: How do you plan to spend your first American Independence Day under our new monarchy? I was thinking …
: I’ll never forget that June morning where I woke up to a court-ordered American monarchy.
: If you want me to believe the Supreme Court of the United States is not a political organization, …
: It always cracks me up when someone says “have a good flight,” as if that were possible.
: I’m sorry, to which senseless Texas gun massacre are you referring?
: I just need a nanoroomba that cleans the top of my roomba.
: Each new OS update breaks a large number of my Shortcuts. Apple’s platforms were easier to …
: I have to imagine that at least 58% of Americans on ladders are high while doing so.
: I think I am finally going to make it to DEF CON this year. I didn’t manage to register …
: I made a Jinja2 syntax highlighting extension for Panic’s Nova IDE, because none existed …
: The contents of our freezer are a monument to good intentions without follow-through.
: Knowledge without power is useless. Power without knowledge is dangerous.
: People in 1970’s sitcoms were legitimately still unsure whom to vote for on the night before …
: I am not a fan of the way modern news publications iterate on their headline copy over the course of …
: Don’t be a dude. Be a person.
: It's Dead Simple My general strategy for living is pretty simple. I try not to get in anyone’s way, or to make …
: Just get the damned vaccine already. You are killing people.
: Not your average Joshua tree.
: The one true win in jQuery is/was the fact that you can get at a DOM element with 5 characters and a …
: I think one of my favorite things about iPadOS is the way it always shows me 57 notifications I …
: I have named the largest of our back yard’s wall lizards Larry.
: For the developers among you: am I alone in having the feeling that the bugs I encounter are getting …
: Hot Tip: if I have to change browser settings to make your Web site work, your Web site is garbage.
: The secret to getting what you want is simply to decide you no longer need it.
: I find that on average, Apple’s software works approximately as intended about 64% of the …
: Another day, another frustrating experience caused by an errant comma in a blob of JSON.
: I am seriously done with being forced to select all the fire hydrants before each and every HTTP …
: This is what severe intellectual dishonesty looks like.
: Those who say the sky is the limit often conveniently forget to mention that the floor is also a …
: I can’t believe it’s still impossible to type the word “he’ll” on an …
: I wish we could refer to white people as “people without color,” and to everyone else as …
: Is it maybe because people feel stupid while wearing an electrical shoe on their faces?
: I made my goofy farting animal stickers work with Signal.
: Cheers to Bank of America for blocking VPN connections. I don’t want my banking transactions …
: Here we are in 2020, and it’s still the case that 0% of Web sites work at all.
: The Bay Area at the height of rush hour on a Tuesday afternoon. This is a very unusual Tuesday.
: There's Hope in Solitude As terrible as the toll exacted by COVID-19 may turn out to be, some part of me tries to find hope …
: I just overheard an older couple and a younger woman in a heated conversation outside a grocery …
: How Determine If Need Hire Copy Editor Who Know How Read
: When typing on iOS I accidentally hit the spacebar 50% of the time when trying to tap a character on …
: Dystopia I am watching a bunch of paranoiac dystopian films from the 1970’s. The Criterion Channel …
: I subscribe to an ethical system comprised of one very simple precept: Avoid making things harder …
: Don’t get me wrong: I love the idea of a compostable bag. But if it doesn’t function as …
: Won’t soul music change, now that our souls have turned strange? — David Berman
: PG&E has shut our power down again. They are murderous, grubby buffoons, and the climate …
: Yeah, Deep Fusion is weird, and I wish I could turn it off.
: I hope Deep Fusion will improve a bit before it is released to the public—or at least that …
: Always Write Yours Words Good When Words Writes Is You Jobs
: The Apple Store just charged me $0.25 for a bag. Into which I would be stuffing two pretty expensive …
: All the hand-wringing about the death of journalism is clearly overblown.
: From Harper’s Weekly Review: Republican congressman Steve King drank toilet water at a migrant …
: Mashable breathlessly elucidates upon their shocking realization that tech nerds find future …
: iOS has been around for 12 years, and it still tries to auto-capitalize the first character in a …
: Why is every airport—without fail—boiling hot?
