you still do remote freelance WordPress development? Here’s a look at the stats. | Derick Sozo https://medium.com/@dericksozo/should-you-still-do-remote-freelance-wordpress-development-heres-a-look-at-the-stats-e69f2f5585c1
I've been trying the Microsoft Edge browser. I recently worked Firefox back into my daily routine due to the massive speed improvements, and I figured I should give Edge a try. It's not that great. Right-clicking to open links is slow. Font rendering is nice. But overall, meh.
Watch the wondrous Costco pizza sauce dispenser in action | Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/costco-pizza-sauce-dispenser-satisfying
SPA, or not SPA, that is the question | Gianluca Guarini https://medium.com/@gianluca.guarini/spa-or-not-spa-that-is-the-question-711ace3576cf
Bitcoin could lose 90% of its value, Wall St. veteran Boockvar warns | CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/bitcoin-could-lose-90-percent-of-its-value-wall-st-veteran-boockvar-warns.html
Jake Paul is a terrifying genius and we should all be scared: Insights from the YouTuber's video series on how to become a social media star | BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/i-took-jake-pauls-educational-series
Inside Amazon Go, a store of the future | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/technology/inside-amazon-go-a-store-of-the-future.html
Podcasters, replace Skype with Discord for better audio quality and Web-based interviews | The Mac Observer https://www.macobserver.com/tips/deep-dive/podcasters-replace-skype-discord/
I just learned a new Vim tip: Swapping characters, words and lines | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Swapping_characters,_words_and_lines
UberEats will be the 'largest food delivery company in the world this year,' says CEO | VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/22/ubereats-will-be-the-largest-food-delivery-company-in-the-world-this-year-says-ceo/
Intel has a big problem. It needs to act like it | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it
How Google ditched VPNs for remote employee access | The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/beyondcorp-google-ditched-virtual-private-networking-internal-applications/
Decades of movie poster history go online | University of Texas http://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2018/01/18/decades-of-movie-poster-history-goes-online/
Tutorial: Intro to React | reactjs.org https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html
A brief overview of ES6 for React Native developers https://medium.com/the-react-native-log/a-brief-overview-of-es6-for-react-native-developers-15e7c68315da
JavaScript for Cats http://jsforcats.com/
How to Become a React Native Developer in 2018 – Hacker Noon https://hackernoon.com/how-to-become-a-react-native-developer-in-2018-d9bc85e1d91f
Looking beyond code to make the future work for everyone | Google CEO Sundar Pichai https://www.blog.google/topics/grow-with-google/looking-beyond-code-make-future-work-everyone/
Want a terrible job? Facebook and Google may be hiring armies of content moderators for 2018 | Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/facebook-and-google-are-building-an-army-of-content-moderators-for-2018.html
From helping shut-ins to sisterly advice, mail-order magazines did more than just sell things | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/helping-shut-ins-sisterly-advice-mail-order-magazines-did-more-just-sell-things-180967857/
Intel claims 90 percent of affected CPUs have live patches just as rumors of new attacks arrive | Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/intel-claims-90-percent-of-affected-cpus-have-live-patc-1822192075
The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google — and what they can do: A memo to big tech | The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21735026-which-antitrust-remedies-welcome-which-fight-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and
Simple made easy | a talk by Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
Are we there yet? | a talk by Rick Hickey, creator of Clojure https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
How I fell in love with Clojure | Christopher Small http://www.metasoarous.com/how-i-fell-in-love-with-clojure/
Top 5 trends in front-end development for 2018 | Applikey https://applikeysolutions.com/blog/top-5-trends-in-front-end-development-for-2018
Snap lays off two dozen employees | Cheddar https://cheddar.com/videos/exclusive-snap-lays-off-two-dozen-employees
I am looking at Wes Bos' JavaScript 30: Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials https://javascript30.com/
Implementing an open salary policy at a 17-year-old company (that company being Fog Creek Software) https://medium.com/make-better-software/talking-transparency-at-fog-creek-c8b72d58f6c
The fall of Travis Kalanick was a lot weirder and darker than you thought | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought
Elixir - Erlang didn't change, the world did https://tomjoro.github.io/2017-01-31-world-changed/
How much would an iPhone cost if Apple were forced to make it in America? (You guessed too low!) https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/01/17/how-much-would-an-iphone-cost-if-apple-were-forced-to-make-it-in-america/#7749b3cf2d2a
Why Russia is building its own Internet | IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/could-russia-really-build-its-own-alternate-internet
New California declares independence from California in statehood bid | USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/16/new-california-declares-independence-california-bid-become-51st-state/1036681001/
The hidden costs of serverless | A Cloud Guru https://read.acloud.guru/the-hidden-costs-of-serverless-6ced7844780b
Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic programming language tours (for the minute, I'm obsessed with this site) https://learnxinyminutes.com
Transmit AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware | system-bus-radio https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
Hey, makers of video content on Twitter, your video doesn't show until the video ad -- which has nothing to do with your content -- is over. tl;dr: Your entire post looks like an ad for some product, and you're getting paid /home/public//cgi-bin/ode.cgi.
How a 22-year-old discovered the worst chip flaws in history | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-a-22-year-old-discovered-the-worst-chip-flaws-in-history
Lipi is a GUI that lets regular people use the Hugo static blog creator http://sohanchy.com/Lipi/
Your weird job titles are making you miss the best candidates | Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/40514090/your-weird-job-titles-are-making-you-miss-the-best-candidates
Is this the beginning of the end of the Bitcoin bubble? | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-bubble-pop/550601/
Containers vs. operating systems | Dave Cheney https://dave.cheney.net/2018/01/16/containers-versus-operating-systems
Should internet firms pay for the data users currently give away? | The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21734390-and-new-paper-proposes-should-data-providers-unionise-should-internet
How I Start - Let's Build a Ruby Gem Together! | Yuki & Moto Press http://yukimotopress.github.io/start
Everyone is getting hilariously rich and you're not (hint: it's about SF tech bros and Bitcoin) | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaires.html
Is the answer to phone addiction a worse phone? | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/grayscale-phone.html
If you have any interest in Clojure, Lisp or functional programming, you should read this list (early and often).
Thanks to Azel4231 for the list on Github. More at https://feierabendprojekte.wordpress.com
Also from Azel4231: An introduction to Clojure (2015, slides in PDF format)
IBM mainframe tube module part II: Powering up and using a 1950s key debouncer http://www.righto.com/2018/01/ibm-mainframe-tube-module-part-ii.html
Digital minimalism for the working hacker | Z.D. Smith http://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/digital-minimalism-for-the-working-hacker.html
Inside one of America's last pencil factories | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
4 lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe programming | HPE https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/4-lessons-for-modern-software-developers-from-1970s-mainframe-programming-1709.html
ClojureScript syntax in 15 minutes | shaunlebron https://github.com/shaunlebron/ClojureScript-Syntax-in-15-minutes
Murdoch’s News Corp. warns Facebook to avoid ‘political’ changes | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/murdoch-s-news-corp-warns-facebook-to-avoid-political-changes
The state of Atom’s performance | blog.atom.io http://blog.atom.io/2018/01/10/the-state-of-atoms-performance.html
2017 JavaScript rising stars (you have to do a little clicking once you get there) https://risingstars.js.org/2017/en/
Ruby still isn't dead | Engine Yard https://www.engineyard.com/blog/ruby-still-isnt-dead
Firefox bullshit removal via about:config | haasn https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5
Modern JavaScript explained for dinosaurs | Medium https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-explained-for-dinosaurs-f695e9747b70
Unix's curl utility coming to Windows | daniel.haxx.se https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/01/13/microsoft-curls-too/
There's a simplicity to the Ode blogging system that is lacking in almost everything else out there. I say this as I test a static blogging system that is bringing in about 100 dependencies right now. https://ode.io/home/
Brave and DuckDuckGo Partner to Improve Privacy on the Web | Brave.com https://brave.com/brave-and-duckduckgo-partner-to-improve-privacy-on-the-web/
Samsung is the latest OEM to unlock FM chips in new phones | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/samsung-will-start-unlocking-fm-radio-chips-in-new-phones/
We’d love to link you to this website but it’s impossible | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/2855/we-d-love-to-link-you-to-this-website-but-it-s-impossible
Don't rely on \r \n in your regexes. I have based a couple on the files having Windows-style endings, and I'm now realizing that text editors can change all endings automatically when you open up a document. Endings of \r\n can become \n if the editor is set that way.
Why the office needs a typewriter revolution | Low-Tech Magazine http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/11/why-the-office-needs-a-typewriter-revolution.html
Improving ourselves to death | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/improving-ourselves-to-death
Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/dropbox-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-initial-offering
I tried Debian 9.3 with GNOME (and non-free firmware). Smooth sailing with usual exception of tweaks for my HD (1920x1080) screen. Apps fare worse than the desktop. After scaling things up, fonts don't look so good. Once Ubuntu "fixes" their 17.10 ISO, I need to try it.
With ingestible pill, you can track fart development in real time on your phone | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/with-ingestible-pill-you-can-track-fart-development-in-real-time-on-your-phone/
Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of unbootable PCs - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/9/16867068/microsoft-meltdown-spectre-security-updates-amd-pcs-issues
‘It can’t be true’: Inside the computer processor industry’s meltdown | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/-it-can-t-be-true-inside-the-semiconductor-industry-s-meltdown
FBI chief calls encryption a ‘major public safety issue’ | The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-chief-calls-encryption-a-major-public-safety-issue/2018/01/09/29a04166-f555-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html
I just tried Debian Stable Live with nonfree firmware, and everything worked. I had to make some adjustments because most Linux/Unix GUIs (I was using Xfce) don't expect an HD (1920x1080) screen out of the box. I'm shocked at how well it went.
A very thoughtful post by James Bennett on the importance, value and necessity of a CS degree for a career in programming http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/jan/08/degrees/
Intel handling of CPU bugs disclosure 'incredibly bad,' says OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt | iTWire https://www.itwire.com/security/81338-handling-of-cpu-bug-disclosure-incredibly-bad-openbsd-s-de-raadt.html
It's well past time that I get out of shared hosting and onto a "real" server, meaning some kind of VPS (DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr). Shared hosting is a byproduct of the LAMP-stack era, which is not the world we're in now.
I'm trying other Windows editors, but Vim is still winning. While I currently find it hard to write code in Vim, for these short posts the Vim "modal" editing style is perfect. Ability to edit and write w/o mouse and arrow keys is a huge bonus.
I tweet a lot, but I don't have nearly enough followers to make it worth my while. When is it "worth it"? 5K, 10K, 100K? This is one of many reasons I want my social-media messages to have a permanent life on my own web site.
