Scripting News: One way is always better than two: It’s not mentioned in the Wikipedia page on RSS that I had a format that does what RSS does, a year before it existed, but I gave it up so that Netscape and UserLand would build on the same format, RSS. [I can attest to this. […] | Continue reading
In tech, magic becomes mundane!: What are other examples of technology we take for granted today that would have seemed magical in the past? [My tech telling me how to navigate without effort (Maps + GPS) remains magical.] | Continue reading
SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker | Ars Technica: Fabian Bäumer, one of three researchers from Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum who devised Terrapin, described this approach in an email: The Terrapin attack is a novel cryptographic attack … | Continue reading
Here’s a Warrant Showing the U.S. Government is Monitoring Push Notifications: The letter does not disclose the legal mechanism used by governments to demand this data from Apple or Google. But the court record reviewed by 404 Media does include some specifics around push notific … | Continue reading
Daring Fireball: 23andMe Confirms Hackers Stole Ancestry Data on 6.9 Million Users: In an email sent to TechCrunch late on Saturday, 23andMe spokesperson Katie Watson confirmed that hackers accessed the personal information of about 5.5 million people who opted-in to 23andMe’s DN … | Continue reading
Daring Fireball: Harvard, M.I.T., and Penn Presidents Under Fire After Dodging Questions About Antisemitism: The reckoning has come for the bizarro-world political climate that’s taken hold at these universities in the last decade or two. This patently offensive equivocation — wh … | Continue reading
We are drowning in Google’s magnanimity – kpassa.me: In reality of course OKRs are just fine. At least they’re fine for Google. For a company with its particular needs and structure, sure, it’s a fine way to run things. For the rest of us, though, this well-intentioned subtle rei … | Continue reading
Introducing The Tech Stack File | StackShare: Today we’re excited to launch a new open source file format – The Tech Stack File (techstack.yml). With input from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) leadership and project maintainers, our goal with this new file format is … | Continue reading
New York May Require a Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer: The New York bill, called AB A8132, would require a criminal history background check for anyone attempting to purchase a 3D printer capable of fabricating a firearm. It would similarly prohibit the sale of those printe … | Continue reading
FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2 party-line vote | Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission today voted to move ahead with a plan that would restore net neutrality rules and common-carrier regulation of Internet service providers. In a 3-2 part … | Continue reading
What’s the Deal with Summed-Input Stereo Effects? – Quilter Laboratories: Recently, there’s been a lot of controversy about effects that use summed stereo inputs vs. independent inputs. Obviously, nobody wants their stereo signal unintentionally collapsed to mono. So, effects wit … | Continue reading
AI Risks: Beneath this roiling discord is a true fight over the future of society. Should we focus on avoiding the dystopia of mass unemployment, a world where China is the dominant superpower or a society where the worst prejudices of humanity are embodied in opaque algorithms t … | Continue reading
I find Musk very off-putting to say the least. But I still think this processis worth considering. (From Walter Isaacson’s book) Question every requirement. Each should come with the name of the person who made it. You should never accept that a requirement came from a department … | Continue reading
Kamal — Deploy web apps anywhere: Kamal offers zero-downtime deploys, rolling restarts, asset bridging, remote builds, accessory service management, and everything else you need to deploy and manage your web app in production with Docker. Originally built for Rails apps, Kamal wi … | Continue reading
I have no religion when it comes to shop notebooks. Not a type, nor paper or tech. But use “some thing” because not having anything at all will be a problem. Your workflow will determine how the next step occurs. You may be prototyping something, and so there’s no notes to guide … | Continue reading
37signals Dev — Announcing Strada: I’m happy to announce the official launch of Strada, the long-awaited member of the Hotwire family. Strada enables you to create fully native controls in your hybrid mobile apps, driven by the web. Build web components and native components that … | Continue reading
How Apple made the ultimate Snoopy watch: “You wouldn’t believe the minutiae”: That first meeting at the Charles M Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, was the Watch team’s first in-person meet-up after the pandemic, and what started as a two-hour drive north from Mountain Vi … | Continue reading
The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release: In the last few years, though, the gates have been trampled by smaller, more aggressive companies, such as Clearview AI and PimEyes. What allowed the shift was the open-source nature of neural network technology, which now u … | Continue reading
A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model: Apple wants a model that can run very quickly and very frequently, without draining much of your device’s battery. When I was testing the predictive text feature, suggestions appeared almost instantly as I typed, ma … | Continue reading
Google and HTTP: The web is a miracle Google has spent a lot of effort to convince you that HTTP is not good. Let me have the floor for a moment to tell you why HTTP is the best thing ever. Its simplicity is what made the web work. It created an explosion of new […] | Continue reading
Yesterday, DaKid™ left on his biggest adventure to date. I’m just marking the date. When I was 13 and did something similar, it was a different world. I had to use a pay phone to call home. Entertainment was reading a book (the school did not permit students going to the movies), … | Continue reading
Scrypted: Scrypted can bridge most cameras to the three major home hubs: HomeKit (including HomeKit Secure Video), Google Home, and Alexa. Scrypted streams are fast, low latency, and have rock solid reliability. Cameras: Unifi, Amcrest, Hikvision, ONVIF, RTSP, Ring, Arlo, Nest/Go … | Continue reading
Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Gives Country a Black Eye: “Try That in a Small Town” was risible enough as a single, but in case anything about its lunkheaded songwriting felt like it was left as subtext and not made explicit, Aldean has released a music video for the … | Continue reading
Daring Fireball: Dare Obasanjo, writing on Threads, retorted perfectly: The idea that an app that is clearly an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) doesn’t have 100 million active users is a failure is the sort of addle brained thinking that the tech media has saddled us with. The tech … | Continue reading
