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: I’m going to use jj instead of git for the next 2 weeks. Hold me to this.
: Today’s agenda: 5:15AM: Up for a video call with Eastern Europe. (Context: I’m in California.) 7AM: …
: I’m a long-time fan of Hookmark, but not a fan of its price tag or anti-customer device limits. Now …
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: I bought Hoka Clifton shoes a while back because they have a reputation at being good for walking. I …
: I’m on a bus reading “Accelerando” on a cheap Chinese ereader hacked with open source firmware. Siri …
: I was trying to remove a Li-ion battery from a thing, and accidentally got its attention. Now the …
: This weekend I’m putting together a little cyberdeck from a Raspberry Pi, a 4.3 inch screen, and a …
: I’m going on a 5 mile, 20 pound ruck next weekend. That’s not terribly far or heavy, but I haven’t …
: I had an HSA years ago. They sent me an email today regarding my tax forms (for the year I’ve …
: I haven’t finished the morning commute yet and already have five p0 things to do before lunch. So …
: Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. I’d give everything to be able to tell you I love you again.
: Ahh, the biennial California trip to the smog check station. It’s an inconvenience I suffer gladly, …
: I love playing soccer. I’m good at it, not professional or even college level, but still pretty …
: Installing GAM to administer Google Workspace from the command line is an exercise in trust. Install …
: Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs [T]he …
: These words are illegal in Utah Utah’s stupid new law “prohibits covered websites from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN to …
: I’ve been running Ollama on my Mac Studio for local AI experiments. I followed advice to try oMLX …
: Siri is so bad as a voice assistant that it made me stop caring about device-local AI, which is …
: SFO now lets you walk loved ones to the gate without a plane ticket San Francisco International …
: Sometimes recent loss means being in the middle of a meeting and your body deciding, hey, know what, …
: I just replied to a recruiter cold call: Hi [recruiter], I’ll be honest, in the spirit of feedback: …
: AI is fantastic at configuring Emacs. Me: Why does Emacs format this TS differently than Prettier …
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: Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI | Let's Data Science Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI: Atlassian is changing its data contribution …
: One day I was walking through the office and noticed a coworker’s laptop sitting on their desk, …
: He held the shiny little thing in his hand and blinked. It was as cute and innocuous as it was …
: Google crossed a threshold last month where over 50% of their users accessed it via IPv6. If you …
: Ow, ow, ow. A car pulled mostly through the crosswalk before their light turned and they got stuck. …
: Pentesters: there’s a fine line between diligence and being freaking annoying. Last year a tester …
: Currently reading: Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley 📚
: Finished reading: The Random Universe by Andrew H. Jaffe 📚
: I won the Internet! My blog post was shared to Hacker News and was #1 on the page at the same time …
: Getting the Flock out I wrote to Flock’s privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program: I am a resident of …
: I’m playing Silent Hill F, which is beautiful, well made, and playable for up to 30 minutes per day …
: In certain forums I frequent, some people developed the habit of commenting on other users that …
: Huh, whatever could that be? It looks promising. Awww, yeah.
: Oracle Files Thousands of H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs: Federal data shows Oracle filed for …
: macOS Tahoe has one feature that I adore: a setting to remove an app’s icon from the menu bar at the …
: I wrote a little Python web chat thingy ages ago, Seshat. I haven’t touched it again in over 15 …
: You can tell much about a person by the logos they wear. For example, if someone has a shirt or …
: My back’s been killing me after some weekend hijinks. This morning I threw a 20 pound plate in my …
: Target texted me the same one-time password 3 times in a row. No April Fool’s joke here. This really …
: Prompt injection is a lot like SQL injection: take untrusted data, shove it into a data stream that …
: There are entirely too many Yankees hats on BART today. Have these people no shame? No soul?
: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy: From April 24 onward, interaction …
: Prompt 3.5 for Apple Vision Pro adds a wild new immersive environment! I was today years old when I …
: Oakland Tribune building, Oakland, California.
: Took the family to see Nine Inch Nails in Sacramento last night. If we’re going through the time, …
: Bathroom door at Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe, Emeryville, California.
: If you use Python 3.14’s venv module to create a virtualenv, it adds an Easter egg. ᐅ python -m venv …
: One of our credit card companies, acting as “Californians for Medical Privacy”, is opposing CA’s AB …
: I am disappointed that we still have to have this conversation in 2026, but apparently we do. Listen …
: Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature “We built the agent …
: A vendor asked us to “add a quick DNS record for them”: TXT _dmarc v=DMARC1; p=none; Basically, this …
: In a shop window in Berkeley.
: Frozen BBS v1.5.0 is out now. The biggest new feature is multi-node accounts. If you access the BBS …
: “Hey Droid, generate 10 random AKC show dog names.” Stormfield’s Crown Imperial Belcanto Dancing …
: Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester Privacy-focused email provider …
: Use Snyk? Use OpenTofu or Terraform and wish you could use it to manage which repositories your Snyk …
: Say hello to MacBook Neo This is really cool and they’re going to sell a gazillion of them. It’s …
: This weekend, I agent-coded a two-way sync between Linear and my favorite task manager. Now all my …
: Happy birthday, Mom. This is the first time I haven’t been able to tell you that. 💔
: I cannot overstate how much I did not want to hike up this hill.
: Steve Austin would be the Forty Five Point Five Million Dollar Man, adjusted for inflation.
: Team rescues missing Putnam County man found shoulder deep in quicksand As a Gen-Xer raised to …
: “Would you like to join us for an exclusive dinner event?” Yeah, I’d love to! “At Applebee’s.” How …
: I’m standing in the office kitchen, slowly munching a snack donut and watching traffic. A big …
: The Tic Tacs website is nostalgic in many ways: SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS PC: Operative system Microsoft …
: Snow on Mt. Diablo, as seen from Brentwood.
: The scariest people I know are also the kindest and most generous. They don’t have anything to prove …
: We’re having an honest-to-god thunderstorm in San Francisco! I’ve missed this so much.
: I’ve gotten tired of struggling against Entware on my Synology NAS (and darned if I’m using its …
: My new Seiko watch with an 4R34 movement loses about 2 seconds per day. I’m pleased with that, …
: It’s not possible to get the iOS Clock app to show you the current time’s seconds, except by looking …
: Dress code in the Bay Area means wearing jeans and an OCBD shirt and having coworkers repeatedly ask …
: Dean is practicing to be a goalie.
: Yesterday’s haul from Urban Ore was something I wanted so badly back when my C64 had a 300 baud …
: I saw Frank Chu carrying his sign in Oakland’s Chinatown! This is gonna be a great weekend!
: Sectigo, who signs about 25% of all SSL certificates, updated their root certificate in December …
: I saw a little hummingbird this morning and it reminded me of how much Mom loved them. I thought …
: My Animal Crossing island tune is the intro to Depeche Mode’s “Black Celebration”.
: I’VE HEARD that you can load your Flipper Zero up with Amiibo so that you can invite any visitor you …
: After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny : NPR Just then, a young man approached …
: Sam and Dean are growing up, and they’re still best friends.
: Call me suspicious, but I bet that’s not my real year end bonus notification.
: My wife and I have been spending a lot of time with the new version of “Animal Crossing”. As it was …
: It’s been a long time since I’ve worn a watch that didn’t involve electricity.
: When I say there are a lot of self-driving Waymo cars near my work…
: Google Cloud emailed me a reminder that they’re about to make breaking changes in permissions that …
: I realized that my entire career seems to be built on saying, “huh, that can’t be right…”
: As seen on BART. I love my neighbors.
: We saw a blue heron on our hike today.
: I just got an email from AWS support asking for some data, saying, and this is a copy-and-paste …
: With the sun behind me at sunset and reflecting off the buildings, and a perfectly clear pink sky …
: The Cardputer-Adv + Cap LoRa-1262 combination is turning into the little pocket Meshtastic radio I’d …
: In the middle of our weekly Hyperventilate Watching The Bills session.
