When I see the HH logo on clothing, my first thought is Harter House, a local butcher shop where I grew up. My second thought is Hamburger Helper, and I think that’s probably the correct answer.
Mrs Tek and I are having fun playing “Pokémon Legends: Z-A”. I made the mistake of looking at its online reviews and the hate it’s getting is surprising to me. While it’s not the best game I’ve ever seen, we’re enjoying it.
Rippling’s MDM has been force upgrading our office Macs to Tahoe, even though our update policy specifically said not to force major version upgrades. Their support confirms this is a bug they’re working on and advised me to temporarily turn off all enforced upgrades.
UnitedHealthcare just sent me a plaintext email with all kinda of fun HIPAA-covered information. It read, basically,
Hi, [full name]. Your new insurance policy went into effect on [date], with out-of-pocket limit [dollar amount], and also covering your dependents [list of names].
That’s awfully carefree of them.
This is either sunset behind clouds, or San Francisco has grown a volcano.
A confession: I’m sitting around on a Friday night indulging in some agent-driven development and loving every moment of it.
I hear a lot of people I respect and like talking about their ideas of the things AI could never do, and my own experience is vastly different. A lot of those impossible things work really well today. And that’s fantastic! I’m having great fun seeing how quickly it can get through chores I’d been putting off, and at a quality level I’m happy with.
SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new U.S. fully integrated exchange in decades - CBS Texas
It’ll be inevitably be seen as the Dollar Store stock exchange. Can’t cut it on NASDAQ? List it on Y’all Street!
“Well, we IPOed!”
“Congratulations!”
“…in Texas.”
“Do you need to use me as a reference?”
Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
Synology has quietly walked the policy back. […] Drives from Seagate, WD, and others will work exactly as they did before—complete with full monitoring, alerts, and storage features.
That’s fantastic news. I still don’t know if I’ll stay with Synology, as I’d already started migrating off it, but now I won’t completely rule it out.
Python Release Python 3.14.0 | Python.org
We had PyPy and PyPI. Now we also have PiPy.
I don’t know if the perfect video game exists, but “Hades II” slots itself flawlessly into the part of my brain that weighs such things.
“Challenge: Name the worst possible TV show you can imagine.”
JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.
Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.
I’m super proud of the amazing product we’ve built at Factory. You’ve probably read more about it in recent news than I could possibly say, so I’ll skip that part for the good stuff. We’ve been given promo codes for 40 million free tokens on Factory to hand out to whomever would like to give it a solid try. I’d love to hear what you think!
Think I’ll walk a little faster.
Watching the Bills game at a bar in San Francisco.
The kitties are acutely interested in my project.
I have found my happy place.
(Lake Tahoe, Cali.)
New hotel, new cloned keycard.
The previous version of NIST SP 800-63B, section 5.1.1.2, said that organizations SHOULD NOT require users to update their passwords on a regular basis, unless they believe that the password was compromised. The 2025-05-30 version moved that to section 3.1.1.2 and updated it to say organizations SHALL NOT do that.
Now whenever a website emails me to say I have to update my password because it’s been a month or two since I last did it, I report a security bug to them:
The website has a security flaw: it makes users rotate their passwords periodically. This is against the security controls in NIST Special Publication 800-63B-4, “Digital Identity Guidelines”, section 3.1.1.2, clause 6, which reads:
“6. Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT require subscribers to change passwords periodically. However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence that the authenticator has been compromised.”
Please fix the website to remove this requirement. Thank you.
If we all do this, maybe it’ll get into their heads that it’s a bad idea to make users change their passwords just for the sake of it.
I don’t care how beautiful and well made Hollow Night: Silksong is. I hate this game and as soon as I beat this boss, I’m done for the night.
4 hours later…