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