: I opened the box containing the replacement shower drain cover, and its bag of screws — which is …
: The National Park Service claims putting a sticker over inappropriate parts of the 2026 pass …
: Initial impression of unboxing an Oura Ring: it would have been so easy to make sure the inner box …
: Far be it from me to tell anyone to clean their gutters, but if you have cattails growing in yours, …
: I just got a Yaesu FT-70DR and everything you’ve heard is dead-on. It’s built like a tank. The UI is …
: I realized today that I’ve accidentally de-Googled myself without deliberately meaning to. I’ve …
: Today I used our Droid AI to analyze a vendor’s security questionnaire response. It was one of the …
: The homeless guy next to me on Muni was very upset. I asked if he was OK and he said someone pepper …
: I have a pair of AirPods Pro 2 that I wear every day during my commute to quiet the sounds of the …
: June Bug’s not too sure about the new housemate.
: Santa must’ve thought I was nice. (Pro-tip: his server has a weak password.)
: I read Yann Esposito’s blog post, How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers, and think …
: It’s about time for the annual attempt to migrate from OmniFocus to Reminders, which will probably …
: I’ve heard friends talking about trying Zyn nicotine pouches and I want to shake them. They were …
: A popular public transit app’s year end recap labeled me “Lord Tool, the Bus Punk”. Uh, alright, I …
: The dentist’s office has full-blown novels in the waiting room, which bodes ill for expected waiting …
: 2 weeks in and GitHub still hasn’t replied to my urgent support ticket for a security-related audit …
: I released v1.4.4 of Frozen BBS. It adds a ping command, a configurable delay between long reply …
: My coworker Secret Santa gets me.
: I just bought my first “real” handheld ham radio, a Yaesu FT-70DR. I’ve been pretty good this year …
: My coworkers weren’t sure what my “2600” baseball cap referred to. I sense an upcoming lunch and …
: This morning’s programming-adjacent task: making a Shortcut that sets my phone to “reduce …
: My AirPods Pro case stopped charging on my MagSafe charger. The Internet told me, and I quote, Just …
: I talked to my company today and told them how phishers use a sense of 1) danger, and 2) urgency, to …
: Currently reading: The Random Universe by Andrew H. Jaffe 📚 I have no idea what I’m getting into.
: Finished reading: Class Clown by Dave Barry 📚
: Govt. Issues SIM Binding Directions To WhatsApp and Telegram India sees US and EU lawmaking idiocy …
: Another hiker caught my wife and me cresting the top of a hill, then airdropped the photo to us. …
: The Black Panther Party had a 10 point platform. These demands are painted in various places around …
: Mise + fnox + macOS Keychain is a great combo for running Ansible with stored, encrypted secrets. In …
: For giggles, I added a new Rust implementation of Little Fluffy Clouds so that you can use it as a …
: Chinese Regulators May Kill Retractable Car Door Handles That Never Should Have Existed Compared to …
: The crucial part to booting FreeBSD on my 2018 Intel Mac Mini (macmini8,1) was in the FreeBSD wiki: …
: Emergency cat pics! June Bug is grooming “her” kitties, Sam and Dean.
: PG&E charges $1.50 to make debit/credit card payments on their website. I’m going to research the …
: North Carolina Town First in U.S. to Deploy Defibrillator Drones During Actual 911 Emergencies “Once …
: The jq command line tool is a useful way to query, filter, and reformat JSON files. I use it every …
: I’m carrying a pot full of homemade macaroni and cheese to work today. I’ve successfully navigated …
: Technology is not evenly distributed, even in the US. Every time I use Apple Pay on my watch here in …
: The current art exhibit at SFO D gates is a bunch of old phones.
: Mom would never have described herself as a feminist. The local politics made that unlikely. She …
: My mom passed away this morning. We knew this was coming. She’d been sick for a while. The last …
: I ran 3 miles worth of intervals today, and the numbers weren’t spectacular but they were pretty …
: Commute step 1: Leapt onto Muni as the doors closed. Step 2: Waited 2 minutes for BART. Step 3: …
: We’re having visitors in our office tonight, and the office manager reminded us to put away …
: Comcast verified that they processed my data deletion request, with exceptions including: For …
: My Fish shell tweak of the morning: abbr --add checkout --command git "switch -c" Now when I type …
: From the letters to the editor in a recent issue of “2600”: We used to subscribe to Wired Magazine, …
: My version of a DIY GR1 hip belt I wanted a hip belt for my GoRuck GR1 backpack. I tried GoRuck’s own padded hip belt. It’s great for …
: San Francisco at night from the Alcatraz ferry.
: Have you ever used The Policy Wonk to manage your AWS permissions? Cool! Me too! But alas, my …
: A seasonal reminder that a “fun size” Twix bar would be roughly the size of my forearm, and anything …
: Why I’m Returning the reMarkable Move: Premium Hardware, Mediocre Software The device itself is amazing. It’s capable of much more than its oddly limited OS and apps will …
: When I see the HH logo on clothing, my first thought is Harter House, a local butcher shop where I …
: Mrs Tek and I are having fun playing “Pokémon Legends: Z-A”. I made the mistake of looking at its …
: Rippling’s MDM has been force upgrading our office Macs to Tahoe, even though our update policy …
: UnitedHealthcare just sent me a plaintext email with all kinda of fun HIPAA-covered information. It …
: 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 …
: SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new U.S. fully integrated exchange in decades - CBS Texas …
: Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet Synology has quietly …
: 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 …
: “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 …
: 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 …
: I don’t care how beautiful and well made Hollow Night: Silksong is. I hate this game and as soon as …
: I cannot stress this enough: if you have more to your name than fits in your pocket, and you have …
: I’m using Ansible to manage a small fleet of Raspberry Pis. I’d been using the copy module to set a …
: The little desk thermometer my mom’s sales rep gave her way back when.
: I’m looking at the old, unused clothesline and remembering hanging up clothes to dry when I was …
: This is a “breakfast fatty”. It’s basket woven bacon, layered with sausage, then eggs and cheese, …
: I could either fly out at 5AM with a 1 hour layover, or 7AM with a 6 hour. And that’s why I’m …
: Let’s go Ballers! 👏🏻,👏🏻,👏🏻-👏🏻-👏🏻 These games feel like small town events in ways people in neither …
: I am sorry, little spider buddy, but you have broken the covenant. I know you do an important job of …
: China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World On September 3, China will hold a …
: If you ever feel like your career’s been all over the place, remember that the same guy wrote “Fury …
: Being on a customer call at 7AM should come with hazard pay.
: That feeling when you feel absolutely crummy, then you remember other people have it worse, so then …
: I see too many people wearing heavy backpacks with the straps loose so that they’re hanging low on …
: We’re fostering kittens again. This pair is only a week old and we have to bottle feed them. Their …
: Today I learned that our $6000-per-month UnitedHealthcare “platinum” insurance doesn’t fully cover …
: In honor of its new financial arrangement with Donald Trump, Intel announced its new flagship CPU: …
: Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology By hiding the eyes, mirrorshades prevent the forces of …
: UnitedHealthcare sued by shareholders over reaction to CEO’s killing The group, which seeks …
: I’ve spent too much of this weekend writing Ansible to make all my Raspberry Pis similar. This might …
: Trucking companies sue California, seeking a release from Clean Truck Partnership They include …
: Def Con was amazing and exhausting and fascinating and terrifying and just all around exhilarating …
: If you get on a plane, stick your carry-on at the very front, then walk to the very back so that …
: PHP: Not exactly bad, but still a strange one PHP is so hard for me to describe. I used it a lot in the late 90s when we were migrating off …
: I’m about to head to Def Con where I’ll be hosting a mobile Frozen BBS. I’m carrying it into work in …
: I just cut The Def Con Release of Frozen BBS, and updated the little radio and Rasperry Pi boxes …
: Target followed up on my compromised credit card, which again, has never left my house except to go …
: The emergency room I went to a couple weeks ago texted me a link to pay the bill. It’s to some …
: Pollito is still a photogenic little fellow.
