I pulled some muscle or something in my chest, and to say the pain is horrible would be putting it mildly. It’s hard to do anything—even nothing at all.

This is what you see now when you go to a Twitter URL while not logged in. Blatant lies, as per usual in our times.

The mind boggles at the thought that anyone could seriously believe that Ajit Pai “saved the Internet” and our “free speech rights” by overturning rules meant to protect the free flow of ideas from corporate intervention.

Hey, the world needs a few liars and lunatics, right?

Weird weather on the coast today.

Good for him.

This is a terrible dialog box (on Amazon.com). If I want to cancel, should I hit “cancel?” Will that cancel my cancelation?

There are (at least) two really annoying login approaches I’m seeing everywhere on the Web these days:

1. Not putting a login form on the index page, opting for a signup form instead;
2. Not displaying the password field until after a username has been entered.

The first one is largely due to lame “growth-hacking.” The second is a lame response to the rise in malicious login attempts I noted in my post last night.

We cannot have nice things.

43% of all login attempts across the Web are malicious, Akamai claims. Authentication on the Web is a farcical mess.

Someday I hope to find a work space that is remotely workable. Some distant day.

UPS is really terrible at pretty much everything, making them the perfect company to represent this historical moment.

Never a truer friend.

Facebook’s plan to reduce Russian-style political propaganda using the United States Postal Service sounds clever at first glance, but it’s entirely toothless in practice. A Russian troll can receive mail just as easily as anyone else.

Hacking was around a long time before computers were.

Wait, Twitter is still a thing? Slightly related: Macs are still a thing?

Castle? Boat?

Debugging CSS is a bit like beating yourself in the face with a hammer, except the hammer has a differently sized handle every time you swing it.

I write complete sentences with complete words, end those sentences with punctuation, and I use a hyphen in my :-) smilies. If these things make me old, I don’t want to be young.

Truth is well and truly dead.

It would be easier to laugh at the absurdity of life if any of it were actually funny.

Some days I think programming is the most annoying activity in the world. Other days, it feels like the most rewarding and engrossing work I’ve ever done. For a while I thought this discrepancy was due to mood, and maybe that’s partially true—but now I think it mostly comes down to whether the circumstances of my day are allowing me to focus or not.