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/