: It’s been a busy week at work. Our coffee maker broke and had to be sent for repairs. Engineering …
: Banner over the street on my commute.
: I think someone at Target’s having a bad day. I got a store credit card there a while back. It’s …
: Bathroom poster, Brickhouse, SF. I did not add that sticker.
: SF BART stations have restrooms with keys that have expiration dates.
: The GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 travel router I bought a year ago is on sale today for 38% off. If you’ve …
: Brendan Barker Obituary (1974 - 2025) - Legacy Remembers Oh man, this hurts. Brendan umped our kids’ …
: Bob, being dogsat, likes to perch on the back of the couch behind my head.
: She stood a cautious distance from the racked spamcannon, its GPUs glowing with malice and infrared …
: Because my ex-employer pays for a “platinum plan” health insurance policy, with family premiums of …
: I’ve been using Just for a while as a task runner. It’s similar to Make, but optimized for developer …
: I had a patch embroidered for my wife, a foot doctor.
: Today I’m trekking the 1.5 mi walking part of my commute with 20 lbs of iron in my backpack. I’m …
: Waking up to KMFDM blasting in the bedroom, a very surprised looking cat, and the HomePod she just …
: When an email’s footer starts with “The content of this email is intended for the person or entity …
: I’m super excited to be joining a small company next week as their first dedicated security …
: This is the one day a year I immerse myself in Apple news. A buddy and I have a decade long …
: We worked to lose a nice bit of weight over the last 6 months or so. Today I hit the treadmill …
: The new Apple News daily Sudoku results page is sloppy. As screenshotted on an iPhone 15 Pro, you …
: Infomaniak breaks rank and comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law | Tom’s Guide …
: I just successfully performed concussive maintenance on a recalcitrant smart speaker. Me: Hey Siri, …
: I’m not a huge fan of OSI — I prefer my software Free — but their idea of Open Source is the only …
: My house has old plaster and lath walls, aka “a Faraday cage”. My kid’s bedroom is 20 feet from a …
: I just got this email from someone who’s definitely not a North Korean agent seeking to work for …
: Microsoft released a new PostgreSQL IDE for VS Code. It has a proprietary license with deal-breaking …
: Thanks for letting me know, Signal!
: Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help We’ve made the difficult decision to …
: Kim Jong Un’s New Warship Capsizes at Launch Due to ‘Absolute Carelessness’ - The Wall Street …
: Dr. Phil’s Son Jay McGraw Is Tied to Minto Money’s 700% APR Loans — ProPublica McGraw settled a …
: A Swift Cloud - Things Blog - Cultured Code culturedcode.com/things/bl… This is so frustrating. …
: I’ve learned way more than I wanted to about houseplants, spider mites, and neem oil.
: Forgejo Runner in rootless Podman on Debian I wanted to experiment with Forgejo’s Actions as a DIY alternative to GitHub Actions, using a nearby …
: How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn – The Markup: As visitors filled out …
: Gitea vs Forgejo development activity I was curious whether Gitea or its recent fork, Forgejo, has had more development activity. I cloned …
: Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests - GitHub Changelog Summary: Microsoft is locking …
: I just noticed that Forgejo 11 LTS is out now. It’s time to upgrade my older v7 LTS setup!
: Released Wonk v0.8.0 I just pushed Policy Wonk v.0.8.0. There are no code changes, just dependency updates and other …
: Send help, can’t move, besieged by wildcats.
: Happy Mother’s Day to anyone who’s ever been Mom!
: Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy to leave posts in White House, sources …
: The new office’s view is quite nice.
: My camera can’t capture the glowing orangey-pinks and violets of these flowering bushes on the …
: Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users: This is …
: Screenshot your LinkedIn app home screen. Make a web page with that background. Add a link at the …
: Sharon Osbourne calls for Irish band’s U.S. visas to be revoked after Coachella show - pennlive.com …
: California is now 4th-largest economy in world, surpassing Japan Some Americans constantly talk …
: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome Summary: Synology wants to force …
: How to bypass Credit Karma's 2FA Locked out of your Credit Karma account’s 2FA? No problem! Here’s how I can log into mine: Log in …
: The afternoon’s adventure: Traveler’s Notebook aficionado nerdery.
: CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract, leaving security flaw tracking in …
: This is what a dare looks like.
: My wife and I went to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. My god. My god. It’s never been …
: 2025-03-17: I report a critical vulnerability (trivial, complete 2FA bypass) to a well-known …
: cormiertyshawn895/PixelPerfect: Pixel Perfect lets you increase the text size of iPhone and iPad …
: I am not thrilled with the price of new video games. Don’t take this to mean that. But in 1982, the …
: I’d started a new job a month before April Fools. I got to the office very early and then had the …
: France Fines Apple €150 Million Over iOS Data Consent Rules - Bloomberg Things like this are why …
: As of today, I’ve owned this domain exactly half my life. Great googly moogly.
: I ordered new prescription sunglasses today. The optometrist asked if I wanted regular or mirrored …
: This is a copy-paste of a conversation I just had with my kid. Kid: Can I get a ride home at like …
: But her emails! After White House national security adviser Michael Waltz’s idiotic misadventure of texting top …
: AG Bonta reminds 23andMe customers of right to delete data AG Bonta reminds 23andMe customers of right to delete data: California Attorney General Rob Bonta …
: Unboxing the DM42n I didn’t need a new calculator. I have an HP 50g on my desk I hardly use. I work on a full-sized …
: I am “hurt my back playing video games” years old.
: Some friends and I got a pack of Orbic mobile hotspots so we can install the EFF’s Rayhunter …
: RIP Mark Klein In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying I moved in down the block …
: Of the security stuff I do for friends, nothing less excites me than financial compliance. If the …
: I bought a case for my Meshtastic radio. It came with a couple of buttons and switches that reminded …
: Happy Day of the Dude on this first day of Carpet Diem. May you mark all strikes, no gutters.
: We just finished “Shogun”, and it’s going to take me a day or two to decide what I think about that …
: A Case for Turning Tulsa Into the Next Big Tech Hub | WIRED Requirements OK will never meet: Better …
: I bought a 50MB (yes, megs) HD from an acquaintance. It was freaking slow connected to my Amiga, …
: Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Presidio.
: AWS WAF now uses /64s instead of /128s for IPv6 rate-limit bucketing. That’s a huge and welcome …
: June Bug, the new kitty, is mad at me for flinging her off the bed last night. By extension, so is …
: June Bug is starting to relax into her new home.
: Girl Scout outside the grocery: Sir, would you like to buy some cookies? Me: I’ll catch you on the …
: We wrote a pretty powerful AWS infra tool in Python, and haven’t done much with it in a couple years …
: Today I learned you can’t just go adopt a cat. I figured you’d show up, find one you get along with, …
: I'm coming around to AI-assisted programming I’m working on a personal project where I saved some initial programming time by hardcoding a lot of …
: Jort is sucking a blanket and making biscuits. #caturday
: This PlayStation Network outage is about to irk me. I just wanna play some Diablo.
: Credit Karma stopped accepting my decade-old Google Voice phone number for 2FA. It won’t let me …
: Jort also likes learning about synthesizers.
: Tapestry is out now Tapestry from Iconfactory is out now and you should get it. I’ve been using it for months in beta …
: My wife ordered a new shower curtain that is advertised as, quote, “waterproof”. I would hope so.
: I wish monitors had frame buffers and that video out could optionally just send diffs. I have 2 4K …
: Amiga 1000 was a 32 bit computer I’ve heard people describe the Amiga 1000 as a 16 bit computer a few times lately and it always …
: Will macOS 15.3 be the minor version where Safari (but not Chrome or Firefox) regularly stops …
: I like running Ollama on my MacBook so that I can play with various AI models locally. Today I asked …
: There’s an older fellow cashiering at the grocery we go to. Tonight he saw my Def Con tshirt and …
: I spend all night dreaming I was asked to document our vampire hiring outreach program. I came up …
: Every time you press the brake pedal to come to a stop at a planned location, you’re doing calculus. …
: We somehow ended up watching a silent Alfred Hitchcock movie accompanied by an orchestra at Grace …
: Friday night project: shoe shining.
