James’s Coffee Blog: The Web Is Yours – An overview of tools and techniques for getting started with a personal website – it’s a good read!

I-Programmer: Review of “Software Testing Strategies” by Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann: (S2 EP 86 12/7/2023) – Keith’s opening 15 minutes discusses the Colorado ballot challenge for Trump, and gives an excellent overview of how the 14th Amendment was created and used after the Civil War.

Pluralistic/Cory Doctorow: A media/literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza

The Liberal with Tom Watson: A Time for Choosing – Tom Watson says anti-semitism was driving a lot of the news and views in the first week after the start of the Israel – Hamas war.

ProPublica: Local Newspapers Are Vanishing. How Should We Remember Them? As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality. (My local newspaper has shrunk its overall coverage, now combining content from another local paper).

Using MyStatusTool to capture open browser tabs

Yesterday, I was able to use MyStatusTool, my minimal blogging tool, to capture URLs from a set of open tabs on my phone. I structured the posts with the website link, then the title of the post. I was able to post to my instance, all from my phone. The hardest part was selecting the text for the link. I use the Brave web browser, and another menu would pop up before the editor toolbar, so I had to tap several times to get to the link button. I think I will keep trying this as a way to capture links for later use/classification.

I-Programmer.com: Fundamental C: Getting Closer To The Machine (book review)

Eater.com: 20 Mind-Blowing Burgers in Portland and Beyond

IEEE Spectrum: How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah – Adobe and Pixar founders created tech that shaped modern animation – I used image generators from Evans and Sutherland earlier in my career, then they were purchased by Rockwell Collins (now Collins Aerospace) to be part of their simulation business. Exciting times back then!