Blocked By Transport Restrictions
More edge cases, more documentation. If we don’t push the small rocks up the molehills, how are we going to make mountains out of them? For future reference – hello future, I hope you’re out there...
View ArticleFor Whom The Ring Tones
This is a true story: in 2007, Ringtones were a billion dollar business. The history of this industry is full of technological advances that – at least first – include a few (seemingly) inherently...
View ArticleCoffee And The Null Result
For fans of coffee, empiricism, and honesty in the face of failure, this weekend I decided to try pushing the envelope on a cold brew recipe I’d seen earlier in the week. I decided to try a “triple...
View ArticleA Technique
One of the unpleasant realities of modern life is that you often open something shiny and metal-clad to repair it, and discover that inside it’s all plastic parts that have worn down just enough that...
View ArticleThis Again
It’s amazing how quickly the FreeOurFeeds thing dropped out of the discourse, but I guess there’s a log going on these days. Even so, spending thirty million dollars to somehow “force” Bluesky...
View ArticleBags Again
With their kid heading off to university and Given Our Current Situation, a friend asked if I could suggest an excellent bag for them, with the caveats being “fashionable”, “durable”, “fits a laptop”...
View ArticlePassive Security
This started as a Mastodon thread, but I’m putting it here for future reference. Tell me (email, I guess, I don’t do comments anymore) if this chain of thinking is reasonable: We deploy fleets of...
View Article1000x
A draft. I might revisit it later, but for now: a video game review. I would not have anticipated that 1000xResist would be totally impossible to play twice because now that I mostly understand what’s...
View ArticleHigh Altitude, Low Opening
In stark contrast to 1000x, I enjoyed this series back in the day; I love a big world with some big ideas in it, I love a good shooter/space-opera, and it was all of that once. ODST and Reach were the...
View ArticleAbout Printers
As the joke goes: Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands...
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