: In case you wondered if kids ever get cheaper, this just happened: Kid: Hey Dad, uh, can you pay my …
: We’re watching the Netflix “Senna” series, which is fun to see, and in which you learn that he was a …
: Currently reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 📚
: Our living room smart lights had been turning themselves on randomly for the last few weeks. There …
: Finished reading: The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran 📚
: Me: Use the open sriracha before you open a new bottle. Kid: OK! opens the new bottle Me: Why did …
: I just released Frozen BBS v1.3.0. It has a boatload of backend improvements, not all backward …
: It happened! It happened! Berkeley Mono v2 is here! It’s a Christmas miracle!
: This year’s winner of the “Most Random Present” award: my buddy who gave me a set of throwing axes …
: My kid wanted to watch Airplane! tonight. This is the best, goofiest movie ever. I could watch it …
: My sister worked in infectious disease control at a large hospital. Her department head asked her to …
: The state of local AI today: llama3.1 (the 8B version) runs well on my MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM. …
: ‘Tis now officially the Christmas season.
: First light of my new Frozen BBS Meshtastic message board. It’s not beautiful, but it works.
: One of my very first non-trivial coding projects was trying to write a BBS for my Commodore 64 so …
: We’re dog sitting a chihuahua. I just had this conversation with their owners’ kitchen spybot: Me: …
: We’re dogsitting Holly. She thinks my jokes are hilarious.
: The new cajun place next door finally has muffuletta sandwiches in stock. First, they’re every bit …
: I’ve been up on the roof installing the mount for a new Meshtastic antenna. I don’t actually need an …
: I bought a Meshtastic radio and I could see getting addicted to experimenting with it. The little …
: Currently reading: The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran 📚 Next up.
: Finished reading: My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚 I would read a thousand pages of him …
: Apple Card's stil broken after Apple broke it After Apple broke my Apple Card yesterday, I thought I’d found the correct, undocumented, …
: Apple updated my Apple Pay so that I couldn't pay Apple I got an email this weekend that Apple was updating my Apple Card’s expiration date. The old date …
: Last night we said goodbye to Gigi after a sudden medical event. She went to sleep surrounded by a …
: If you want to really understand how Internet protocols work, I heartily recommend writing your own …
: I was making the bed while the cat laid on it, surfing the waves of bedding as I shifted things …
: The comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as taken from our suburban back porch right in the middle of …
: Silent Hill 2 is not fun. It’s beautiful. It’s immersive. It’s engaging. But it’s not fun. …
: Python 3.13 launched today. I’ve done it. I’ve lived long enough to see a less-GIL’ed Python …
: Ugh, “walkable” cities. 🙄 To get dinner, we had to: Walk a couple of blocks Pause for my wife to pet …
: Google writes safer code with Rust From “Google hails move to Rust for huge drop in memory vulnerabilities”: In Google’s own shift …
: It astounds me that in 2024 there’s no canonical way to select which CSS to use for a web browser on …
: The fine folks who make iA Writer wrote about their challenges supporting Android. My first …
: My Raspberry Pi 4 started running hot when I moved it from a freestanding case to a fanless server …
: So we were all talking about Palm Pilots, and someone mentioned that they’re available dirt cheap …
: BetterDisplay Pro fixed my multi-monitor pet peeve I have a 32" monitor and a 27" monitor on my desk. Don’t ask. But although they’re different sizes, …
: When we got this kitty, she was darn near feral. Now she won’t leave me alone.
: The coffee shop is fine I hear too many acquaintances worry that employees might work from a coffee …
: It’s an Aperol spritz kind of afternoon.
: I found a odd control in AWS Security Hub’s CIS Benchmark 3 findings. It reports “IAM Access …
: We went to the local swap meet across the channel from the Port of Oakland. Photos don’t do justice …
: All household children deny knowledge of the situation, but I am skeptical.
: Today I learned about Emacs’s table handling. Start with a mess: | *Name* | *Type* | *Flavor* | …
: Literally every time I open the CA DMV digital drivers license app: “You need to refresh your …
: If I bought this, “everyday" would mean “…for the rest of my life, and you’ll have to bury me in …
: Sometimes Rust makes me so happy. I wrote this over the weekend: let embedded_data = …
: The hen is very curious about my lunch.
: Today’s spam starts: How are you doing? I’ve been following you on LinkedIn for a while now and …
: My wife took a vow to put up with me 25 years ago today. Since then, she’s been my ride-or-die best …
: Project dream 1: Toss and turn all night, thinking of a million things to be done, going in deep to …
: We survived Def Con. Barely. It was about as much fun as I’m physically able to tolerate in 1 week. …
: Best Buy’s new anti-privacy practices are even more awful than before. They’ve lost any business I’d …
: Def Con badge acquired. Most of the way through the merch line; another 4 hours at most.
: We made it to Vegas in 1 piece, ate a deliciously unhealthy lunch, checked in early (pro-tip: pay …
: DEF CON is nearly upon us. Today we’re finishing our packing, checking into flights, finalizing …
: Amazon sent me an email about their new “Amazon One” service: Amazon One is a fast, free identity …
: My last work day before Def Con. I’m getting so excited and a little anxious! I’m going to see a …
: The email: Click here to enhance your account’s security with two-factor authentication! Click. The …
: My friends and I are getting ready for the EFF Tech Trivia contest at DEF CON. We took a year off …
: If the cupboard door is open, Jort will sense it and come running from across the house so she can …
: Hi, person reading this who writes code that parses RSS or JSON Feed! Thank you for making neat …
: So tell me about this dressage thing. Well, a horse walks around. Really fast? No, just walking. …
: Keeva became ill in the last week. I took her to the vet expecting she’d need some medicine and TLC. …
: I’ve modified my Python program that sends new drafts from my Freewrite Alpha to my blog. Now it can …
: John Deere Dismissing 15% of Global Salaried Workforce Today | AgWeb: Online sources say the layoffs …
: I dusted off an older Raspberry Pi 4 to play with. Now I remember how glacially, painfully slow …
: Happy little bee on happy little flowers on my walk to the happy little pizzeria.
: Although I’ve trusted OmniFocus for years, I’m still compelled to try out the alternatives …
: I’ve written a couple extensions for PopClip that make my life a little easier. One shows you the …
: Currently reading: My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚 Now that I’m done with Gaiman’s …
: Finished reading: Norse Mythology: The Illustrated Edition by Neil Gaiman 📚 The gods are mad.
: We’re nearly 2/3 of the way from Y2K to Y2K38. That thing you’d been putting off fixing? This would …
: When a coworker forwards you an email to ask if it looks like phishing, take a moment to publicly …
: If you’re writing an SDK, don’t include a section on how to fetch all the pages of chunked results. …
: I’m testing a new writing workflow to prepare for DEF CON. It looks like: Type something on my …
: Scientists Discover a Cause of Lupus and a Possible Way to Reverse It - News Center: Northwestern …
: My Freewrite Alpha just arrived. While I’ve barely started using it, these are my first impressions. …
: I’m going to DEF CON next month. I’ll be live-blogging my way through it to give a peek inside …
: California now requires credit card companies to assign a merchant category code to gun stores. …
: That’s one good looking butterfly.
: A friend’s 6 month old Maine coon cat is already enormous. He’s such an outgoing and fun kitty to …
: That job you applied for might not exist. Here’s what’s behind a boom in “ghost jobs.” - CBS News: …
: Unboxing the Firewalla Gold Pro My early access Firewalla Gold Pro 10 gigabit router came today. It’s replacing a Firewalla Gold …
: I can’t look at a number without trying to contextualize it. Today I got a new home router that can …
: I walked out of the little restaurant in time to see my kid standing at a bus stop awaiting a ride. …
: Slack said they’ll start deleting old data from free workspaces. While I understand why people are …
: Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites: The polyfill.js is a popular open source library to …
: The pattern matching on this shirt pocket makes me smile every time I see it.