BaseCS: A compiled list of resources from the basecs series | Vaidehi Joshi https://github.com/vaidehijoshi/basecs-series
I am trying the Kinesics Text Editor for Windows. Quirks aside, deal-breaker is the seeming lack of word wrap. http://turtlewar.org/projects/editor/
I started 'How to Use Emacs, an Excellent Clojure Editor | Clojure for the Brave and True,' and it was a bit of a disaster (says Vim user who sees irony in the bizarre world of another esoteric text editor) https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/
So yeah, about Clojure's syntax | Val on Programming http://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-01-06-so-yeah-about-clojures-syntax.html
How transgender composer Wendy Carlos changed music forever | 98.7WFMT https://www.wfmt.com/2016/11/17/transgender-composer-wendy-carlos-changed-music-forever/
Regarding the em dash | The Millions https://themillions.com/2018/01/regarding-the-em-dash.html
An 8-tube module from a 1954 IBM mainframe examined: it's a key debouncer http://www.righto.com/2018/01/examining-1954-ibm-mainframes-pluggable.html
Still learning the Vim vocabulary. How to search for a particular word: To find the word duck, use :/duck. Then type n for the next occurrence. If you are already in your text on the word "duck," type # or ? in command mode to find the next occurrence.
Ominous note: I can write in Vim, but can I develop in it? Short programs are one thing, but I was working on a 400-line program, and I'm not there yet. I will be switching between Vim and Geany for that one.
Lessons from 7 self-taught coders who now work full time as software developers | FreeCodeCamp https://medium.freecodecamp.org/inspirational-success-stories-from-self-taught-web-developers-4f6f375cf17d
The only reason I'm comfortable doing so many Twitter updates is that all the ones I do from a computer also appear here: http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/
600 free online programming & computer science courses you can start in January | FreeCodeCamp https://medium.freecodecamp.org/600-free-online-programming-computer-science-courses-you-can-start-in-january-3d4b1ed473aa
Clojure 1.9 has been released | Cognitect Blog http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/clojure19
If the Windows command line is teeming with editing choices, they sure are hiding from me, so I'm sticking with the decidedly non-Windows-y Vim
Why Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown - Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/
A Science Project: Make the 486 Great Again! – Modern Linux in an ancient PC | YKM http://yeokhengmeng.com/2018/01/make-the-486-great-again/
Trump: I'm a 'very stable genius' | CNNPolitics http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/politics/donald-trump-white-house-fitness-very-stable-genius/index.html
Java Notes for Professionals book (a very, very large book available as a PDF) http://books.goalkicker.com/JavaBook/
How to become a pure mathematician or statistician (aka a little light reading) http://hbpms.blogspot.com/
Learn React with the React Starter Kit | Glitch https://medium.com/glitch/react-starter-kit-1ce6658265c5
The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017 | Part 1: Front-End Frameworks https://www.npmjs.com/npm/state-of-javascript-frameworks-2017-part-1/
How Linux is dealing with Meltdown and Spectre | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-linux-is-dealing-with-meltdown-and-spectre/
Vim 8.0 has been great in Windows 10, but I've been having issues in Windows 7. I'm talking about command-line Vim -- lots of screen issues. No trouble with Gvim in Win 7.
The command line in Windows 10 is much better than the one in Windows 7 (and I am in the Windows command line a lot these days)
Why Intel x86 must die: Our cloud-centric future depends on open source chips | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-intel-x86-must-die-our-cloud-centric-future-depends-on-open-source-chips-meltdown/
Who took the legendary Earthrise photo from Apollo 8? | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/who-took-legendary-earthrise-photo-apollo-8-180967505/
This is how Meltdown can be used to steal passwords in real time | Michael Schwarz https://twitter.com/misc0110/status/948706387491786752
Cryogen: Simple static sites made with Clojure and Leinigen http://cryogenweb.org/
Cryogen: A simple static site generator written in Clojure https://github.com/cryogen-project/cryogen
This blog is nicely designed: (iterate think thoughts) http://yogthos.net/index.html
Protect your Fedora system against Meltdown | Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/protect-fedora-system-meltdown/
Perun is a composable static site generator built with Clojure and Boot https://perun.io/
Clojure's slow start — what's inside? | Clojure Goes Fast http://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/clojures-slow-start/
After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/colorado-city-to-build-fiber-broadband-network-with-net-neutrality/
The Way of Debian | The Tao of Debian http://debian.wayoflinux.com/
Why use Debian Stable on the desktop? | The Way of Linux http://wayoflinux.com/blog/debian-stable-on-desktop
Who killed Mr. Fixit and how to bring him back: A Q&A with iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens about the demise of the repair industry and a plan to revive it | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-10/who-killed-mr-fixit-and-how-to-bring-him-back
How to know everything about everything: Laura Riding’s extraordinary 1930 letters to an 8-year-old girl about being oneself | Brain Pickings https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/20/laura-riding-four-unposted-letters-to-catherine/
The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it | thenextweb.com https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/01/02/web-dying-mesh-networks-will-save/
The Kindle changed the book business. Can it change books? | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/can-amazon-change-books/
Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science | Boaz Barak http://www.introtcs.org/public/index.html
How I learned to stop worrying and love the job hunt | Stephan Behnke https://blog.stephanbehnke.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-job-hunt-in-toronto/
I just discovered spell check in Vim (I'm a slow learner)
Using Spell Check in Vim | Jake Harding http://thejakeharding.com/tutorial/2012/06/13/using-spell-check-in-vim.html
Jilted in acquisition, digital home lock startup Otto ceases operation, and company CEO/founder details what went wrong | Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/so-close-806b8ae77fa6
Add OpenSSH to Windows 10 (alternative title: My God, it's full of stars!) https://www.howtogeek.com/336775/how-to-enable-and-use-windows-10s-built-in-ssh-commands/
re-frame: A Reagent Framework For Writing SPAs, in Clojurescript. https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
Simple and Happy: Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? | Lambda Island https://lambdaisland.com/blog/25-05-2017-simple-and-happy-is-clojure-dying-and-what-has-ruby-got-to-do-with-it
Why Clojure? http://blog.venanti.us/why-clojure/
Regexes in Clojure for fun and profit | LispCast http://www.lispcast.com/clojure-regex
Talk: A new online-comments system from the Coral Project https://coralproject.net/products/talk.html
Chemistry is quantum computing’s killer app | Chemical & Engineering News https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i43/Chemistry-quantum-computings-killer-app.html
Learning to code in 6 months — a product manager’s journey | Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/learning-to-code-in-6-months-a-product-managers-journey-b5d09b856f72
The future of buying stuff won't involve humans at all, except you | Bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-future-of-automation/
Clojure Newbie Guide http://www.clojurenewbieguide.com/
I was an Amazon delivery driver: What it’s like to work in the tech giant’s citizen package brigade | GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-delivery-driver-like-work-tech-giants-citizen-package-brigade/
Top programmers now have agents | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price
The men who are convinced we’re all living in a simulation | Mel Magazine https://melmagazine.com/the-men-who-are-convinced-were-all-living-in-a-simulation-d2c76772df2f
How Amazon delivers packages in less than an hour | Time http://time.com/4159144/amazon-prime-warehouse-new-york-city-deliveries-christmas/
7 things that could make Bitcoin crash to $1,000 or less | The Motley Fool https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/24/7-things-that-could-make-bitcoin-crash-to-1000-or.aspx
Where this supercomputer is going, there are no hard drives | Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/40500260/where-this-supercomputer-is-going-there-are-no-hard-drives
The pessimist’s guide to 2018 | Bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/pessimists-guide-to-2018/
Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply | Ken Shirriff http://www.righto.com/2017/12/repairing-1960s-mainframe-fixing-ibm.html
A PDP-11 emulator running Unix V6 in your browser. Do yourself a favor and read the FAQ first http://aiju.de/code/pdp11/faq http://pdp11.aiju.de/
One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time | Smash Company http://www.smashcompany.com/business/one-on-one-meetings-are-underrated-whereas-group-meetings-waste-time
Netflix: What happens when you press play? | High Scalability http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/11/netflix-what-happens-when-you-press-play.html
Ruby 2.5.0 released | ruby-lang.org -- no more require "pp," 5 to 10 percent performance improvement, better Unicode support and more. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/12/25/ruby-2-5-0-released/
Ruby is not the new hotness, but I love Ruby
Why your next project should be public domain | Zach Oakes https://sekao.net/nightweb/blog/public-domain.html
After years of NOT using Firefox, the project's new Quantum release has made the browser fast enough for me to run instead of Google Chrome for personal use. While I still need Chrome for my day job (too many tabs), it's nice to shake off at least one Google dependency.
My BlogPoster script is currently a huge if/else mess, but I am writing the next version to be extremely modular, using Ruby blocks to separate the various tasks. Once I get it together, I will share the code.
I'm still using the Geany text editor/"mini IDE" for my (still simple-enough) development tasks. It's so easy to run your Java/Ruby/Perl/C++ code from the editor itself. https://geany.org/
I used the Windows 10 command line to 'rescue' a USB flash drive I had used to install a Linux distro. I used diskpart in the Windows shell to bring the drive back to life with an NTFS file system. https://www.maketecheasier.com/format-usb-drives-windows-10/
Leiningen: Run Clojure in Windows https://leiningen.org/
Have you tried the new Firefox Quantum? The speed is real. The two things Chrome does that I miss are a) all tabs on one screen with no scrolling and b) see the whole URL on the screen. For my "production" work, I need those things, but for "casual" browsing, I'm using FF more.
Clojure Web frameworks and comparisons | Christopher Bui https://cb.codes/clojure-web-frameworks-and-comparisons/
I just upgraded my Linux laptop from Fedora 25 to 27 (a seemless, if long process), and the new Ruby 2.4 didn't like that my script had a CR/LF on the shebang line. The script still ran (good!), and it was easy to replace CR/LF with LF only (Geany is good about that), so I did.
