... but I rarely take the time to log-in.

happy birthday /. !

RSS is still the most elegant way to aggregate content. I works, it's simple, it's efficient.
I use TinyTiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/) for the nifty web interface on my desktop and the app on my phone that share a common database (IMAP-like).
As someone already said, it's my morning paper. The quality went down, and I dropped some sources, but all in all, this is the most efficient way for me to follow all the media I am interested in.
No RSS feed, I won't bother to follow the source any other way.

Yup, I'm right there with you.

Even though I posted less here, I always kept an eye on /. (and had been a lurker even before I registered).

Good luck in your future endeavors, may they be just as successful!

But you didn't really research this did you? I have this very setup (one low-end nvidia card running the binary blob, 2 screens, each running a standalone workspace on a single session).
I googled it and had it setup in maybe 1 hour, research included.
In xorg you define two devices that are actually the same video card.
You define the two monitors.
You define two screens, each using its own device and monitor.
There you go.
I use XFCE, but I guess it would work with other WMs.

Seriously.
You get immediate visual feedback; and it is properly structured unlike basic. Move on to pascal afterward, then C.

Mac OS9
It's not that old, a lot of people can't upgrade to OS X because their hardware won't allow it, and there are no decent browsers for it. It' IE 5.2 for them.
So CSS2, xmlHttp, and a lot of javascript is out.
I know it's not a lot of people, but you can't decide not to support them on the ground that they could upgrade. They can't. They have to buy new hardware (some RAM at least, maybe even a DVD player to install OSX; probably change the whole machine). Just to upgrade their browser.