: Currently reading: Norse Mythology: The Illustrated Edition by Neil Gaiman 📚 Picked this up for …
: I’ll be seeing this in my nightmares tonight.
: Crab cake Benedict, Red House Cafe, Pacific Grove, California.
: I just got the happy news that a Firewalla Gold Pro 10Gbps firewall is on its way soon. Today we’re …
: Never doubt that Apple is the master of packaging. My replacement credit card came in the mail today …
: Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's home raided by FBI agents - CBS San Francisco Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home raided by FBI agents - CBS San Francisco: In an emailed statement to …
: EU today decided to postpone a vote of their ridiculous “Chat Control” anti-privacy law. That a …
: Currently reading: My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard Many thanks to Jim for nudging me …
: The moon over Northern California.
: I’ve got my weekend reading sorted out.
: I spent all last night dreaming about making a web interface for an AI chat API so I could play with …
: I’ve gotten 4 plausible recruiter cold emails today. Nature is healing.
: Things I like about our relatively new Whirlpool refrigerator: It usually keeps our food cold. …
: A sleepy Keeva caught a patch of sun.
: My company hosted a business dinner last night for infosec leaders. It was a reminder how small the …
: This is interesting and dangerous. I’m trying the new macOS Sequoia Passwords app. I exported my …
: I’ve recently started playing with Zellij. What you need to know: Like tmux with on-screen menus …
: I think I’m going to upgrade my personal MacBook Air to Sequoia tonight. YOLO!
: It’s time to view the samizdat, the Entertainment.
: Since Ben Surtees sold his Bartender 5 app to some (IMO) shifty company without telling his users, …
: The conference has little rubber duckies all over the place to play with.
: My boss was right: having an unusual job title is an excellent icebreaker. A dozen times today …
: I’m heading in to staff the booth at a convention. That’s far outside my comfort zone, so when my …
: There are more people at tonight’s Oakland B’s game than at the average A’s games this year. John …
: We’re getting ready to see the first ever home game of the Oakland Ballers. Go B’s!
: A friend just pointed out: ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes …
: This is what Hell looks like.
: My old debit card got compromised last month so I got a new one. The replacement had my name wrong …
: The atmospheric pressure sensor in my back yard experiences time non-linearly.
: I just noticed the bizarre label on the package from a luggage tag I’d ordered. I think I need to …
: Retiring DEVONthink I used DEVONthink for many years to store, organize, and search all of my personal information. …
: Today’s candidate in the ongoing Worst Captcha Ever Contest. This is screenshotted as-is without any …
: On the subject of annoying iOS bugs…
: I found and reported a bug in Apple’s new “Quartiles” game: Tap “ab cd ef”. Click the checkmark. The …
: Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump’s sons react to guilty verdict in hush money trial - ABC News: …
: I just got a notification that “Silent Hill 2” for PS5 is available for pre-order now. I don’t do …
: North Korean trash balloons are dumping ‘filth’ on South Korea | CNN: North Korea has adopted a new …
: So many memorials today. Dad, Laurie, too many friends. I love you all and miss you dearly.
: We’re watching “Blade Runner 2049” and it’s off-puttingly unrealistic. They’d never issue that many …
: St. Louis ribs, cooked for 20 minutes in an Instant Pot then basted and baked for 10 minutes.
: The cats are making an 80s alt rock album cover.
: Little Snitch 6 came out yesterday with many quality of life improvements. It’s always the first app …
: There’s a certain Apple ecosystem notetaking app I heard of from a paid blog post. I downloaded it; …
: Adding AI the right way Three of my favorite tools, BBEdit, Drafts, and iTerm, have added support for ChatGPT-style AI …
: In which I try frying turnips for the first time.
: I seriously love Oakland. It’s my kinda grimy.
: I set my pillows on the floor to make the bed. Keeva had burrowed in by the time I got back around …
: I am not exaggerating this: I created a new hostname in DNS, then added it to my existing webserver …
: Justice Department takes 'major step' toward rescheduling marijuana: The Justice Department took a …
: I have an IKEA Dirigera hub connected to my HomeKit setup. I also have a bunch of Nanoleaf Matter …
: Old computer ads are something else. Source: BYTE, Vol. 6, No. 9, September 1981, page 299
: Python 3.13 is removing more Amiga “dead batteries” modules, like chunk: The chunk module provides …
: We bought a flower kit from Costco. It had some potting soil, pre-planted seeds, and a pot — just …
: I lost my Diablo 4 level 71 hardcore rogue today. Although I was momentarily bummed, I feel good …
: My buddy picked us all up to go rollin’.
: How I’m working right now. I couldn’t move if I had to.
: I’m dying to know the story here.
: Apple: "What's a professional?" Apple announced their new iPad Pro and I couldn’t care less. The hardware itself is brilliant, yet …
: You know how sometimes you come to decide that an entire niche market is so filled with awful and …
: Gigi turns 15 today. We’re celebrating with lots of cuddles and ancient dog appropriate treats.
: Demand that car companies respect your privacy How to escape Honda’s privacy hell: With sensors, microphones, and cameras, cars collect way more …
: Previous lock picking sets having been sneaked out of my possession by various household children, …
: Very fancy electronic badges at BSidesSF this year.
: Conference tracks where more than a few people are wearing khaki: Defending your AI assets Defending …
: While I dropped a friend off and helped him unload his stuff, I told him about the Oakland Ballers …
: My credit union called this morning: “Did you just make a purchase from OnlyFans?” Nope. Thus ends …
: The BASIC programming language turns 60 | Ars Technica The BASIC programming language turns 60 | Ars Technica Like so many others, I got my start typing in …
: What sadist invented this captcha?