: Domino's Pizza Tells Americans with Disabilities to Go to Hell I really don’t understand this insane Domino’s Pizza court case. Firstly, I have rarely …
: When you really want to make sure to get your point across, I find that Caps Lock is quite a …
: What we need is a service which allows users to create small, insular, private groups based on an …
: After all these years, Amazon is still the ugliest thing I look at regularly. Every visual element …
: Surprise! When Equifax and the FTC publicized that you’d get (a measly) $125 after they left …
: I think we really ought to be putting every resource we’ve got into trying to find a solution …
: Reminder: putting an always-on media recorder of any kind in/on/around your house is a really, …
: I got three (!) separate Spam calls–from three separate phone numbers–in broken Robot …
: I mean, I get it. This is probably a lot more comfortable than an actual seat on the plane.
: If you are offended by the punctuation in my messages, and said punctuation makes you feel that I am …
: When software doesn’t behave the way I expect it to, I generally call it an …
: I just encountered the pseudo-word “contentful” on a page managed by Google, and I was …
: My Own 4th of July I am honestly not feeling that patriotic this year for what are likely fairly obvious reasons. …
: I have decided to create a 42-minute-long voicemail greeting which expresses my sincere appreciation …
: Sincere question: why does literally every prescription medication list “violent doomsday …
: Schools should probably start teaching students how to write a decent business email. Add a …
: The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ―Winston …
: I just got an email from Uber asking me if they should delete my account, which I never actually …
: Openly screwing the very people who voted for him. And many among them will, doubtless, love it.
: There are very few phrases which convey less respect than “with all due …
: My town (Half Moon Bay, CA) wants to install some license plate tracking cameras. We live in an …
: You can do far worse on a Friday night than seeing a 35mm print of Eraserhead at the Roxie.
: Taro ponds on the Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge, Kaua’i. Coconut palm on the left.
: I love traveling, but it’s sad how often the experience is completely destroyed by literal …
: Breaking News: Everyone Is Really Dumb
: I just spent nearly ten minutes typing my admin password into dozens of modal prompts when I opened …
: She realizes she’s being watched.
: Perhaps this branding needs a wee bit more thought.
: Is Rudy Giuliani a pilot now?
: A while ago I put together a Web page where I can quickly check the weather conditions in my …
: Has the World’s First Unhackable Chip Arrived? I’m going to place a bet on NO.
: A fine is not enough of a deterrent in egregious cases of blatant fraud like this one. Criminal …
: The important thing to know is that all the bad things I said about America are only too true. One …
: I am considering a change to my voicemail greeting: “Hi. It is 2019. I don’t answer my …
: Lots of wildflowers in California this Spring.
: What does it mean? It’s so beautiful!
: I’m not quite sure if it’s a good sign or a bad sign when your mechanic recognizes you …
: Perhaps Amazon reviews would be more helpful if anyone who wrote them knew anything about anything …
: We all love that thing where iTunes makes you enter your iCloud password 2,985,029,578,290 times in …
: Did you know that this year’s brightest Super Lunarmoon occurs every month this year? …
: Here’s a quick tip for 2019: don’t touch strangers.
: If the 20th was the “American” century, the 21st seems poised to be the Idiot century.
: Things appear to be going better than I knew!
: Cloudflare uses data sampled from video of a wall of lava lamps at its headquarters to seed …
: Have you noticed that in pretty much any evening of TV, you’ll see at least one person vomit? …
: I noticed my Macbook was hot right about the same time my battery was getting prematurely low, and I …
: This may be hard for the younger among you to believe, but once upon a time we used to have laws …
: Our present world may be a screaming nightmare, but at least it is being presented in a visually …
: Institutionalized stupidity is an existential threat to the human race. Fight stupidity today. Read …
: I estimate that approximately 46% of my life is spent typing passwords, responding to CAPTCHAS, …
: One cannot make a compromise with evil. Doing so is in itself evil. Evil is an absolute.
: The current move within the media to cast the shutdown as anything other than 100% due to …
: If only I could have known in 1991 that in the future, everyone would look like Vanilla Ice.
: Q: Is nothing sacred? A: No.
: Everyone everywhere is sick right now. I think every business in America should shut down for two …
: The entire premise of the Second Amendment is the idea that owning a gun is a bulwark against …
: Is it because his skull is full of wet toilet paper?
: That’s right, Siri. And don’t forget it.
: I always find Orion whenever I look upwards at night. It is never going to change.
