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