: What's my Apple Card balance? I spent 1 hour and 25 minutes on a call with Goldman Sachs about their mistakes on my Apple Card …
: Today’s first software update for the Rabbit r1 adds missing keys to its on-screen keyboard, and now …
: Drug Scheduling On the subject of Drug Scheduling: Schedule IV Schedule IV drugs, substances, or chemicals are …
: US will reclassify marijuana in historic shift: AP sources | AP News US will reclassify marijuana in historic shift: AP sources | AP News: Once OMB signs off, the DEA …
: My Rabbit R1 just arrived. I haven’t played with it enough yet to have an opinion on the software’s …
: I wish OmniFocus used perspectives in Forecast I wish OmniFocus would replace the way its Forecast view selects items to display with a …
: Palo Alto's exploited Python code watchTowr Labs has a nice blog post dissecting CVE-2024-3400. It’s very readable. Go check it out. …
: I fought State Farm (and won) State Farm claimed we owed them money. I said we didn’t. They pursued it. I countered. They ended up …
: Tennessee bans kids playing in sprinklers Tennessee’s new “chemtrail bill” is inherently ludicrous. It’s also as poorly written as cold be …
: Fixing Things with Keyboard Maestro I can’t help playing with Things sometimes. Even though there are plenty of reasons not to use …
: Testing my fountain pen inks' water resistance I wondered how water-resistant the inks from the various pens on my desk would be. For my …
: Reliable Shortcuts with Stream Deck and Keyboard Maestro I talked myself into buying a Stream Deck to control my Mac. I didn’t want one for the media …
: Opt out of Hulu's new binding arbitration clause Hulu’s new subscriber agreement claims to require users to resolve significant disputes through …
: Making Notes look like a Markdown editor, if you squint I use Apple’s Notes app to, well, take notes. It’s the only non-Markdown I regularly use for such …
: Adding CarPlay to our Toyota's Entune system Our 2016 Toyota Sienna is perfect, except for its janky entertainment system. Every time I plugged …
: Biden pardons cannabis users US President Joe Biden pardoned all Federal convictions for the use and simple possession of …
: One Pill Can Kill I’ve seen things that looked like ads for apps in the iOS App Store. Today, I saw an ad for …
: In the beginning was Word My kid is home from college. I’m watching them do their homework while struggling against the …
: Fixing the Casper Glow Light charger Our Casper Glow Lights are nice. However, their charging bases are poorly made, and as seen in user …
: Back to OmniFocus. Again. I know I said I’m using Things to manage all the things I need to do, but I’ve switched back to the …
: Kitty likes her SureFood microchip pet feeder We have 2 cats. One of them1 requires a prescription food. Predictably, because he’s a cat, he hates …
: Review job applications quickly I got an automated response to a job application that said: Over the next several weeks, one of our …
: An Amazon seller tried to bribe me I bought a suitcase from Amazon, partly because of its good reviews. The suitcase is alright. It’s …
: macOS 14 Sonoma is out, and mostly OK Apple release macOS 14 Sonoma today. I always install the major OS beta versions on my work Mac when …
: Newsom vetoed self-driving truck bill California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required self-driving vehicles to …
: TriNet shares employee PII without controls My employer’s HR department asked me to validate a coworker’s identification documents and attest …
: Veilid in The Washington Post I’ve been helping on a fun project with some incredibly brilliant friends. I found myself talking …
: Simply Sabotaging an Office The US Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of today’s CIA, wrote the Simple Sabotage Field …
: Happy 25th birthday, honeypot.net! In times of yore, my friends gave their computers cool cyberpunky names so that they sounded cool at …
: Twitter went dark. Now what? Twitter is in a race with Reddit to see who can ruin their service more quickly. That’s the simplest …
: Quitting Reddit I’ve spent way more time on Reddit than I should have. I justified it to myself by saying it was a …
: Fake landlord tried to scam my kid My kid and their friend are looking for a house to rent. They found a perfect match, with a nice …
: Language Server Protocol Launched a Golden Age of Editors Microsoft developed Language Server Protocol (“LSP”) a few years ago to make it easier to add …
: I use Things without encryption Update 2023-11-03: No, I don’t. I tell people not to use Readdle’s Spark email app. Then I turn …
: iA Presenter Public Launch I’ve used iA Writer on Mac and iPad for years as my main writing environment. I’m typing this in it …
: Accidentally Hacking the Planet Last summer I tried to hack the Wall of Sheep at DEF CON. It didn’t work. The short version is that …
: Favorite apps: PastePal I used to think the Copied clipboard manager for Apple devices was spiffy. I don’t know how or why, …
: Pianos. I worked as a software developer with a strongly opinionated manager. He believed that we’d achieve …
: eero + Firewalla = perfection Update 2025-12-14: I replaced all of my eeros with Firewalla Access Point 7 devices because they …
: Wake up, little sunshine I prompted ChatGPT with: “Write a song I can sing to my son to get him awake and moving to get ready …
: The Internet is a rough neighborhood This week I stood up a new firewall in front of my home network. This one has much better logging …
: Fox News fired Tucker Carlson However it’s spun, Fox News fired Tucker Carlson. Carlson had the most popular cable news show by a …
: Integrate Things with Focus I use the Things task manager to keep track of what I need to do. I use the Focus pomodoro timer to …
: Apple won't totally block unwanted emails Apple’s email apps and services don’t allow users to completely block senders. If someone is sending …
: Upgrade your Raspberry Pi with an SSD I upgraded my Raspberry Pi to use an external SSD drive instead of its built-in SD card reader. If …
: A Boston Terrier Married a Cat I prompted ChatGPT: “Write a Shakespearean sonnet about a Boston terrier marrying a cat.” It …
: Easily copy file contents with ForkLift I use the ForkLift 3 file manager on my Mac. Part of my job involves copying-and-pasting the …
: Recovering a Raspberry Pi password on an M1 Mac I would never accidentally change my Raspberry Pi’s account password before clicking “save” in my …
: I watched the Tyre Nichols video I watched the Tyre Nichols video. I didn’t want to because I knew what it was going to contain and …
: My travel project template In an older post, I talked about making a project template for trip planning. The goal is to build a …
: Muradin wallet doesn't block RFID My wife bought me a cool Muradin RFID-blocking wallet for Christmas. I like it a lot, except for the …
: Happy 2023! 2022 was a whirlwind of disasters, plagues, wars, elections, recession, inflation, and other …
: SteerMouse makes my Logitech mouse better I bought a Logitech MX Vertical Wireless Mouse last year. The mouse itself remains delightful and my …
: Audrey Auden's "The Voice in All" I read Audrey Auden’s new book, “The Voice in All”, the first in her new “The Artifex and the Muse” …
: Easily delete your Twitter account the hard way The folks at Conscious Digital have a nifty website, yourdigitalrights.org, that makes it easy to …
: Of course dogs smile I hang out on parts of the Internet where people often post pictures of happy animals. All too …
: California 2022 Midterms Voting Guide These are my recommendations for the November 8, 2022 midterm election in California. Propositions …
: Winding down I knew the conversation wouldn’t be easy when the veterinarian asked if this was a good time to …
: Surprise eero hardware end-of-life Amazon is ending software support for 1st generation eero devices at the end of September 2022. …
: Trying (and Failing) to hack the Wall of Sheep The Wall of Sheep is a popular exhibit at DEF CON. Participants run packet sniffers on an insecure …
: How QBasic jump started my career When I was an enlisted sailor in the US Navy, I spent an awful lot of time on a deployment hacking …
: Slack was broadcasting hashed passwords for 5 years I received an email from Slack on Thursday, 2022-08-04: We’re writing to let you know about a bug we …
: Not Upgrading for Stage Manager Apple’s iPadOS 16 features a new multitasking mechanism called Stage Manager, but only on very new …
: How to give compliments It’s fun to receive compliments. It’s as much fun to give them! That can be intimidating, though. …
: Don't buy a cheap Apple Watch Series 3 Don’t buy an Apple Watch Series 3. Many recent articles enthuse about its current wonderfully low …
: The dynamic range of emotions “Dynamic range” describes the difference between the softest and loudest bits of a musical …
: Internet Explorer is finally dead I was working the night shift at a motel while going to school during the day, when my parents saw a …