: A Brief History of Contemporary Journalism 2009 AD: Journalism suffers as writers are pushed to crap out articles faster than they can be …
: Flags Raised to Full Mast after First Four-Minute Tragedy-Free Period of 2018
: My short documentary Passion Flower is now available on Amazon Prime too. I am very proud of this …
: My first feature film, Hell Is Other People, is now also available on Amazon Prime Video. I’m …
: There are a lot of people in this country who need better hobbies.
: Deactivation of motion smoothing on relatives’ TV: completed.
: It never truly feels like Xmas until my femurs are shattered in my tiny torture-seat on a loud, …
: From Congress I would ask for impeach. We need impeach.
: I have been working for a while now to get my films on Amazon Prime Video. One of them, The Glass …
: Because both of them are dumber than a box of dried rat droppings.
: It’s funny—based on the apparent lack of neural activity, I thought he might already have been …
: Hiring this zilch-witted little shit-goblin is quite possibly the very stupidest of all …
: YouTube is completely inscrutable to me.
: I believe it has been about five years since I last accurately typed a word on my phone on the first …
: I use Chrome for certain things at work, but I hate its refusal to abide by the standard system-wide …
: If you think using software is frustrating, try developing it sometime.
: Take Your Cat to the Beach Day, 2018
: The current trend of burying the link to a login page must die. I understand a focus on gaining new …
: We can all agree that pretty much every thing has been awful since about March of 2016, right? Like, …
: Finally, there’s proof. Until now, this fact had only been demonstrated in every single thing the …
: Do your thing. Stay out of others’ way. Don’t hurt anyone. None of this is very hard to …
: If it ever rains here in Northern California, I am going to walk out on my balcony and breathe so …
: Trump: Dumber Than Bush, Somehow
: He is a very stable genius, and he isn’t agitated at all. Nope, no sir, no agitation here.
: I am planning on smoking a turkey for Thanksgiving, a thing which I have never tried before. I have …
: Mitch McConnell Warns Against Oversight of Executive Branch Dried-up ghoul Mitch McConnell has a stern warning for House Democrats, reports NBC News: The GOP’s …
: If you’re still unsure as to whether modern air travel is a dehumanizing, literal hellride, …
: It blows my mind that any sentient organism would vote for Ted Cruz.
: Stan The Obscurities: THE DOMINO PRINCIPLE I’m the guest wiseass-in-residence on the latest episode of Stan Tbe Obscurities, a new film …
: Why would I want to paste styled text into a different app? Under what circumstances would that be …
: So Chrome is now breaking a system-wide keyboard shortcut (⌘-Q) for no discernable reason. One fewer …
: Happy Halloween from El Granada, CA.
: My AirPods are getting very flaky in their old age. They drop the connection to my phone …
: Am I right? Is the latest version of Safari automatically lazy-loading fonts, CSS, and JS by …
: If I win the lottery, I intend to prove once and for all that money absolutely can buy happiness. …
: If you haven’t tried to process decade-old 24p standard-def DV footage on a modern Mac lately, …
: I’m really sick of Bill Maher’s disdain for the phenomenon he calls “political …
: Amazon’s delivery options are increasingly bizarre. I don’t understand how the concept …
: Purisima Creek Redwoods Took a break this afternoon with Ginger and walked around in the redwoods. I love living here.
: Google is doing away with chatbots. How was this conclusion not broadly obvious within the first …
: Please, just quit giving your data away. Please?
: We were startled by this sight out over the ocean tonight. It seems SpaceX launched a rocket from …
: Imagine for a moment that we lived in a country which prosecuted open, wanton felonies.
: I’m just going to say this: the NBC app for Apple TV is hands down the absolute worst piece of …
: Sometimes I seriously wonder if we’d all be better off if we just burned the Internet down …
: This goes without saying, but Google’s iOS apps continue to be wet trash.
: California voter tip: if you see an ad for a ballot proposition, vote the opposite way. If …
: I am pulling the trigger on MacOS Mojave. I know some key things are going to break in the process. …
: Analysts Totally Surprised by Entirely Predictable Decade-Long Phenomenon
: Amazon Announces Every Object in the Known Universe Now Emits a Dumb Robot Voice I continue to be baffled, personally, by the rise of all this talking-furniture crap: Amazon …
: Bean Hollow State Beach. I’ve been indoors too much lately.