Node.js and Javascript Vs. Clojure (I thought this was a very well-reasoned article that didn't hesitate to point out the situations where Clojure isn't the right choice) https://cb.codes/node-js-vs-clojure-first-impressions/
I just asked 23,000 developers what they think of JavaScript. Here’s what I learned. | Sacha Greif https://medium.freecodecamp.org/i-just-asked-23-000-developers-what-they-think-of-javascript-heres-what-i-learned-9a06b61998fa
iPhones start slowing down after a year of use, and that’s way too soon | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/circuitbreaker/2017/12/20/16803190/iphone-slowdown-is-needed-but-also-a-problem
Google Chrome is not the standard | Chris Krycho http://www.chriskrycho.com/2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.html
DHH's answer to 'What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?' | Quora https://www.quora.com/What-makes-Rails-a-framework-worth-learning-in-2017/answer/David-Heinemeier-Hansson
How to run your own mail server https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide
Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/google-will-turn-on-native-ad-blocking-in-chrome-on-february-15/
Apple confirms it degrades your old iPhone | Forbes.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2017/12/20/apple-iphone-kill-switch-ios-degrade-cripple-performance-battery
Cable TV’s password-sharing crackdown is coming | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/cable-tv-s-password-sharing-crackdown-is-coming
The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/apollo-triumph/
Apple plans combined iPhone, iPad & Mac apps to create one user experience | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/apple-is-said-to-have-plan-to-combine-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps
Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed | BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42425857
Bitcoin: Seven questions you were too embarrassed to ask | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoin-a-beginners-guide/
A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet | André Staltz https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html
Oh, shit, git! How to get out of bad situations in git, explained in plain English http://ohshitgit.com/
Endless streaming services are frustrating consumers https://blog.peer5.com/you-favourite-show-is-on-another-platform-endless-streaming-services-and-frustrated-consumers/
Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail program now has a paid staff and isn't a dead project -- and I approve wholeheartedly https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/12/new-thunderbird-releases-and-new-thunderbird-staff/
I'm looking at cloud servers, and Vultr.com seems like the cheapest, starting at $2.50 per month https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
EffectiveDiscussions: Another commenting system https://www.effectivediscussions.org/
New embedded comments for static sites | KajMagnus' Blog -- another commenting system, among those mentioned in this Hacker News article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956056 https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/
GitHub - gka/schnack: Simple node app for Disqus-like drop-in commenting on static websites https://github.com/gka/schnack
Say hello to Schnack.js: A new Disqus-like commenting drop-in for static websites https://www.vis4.net/blog/2017/10/hello-schnack/
Moving from Disqus to schnack for blog comments | blog.webkid.io https://blog.webkid.io/moving-from-disqus-to-schnack/
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
iteration: A weekly podcast about development and design through the lens of amazing books, chapter-by-chapter. We do our best to be code-agnostic but we talk a lot about Rails, JavaScript, React, React Native, design, business and startups. https://iteration.simplecast.fm/
PuTTY Begone! Microsoft will ship an OpenSSH client | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/13/putty-begone-microsoft-will-ship-an-openssh-client/
The retail apocalypse is fueled by no-name clothes, and Amazon wants in | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/the-retail-apocalypse-is-fueled-by-no-name-clothes
Business is booming for America’s survival food king | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-22/business-is-booming-for-america-s-survival-food-king
My social-posting app -- currently a command-line script -- allows use of any text editor in your path, and I am running it in Windows 10. Notepad (not the ++ I use for everything else) works well, but I am using Vim, and my Vim skills are improving rapidly.
Facebook conceded it might make you feel bad. Here's how to interpret that. | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/technology/facebook-blog-feel-bad.html
Why is Facebook admitting that social networks can be bad for our health? | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/16/16783020/facebook-study-social-media-research-post
Snapchat is still the network of choice for U.S. teens — and Instagram is Facebook’s best shot at catching up | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/16/16783570/snapchat-instagram-teenagers-rbc-survey-favorite-app
Facebook bravely admits that it is a problem and suggests we spend more time on Facebook https://qz.com/1158984/is-facebook-fb-bad-for-you-facebook-says-it-is-and-the-company-has-a-solution/
The case against reading everything | The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/the-case-against-reading-everything/
While Twitter allows 280-character tweets, not consciously trying to write that long means that if you're aiming to write a "normal" tweet, you can go over without having to think about it and edit so much. It quickens the process.
The cover price of the New Yorker magazine is .99. Something tells me they are not counting on selling lots of magazines ... wherever magazines are sold. Maybe they just want to make subscribers feel like they're getting a deal.
My year of no shopping | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/shopping-consumerism.html
White House launching redesigned website on Friday | TheHill (Note: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ now runs on WordPress) http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365031-white-house-launching-redesigned-website-on-friday
Firefox is on a slippery slope | Drew DeVault https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html
Aristotle’s timeless advice on what real friendship is and why it matters https://medium.com/personal-growth/aristotles-timeless-advice-on-what-real-friendship-is-and-why-it-matters-c0878418343f
OpenBSD doesn't like Mozilla shenanigans in new Firefox, is killing ability for upstream to add unwanted extensions for shady promotional purposes https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=151337184303007&w=2
You can find my "original" social-media posts created on a computer at http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/ and on Twitter. Not on Facebook. (I turned that off.)
Firefox may have damaged its own name to promote Mr. Robot | wccftech https://wccftech.com/firefox-damaged-user-trust-promote-mr-robot/
Let's just say that when WordPress is out of its comfort zone and relies on third-party development for basic functionality, things happen
Hard Questions: Is spending time on social media bad for us? | Facebook Newsroom (Remember, this is from Facebook ... not from somebody who is not from Facebook) https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us/
Review of The UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook | Dan Moore (This book really needed an update, you can see from the review how much newness is in it)
http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2538
The case for .NET in the classroom (this guy really loves .NET) http://luisquintanilla.herokuapp.com/2017/12/14/dotnet-in-the-classroom/
How a DIY network plans to subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet monopoly | Motherboard http://nycmesh.net https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gv5qb4/how-a-diy-network-plans-to-subvert-time-warner-cables-nyc-internet-monopoly
Motherboard and Vice are building a community Internet network | Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5djd7/motherboard-and-vice-are-building-a-community-internet-network-to-protect-net-neutrality
Netflix rips net neutrality repeal: ‘This is the beginning of a longer legal battle’ | The Hill http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364937-netflix-rips-net-neutrality-repeal-this-is-the-beginning-of-a-longer-legal
62 rare nuclear test films have been declassified and uploaded to YouTube https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/62-rare-nuclear-test-films-have-been-declassified-and-u-1821302584
Jim Chanos: We think Tesla is worth zero https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/jim-chanos-we-think-tesla-is-worth-zero.html
Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California | State Sen. Scott Wiener https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/now-that-the-fcc-has-repealed-net-neutrality-lets-adopt-it-in-california-fa3bd02101ee
Facebook will launch pre-roll video ads in 2018. You don't them. Facebook didn't them. But here we are. | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/14/16776314/facebook-watch-pre-roll-video-ads-video-2018
Millennials are screwed | The Huffington Post (This is literally dizzying to read. The graphics and animations might induce a seizure.) http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
iMac Pro: Apple releases its most expensive computer – starting at £4,899 | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/14/imac-pro-apple-expensive-computer-creative-professionals
Google has its own domain-name service: Google Domains https://domains.google/#/
Using GraphQL & Node.js Express to build a neat e-commerce app https://codeburst.io/using-graphql-node-js-express-to-build-a-neat-e-commerce-app-af2e4997f3f6
Can a for-profit business be socially responsible? – written by my friend Julia Scott (aka @JScottMarketing) https://medium.com/@julia_42310/can-a-for-profit-business-be-socially-responsible-1a4d845a3433
Twitter will now let you publish an entire tweetstorm all at once | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/12/16764470/twitter-tweetstorm-feature-threads-longer-tweets
Patreon to world: 'We messed up' https://gizmodo.com/patreon-to-world-we-messed-up-1821260027
Patreon says, 'We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change' https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/
Taking React-based static-site generator Gatsby.js for a spin | dev.to https://dev.to/ardennl/taking-gatsby-for-a-spin-4je
Will robots take our children's jobs? | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/style/robots-jobs-children.html
I was wrong about Bitcoin. Here's why. | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/technology/bitcoin-predictions.html
Sexual harassment cases show the ineffectiveness of going to HR | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/business/sexual-harassment-human-resources.html
Web Performance 101 -- also, why is Gatsby so fast? | GatsbyJS https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2017-09-13-why-is-gatsby-so-fast/
Making website building fun | GatsbyJS https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2017-10-16-making-website-building-fun/
GatsbyJS: Blazing-fast static site generator for React https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
React.js starter kits https://reactjs.org/community/starter-kits.html
Making Vim great again | Sourcerer Blog (note: this Tweet was composed in Vim, and the blog post linked here has some great .vimrc tips that I'm going to use) https://blog.sourcerer.io/making-vim-great-again-cdfbc281428b
The doctor is in. Co-Pay? ,000 | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/economy/high-end-medical-care.html
What is a DuckDuckGo !Bang? https://duckduckgo.com/bang
Google uses comics to explain Kubernetes container management https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/kubernetes-comic/
Classic Valley diner Du-Par’s will depart Studio City on Jan. 1 | Eater LA https://la.eater.com/2017/12/11/16762720/du-pars-diner-closing-studio-city-january
Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eleven: Annual Uber Losses Now Approaching Billion | naked capitalism https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/12/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-eleven-annual-uber-losses-now-approaching-5-billion.html
Disconnect just a little bit | Modern Human Beings https://modernhumanbeings.com/disconnect-just-little-bit/
Apple touts iMac Pro at Apple.com https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/
FT Person of the Year: Ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler, whose blog post detailing company's problems got #MeToo ball rolling https://www.ft.com/content/b4bc2a68-dc4f-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482
What would you pay to keep your digital footprint 100% private? https://hbr.org/2017/12/what-would-you-pay-to-keep-your-digital-footprint-100-private
'I’m moving you to BCC': A paradox, a politeness, a gift | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/im-moving-you-to-bcc/522885/
I can't stop drinking coffee out of this temperature-regulating mug | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ember-ceramic-mug-rants-and-raves/
How email open tracking quietly took over the Web https://www.wired.com/story/how-email-open-tracking-quietly-took-over-the-web/
iMac Pro, Apple’s most powerful Mac, will be available to order December 14 | 9to5Mac. tl;dr: Base model will cost ,999 https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/12/imac-pro-apples-most-powerful-mac-will-be-available-to-order-december-14/
Zeta Global acquires commenting service Disqus (and the web is already too dependent on it) https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/zeta-global-acquires-commenting-service-disqus/
Storify is going away, and it's the latest cautionary tale about relying on third-party services for your content. (I'm very worried about Disqus, which was just acquired ...) https://storify.com/faq-eol
Storify’s standalone service is shutting down next year | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/storifys-standalone-service-is-shutting-down-next-year/
According to Bits from the DPL (November 2017), Debian is aiming to be one of the choices for the Windows Subsystem for Linux https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/11/msg00002.html
Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows (I heard about it here: https://ariya.io/2017/02/windows-for-web-development) https://chocolatey.org/
The future of work is uncertain, schools should worry now - Education Week https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/09/27/the-future-of-work-is-uncertain-schools.html
What’s College Good For? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/
Mastering Ruby blocks in less than 5 minutes - Mix & Go https://mixandgo.com/blog/mastering-ruby-blocks-in-less-than-5-minutes
The Bitcoin bubble https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/bitcoin-bubble
How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship
Amazon wants a key to your house. I did it. I regretted it. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/07/amazon-wants-a-key-to-your-house-i-did-it-i-regretted-it/?utm_term=.2ef0fdb98056
The FCC still doesn’t know how the Internet works | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/fcc-still-doesnt-know-how-internet-works
Patreon is shifting processing fees from creators to supporters https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/07/patreon-shifting-processing-fees-creators-to-supporters/
The price of bitcoin has doubled in two weeks, now above | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/07/the-price-of-bitcoin-has-doubled-in-two-weeks-now-above-16k/
The world’s most popular audio file format arrives at Wikimedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/12/04/wikimedia-mp3-support/
Forget New York, millennials are flocking to 10 US cities to get a job, buy a home and start a life - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/best-housing-markets-2018-millennial-home-buying-2017-12/
Keylogger found on nearly 5,500 infected WordPress sites https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keylogger-found-on-nearly-5-500-infected-wordpress-sites/
What we learned in 2017 in science, medicine and health - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/science/what-we-learned-in-2017.html
Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again | InfoWorld https://www.infoworld.com/article/3240064/sql/why-old-school-postgresql-is-so-hip-again.html
Taking a second look at the learn-to-code craze https://theconversation.com/taking-a-second-look-at-the-learn-to-code-craze-86597
As Discord nears 100 million users, safety concerns are heard - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety
I booted into my Fedora laptop, and I miss it. It was time to do an update. Even in GNOME Shell, I tend to enjoy using it.