: Do not use Readdle's Spark email app I’ve written before about Readdle’s Spark email client, which is popular, highly rated, and a …
: Microsoft's gotta Microsoft A long time ago, back in the dark days of the Browser Wars, Microsoft hated Free Software, …
: Dealing with Princeton's flawed privacy research This has been an odd week. Last Friday I got an email from someone asking about my hobby website’s …
: ...And Back to OmniFocus I recently wrote about switching from OmniFocus to Reminders and gave a lot of reasons why I thought …
: About the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking I’ve written before about Hook, a nifty way of linking things you’re working on together so you can …
: Better incentives for showing web ads I use ad blockers on all my devices. Still, I understand that the sites I enjoy depend on ad …
: AirTag lost its way Apple released their new AirTag product six months ago, and as competent as it is for finding lost …
: From OmniFocus to Reminders My wife’s been a Mac user much longer than I have. Years after she’d been happily using an iMac G4, …
: Notability's subscription model is an insult Ginger Labs’s Notability is a popular note-taking app for Apple computers. It’s a nice way for …
: Jira is a code smell Good Project Managers are important. As an Application Programmer, they’re your Interface to the …
: Introducing Glass Knife I’ve been using Obsidian lately for taking notes and I’m certain I’ll be saying more about that …
: Released The Policy Wonk Today we released the first public version of “The Policy Wonk”, or just “Wonk”. It’s a nifty tool …
: Unusual shipping fail from Apple I ordered a couple of Apple AirTags and keychain holders this weekend, and UPS dropped the package …
: Fact-Checking Snopes I want to like Snopes but I’m not convinced that they weigh evidence correctly. As a personal …
: GoDaddy Terminates Texas Spy Site GoDaddy gives Texas abortion website notice: Find new host ASAP: The highly controversial and …
: What HIPAA's Privacy Rule Says As someone who deals with HIPAA’s privacy compliance as part of my job, I don’t ever want to hear …
: The Itanic Has Sunk By today, July 29, 2021, Intel has shipped the last of its Itanium processors, the last holdout of a …
: Opt-Out Tracking is an Awful Idea Someone invented a new standardized way to opt out of telemetry for command line applications. This …
: Quackbooks. It seems like Intuit is never any the news for anything good that benefits normal people. …
: Antivaxxers not owed a soapbox In a new post in Science Translational Medicine’s “In the Pipeline” blog, Derek Lowe announced that …
: Digital notes are better than paper Techie people regularly rediscover paper and write about how they’ve created a good note taking …
: The Risks of Third-Party Email Clients There are a lot of neat third-party email applications available for Mac and iOS. From an end user …
: Pain-free with a Logitech MX Vertical Mouse When I spend my days programming, I don’t often use a mouse. I have a nice keyboard and use as many …
: Bing is censoring Tank Man search results Bing is censoring images of the Tiananmen Square “tank man” image. DuckDuckGo, who uses Bing’s …
: Uniquely bad identity branding My company has an account with a certain identity provider so we can test that our single sign-on …
: How I get things done After years — decades — of experimentation, I’ve learned this about myself: when I follow a certain …
: Tripping on a Cracked Sidewalk Amazon Sidewalk is a new project which allows Amazon devices (like Alexa, Ring doorbells, etc.) with …
: Can't hire? Pay more. Many recent news stories feature companies having a hard time hiring workers. In capitalism, this …
: Wisdom of the ages The iOS App Store recommended that I check out a meditation app named “Calm”, featuring “Wisdom from …
: Taking one for the team Scene: Nick’s intermediate league baseball game. Bottom of the last inning. Other team at bat. 2 …
: Signal was cheeky, but right In her article “I Have a Lot to Say About Signal’s Cellebrite Hack”, the extremely qualified Riana …
: Review: Jellycuts Jellycuts for iOS and iPadOS is 2 things: A text-based language for writing Shortcuts, A compiler …
: Review: Apple Fitness+ I’ve been using Apple’s Fitness+ service since it came available. It’s still a young product and has …
: Review: Hook by CogSci I’ve been playing with Hook, an app I’ve started hearing about. It’s an interesting bird, and its …
: Mastodon apps for iOS Updated: November 11, 2022 There are several excellent Mastodon apps for iOS and iPadOS. These are …
: Google v. Oracle - victory! This morning the US Supreme Court ruled for Google in Oracle’s case against them. This is wonderful …
: Favorite apps: Copied I think Copied is the best clipboard manager available for Apple devices. I use Copied constantly. …
: Smart progress bars Progress bars suck at predicting how long things will take. I’ll tell you what I want (what I really …
: Little League wants all your information To sign kids up for our city’s Little League baseball program, you have to prove that they’re …
: New favorite command: Zoxide My favorite new command is zoxide. It’s like a faster z, autojump, or fasd. In summary, it learns …
: "Let's Fix OmniFocus", indeed If you use OmniFocus, you should check out Paul Sahner’s Let’s Fix OmniFocus post: But lately there …
: Use local Git repos for personal work I’ve heard a lot of online arguments about whether you should host your Git-based projects in GitHub …
: Dell doesn't honor warranties In late August 2020, I bought my kid a new Dell SE2419HX monitor for his birthday. School was …
: Automating this static website I use the Hugo website generator to create this website out of a bunch of Markdown fils. A lot has …
: Security training for the masses My company is going through its annual HIPAA privacy and security refresher training. This is a good …
: Google v. Oracle, by analogy Suppose Joe opens a restaurant. He hires a waiter who is really great at following directions, but …
: November 2020 Voting Guide These are the notes I collected to determine how I’m going to vote on November 3, 2020. I’m posting …
: Staying away from WD NAS drives for now Western Digital just admitted to Tom’s Hardware that they use a notoriously slow technology, …
: The Kansas City Wormhole I’ve had one inexplicable thing happen in my life. I remembered it today and texted an old buddy …
: More apps lost to subscriptions Two more apps I really like(d) have recently announced that they’re moving to subscription models: …
: Commodore declared bankruptcy 25 years ago today Commodore International declared bankruptcy on April 29, 1994, and pretty much sealed the fate of …
: A standard for describing a site's password rules There’s not a universal standard for what a valid password on a website must look like. Some sites …
: Ringing the bird I was on an early morning walk and came across a guy staring at the telephone wires. As I …
: Heavy traffic is not a DDoS Ajit Pai claimed that when the FCC asked citizens to comment on Net Neutrality, their website was …
: Happy birthday to me! I registered Honeypot.net on July 1, 1998, so today is its twentieth birthday. We’ve had fun, little …
: "At a Crucial Juncture, Trump's Legal Defense Is Largely a One-Man Operation" At a Crucial Juncture, Trump’s Legal Defense Is Largely a One-Man Operation — The New York Times …
: How many minutes of Internet are you paying for each month? If you pay for a 100Mbps cable connection to the Internet and your plan sets a 300GB data cap, you …
: Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries Airlines Restrict ‘Smart Luggage’ Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries : The Two-Way : NPR: …
: App subscriptions must offer value Software authors are increasingly switching to subscription models to make their work “sustainable”. …
: Introducing metric quantity units for computing In computing, metric-sounding prefixes almost universally refer to sizes expressed as powers of two: …
: Traveling with OmniFocus and OmniOutliner I don’t travel a lot, so when I do I invariably find that I’ve forgotten something important (9 PM …
: Provider The shield was half-heartedly poking at her keyboard when the car started to move. Oh. “I guess I’m …
: America's military versus the world I am pro-military. I think having a strong military means we’re unlikely to have to use it to …
: Search-proof your devices when traveling Over-eager airport security has recently taken to making travelers unlock their phones and tablets …
: Rebooting I started this blog twelve years ago. I always meant to update it regularly, but… life intervenes. …
: Purge your Yahoo account (but don't delete it!) There are about 1.5 billion reasons to want to cancel your Yahoo account. Don’t do that! According …
: Migrating off Evernote In late 2016, Evernote updated their privacy policy to explicitly grant their employees the right to …
: Focus. I was in a meeting when I noticed the sun was hitting my water bottle just right.
: It's still there, isn't it? Gigi isn’t so sure about our new decoration.