: Nike’s sales jumped 31% when they introduced the Colin Kaepernick ads. If you burned your …
: The people burning their shoes in objection to Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ads realize that …
: The New York Times asks: Should You Track Your Teen’s Location? Easy. No. UPDATE: Also, here is even …
: AI Probably Won't Kill All Humans, but It Will Likely Be Used to Subjugate Them Yuval Noah Harari lays out a sobering scenario in The Atlantic in which vast swaths of humanity are …
: I generally like and have no problem with the keyboard on my 2016 MacBook Pro. However, I am …
: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld an FCC ruling which posits that …
: Trump Decrees: Google Results Not Dumb Enough for His Dumb Base Our Dear Leader, The Dishonorable Resident Dump, has ordered Google to do more to let stupid people …
: This headline needed a little adjustment.
: Without fail, any article with the word “millenials” in the title is entirely vapid.
: I use Gmail every day (sadly) for work, and I still can never tell which icon goes with …
: Why am I still seeing smart people concede to the assertion that Twitter’s antogonism toward …
: Child Attempts to Obviate Mother’s Prohibition on Stealing Cookies By Stealing All Cookies, …
: Democracy would seem to have a tiny flaw: the whole thing goes a tad awry when a significant …
: Google Voice’s iOS app has “a new look and feel.” Nice. Now maybe they can add a …
: No! Seriously? Things with computers in them can be hacked? Who knew!?
: I’m thinking Apple might want to register itunesconnect.com at this point. There might be a …
: I really love the new approach media companies are taking when they discover I am running an ad …
: Drive like you’ve never seen a car before. Because that’s how everyone else is driving.
: The assumption has always been that AI would kill us all with Terminator robots or something. …
: Craven Shell of a Man Stands at Podium and Says Stupid Things His Boss Likes in Bad Faith
: Check out this tired little guy. (Zoom in. We get seals here too, @Miraz.)
: Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines: …the App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, …
: Stephen Levy, Hackers: […] hackers generally hate driving cars-the system of randomly …
: Don’t hate yourself. Laugh at yourself, and then try to be a little less funny.
: My girlfriend’s iPhone X crapped out within minutes of contact with water while we were on …
: Badly implemented form validation is one of the biggest and most pointless scourges on the Web …
: Nobody ever said the first day back at work after a vacation would be easy. If somebody said that …
: I make a point of renewing LinkLocker’s TLS certificate manually every two months. The …
: There is a common misconception which holds that one is being empathetic when one relates to …
: One of the three remaining airlines just acknowledged that I have “lots of choices” and …
: Now I kind of just assume that any person talking on the Internet is a Russian troll. Things make a …
: Here’s one example of the impact Trump’s stupid trade war is going to have on American …
: Well, here is a cheery story. These attackers could bring our electrical infrastructure down anytime …
: You know, maybe we do have pretty adequate evidence to support the fact that human beings landed on …
: I just stumbled upon a giant collection of photos from the Apollo 11 mission, thanks to APOD. Great …
: A typical summer’s day on the San Mateo coast.
: It is amazing to see news stories like this one slipping through the cracks while we’re all …
: This robotic suitcase is insane. Someone will run up and just grab it before you even get to …
: Lock Him Up The Guardian: John Brennan, a former director of the CIA, tweeted: “Donald Trump’s press conference …
: I now get the same feeling reading App Store reviews that I used to get when moderating spam …
: Damn. Guido is abandoning us.
: Proponents of the concept of intelligent design would do well to explain why everything in the …
: In 2018 a Web page that takes longer than one second to load is simply unacceptable.
: Someone should really introduce the denizens of the Bay Area to the modern wonder known as …
: Nine years ago today I moved—without a plan to make it work—from Tennessee to Northern California. …
: The heart haunts what the heart wants.
: San Jose, from Mount Hamilton.
: Good luck on scoring that pardon now, shitbird.
: This frequent urge to split California into multiple states is so monumentally stupid. Can we split …
: Martinis (yes, the cuke is nonstandard, I agree) outdoors.
: Call me a crotchety old man, but Bash is the only digital personal assistant I need.
: I take a great deal of issue with the use of “now”.
: There is a particular dread one feels when one re-reads an email one has just sent, and one detects …
: Not innovatey enough? Why not just adopt the razor-blade model and stick 37 distinct cameras on that …
: Amazon Echo Records a Family's Conversation, Sends It to a Random Contact Again, don’t put Internet-connected microphones in your house. Gruber: This confirms the …
: There has never been a better time to be wearing a tinfoil hat.
