Waking up to KMFDM blasting in the bedroom, a very surprised looking cat, and the HomePod she just accidentally coaxed into life by sniffing the top of it.
When an email’s footer starts with “The content of this email is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed only”, the desire to turn it into a blog post is almost irresistible.
I’m super excited to be joining a small company next week as their first dedicated security engineer. After being at much larger companies for a little while, I’m ready to be back in the trenches.
What a job search looks like in 2025: 4 weeks, 27 interviews, with 20 different recruiters and employees of 21 different companies.
This is the one day a year I immerse myself in Apple news. A buddy and I have a decade long tradition of watching the WWDC keynote together. Then I’ll go back to mostly ignoring the hype for another 364 days.
We worked to lose a nice bit of weight over the last 6 months or so. Today I hit the treadmill carrying a backpack loaded with the same amount of weight I’d lost. Holy cow. How did I do that every single day?
The new Apple News daily Sudoku results page is sloppy. As screenshotted on an iPhone 15 Pro, you have to scroll down about 1/8” to see the whole Leaderboard button.
I will not lose sleep over this, but it’s still sloppy.
Infomaniak breaks rank and comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law | Tom’s Guide
Infomaniak argued that anonymity prevents justice, saying there must be a “happy medium” to prevent the digital landscape becoming a “Wild West.”
They further state that demands for anonymity show “lack of knowledge of Swiss political institutions”.
If you’re an Infomaniak user, you should stop that ASAP.
I just successfully performed concussive maintenance on a recalcitrant smart speaker.
Me: Hey Siri, play music for me.
HomePod: Here is some music just for you… Sorry, there was a problem with Apple Music.
Me: bops the HomePod in frustration
HomePod: Here is some music just for you… 🎵🎵🎵
Me: That worked?
(If I asked it other questions, like “Hey Siri, what’s my next appointment?”, it’d correctly answer with my personal information. It only affected Apple Music.)
I’m not a huge fan of OSI — I prefer my software Free — but their idea of Open Source is the only one I’ll accept. I’m frustrated by the number of companies who want to claim their proprietary shared source licenses are open source just because you can look at the code.
No. You cannot convince me.
My house has old plaster and lath walls, aka “a Faraday cage”. My kid’s bedroom is 20 feet from a Firewalla AP7 Wi-Fi radio, but their PC still only got a 2.4Mbps speed test result.
I bought them a $20 external Wi-Fi antenna and that jumped to 5.8Gbps.
I highly endorse this upgrade.