Interesting links of the week (2019 #21)

Here are some interesting articles and blog posts I’ve run into over the last week (June 3  to June 9, 2019):

Technology

• Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”
• 8 Useful JavaScript Tricks
• PowerShell Basics: Meet About - The Owner’s Manual for PowerShell
• Visual Studio 2019 Productivity Cheat Sheet

Non-Technology

• Procrastination is an emotional problem
• If You Can Do This Many Pushups in a Row, Harvard Scientists Say Your Risk of Heart Attack Is Over 30 Times Less

Random

• Global survey shows readers are happier
• The surgeon had a dilemma only a Nazi medical text could resolve. Was it ethical to use it?
• A History of the American Public Library
• Why Are Ebooks More Expensive Than Paperbacks?
• Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
• Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found