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I can’t look at a number without trying to contextualize it. Today I got a new home router that can handle our 10 gigabit Internet connection. My first connection to another computer was a 300 baud modem plugged into my little Commodore 64. This new link is about 33 million times faster.

Wait, isn’t a year about 30 megaseconds? Indeed. That means I can now download more data in 1 second than I use to be able to in a year.

I wonder if I’ll have a 300 petabit home connection some day.

I walked out of the little restaurant in time to see my kid standing at a bus stop awaiting a ride. I walked up behind them:

“Want an empanada?”

“Where did you come from? Really? What kind?”

“Chicken or mushroom.”

“Mushroom!”

They reached into the bag and plucked out a steaming hot treat. I walked off without saying another word. I bet the other riders at the stop had so many questions.

Slack said they’ll start deleting old data from free workspaces. While I understand why people are frustrated, you can’t trust your data to someone else’s server. If it’s important to you, keep a copy somewhere under your control.

It might be inconvenient to self-host something like Mattermost, but perhaps not as much as having a company delete all your data.

Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites:

The polyfill.js is a popular open source library to support older browsers. 100K+ sites embed it using the cdn.polyfill.io domain. Notable users are JSTOR, Intuit and World Economic Forum. However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Since then, this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io.

This is fine.

The pattern matching on this shirt pocket makes me smile every time I see it.

A photo of a shirt pocket. The cloth is white with a grid of small blue and yellow lines. The pocket is so aligned with the shirt that it’s nearly invisible, except that a large coin is sticking out the top to highlight where pocket ends and shirt begins. Someone was paying attention at that factory.

I’ll be seeing this in my nightmares tonight.

A store window is full of porcelain baby dolls sitting on cotton clouds. Many are dressed as angels. Their eyes look haunted. They can see you.

Crab cake Benedict, Red House Cafe, Pacific Grove, California.

A plate of poached eggs Benedict over a croissant, and rosemary roasted potatoes.

I just got the happy news that a Firewalla Gold Pro 10Gbps firewall is on its way soon. Today we’re limited to 2.5Gbps Internet connections because that’s what the current Firewalla Gold supports. Of course, now I also have to upgrade our other switches to match it.

This is shaping up to be an early Christmas.