Bitcoin is the revolution – Hacker Noon https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-the-revolution-2aac943acd97
Vine founder Dom Hofmann hints that Vine may be back https://twitter.com/dhof/status/938469576052011008
The '80s software program that made email famous https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb9ad8/eudora-email
What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? | Dave Cheney https://dave.cheney.net/2017/12/04/what-have-we-learned-from-the-pdp-11
Disqus is acquired by marketing technology company Zeta Global (whatever that is) https://blog.disqus.com/disqus-and-zeta
A Bitcoin Frenzy Like No Other Is Gripping South Korea - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/bitcoin-frenzy-like-no-other-has-koreans-paying-a-16-premium
Many of my social-media posts originate here http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/
If you do ANY programming and post to Twitter, you should check out the Twitter API. I'm using it to post, and it's way better than relying on a third-party service that wants to charge you for more than 10 posts a day. (That means you, dlvr.it). It's also faster. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/post-and-engage/overview
I am using Firefox Quantum today for web production (lots of tabs, lots of WP and Google Apps) and it is performing very well. I heard about extensions that will show all tabs w/o scrolling, but they don't work yet with the new version of FF.
The easy guide to changing fonts in Vim | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_font
Setting the font in the GUI | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI
There is a time like the present http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/actually-there-is-a-time-like-the-present
Shouldn't em dashes — in Vim, I mean ― be easier? I made these with ctrl-v u 2014.
Special characters in Vim | Arabesque https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/special-characters-in-vim/
Interview with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress - Mapping The Journey https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/12/01/episode-14-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-founder-of-wordpress/
Apple reportedly prepping crazy cheap 9.7-inch iPad For 2018 launch | HotHardware https://hothardware.com/news/apple-reportedly-prepping-crazy-cheap-97-inch-ipad-for-2018-launch
NY Times scales back free articles to get more subscribers - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles-to-get-readers-to-subscribe
How the index card catalogued the world - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/how-the-index-card-catalogued-the-world/547271/?utm_source=feed&single_page=true
The new Firefox is pretty nice for 'general' browsing, meaning when I don't have 20+ tabs open.
Linux Journal ceases publication with November 2017 issue http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication
50 years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe https://www.space.com/38912-pulsar-discovery-by-jocelyn-bell.html
The Old Calculator Web Museum http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/
AWS Cloud9: A cloud-based integrated development environment for writing, running and debugging code in the browser https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
Bacteria found on International Space Station may be alien in origin, says cosmonaut | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alien-life-bacteria-space-international-station-bacteria-cosmonaut-astronaut-russia-a8080036.html
Asking members to support its journalism (no prizes, no swag), The Guardian raises more reader revenue than ad dollars » Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/asking-members-to-support-its-journalism-no-prizes-no-swag-the-guardian-raises-more-reader-revenue-than-ad-dollars/
Reasons not to buy from Amazon -- Richard Stallman https://stallman.org/amazon.html
The number of people who use Netflix to fall asleep has doubled in the last two years http://exstreamist.com/the-number-of-people-who-use-netflix-to-fall-asleep-has-doubled-in-the-last-two-years/
The End of Moore’s Law – Rodney Brooks https://rodneybrooks.com/the-end-of-moores-law/
Introducing Amazon Translate: Real-time language translation | AWS News Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-translate-real-time-text-language-translation/
Is Amazon becoming consumed by its desire to own the world? — Quartz https://qz.com/1140428/jeff-bezoss-business-genius-built-amazons-empire-and-could-be-its-downfall/
Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/28/android-apps-third-party-tracker-google-privacy-security-yale-university
Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-new-captcha-test-upload-a-clear-photo-of-your-face/
Why Do You Need to Learn Javascript? | ProgrammableWeb https://www.programmableweb.com/news/why-do-you-need-to-learn-javascript/analysis/2017/11/14
Fix for Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.1 root bug - Apple Support https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315
Ink! Coffee's gentrification sign sparks backlash, calls for boycott in Denver http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/22/ink-coffee-gentrification-joke-denver/
How I dumped cable, saved money and lived to watch plenty of TV - Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-cable-dumping-netflix-showtime-hbo-streaming-amazon-1129-story.html
81-year-old celebrates 60th year at JPL, becomes longest-serving woman in NASA http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/sue-finley-celebrates-her-60-year-anniversary-at-jet-propulsion-laboratory/
Colorado colleges overflowing with huge wave of computer science students – The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/28/colorado-colleges-overflowing-computer-science-students/
Welcome back, sneakernet: Why net neutrality repeal will drive us to the edge | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/welcome-back-sneaker-net-why-neutrality-repeal-will-drive-us-to-the-edge/
HP quietly installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs (Engadget). https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/28/hp-quietly-installs-system-slowing-spyware-on-its-pcs/ Note: The HP Touchpoint Analytics software was installed on my laptop on Nov. 17, 2017.
A super-fast history of supercomputers: CDC 6600 to today -- HPE.com https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/a-super-fast-history-of-supercomputers-from-the-cdc-6600-to-the-sunway-taihulight-1711.html
Remembering obsolete technologies makes us feel good https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/the-secret-knowledge-of-obsolescence/546902/
Rails 5.2.0 beta: Easier file uploads with Active Storage http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2017/11/27/Rails-5-2-Active-Storage-Redis-Cache-Store-HTTP2-Early-Hints-Credentials/
Cassette tapes make a comeback https://www.marketplace.org/2017/11/22/business/cassette-tapes-make-comeback
Three Days with Sandi Metz on Practical Object-Oriented Design - Sihui Huang http://www.sihui.io/sandi-metz-pood/
Bulma: a modern CSS framework based on Flexbox https://bulma.io/
Basscss: Low-Level CSS Toolkit http://basscss.com/
Spectre.css - a Lightweight, Responsive and Modern CSS Framework. https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/
Skeleton: A dead simple, responsive boilerplate. http://getskeleton.com/
Cutestrap: A sassy, opinionated CSS Framework. A tiny alternative to Bootstrap. https://www.cutestrap.com/
Minimal CSS frameworks for coding demos (via Avdi Grimm's Virtuous Code) -- I am very interested in this. Who wants to code CSS from scratch? http://www.virtuouscode.com/2016/07/10/minimal-css-frameworks-for-coding-demos/
Hanami is a web framework for Ruby that isn't Rails or Sinatra. Getting started http://hanamirb.org/
The LA Times flirts with unionization, defying its history - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/los-angeles-times-union.php
The most popular mobile applications built with React Native https://www.qualium-systems.com/blog/useful-it-articles-and-advices/the-most-popular-mobile-applications-built-with-react-native/
Here are three tools that help digital journalists save their work in case a site shuts down » Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/here-are-three-tools-that-help-digital-journalists-save-their-work-in-case-a-site-shuts-down/
Review of Robert Sedgwick's Algorithms, Part I https://sumit-ghosh.com/articles/coursera-princeton-algorithms-data-structures-MOOC/
The Watch Guy watch repair blog is a great site http://watchguy.co.uk/
Extensions, API changes and Reader Mode in Firefox 58 https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/11/20/extensions-in-firefox-58/
Adding Notepad++ to my Windows path allows me to both run it from the Windows command prompt and to call it using the system command in Ruby
The Windows 10 terminal (aka command prompt) is a lot more forgiving than the Windows 7 version, especially when it comes to allowing users to copy/paste into it.
I am upgrading my ancient IBM Thinkpad R32 (circa 2002) from Lubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. When I booted it today, I didn't know what I would find (Xubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD?)
