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👓 Des Moines DREAMer dies within weeks after being sent back to Mexico’s violence | Des Moines Register

Read Des Moines DREAMer dies within weeks after being sent back to Mexico’s violence by Rekha Basu (Des Moines Register)
Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco should have graduated from high school in Des Moines last month. The oldest of four siblings should have walked across a stage in a cap and gown to become a proud symbol to his sister and brothers of the rewards of hard work and education. Instead, Manuel died a brutal death alone in a foreign land, a symbol of gang supremacy in a country plagued by violent drug cartels. It happened three weeks after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement returned him to Mexico, a country he had left at age 3 when his parents brought him here without a visa.
And apparently it’s now common that deportees are being kidnapped and ransomed once they’re back now?

👓 CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61 | CNN

Read CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61 by Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN)
Anthony Bourdain, the gifted chef, storyteller and writer who took TV viewers around the world to explore culture, cuisine and the human condition for nearly two decades, has died. He was 61.
I’ve only recently begun watching his show on CNN and have found it truly fascinating.

Obviously no one was expecting his death as there was very little reported here beyond the obvious.

👓 Design of my website | Cathie LeBlanc

Read Design of My Website by Cathie LeBlanc (Desert of My Real Life)
I discovered the IndieWeb about six weeks ago and wrote then about why I think it’s an important movement and community. Since that time, I’ve made a concerted effort to update my web site so that it looks like I want it to look. Although I’m not yet done, I’ve made good progress. I recently...

One of the things I do a lot on Twitter, for example, is retweet stories that I find interesting in order to come back to them later.

interesting retweeting as a bookmarking behavior

👓 GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button | Bloomberg

Read GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button by Paul Ford (Bloomberg.com)
Steve Ballmer spent years hating on open source software. Satya Nadella recognized that the service has become indispensable to programmers.
A nice analysis piece about the GitHub purchase for the non-technical. It highlights the fact that a nice and simple UI can be worth its weight in gold.

👓 Turning off Facebook for Bridgy | snarfed.org

Read Turning off Facebook for Bridgy by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)
I announced recently that Bridgy Publish for Facebook would shut down soon. Facebook’s moves to restrict its API to improve privacy and security are laudable, and arguably ...
This is so disappointing. Facebook is literally killing itself for me. So much for their “connecting everyone” philosophy.

Brid.gy was the last thing really keeping me connected to Facebook at all. Now that Facebook is shutting down its most useful functionality from my perspective, perhaps it’s time to deactivate it and move toward shutting it all down?

👓 Brimstone | Blog of Marshall

Read Brimstone by Matt Marshall (mrshll.uk)
Brimstone is the code I use to run this website. You can find the code on Gitlab and, for the time being, on Github. I want to keep this post as a living post, and keep adding to it. That way I hope this post acts like a philosophy.txt. The code isn't anything special. I write it for several reasons...

👓 Notes from Virtual Homebrew Website Club: Blogging 101 edition | INTERTEXTrEVOLUTION

Read Notes from Virtual Homebrew Website Club: Blogging 101 edition by Greg McVerry (jgregorymcverry.com)
Well Cathy and I did not have any students looking for Blogging 101 help so we spent the hour in an #IndieWeb support group.
Wish I could have joined this. Certainly some interesting thoughts for improving the overall pieces for the set.

👓 Posting Source Code | Support — WordPress.com

Read Posting Source Code (WordPress Support)
While WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to use potentially dangerous code on your blog, you can post source code for viewing by using the directions found in this support doc.
I’d wondered before how to better display code on my website. This article has a link to an excellent plugin on WordPress.org for doing it and even better, it also syndicates across to my mirrored site on WordPress.com well.

👓 8 | Hack Education

Read 8 by Audrey WattersAudrey Watters (Hack Education)
Hack Education turns 8 years old today. I’d registered the domain a few days earlier back in 2010, but on this day, I wrote my first article here. I think my boyfriend rolled his eyes. "Good luck," he said. (Funny, 8 years later, he is still my boyfriend.)
Congratulations Audrey!

📺 "The Americans" Only You | FX on Amazon Prime

Watched "The Americans" Only You from FX on Amazon Prime
Directed by Adam Arkin. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati. After Amador's murder the FBI begins a massive manhunt for the killer. When they start closing in on Gregory, the KGB decides to send him to Moscow. Despite Elizabeth's best efforts he refuses to go, even if it means his life.

📺 "The Americans" Safe House | FX on Amazon Prime

Watched "The Americans" Safe House from FX on Amazon Prime
Directed by Jim McKay. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Maximiliano Hernández, Holly Taylor. Phillip and Elizabeth shock their children when they announce they are separating. After Amador goes missing, Gaad orders an unauthorized mission to grab a KGB agent in retaliation. Events soon spin out of control and come to a grisly end.

📺 "The Americans" Mutually Assured Destruction | FX on Amazon Prime

Watched "The Americans" Mutually Assured Destruction from FX on Amazon Prime
Directed by Bill Johnson. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Maximiliano Hernández, Holly Taylor. Philip and Elizabeth must stop an assassin from taking out key US scientists, while Stan and the FBI hunt the same man. Grannie shocks Elizabeth with the truth of what happened between Philip and Irina in a New York.

👓 What are people using GitHub for besides coding? | InfoWorld

Read GitHub for the rest of us by Jon Udell (InfoWorld)
Git made it possible for programmers to coordinate distributed work across teams -- now GitHub makes it possible for everyone else
GitHub’s acquisition by Microsoft this week has many people writing about what GitHub is and how it could be used and leveraged by a larger institutional company. Jon Udell, who thinks a lot about annotation and and highlighting, has an excellent piece here (from 2015) that touches on some excellent forward-thinking pieces. Some of it is reminiscent to an article I wrote back in 2014: Git and Version Control for Novelists, Screenwriters, Academics, and the General Public. I’m hoping that in the coming years that the user interfaces for projects like these improve to make version control a more ubiquitous tool.

👓 Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers | The Official Microsoft Blog

Read Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers (The Official Microsoft Blog)
Today, we announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. I want to share what this acquisition will mean for our industry and for developers. The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us. Computing is becoming embedded in the world,...
Not quite the pablum of the GitHub version of this announcement, but still in the same general ballpark. This one at least had some additional detail on things moving forward.