: Technology IS Politics It’s not possible for technologists to avoid politics because technology is politics: You’re writing …
: Electronics Kit for my Kids Cory Doctorow mentioned that Elenco makes a perfect copy of the Radio Shack 200-in-One electronics …
: We had a scary basement When I was a kid, my parents had a horror movie basement. It was unfinished, poorly lit, and …
: My phone was Lyfted My son needed a ride to a Boy Scout campout yesterday and neither Jen nor I were home to take him. I …
: Christmases Past How I imagined the backstory of the dad from “A Christmas Story”: I’ve seen things. Lots of us have: …
: Adventures in Comcast support We live outside San Francisco, and Comcast is our cable provider. We wanted to watch college …
: What I Tell My Kids About The Internet Hi kid! You don’t know me, but I’m one of those “Internet expert” kind of guys they interview when …
: My FCC Net Neutrality Letter This is my letter to the FCC on September 12, 2014 regarding the upcoming net neutrality decision …
: Cut Hoodies Some Slack No good article about the Bay Area misses jokes at hipsters in their hoodies, whether biking through …
: Scaling with Eventual Consistency Originally published on the Crittercism Engineering Blog and reprinted with permission. by Kirk …
: Wet Shaving: A Year Later I’m a sucker for the idea of ritual. When I learn about a traditional, labor-intensive practice like …
: Great Expectations I probably sound like I gripe all the time, but that’s really not what I’m like. I’m an optimist and …
: Making Devonthink Sync Between Computers Update: 2021-05-27 This is still getting traffic for unknown reasons. Today, in 2021, the problem is …
: More Shoe Fails I had a wonderful experience buying new Rockport shoes from Brown Brothers Shoes in Alameda a couple …
: To Sell A Car In the process of moving to another state, we decided to sell my car to some friends. This turned …
: Applecareless While I almost never buy extended warranties, conventional wisdom is that you should always buy …
: Omaha World Herald Makes School Remove Christmas Message The Omaha World-Herald published a story about a Lincoln public high school who wrote “Remember the …
: On Generated Versus Random Passwords I was reading a story about a hacked password database and saw this comment where the poster wanted …
: Stop The E Parasite Act This is the letter I just sent to my representative, urging him to vote against Hollywood’s …
: Making DOS USB Images On A Mac I needed to run a BIOS flash utility that was only available for DOS. To complicate matters, the …
: Taken To The Cleaners By Abe's Detailing I read a nice newspaper story a while ago about Abe’s Detailing in Norfolk, NE. When I wanted to …
: Guest Post By Gabby Crazy Squirrel I was at grandma’s house last weekend, and there was a power outage.Turns out, it was a squirrel …
: Guest Post By Gabby It Snowed It snowed!I went outside today and played! bet I would have stayed out there if it had snowed more …
: Just Get Home Already While waiting for Jen to return from a conference, I thought about calling her to get her estimated …
: Guest Post By Gabby There Here Grandma and Grandpa got here yesterday!My camera is working again to!I took a picture of a …
: Open Letter To KCAU TV As of mid-August, I can’t watch the local ABC affiliate TV channel over my satellite dish because …
: Guest Post By Gabby I Went To The Lake We took a trip to Grandma’s house on Thursday last week, and on Saturday we went to the lake.A …
: Dropkick Murphys The Meanest Of Times This is kind of a hard review to write. Short take on the music: it’s brilliant. If you like Irish …
: Baseball Chatter Hi! You’re the guy who sat behind me at my 8-year-old daughter’s teeball practice. I thought you’d …
: In Defense Of The Model M There are few joys in life like using something that is the perfect expression of its intent. Each …
: Shades Of Green In Nebraska’s May 13 election, two Green Party candidates ran for Douglas County Commissioner, …
: Sue For Mayor I’m voting for Sue Fuchtman for mayor of Norfolk. I know her personally, and she’s the sort of …
: Fun With Software Licenses Did you know that you’re probably not allowed to make backups of your computer? It’s true, if you …
: Hot About Warming Global warming is real. Forget the arguments about what’s causing it. Forget trying to figure out …
: Why Is Cloning Bad? I haven’t figured out exactly why human cloning is a bad thing that should be opposed. It …
: Nebraska Wants To Adopt Your Kids Senator Brad Ashford of Omaha has proposed criminalizing the act of keeping your kids home from …
: You Want How Many? I used to work near a little restaurant called “Rasta Grill”. It was this weird fusion of Italian …
: Buffer Overrun In Antitrust Skip this unless you’re really, really geeky. Still with us? OK. In the movie “Antitrust”, there’s a …
: Don't Bump That Flash Drive From the manual of an Asus Eee PC: The solid-state disk drive’s head retracts when the power is …
: Guest Post By Gabby My Other Cat Another blog about a cat!I had a cat named Oat meal.We gave him away 4 years ago.He hated us, he hid …
: Guest Post By Gabby The Ancient Shark There is a extinct shark called Megalodon.it lived 45,000 million years ago! Fact:Its teeth are …
: How Not To Save A Game I was about halfway through a game called “Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings” on my Nintendo DS. I …
: Vick Sentenced Michael Vick was sentenced to 13 dog years.
: Guest Post By Gabby Hatchetfish The hatchetfish spends the day in deep water and rises closer to the surface at night to feed.It has …
: SCOX Is Deficient And Bankrupt Right now, as I type this, the Yahoo! Finance page for SCO has a caution sign and the text: “SCOX is …
: Guest Post By Gabby Goalsgoalsand More Goals At school we divide the school year into four quarters.In each quarter we have a reading goal.A …
: It's Been A Long Time Since I Rock And Rolled It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled, It’s been a long time since I did the stroll. Ooh, …
: Guest Post By Gabby My Morning When my alarm went off at 7:00 I got out and landed on my sister, Ari.She fell out of bed and I fell …
: Guest Post By Gabby The Fall Festival There was a Fall Festival at school today I first went to the sign that said sandy candy.We got a …
: Guest Post By Gabby Dad Is Funny Dad is funny.He played a trick on my sister.He says somthing like “Guess what?“Ari would …
: Guest Post By Gabby Jake Is Crazy My brother Jake, is crazy!In baseball he ran with his jaw open and his arms in the air!He whacked my …
: Scam Calls From Card Services I just got a phone call from a “private caller” (that is, with no caller ID information) and heard a …
: I Guess I Do Really Hate Shopping At Wal Mart Jen and I were in Kansas City for a convention when Jen decided to exchange some newborn-size …
: Yam No More Back in my Amiga-using days, I had an email program called YAM. It was excellent and ubiquitous; …
: My Ecco Shoes Are Junk I bought a nice looking pair of Ecco shoes a couple years ago. Actually, they were probably the …
: Winning By Any Means I was walking through our house when I saw Jake. He was watching me stone-faced with eyes open wide …
: Becoming Unrooted So, I forgot my root password. For non-technical types, that’s pretty much the key to the kingdom …
: baby.lisp In our household, a baby just ain’t a baby without an appropriately geeky birth announcement. And …
: Vapor Rises Dan Feather, aka “Vapor”, died today after he lost control of his motorcycle. Dan was remarkable for …
: Down To The Uptown As our anniversary dinner tradition, Jen and I drive to Stanton to eat at the Uptown Brewery. Each …
: I Am Awesome I got the best fortune cookie ever a few days ago: Your modesty will shame those with lesser …
: Electronic Survival Kit So, you’ve made a survival kit to keep you alive until the good guys come to rescue you. Well, now …
: Negotiations With Western Digital We bought a Western Digital external hard drive for Jen’s computer while we were in Omaha. I hooked …
: Fresh Sushi Better Jen and I took Jake and Ari to Omaha. I had joked with Jake that I was going to make him eat sushi, …
: Mowing With Max I have a nice Craftsman lawn mower. I like my lawn mower. I have no desire to get another lawn …
: Pre Packaged Sushi Not Bad I was buying groceries and saw a new display of pre-packaged plastic boxes of sushi. In the middle …
: Long Weekends Summer’s upon us again. The kids just got out of school on Wednesday, which reminded me that my last …
: Up In The Morning And Out To School Well, it’s officially school time again. Gabby and Ari started back yesterday, and Jake went this …
: Tilden Days Last weekend, we took the kids to Tilden’s “Prairie Days” festival, a celebration that raises money …
: Running Before Walking The kids started swimming lessons yesterday. They all had a great time and left smiling. As I was …
: If God Meant For Man To Roll It seemed like such a simple idea at the time: I’d buy a cheap bike and ride to work whenever …
: How To Make A Survival Kit On my birthday in 2005, I read a Slashdot article discussing what things you might want to take with …
: Our Bird Is Dead Gabby was in the preschool at Christ Lutheran School, and her classroom had a caged parakeet. One …
: The Piano's Broken We got a used piano a few months ago. After we cleaned it and put it where we wanted it, I played a …
: They Were How Big? Well, today was the big day — Jake and Ari had their tonsils removed. The doctor said Jake’s were …
: Filtering Spam With Postfix If you are responsible for maintaining an internet-connected mail-server, then you have, no doubt, …
: Strangers In The House On Tuesday evening, August 24, 2004, I left my wife and three young children (ages four, three, and …
: The Amiga Alternative Audio Page Note: This is an exact snapshot of the page as it was last modified by CISC back in 2002. I hadn’t …