: This is why our country is such a steaming mess right now. Everything goes back to this.
: We stopped by Randy’s on the way to LAX earlier this week. It turns out their doughnuts are …
: Living within varying microclimates can be rather strange at times.
: I finally pulled the plug on my Twitter account yesterday. Good riddance.
: Mojave Drive Just out driving around in the Mojave Desert, as you do.
: It’s as if the sign is sharing its thoughts on our political climate.
: Here’s a tip: never volunteer to do anything that involves parsing XML. You’re welcome.
: It would be nice to be able to git stash a moment, just before checking out a different branch.
: The full nature of the problem with social media may be seen in the phenomenon wherein a putative …
: Can we get content blockers on the Apple TV, please? There’s a lot of “content” I …
: Also: am I the only one who *constantly*—like, 50% of the time—hits the ‘.’ key on iOS …
: Why did nobody tell me how tricky it is to build and traverse nice tree structures from data modeled …
: Truly the kōan our modern age deserves.
: If you’re still not sure whether Rudolph Giuliani is a brilliant legal mind or a blithering …
: You never know what you’re going to find in a Silicon Valley alleyway.
: Twitter bans Kaspersky from advertising on its platform. But Nazis are still totally cool. 👍🏻
: No, they really, really, really aren’t.
: Remember literacy? I do—vaguely, but with fondness.
: Mark Zuckerberg Aces in Sad, Phoned-In Beltway Tragicomedy Dick Durbin’s quip to Mark Zuckerberg is a bit sardonic and maybe even juvenile, but …
: Is there some sane rationale for disallowing a user’s ability to paste text into Web forms? …
: A survey finds that 16% of American adults aren’t sure the Earth is round. The Zombie …
: “Oopsie we ruined the world, sorry,” says Mark Zuckerberg. Sure, no worries, mate. 🤦
: My new personal rule: I will quit using services that put a signup form on the home page, but hide …
: I have finally found the stupidest article ever published.
: I look at WYSIWYG editors the same way most people might look at a sandwich with a giant booger on …
: Our elected “representatives” are collectively dumber than a box of dumb bricks.
: Perhaps the most surprising aspect of any of the recent Facebook news is the fact that anyone might …
: Some days I really just want to pack it all in and go live in the remotest cabin I can find.
: Bean Hollow State Beach & Pigeon Point Lighthouse We drove down the coast today. It’s a nice way to hit the reset button before a new work week.
: I’m trying to force myself to relax more these days, but the act of forcing myself isn’t …
: How many human-hours per day do you suppose are lost in workers staring at Slack while their …
: Security & privacy are best viewed as a counterbalance to convenience. Sometimes it’s …
: Whenever I encounter a site that still requires users to supply answers to “security” …
: Alexa, Scare Me To Death, Please! Buzzfeed is reporting that some users of Amazon’s Echo devices are feeling a bit creeped out at the …
: Good morning, Half Moon Bay.
: There should be a word for that moment when a tap target moves right before you tap it, leading you …
: We need a Manhattan Project to build networking equipment that actually works at least 30% of the …
: The next time you consider putting a caller on speakerphone while walking around in a public place, …
: Behind every frustrating session of debugging, there’s a really simple, stupid mistake.
: Boo-hoo! FBI security expert: Apple are “jerks” about unlocking encrypted phones
: It’s Friday night, and I face a crucial decision: whisky, or whiskey?
: Whenever my girlfriend and I are having trouble deciding what to eat for dinner, my ready suggestion …
: A couple of scavenging ravens.
: Our little seaside town has a number of great restaurants, and on some occasions one or two of them …
: All the hip developers are moving their server logic to the front end. But why? 🤷🏻♂️
: A life so full of tragedy. It’s too much to bear.
: I pulled some muscle or something in my chest, and to say the pain is horrible would be putting it …
: This is what you see now when you go to a Twitter URL while not logged in. Blatant lies, as per …
: NRA Gives Insane Award, Insanely The mind boggles at the thought that anyone could seriously believe that Ajit Pai “saved the …
: Weird weather on the coast today.