Virgin Mobile: You pay the taxes. MetroPCS and Boost Mobile: They pay the taxes
A great Vim cheat sheet http://vimsheet.com/
For the three thousand five hundred and thirty seventh time: Technical interviews are broken https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-thousand-five-hundred-thirty-seventh-time-technical-phil-tomson/
Racket is a general-purpose programming language as well as the world first ecosystem for developing and deploying new languages https://racket-lang.org/
The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) vs. How to Design Programs (HTDP) http://www.teach-scheme.org https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-htdp-vs-sicp/paper.pdf #Scheme #FunctionalProgramming
I love Strings by Mail -- they have a great inventory of strings (LOTS of flatwound and classical strings) and offer terrific customer service. Give them a try. https://www.stringsbymail.com/
How to count files in a directory using Ruby - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6773413/how-to-get-files-count-in-a-directory-using-ruby
Are comments a code smell? Yes! No? It depends. https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/are-comments-a-code-smell-yes-no-it-depends/
Everything you should know about React: The basics you need to start building https://medium.freecodecamp.org/everything-you-need-to-know-about-react-eaedf53238c4
In favor of commenting your code - from npf.io https://npf.io/2017/11/comments/
How Vans became the shoes everyone's wearing -- again http://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a13446025/vans-shoes/
Not much I want to tweet today
Small functions considered harmful: Cindy Sridharan https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/small-functions-considered-harmful-91035d316c29
Fedora 28 hopes to improve Linux laptop battery life https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Improve-Battery-Life
One-hand watch: intriguing idea, but marketing makes me throw up in my mouth https://www.slow-watches.com/
JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition – ds.laboratory http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/javascript-the-core-2nd-edition/
Who invented the Phillips screw? Henry F. Phillips, 1890-1958 https://jaysteeleblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/henry-f-phillips-1890-1958/
How to pass a programming interview - Triplebyte Blog https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-to-pass-a-programming-interview
Bootcamps vs. College - Triplebyte Blog https://triplebyte.com/blog/bootcamps-vs-college
Triplebyte: "We're a small team of people from various backgrounds who want to make hiring better." https://triplebyte.com/about
Vim Tips Wiki: Word wrap without line breaks http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Word_wrap_without_line_breaks
Women pioneered computer programming. Then men took their industry over. http://techaed.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-then-men-took-their-industry-over/
A Windows 10 alternative: Microsoft should embrace, extend Linux on the desktop | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-microsoft-could-embrace-and-extend-linux-on-the-desktop/
The big break in computer languages - Eric S. Raymond http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724
Commento: A lightweight, open-source, privacy-focused comment engine alternative to Disqus https://github.com/adtac/commento
Commento is an open-source alternative to Disqus http://adtac.pw:8002/
How to code like the top programmers at NASA — 10 critical rules http://techaed.com/how-to-code-like-the-top-programmers-at-nasa-10-critical-rules/
Studio Sound Electronics: Parts for guitar amplifiers, especially Fender http://www.amprepairparts.com/
U.S. newsrooms are 'largely unprepared' to address misinformation online | Poynter https://www.poynter.org/news/us-newsrooms-are-largely-unprepared-address-misinformation-online
The new Firefox is here, and it's supposedly faster than ever https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/the-new-firefox-is-here/
Announcing the release of Fedora 27 - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-27/
How to set up your own Discord chat server https://www.howtogeek.com/318890/how-to-set-up-your-own-discord-chat-server/
How is Discord making money? https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/210544537-How-is-Discord-making-money-How-can-I-contribute-
How video game chat client Discord became the Web's new cesspool of abuse https://gizmodo.com/how-a-video-game-chat-client-became-the-web-s-new-cessp-1792039566
Dischord is presented as a Skype replacement, but can it also replace Slack? https://discordapp.com/
Backspin: X talk 40 years of marriage, divorce, punk [Video] https://www.yahoo.com/music/backspin-x-talk-40-years-marriage-divorce-punk-just-little-weird-020326115.html
Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported version of Prime Video - AdAge http://adage.com/article/digital/amazon-developing-a-free-ad-supported-version-prime/311273/
Why is Kotlin replacing Java at such a rapid pace? https://hackernoon.com/how-kotlin-calamity-devours-your-java-apps-like-cancer-f3ce9500a028
I am upgrading a 2011-era iMac from 10.7.5 to whatever the latest OS X is. So far it's been a huge pain in the ass.
Towards a National Computer Grid: from 'Electronic Computers,' 1965 https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/11/11/towards-a-national-computer-grid-electronic-computers-1965/
You're working in the wrong place (if you're working in an open office) https://medium.com/@ummerr/youre-working-in-the-wrong-place-e289036ee01c
GitLab on one year using Vue.js https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/09/gitlab-vue-one-year-later/
I played on the Ernie Ball Power Slinky strings again yesterday. I really like the sound of these strings. It's like a whole new world, especially after years of flatwounds https://www.ernieball.com/guitar-strings/electric-guitar-strings/slinky-nickel-wound-electric-guitar-strings/6-string#P02220
Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch twice discussed CNN with AT&T CEO, sources tell Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cnn-murdoch-exclusive/exclusive-rupert-murdoch-twice-discussed-cnn-with-att-ceo-sources-idUSKBN1DA2PY
Looking at non-binary gender in the Greek and Roman world https://eidolon.pub/the-body-in-question-d28045d23714
No more Uber, Hertz, or even car owners: How Amazon and Apple will take us all for a ride http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-more-uber-or-hertz-or-even-car-owners-how-amazon-and-apple-will-take-us-all-for-a-ride/
Disney Streaming Service Will Be Priced Below Netflix, Says Bob Iger https://www.thewrap.com/disney-streaming-service-cheaper-netflix/
The long goodbye to C: Eric S. Raymond http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7711
Build Your Own Link Shortener App with Ruby & Sinatra - RubyGuides http://www.rubyguides.com/2017/11/sinatra-link-shortener/
JShell - A Quick Look (Oracle) https://medium.com/oracledevs/jshell-a-quick-look-d26f7e91a864
Poop more effectively by repositioning one leg, say samurai https://lifehacker.com/poop-more-effectively-by-repositioning-one-leg-1551365555
JavaFX: Getting Started with JavaFX Release 8 (Oracle documentation) https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/get-started-tutorial/index.html
SMU's Meadows School of the Arts student Isaac Beu performs Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with a string quintet of SMU students
Sparkpost interview with @saronyitbarek of @codenewbies https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/community-spotlight-codenewbie/
Amplification & the changing role of media – Om Malik https://om.co/2012/10/13/amplification-the-changing-role-of-media/
The computer scientist who prefers paper ballots - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/
The first web server ever
My favorite @CERN picture: the first web server EVER
— Francesc (@francesc) November 9, 2017
Also the paper by @timberners_lee describing the web, with a note from a reviewer: "vague but exciting" pic.twitter.com/0tTfX3y0wF
Twitter must fix verification, but there are no easy solutions http://mashable.com/2017/11/09/heck-yeah-twitter-verification-is-broken/
A regular New York Times kids’ section and a kids’ version of The Daily are on the way this month http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/a-new-york-times-kids-section-once-an-experiment-will-run-monthly-starting-this-month/
I am using my Blog Poster app on a Windows 7 computer today. I have been developing it on a Windows 10 machine. I recentely added Ruby and the Nokogiri and Twitter gems to the Win 7 machine so I could test it, and all is working well so far.
Even the Twitter API allows for 280-character posts, so my Ruby app using the Twitter gem can also send longer posts. For a while, I could post 280 on the Twitter web site but only 140 with the API.
Uber whistleblower snags book deal http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/09/technology/uber-susan-fowler-book-deal/index.html
Ruby for Newbies: Working with Directories and Files https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby-for-newbies-working-with-directories-and-files--net-18810
'The Typewriter in the 21st Century' (a movie that features Highland Park's US Office Machine Company) https://thetypewritermovie.wordpress.com/
Anderson Business Technology, which has been in Pasadena for 105 years, still fixes typewriters http://andersonbt.com/
US Office Machines Company repairs typewriters in LA's Highland Park neighborhood https://www.yelp.com/biz/us-office-machine-company-los-angeles https://www.kcet.org/history-society/a-different-la-jesse-and-the-typewriter-shop
California Typewriter repairs typewriters in Berkeley. They also sell typewriters and were the topic of a movie http://www.californiatypewriter.com/blog http://www.californiatypewriter.com/
Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren't) - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-jobs-industry-careers.html
Let’s Implement The Open Source Model! But… Which Open Source? https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/lets-implement-the-open-source-model-but-which-open-source-a89c82d1b494
The Modern Javascript Tutorial https://javascript.info/
The Base.CS podcast on computer science is here -- by @vaidehijoshi and @CodeNewbies @saronyitbarek https://www.codenewbie.org/basecs
If your Cortana search box in Windows 10 turned white and you want it to turn back to dark gray http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/cortana-search-box-white-background-windows-10/
Tweet Counter: A Google Chrome extension that brings back the character counters in tweet boxes https://github.com/kamranahmedse/tweet-counter
Josh Allen: Why React Native is Not For You (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_jVy03Yew&feature=youtu.be
The Seiko SKX007 and its family of Seiko beater divers https://monochrome-watches.com/seiko-skx007-family-seiko-beater-divers/
What Cities Lost When Gothamist (including LAist) and DNAInfo Shut Down - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/11/gothamist-dnainfo-joe-ricketts-shutdown/545069/
How HQ2 Ended Seattle's Love Affair With Amazon - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/11/how-seattle-fell-out-of-love-with-amazon/545045/
This site CityLab is really good https://www.citylab.com/
GuiGarage: Building applications with JavaFx http://www.guigarage.com/
JavaFXTutorials by John Martens http://www.javafxtutorials.com/
Getting Started with JavaFX (Oracle tutorial) https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/get_started/jfxpub-get_started.htm
The JavaFX hidden economy http://gluonhq.com/javafx-hidden-economy/
ControlsFX is an open source project for JavaFX that aims to provide really high quality UI controls and other tools http://fxexperience.com/controlsfx/
Fx Experience: JavaFX news, demos and insight http://fxexperience.com/
Say no to Electron! Using JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop application https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/saynotoelectronusingjavafxtowriteafastresponsivedesktopapplication
Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and basically object-oriented programming: Abe Voelker's blog https://blog.abevoelker.com/sick-of-ruby-dynamic-typing-side-effects-object-oriented-programming/?repost2014
How to do it wrong: third-party auth, aka “social login” https://codeburst.io/how-to-do-it-wrong-third-party-auth-aka-social-login-d7f24abecef5
CS50: Introduction to Computer Science | edX https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x
Andy Tanenbaum, author of Minix, writes an open letter to Intel http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
Gustavo Arellano, ex-OC Weekly, on the death of the alt-weekly in general http://reason.com/archives/2017/11/04/the-death-of-the-alt-weekly-as-told-by-a
Audacity 2.2.0 adds MIDI playback, revamps menus, more help links http://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-2-2-0-released/
JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON that aims to make it easier for humans to write and maintain by hand http://json5.org/
MINIX — The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular-os-in-the-world-thanks-to-intel.html
How to Get a Programming Job Straight Out of High School (from malisper.me) http://malisper.me/how-to-get-a-programming-job-straight-out-of-high-school/
Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites – Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/local-storage-and-how-to-use-it/
Using the Web Storage API - Mozilla Developer Network https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API/Using_the_Web_Storage_API
JavaScript: Storing Data on The Client with LocalStorage (via Treehouse Blog) http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/storing-data-on-the-client-with-localstorage
Is Ruby on Rails Still Worth it in 2017? | Codementor https://www.codementor.io/brookecampbell/is-ruby-on-rails-still-worth-it-in-2017-5wxguk5xn
Create a Console Application in Ruby https://ruby.unicorn.tv/articles/create-a-console-application-in-ruby
React is taking over front-end development https://medium.freecodecamp.org/yes-react-is-taking-over-front-end-development-the-question-is-why-40837af8ab76
RubyMotion allows you to write apps for iOS and Android, but you have to use a Mac to do it. http://www.rubymotion.com/
A beginner's guide to Kotlin (from Bugsnag Blog) https://blog.bugsnag.com/introduction-to-kotlin/
Adopting Kotlin at Udacity https://engineering.udacity.com/adopting-kotlin-c12f10fd85d1
I had to check the character count because either the Twitter API or the Ruby gem goes haywire if you go > 140 characters.
