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I am a WordPress user, but not as prolific as I would like from this diagram. I do think the “static gen basin” is totally accurate! Had a hard time stopping laughing…

Source: Rakhim.org

Bookmarked The Code That Controls Your Money (wealthsimple.com)
Another in a series of articles I have seen about COBOL, definitely includes some nice history and examples of current use of COBOL in the US financial industry.

Bookmarked Journalism: A Manifesto for Change (Medium)

What my 25 years in newsrooms has taught me is that the intended audience in the minds of many journalists is just other journalists, not the viewers we’re supposed to be here to serve. That has to change.
If I, a TV journalist, find TV news impossible to stomach, how on earth do we expect anyone else to watch what we do?

Bookmarked Journalism is not for journalists (reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk)

“Journalism is not for journalists. It’s for citizens, and we should have citizens in our minds at every point of what we do”. Award-winning journalist Shirish Kulkarni explains why audiences are fed up with news and how journalists can re-engage with them

Bookmarked Spreadsheets are special (i-programmer.info)

Don’t dismiss the spreadsheet. It not only brought programming to the masses, but was an early entry into rapid application development, functional programming and an easy and natural approach to parallel programming, reactive programming and cellular automata.

Bookmarked Modern Fortran Explained (i-programmer.info)

Written by Michael Metcalf, John Reid and Malcolm Cohen, all leading experts in the field, two of whom have actively contributed to Fortran 2018, this is a complete and authoritative description of Fortran in its latest form.

Some things just keep on movin’….