Run OpenTelemetry on Docker: At this juncture in DevOps history, there has been considerable hype around observability for developers and operations teams, and more recently, much attention has been given to help combine the different observability solutions out there in use thro … | Continue reading
Scripting News: Monday, April 3, 2023: A sense that because I work for the company that made the product, I know everything all the users know and more. It’s the same fallacy that applies to Silicon Valley billionaires. You have to step into a new perspective to love the product, … | Continue reading
The Vanishing – Tablet Magazine: The same pattern holds across America’s elite institutions: a slow-moving downward trend from the 1990s to the mid-2010s—likely due to all sorts of normal sociological factors—and then a purge so sweeping and dramatic you almost wonder who sent ou … | Continue reading
This New Breed of Generator Can Run on Almost Any Fuel: It doesn’t matter that it’s been raining for two weeks because your utility is tapping into ammonia produced with last summer’s sunshine. It’s consuming that ammonia in a linear generator. The linear generator can quickly sw … | Continue reading
Malware Delivered through Google Search – Schneier on Security: Criminals using Google search ads to deliver malware isn’t new, but Ars Technica declared that the problem has become much worse recently. [What a mess.] | Continue reading
Microsoft’s New OpenAI-Powered Bing — Pixel Envy: Microsoft announced today’s event unveiling these developments midday yesterday, hours after Google announced its efforts in the space, as it has done before. I am not sure whether to read this as panic or excitement, though Meta’ … | Continue reading
Exterior Sign in White Oak: Finished | David Fisher, Carving Explorations: After a lot of research, consultation of folks with exterior sign experience, and personal testing, I went with the artist acrylic paints above, although other very good brands would work as well. These pi … | Continue reading
The ability to build – by David Hoang – Proof of Concept: They’re not dogmatic about tools and methods Building is about the output and making it exists in the intended environment. Though I work for a company that focuses on no-code tools, I love code and programming. Whether yo … | Continue reading
Managing “Login Items” for macOS Ventura | by Robert Hammen | Medium: The concern for folks who manage macOS at scale is that users are able to simply flip a toggle to disable their management tools. Or security tools. Making it that easy to turn off essential tools is obviously … | Continue reading
MINICOOL one spray unit 479mm – MC2000 | Minicool | Noga Engineering: NOGA Minicool is using the VENTURI principle to spray an air + liquid mixture. The Minicool enables the user to easily control both the air flow rate and liquid rate. – Strong magnetic base. – Separate o/off ai … | Continue reading
Announcing Auth.js: Announcing Auth.js! Authentication for the Web. – Brand new `@auth/core` package, – Runtime/framework agnostic – Web standard APIs – Builds on NextAuth.js conventions/API – Decoupled from Next.js & Node.js. We’re adding official support for new frameworks… St … | Continue reading
Reimagining Democracy – Schneier on Security: What could democracy look like if it were reinvented today? Would it even be democracy —what comes after democracy? Some questions to think about: Representative democracies were built under the assumption that travel and communicatio … | Continue reading
Bloomberg: Apple planning to change course, allow third-party app stores and more – Six Colors: The usually well-sourced Mark Gurman at Bloomberg with the scoop: Software engineering and services employees are engaged in a major push to open up key elements of Apple’s platforms, … | Continue reading
Crowned CBN Grinding Wheels: Crowned CBN (Cubic Boron Nitride) grinding wheels provide a precise, clean, and cool-running alternative to bonded abrasive grit wheels. We worked with Woodturners Wonders to design a wheel specifically for hollow-grinding chisels, plane irons, and ot … | Continue reading
Apple advances user security with powerful new data protections – Apple: Apple today introduced three advanced security features focused on protecting against threats to user data in the cloud, representing the next step in its ongoing effort to provide users with even stronger w … | Continue reading
Your estimates suck: The thing you cut is scope, and if you have to cut too much scope, you cut the project. You don’t ship bad software. [So hard to get this point across in so many companies,] | Continue reading
Abstraction is Expensive – Speculative Branches: Ideally, you would like all of the abstractions you use to have aligned goals with your system. If you can buy a dependency that aligns with your goals, that’s great. If not, you will likely have to “massage” your dependencies to b … | Continue reading
Red Sweater Blog – Official blog of Red Sweater Software: MarsEdit 5 features a beautiful new icon, a “Microposting” feature for streamlined short-form blogging, enhanced plain-text editing with built-in Markdown syntax highlighting, a completely rebuilt rich text editor based on … | Continue reading
Brent Simmons: Every layer of abstraction you add translates to lost productivity in the future. [Yes! I tell you three times.] | Continue reading
Apple announces biggest upgrade to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points – Apple: Under the updated App Store pricing system, all developers will have the ability to select from 900 price points, which is nearly 10 times the number of price points previously available fo … | Continue reading
‘Very Jewish Christmas’ salutes composers who gifted us with holiday hit parade: At a time when antisemitism has become unavoidable in the United States, the moment seems ripe for a reminder that Jews have profoundly shaped just about every aspect of American popular culture, inc … | Continue reading
Mastery often means doing something as many times as it takes to get it right. Whenever possible I give people the opportunity to revise their work as many times as they want. Only the final outcome or product matters. It was the learning and the hard work that I want to reward, … | Continue reading
Google Is Rolling Out ‘Side Rail’ Ads in Two Weeks — Pixel Envy: According to Google’s documentation, these ads will actually begin appearing December 13, and they will automatically be switched on for any AdSense user who also uses anchor ads. All I want for Christmas this year … | Continue reading
The GigRig G3 Software Updates: Link to Software version 512 (iOS). Also, the focus I set on my iPhone while updating. Featuring: FLIP/FLOP STOMP: Group several StompBox mode presets together and flip/flop between them SUBTRACTIVE STOMP: StompBox mode presets now subtract as we … | Continue reading