Do you need a VPN? (from the Mozilla Internet Citizen blog) https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/08/29/do-you-need-a-vpn/
The Twitter gem for Ruby is sending this tweet. I turned off IFTTT for the /updates directory.
GitHub - sferik/twitter: A Ruby interface to the Twitter API. https://github.com/sferik/twitter
GitHub - sferik/t: A command-line power tool for Twitter. https://github.com/sferik/t
The Blog Poster app I have been coding is operational but a huge mess. I need to clean up the code, making it more modular, and then I will release it. While the app is helping me write both local and social posts, I am still using IFTTT for the last mile -- putting the social posts on Twitter.
The endgame is to have this app directly send the social posts to Twitter and possibly the rest of the posts, too.
While this blog currently posts automatically to Twitter, I turned off Twitter's automatic posting to Facebook some time ago. I don't ignore Facebook as much as I used to - mostly due to the large amount of jazz guitar activity on the platform - but I don't need everything I do here to be over there.
The Web began dying in 2014, here's how - by André Staltz https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html
I am using RubyInstaller for Windows for all my Windows Ruby needs https://rubyinstaller.org/
Why I Still Use Vim by @caspervonb via Medium https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6
Opening a file in Ruby with different modes https://blog.udemy.com/ruby-file-open/
What are the Ruby File.open modes and options? Stack Overflow spells it out. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3682359/what-are-the-ruby-file-open-modes-and-options
Ruby's File.open and the need for f.close -- from your pals at Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4795447/rubys-file-open-and-the-need-for-f-close
Convert a file to a string in Ruby: Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/130948/ruby-convert-file-to-string
Nvidia sucks and I'm sick of it: Drew DeVault https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
Getting Real - The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application - and it's free from @basecamp https://gettingreal.37signals.com/
Is it better to 'like' or retweet? What do you say, Twitter users?
Your own private cloud server from @antsle_Inc ... but how do you deal with the networking? http://go.antsle.com/privatecloudserver27/
10 new features in Ruby 2.5: RubyMine https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2017/10/10-new-features-in-ruby-2-5/
Learn CSS Grid layout with Mozilla tutorial https://mozilladevelopers.github.io/playground/
It will take a link and turn it into a post -- like any social media site. The latest feature I added is the ability to create a quick blog post in the terminal and then upload and post with as few keystrokes as possible. If you see this, it worked.
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music makes concerts free for all patrons http://dailybruin.com/2017/10/24/ucla-herb-alpert-school-of-music-makes-concerts-free-for-all-patrons/
The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons: The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-uncanny-resurrection-of-dungeons-and-dragons
GOP Sen. Jeff Flake announces that he won't run for re-election, denounces Trump http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/politics/jeff-flake-retirement-arizona/index.html
Teach Yourself Computer Science https://teachyourselfcs.com/
React Armory: The simplest way to learn React https://reactarmory.com/
Try React (from your browser) -- React Armory https://reactarmory.com/examples/hello-world/jsx-hello-world
I've seen heaven. And it's written in JavaScript. https://listed.standardnotes.org/@mo/235/i-ve-seen-heaven-and-it-s-written-in-javascript
Playing at the World is a blog that looks back at the early days of roleplaying games (mostly D&D) http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/
Larry Wall's quest for a 100-year programming language https://thenewstack.io/larry-walls-quest-100-year-programming-language/
Make a static WordPress site on AWS using the Simply Static plugin https://deductivelabs.com/en/2017/10/hosting-wordpress-on-aws-at-low-costs/
Secure Your Android Phone With OpenVPN On Ubuntu 16.04 In 10 Minutes https://bash-prompt.net/guides/android-openvpn/
Why we are not cross-platform developers https://android.jlelse.eu/why-we-are-not-cross-platform-developers-fd7ef70e976d
Tech insiders fear a smartphone dystopia https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia
TTY • The Ruby terminal apps toolkit https://piotrmurach.github.io/tty/
Object Oriented Programming with Ruby by @launchschool https://launchschool.com/books/oo_ruby
.@launchschool believes in a slow learning approach but says that's how it works anyway https://launchschool.com/faq
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Learning to code when you’re busy https://medium.com/the-odin-project/learning-to-code-when-youre-really-dang-busy-e223a7f84758
Read all of http://manton.org. Deep thoughts on the social and personal web.
I install a Netgear AC750 WiFi Range Extender http://stevenrosenberg.net/hugo/post/2017_0304_wifi_range_extender
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
Tim Buchwaldt: Rails is f*cking boring! I love it. https://medium.com/@timbuchwaldt/rails-is-boring-thats-great-f896e9ab2cb#.djk89skub
.@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
Hugo community: Alternatives to Disqus needed more than ever https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/alternative-to-disqus-needed-more-than-ever/5516
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
Is this guitar worth $131,000? https://reverb.com/item/4209723-gibson-goldtop-1957-100-original
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/
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.
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
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)
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
Ross Mayfield: The coming tech backlash https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coming-tech-backlash-ross-mayfield
The last bookbinder on the Lower East Side http://lithub.com/the-last-bookbinder-on-the-lower-east-side
My holy grail on self-hosted blogs like this Ode system? Self-hosted comments. Disqus is far from ideal.
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
The European Ruby Revolution http://devonestes.herokuapp.com/the-european-ruby-revolution
Gizmodo: A Stupid Simple Router for Super Lazy People http://gizmodo.com/a-stupid-simple-router-for-super-lazy-people-1764670728
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/
Sacha Greif: A study plan to cure JavaScript fatigue https://medium.com/@sachagreif/a-study-plan-to-cure-javascript-fatigue-8ad3a54f2eb1
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
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
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/
One guy's Google interview prep can be everybody else's computer-science tutorial https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university
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/
Blogging with Markdown, Dropbox and Rails by Piotr Chmolowski http://pchm.co/posts/blogging-with-markdown-dropbox-and-rails
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
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
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
Shopify is a huge e-commerce web-site provider, and they use Ruby on Rails https://engineering.shopify.com
Yelp, thank you for withholding your content because I'm using a tablet and don't want your stupid app.
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.
Audacity is having a screen-rendering issue in Fedora 24. Bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347053
I've probably edited 100 videos with the "old" OpenShot, but I can say without reservation that the new OpenShot has gone to hell
Older versions of Citrix Receiver, aka ICAClient, are available. I'm thinking my particular apps like 13.0 better than 13.3.
OMG, the @railstutorial by @mhartl https://www.railstutorial.org/book
The /now page movement -- it's what you're doing now http://sivers.org/nowff and http://nownownow.com
Coding Horror: It's a UNIX system, I know this https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/its-a-unix-system-i-know-this/4378
I set up Ruby on a CentOS 6 server. It was Ruby 1.8.7. Makes my 1.9 Pickaxe book seem timely.
.@fkarlitschek already left @owncloud, and now he forks the project and starts Nextcloud http://karlitschek.de/2016/06/nextcloud
Fedora's yumex-dnf has been broken for about a week. The issue is with dnfdaemon, and a fix is on the way https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1338564#c18
Update: The fix is in. Yumex-dnf is working again.
As I do occasionally, I used GNOME 3 instead of Xfce 4.12 today to start my work. It all fell apart when the GNOME screenshot utility barely worked.
Update: I mapped GNOME Screenshot to alt-P instead of PrintScreen, and that works, but it's hard to choose the type of image I want, which is JPG, and the only way to make it work is to take the PNG offered and convert it later.
In contrast, the Xfce screenshot tool works with the PrintScreen key and makes any kind of image I want with no complaining.
Acousticmusic.org has a large archive of old guitar catalogs, best I've seen http://acousticmusic.org/research/history/catalogs #gibson #fender #martin #epiphone
How to get a developer job in less than a year (Free Code Camp blog) https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-get-a-developer-job-in-less-than-a-year-c27bbfe71645
United RPMs is a new repo for Fedora https://unitedrpms.github.io
The Firehose Project - A hands-on intro to building modern web applications with Elixir and Phoenix http://phoenix.thefirehoseproject.com/
What @gitlab has to say about @github's pricing changes https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/11/git-repository-pricing/
Great posts at Jazz Age Guitar http://www.jazzageguitar.com
Mebe – The Minimalistic Elixir Blog Engine https://blog.nytsoi.net/mebe
Elixir and Phoenix: The Future of Web APIs and Apps? http://blog.carbonfive.com/2016/04/19/elixir-and-phoenix-the-future-of-web-apis-and-apps/
Evan Miller: Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom http://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-doom.html
Termux brings a Linux command line, apt-like package manager and Debian-like repo to Android http://termux.com
Perl is a DevOps power tool http://www.i-programmer.info/programming/perl/9649-with-the-rise-of-devops-perl-shows-its-muscle.html
Building a reading queue in Ember and Phoenix, Part 1: getting started with Phoenix https://medium.com/@diamondgfx/building-a-reading-queue-in-ember-and-phoenix-part-1-getting-started-with-phoenix-521a19814ae5#.l77gs8eh8
In San Francisco, a call to 'Build, baby build!' http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/business/economy/san-francisco-housing-tech-boom-sf-barf.html
Multiple transactions are what killed old #StarbucksRewards. App meltdown is killing new one.
I think @starbucks had to change #StarbucksRewards, but a lot of people are not going to like it
State of the #JavaScript landscape: A map for newcomers http://www.infoq.com/articles/state-of-javascript-2016 -- A nice overview
jQuery Bootstrap-style dropdowns http://labs.abeautifulsite.net/jquery-dropdown
HTML 5 Tutorials: Dropdown lists http://www.html5-tutorials.org/forms/dropdown-lists
Inspirational Pixels: Creating a Dropdown Menu with HTML & CSS http://inspirationalpixels.com/tutorials/creating-a-dropdown-menu-with-html-css
Stack Overflow: How to make a pure css based dropdown menu http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9953482/how-to-make-a-pure-css-based-dropdown-menu
Hackaday is awesome http://hackaday.com/
Newspapers among those threatening to sue Brave Software for browser that will block and replace ads http://www.infoworld.com/article/3053525/security/javascript-founder-brendan-eichs-company-could-face-legal-action.html
Round-up of #elixirlang books and resources http://blog.jordan-dimov.com/round-up-of-elixir-books-and-resources/
The business case for switching to #elixirlang http://blog.jordan-dimov.com/10-reasons-to-switch-to-elixir-from-python/
After 25 years, Linus Torvalds still wants Linux to take over the desktop http://www.cio.com/article/3053507/linux/linus-torvalds-still-wants-linux-to-take-over-the-desktop.html
Ubuntu Bash for Windows 10 not quite ready http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/windows_10_with_ubuntu_now_in_public_preview/
When to choose #Elixir over #Ruby https://www.amberbit.com/blog/2015/12/22/when-choose-elixir-over-ruby-for-2016-projects
Elm with #Elixir and #Phoenix http://www.cultivatehq.com/posts/phoenix-elm-1 #elmlang
Elm for the front end, right now https://bendyworks.com/elm-frontend-right-now #elmlang
The Radio Boulevard web site looks like hell, but the vintage-radio content is very, very golden http://www.radioblvd.com/
Great page on rebuilding an R-390A, the holy grail of surplus military receivers http://www.radioblvd.com/R-390A%20Rebuild.htm
Key to getting dlvr.it to work well with Ode: don't upload without setting Indexette timestamps locally (and staggering by at least a minute)
I have been 'wet shaving' with a safety razor and one of those brushes (no badger!) That is all.
I have been running the same Fedora installation, upgraded from F18 to 23, for nearly 3 years on this HP Pavilion g6 laptop
I am studying C++, working on Perl code for my blog and now coding a simple JavaScript web app pretty much all at once
K8IQY's #QRP Rigs: "Hardware Defined Radios" http://www.k8iqy.com/qrprigs/QRPRigs.htm
That's how it is with @fedora -- something breaks every once in awhile, but it's almost always fixed rather quickly.
Fedora 23 has been suffering from a sqlite updating issue for the past week or so, but it looks like a fix is on the way.
.@Linux_Mint dammed, no faint praise in sight, for security, packaging and professionalism issues https://lwn.net/Articles/676664
The @reddit community responds to @Linux_Mint's security (and other) issues https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/470pvo/to_conclude_i_do_not_think_that_the_mint
Can't the feds just image an iPhone, reimplement it in software and crack it at their leisure?
How #UbuCon brings a new element to LA's #SCALE show https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/02/trip-report-ubucon-summit-scale14x #Ubuntu @Mark_SABDFL
VCs who miss the point of open source shouldn't fund it http://www.infoworld.com/article/3032120/open-source-tools/vcs-who-miss-the-point-of-open-source-shouldnt-fund-it.html by @webmink
What is @standstormIO? An open-source, easy-to-use server platform for web apps featuring sandbox-based security https://sandstorm.io/
The @brave browser is going to be big if it can meld the speed of Chrome with a users-first mentality
The year ahead in C++ http://meetingcpp.com/index.php/br/items/cpp-in-2016.html
Dave Cross: Why learn #Perl? http://perlhacks.com/2016/01/why-learn-perl Plus his whole site is great: http://perlhacks.com
Both today and yesterday, Twitter has been less than healthy
Go has been updated to 1.5.3 in #Fedora http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=711203 #golang
Right now, this is the current Go release. That makes Fedora a great platform for Go programmers.
I dislike 'listicle' articles that are just clunky photo galleries -- I'm looking at you, @zdnet
I found this very long list of things wrong with Linux http://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
Every now and again I try to run my Citrix apps with GNOME. Xfce still does it better. Probably Citrix's fault, but it is what it is
I am not saying @LAReviewofBooks is the city's most important web site. Not saying it isn't, either https://lareviewofbooks.org
From http://ruby2elixir.github.io: What makes Elixir so attractive for some developers? http://ruby2elixir.github.io/posts/2015/12-29-what-makes-elixir-so-attractive-for-some-developers.html
Back to reading books (and couldn't agree more with @hughmcguire) https://medium.com/@hughmcguire/why-can-t-we-read-anymore-503c38c131fe
Tweets on my laptop originate here: http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates. Explanation: Tweet from any blog
.@MethodDan of #LinuxOutlaws updates his medical condition http://danlynch.org/blog/2015/12/got-a-date/, plays some tunes http://ratholeradio.org/2015/12/ep152/
Fedora upgrades DO happen overnight -- with 7000+ tasks between upgrades and cleanup, I just let it run. F23 now lives on my laptop
Upgrading #Fedora 22 to 23 -- 3654 packages for me
Easy instructions for Fedora 22 to 23 upgrade from Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-from-fedora-22-to-fedora-23/ I needed --allowerasing
Starting the #Fedora 22 to 23 upgrade -- can DNF really do it?
You know what I'm using like crazy in Xfce? Clipman http://www.mylinuxrig.com/post/1441513640/clipman-helps-remember-what-you-cut
http://dlvr.it is one of those services that keeps plugging along. It runs my @twitter feed out of this blog, and my company uses it, too
.@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
What is Tsu? A social network that shares revenue with users http://www.tsu.co/about
Learn development skills with Outlearn https://www.outlearn.com
Learn Go From Scratch https://www.outlearn.com/learn/matryer/golang-from-scratch #golang
Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails http://blog.differential.com/meteor-killin-rails
The Go Cookbook http://golangcookbook.com #golang
I am very interested in this book: 'Learning to Program' http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Program-Steven-Foote/dp/0789753391 #JavaScript
I just installed Groovy http://www.groovy-lang.org #groovylang #java
Modern Programming Made Easy - A Simple Guide to Programming by @adamldavis https://leanpub.com/ModernProgrammingMadeEasy #java #groovylang
.@Leanpub is extremely refreshing - the concept, the web site and the books http://leanpub.com
Book: Ambitious Ember Applications - An Ember.js Tutorial https://leanpub.com/emberjs_applications by @ryakh #EmberJS @leanpub
Building Web Apps With Ember.js, a book from @oreilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030782.do
EmberWatch http://emberwatch.com #EmberJS
Ember.js, as it's called, 'a framework for creating ambitious web applications' http://emberjs.com
7 reasons to use Ember.js from @codeschool http://blog.codeschool.io/2015/10/26/7-reasons-to-use-ember-js
Meteor.js is a full JavaScript app platform https://www.meteor.com not that I haven't mentioned this already
First chapter of The Go Programming Language: http://www.gopl.io/
An Introduction to Programming in Go, the free book: https://www.golang-book.com #golang
ZDNet: Why I dumped my iPhone 6 and went Android http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-i-dumped-my-iphone-and-went-android
ZDNet: Record number of Android users switch to iPhone http://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-a-record-number-of-android-owners-have-switched-to-iphones
I want GNOME to be better than Xfce, but it's not
I answered a Linux question on Quora.
In the interest of running my own writing on my own site, here is what I said.
The question:
I want to revitialise my old Windows 7 laptop with Linux. I want to use this as an excercise in learning about Linux too. The laptop is a Samsung RV 510. What distributions could I consider?
My answer:
Try whatever strikes your fancy, as they say. Back when I was getting started with Linux (around 2007), every distribution I tried taught me something. Puppy, Debian, Ubuntu (and Xubuntu), Fedora, CentOS (I ran versions 2 through 5 at the time), Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Slackware, Wolvix (a favorite Slackware derivative of mine) and Zenwalk all showed me something different and taught me something I carry with me today. I never did much with Mint or anything with Arch (though it has the best wiki in Linux), Gentoo or OpenSuse, but I do recommend them, too.
I also spent a lot of time with OpenBSD, which I ran as my main system for six months (installed from a floppy because I couldn't get the CD-ROM to work on my trash-bin laptop at the time) and less but very productive time with FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD.
I even ran Solaris on a Sun Sparcstation I bought over eBay.
I don't distro-hop nowadays. On my last laptop (2010-2012, RIP), I started with Fedora because I find that new hardware works better with its newer bits. When I "broke" that system, I moved to Debian and stuck with that until the laptop died.
On my current laptop (since 2012), I started with Fedora 18 and have been sticking with it ever since (now on F22) with Xfce. I love Fedora, but I still consider Debian my "home" distro, even though I appreciate the new everything that Fedora constantly brings to the table.
Since I use Linux as my daily OS and don't distro hop, I go for what's practical and what works for me. That's Fedora with Xfce right now but could just as easily be Debian or Xubuntu.
Linux distributions are more alike than they are different. That's the "secret" that you might learn (or at least I did) when you try a lot of them.
Whenever you try Linux on "new" (either really new, or new to you) hardware, you're going to need to be flexible. One distribution might work better than another, and another might need more work on your part. Your desire to do that work also matters, and I can tell you that I've stuck with Fedora for so long on my current laptop because it has worked so well for so long. There are always issues, and my laptop is at the point in its life where Debian Stable treats it quite well, so I might go for the "stability" that it offers (which is really more "not changing," than "works better," so if it works, great; if not, not so much).
tl;dr: Try it before you buy it. And since it's all free, you've got nothing to lose and everything to learn.
Now and then: I'm adding this after the original post to clarify how I went from distro-hopper to what I am now, which is a person who rides the same distro as long as possible.
What changed was that I started relying on my Linux-running computer to safeguard my real data. And it needed to work every day, every month, etc. So I go with the "big" distros, and I make them work.
Sunrise is a calendar app on pretty much all platforms - blog: http://blog.sunrise.am get started: https://calendar.sunrise.am
Jeff Atwood: The state of JavaScript on Android in 2015 is ... poor https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor/33889
Decided to run GNOME 3 today. While everything is working, it's not smoother or better than Xfce.
I'm getting all of these great links from Green Ruby News http://greenruby.orguni
.@mattermosthq is like @slackHQ except it's open source #golang #reactJS http://www.mattermost.org
MadEye is a collaborative web editor backed by your filesystem https://madeye.io/
The original tilde.club is full. Here are more.
What is tilde.club? FAQ: http://tilde.club/~faq Medium explanation: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf
I like the new Disqus Admin interface https://disqus.com/admin/moderate
OldComputers.com on the ADM-3A terminal http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=32&t=3
Arch Linux Wiki on font configuration https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration
How to change Fedora’s font rendering to get an Ubuntu-like result http://peter.kingofcoders.com/?p=177
We have 100 Mb/s Internet and phone. The billing screw-ups are soul-killing.
We've had Time Warner Cable for a month. The service is great. The customer service is broken.
The Perl 6 Advent Calendar https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/
The Perl 6 web page http://perl6.org/ - also Perl 5 https://www.perl.org/
Larry Wall unveils Perl 6 http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/3138.html
Electron: Build a desktop app with web technology http://electron.atom.io/
Level up on Meteor.js http://www.jssolutionsdev.com/blog/meteor-learning-resources/
Ubuntu wired network unavailable after suspend/hibernate/resume http://voluntocracy.blogspot.com/2012/02/ubuntu-wired-network-unavailable-after.html
Getting a network to work after suspend/resume in Linux http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/fix-wireless-or-wired-network-not.html
Media especially needs to get over page views because that's not the way the modern web works
Fix Unetbootin blank-window error with root in Fedora 22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229874#c4
In Irfanview under Wine in Linux, fix the "JPEG save error" https://irfanview-forum.de/showthread.php?t=8723&p=38109&viewfull=1#post38109
Great story by @bscritic on inspirational 'A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story' http://www.dailynews.com/arts-and-entertainment/20150922/dealing-with-disorder-lizzie-velasquez-displays-a-brave-heart
Fedora 22 updates to Ruby 2.2.3. So easy to have the latest in a surprisingly stable Linux system.
The Linux Setup - Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat by @steven_ovadia http://www.mylinuxrig.com/post/129154618674/the-linux-setup-jim-whitehurst-presidentceo
Apple fan's advice: Avoid any iPhone 6s with only 16GB of memory http://www.zdnet.com/article/dont-buy-a-16gb-apple-iphone-6s-4k-video-live-photos-bigger-apps-and-ludicrous-price-per-gb-make-it
Xfce is fast and productive. And stable. And configurable.
The future of JavaScript is almost now http://sdtimes.com/the-future-of-javascript-is-almost-now @sdtimes #javascript
What is the future of Perl programming? http://qr.ae/RFQMAb
Ubuntu Linux is the No. 1 cloud operating system http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-continues-to-rule-the-cloud/
Play Web framework for Java and Scala https://www.playframework.com
Spark - A tiny Sinatra inspired framework for creating web applications in #Java 8 with minimal effort http://sparkjava.com
Working with files in Go http://devdungeon.com/content/working-files-go #golang
WordPress.org gets at least some Markdown http://www.wpbeginner.com/news/whats-coming-in-wordpress-4-3-features-and-screenshots WordPress.com has the whole thing https://en.support.wordpress.com/markdown
Today I'm using http://www.beginwithjava.com to learn the language #java
Yes, #COBOL now works with Node.js http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/calling-1959-from-your-web-code-a-cobol-bridge-for-node-js
Go 1.5 has been released, removes C code, enhances concurrency https://blog.golang.org/go1.5
Debian founder @imurdock surfaces http://ianmurdock.com/blog
They use a lot of #golang at @dropbox https://twitter.com/jamwt/status/629727590782099456
Collaborative coding with Leaps, written in Go and #Javascript #golang
QOR is the first E-commerce & CMS SDK written in Go http://getqor.com #golang
L.A. Billboard Diva Angelyne Bemoans Kardashian, Hilton and "Boring, Gauche" Celeb Culture http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/la-billboard-diva-angelyne-bemoans-812987
Love for #Perl unites diverse community http://opensource.com/life/15/8/embracing-diversity-perl-community
Installing the Compton compositor with #Xfce in @Fedora https://mralphaville.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/fedora-20-xfce-compton
The @Fedora-based Korora 22 is released https://kororaproject.org/about/news/korora-22-selina-available
What do you think of @FreeCodeCamp? http://www.freecodecamp.com
Writing with #vim, especially for #mac users https://lilii.co/aardvark/writing-with-vim
Take a deep dive into paragraphs on the web https://lilii.co/aardvark/paragraphs #CSS #javascript
11 #JavaScript code snippets for dynamic web projects https://webdesignledger.com/tips/javascript-code-snippets
From @jhthorsen: Reasons for choosing Perl web framework Mojolicious http://thorsen.pm/perl/programming/2015/07/10/a-restful-backend.html
I am working on my first http://ode.io addin. Made much progress today.
Did you know that @reddit is open source? https://github.com/reddit/reddit
The comments problem is hard. Because spam, most blog software punts by using @disqus
This blog-to-Twitter setup, in my case using http://ode.io, to create social-media entries, is working out.
I'm very interested in time as it applies to code, and Now time toolkit is available in Go https://github.com/jinzhu/now #golang
Use gosync to sync files with Amazon S3 https://github.com/brettweavnet/gosync #golang
A really nice tutorial on writing web apps in go http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/ #golang
This @virginmobileusa wifi hotspot using my LG phone is 7 times as fast as @DSLExtreme when working, which it's not
Out of desperation using @virginmobileusa phone as hotspot. It's cheap and super fast
.@DSLExtreme, I am dead to you, as you are to me
All of my tweets begin and live here: http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/ #recursive #ownyourcontent
What's the Go language really good for? http://www.javaworld.com/article/2929811/scripting-jvm-languages/whats-the-go-language-really-good-for.html
Tiny vintage apartments in Orange, Calif., are 475 square feet. Check out the photo gallery http://www.ocregister.com/lansner/apartment-671316-one-siler.html
https://automatetheboringstuff.com isn't just a great @nostarch book (that I happen to own), it's also a series of videos #python
Hardcore Go training from @ardanlab https://github.com/ArdanStudios/gotraining #golang
I already have and recommend http://www.golang-book.com and just discovered a ton of videos based on it: http://www.golang-book.com/guides/bootcamp #golang
This image was coded with Markdown. Can you see it?
Can you see this picture on Twitter?
Follow https://sourcegraph.com/blog for Go #golang
Revel is a web framework for Go http://revel.github.io #golang
The @latimes breaks down the tech behind its deadliest-intersection project http://graphics.latimes.com/la-pedestrians-how-we-did-it/ #python
Short posts made with http://ode.io addin #EditEdit should work fine on Android
Fixed my clothes dryer again. Needed to change those coils that open the gas valve. My 2nd time doing this repair #cheap
Why Are People Still Waiting for Proprietary Linux Apps? http://www.datamation.com/applications/why-are-people-still-waiting-for-proprietary-linux-apps.html
How a complete beginner learned Go as her first backend language in 5 weeks https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123565059490
Ellen Pao is out, original CEO Steve Huffman back in at Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/anoldteamatreddit/
Twitter has https://github.com/twitter/twurl and https://github.com/sferik/t uses #Ruby to access it
Images appearing in blog posts do not become "native" images on Twitter. Maybe there's a hack for this.
Now using dlvr.it to turn blog entries in a specific directory into Twitter posts. Would love to work directly with an API
I am now posting to Twitter from http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates with help of http://dlvr.it
Russ Cox's keynote Go, Open Source, Community at Gophercon
This is where I'm going to stash the kind of updates I'd usually put on Twitter.
I'm not going to think of where in the directories (aka folders) it should go.
If it's a quick update, it'll go here.
For the Ode people, I'm thinking of using EditEdit, Ode's de facto GUI, to do these quick updates.
Ode project leader Rob Reed and I have discussed adding Twitter-like (or, to be suitably generic, microblogging-like) speed and ease to Ode (or any filesystem-based blogging program, for that matter), and a simplified, mobile-enabled version of EditEdit would be a great way to do that. Or a mobile app that (for my purposes and on my Ode workflow) generates the proper text file, uploads it, reindexes the blog for Indexette and rebuilds my archive page.
The "disconnect" between "regular" blog posts and social/microblogging updates are that a blog post traditionally contains a title and then a block of text (or a message, if you will), and a "social" update is just the text, with no title.
Should be easy enough.
I don't even really need to eliminate the title. It would be nice for EditEdit to auto-generate the URL based on the title and some code for my preferred date convention (e.g. 2015_0709, which is in no way required by Ode but which helps me as a human keep track of post dates in my own filesystem).
Idea: I don't know if any of them are still being actively developed, but there used to be a class of applications, for Linux anyway, that you could run on your computer and use to write blog entries without going through a web interface. I don't know if one of these existing projects could be adapted to what I'm trying to do. It might just be better to start from scratch.
This could be coded as a tradtional GUI, or as a command-line program. I'm leaning toward the latter because it's easier.
A project like this is definitely of the "scratch an itch" variety. Ode allows for extremely individal workflows, and mine is just that (local filesystem synced to shared hosting with Unison, with Indexette pinged and a static archive built by a couple of scripts).
I've gotten into the weeds here. This post was meant to introduce The Updates Directory, and this is far from the short, Twitter-like posts I am evisioning for this particular directory (or folder if you prefer).
I will follow this up in another part of the site ...
The Evolution of Go, a talk by @robertgriesemer, from Gophercon 2015 in Denver.
Hello, world
This is my Updates archive of social-media-style posts. My main sites can be found here and here.
My original Ode site lives! You can find it here.New: Every post on one page
See EVERY post in this microblog — all 3,500+ — on one HTML page. This archive updates once daily.
Counter
There are 3567 updates in this microblog.
Social updates, or why this site exists and how it works
This site is dedicated to social-media-style updates. For longer pieces, see links to my main sites above. In this microblog, I am using a command-line script written in Ruby to feed this site and my Fediverse account on Mastodon.
In February 2026, I fixed this microblog and changed my configuration in the blogPoster script so I could start posting to it again. Even though I'm a regular Fediverse user, I see some value in keeping my own microblog in this simple form. It's basically a blog that can be easily fed and which doesn't show post titles (though every post does have a title, the blog HTML hides them).Goals in 2026
I'd like to begin work on a new blog-posting GUI app that makes it easy to write and post to a Hugo or Zola blog. I have sites using both static site generators, but the Zola site is where I'm writing these days.
No databases were harmed in the making of this web site
You're seeing this blog, powered by Ode, through the magic of the Perl programming language and the Common Gateway Interface. Also involved: the Apache web server and Linux operating system.
The Ode project website has been down for some time, but you can find what's left of the user base at Gitter.
Ode does not use a database to store content. Instead, every entry exists on the web server as a "flat" text file.
Counter: Thanks to Rob Reed for the Ode system that runs this blog as well as his help on the Counter addin that provides the post-count feature seen above.
What happened to the Ode project?
I don't really know.
The Ode project website has been down for some time, but you can find what's left of the user base at Gitter.
Contact me
E-mail: stevenhrosenberg@gmail.com
Who am I
and why am I here?
My name is Steven Rosenberg. Journalist. Programmer. Husband. Father. Fixer of the broken. I currently run desktops with Debian Bullseye and Bookworm.
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