: This is a terrible dialog box (on Amazon.com). If I want to cancel, should I hit “cancel?” …
: Login Forms Are Getting More User-Hostile There are (at least) two really annoying login approaches I’m seeing everywhere on the Web …
: 43% of all login attempts across the Web are malicious, Akamai claims. Authentication on the Web is …
: 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 …
: Facebook’s plan to reduce Russian-style political propaganda using the United States Postal Service …
: Hacking was around a long time before computers were.
: Wait, Twitter is still a thing? Slightly related: Macs are still a thing?
: Debugging CSS is a bit like beating yourself in the face with a hammer, except the hammer has a …
: I write complete sentences with complete words, end those sentences with punctuation, and I use a …
: 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 …
: Why is it that no service can properly keep track of which TV episodes I have seen? How is this a …
: This Hemingway quote on a bottle of red in Calistoga was decribed to us as an Eff You to the …
: Yeah, still can’t get past the grossness of an always-on microphone in my home. Have fun with …
: The entirety of Internet history boils down to this oft-repeated process: somebody builds something …
: Why have I never set up a chair and a sun umbrella and worked on the beach before? What have I been …
: You’ve got to be kidding me.
: While we’re working on driverless cars, can we also work toward workerless offices and …
: … he celebrated his revival of the American economy as the stock market plummeted by more …
: News Explorer Is a Pretty Great Feed Reader I am currently using News Explorer for reading feeds. There are clients for both iOS and Mac, and …
: My neighborhood doesn’t suck.
: Finally getting in some solid bike time. Beautiful day for it.
: It’s 70 degrees out and everyone has the heat cranked up to 80. The world’s gone mad.
: Definitely not the droids I’m looking for.
: I’ve been sitting in traffic at a dead stop for two hours because a big-rig truck overturned …
: Headline: Intel reportedly considering launching smart glasses this year. Presumably before they …
: I’m tired of visualizing. The time has come to actualize.
: Might Lifetime Subscriptions Be the Answer to Subscription Fatigue? I’m considering the idea of adding a lifetime subscription option to LinkLocker. I think …
: I should get out and work in coffee shops more often.
: President has speech written for him in which he plays up economic gains (which are the results of …
: I just can’t seem to go more than 4 minutes without buggy software bringing my work to a …
: Even more than usual, today I am proud to be a Californian.
: I haven’t been able to ride my bike down the coast all month; first I had a cold, then I …
: If you’re not failing, you’re not trying. The goal is not to eliminate failure …
: Call me an old crank if you will, but I just am not attracted to the idea of talking to a computer.
: YouTube Serves Crypto-Mining Ads Ads can be much more than an annoyance. Sometimes they provide a handy window for attackers to get …
: If you believe the FBI’s B.S. about being completely hamstrung by their inability to backdoor …
: If you run a Web server, don’t forget to set up DNS to handle your domain(s) *with and …
: Imagine what the world would be like if software occasionally worked.
: It’s good to see there’s still something approaching accountability within the U.S. …
: Leave it Linus Torvalds to write a measured and mature reaction to Intel’s Spectre patches.
: I had a cold on New Year’s, and I think I’m already getting another one. It’s the …
: There’s no such thing as a “side-hustle.” It’s all just work.
: There’s nothing worse for a weekend than persistent dread about the week ahead. Except maybe a …
: Don’t make the mistake of assuming your time is more valuable than others’ time. We are …
: Sadness is an illusion. So is happiness. If the choice is yours, the choice is obvious.
: I officially reject any information which is attributed simply to “Officials.”
: Claire McCaskill, the Democratic senior senator from Missouri, voted for cloture. “The Show-Me …
: For a half second there, it looked like the Senate might act in favor of the people it putatively …
: My cat is weird. She was just lying there quietly with her head squished up against the oven door.
: There’s more to everything you see than what you see at first.
: BREAKING: Very Stable Genius Is in Excellent Health
: The world is completely full of people pontificating about matters they scarecely understand, while …
: Nah, it’s pretty much his brain.
: If you are interested in preserving a diverse, open, and ad-free Web experience, buy something from …
: JavaScript Is Itself a Malicious Payload Filip Pizlo explains how WebKit is affected by Spectre and Meltdown, and describes to some degree …
: I don’t recommend doing too many things. Since most things are not fun to do, people who do …
: Something will come along someday that is easier to work with / debug than CSS. Right? Please say …
: Spot what’s wrong with this picture of an Apple II.
: “Please tell me about your day while I enjoy this lovely glass of blood.”
: I would really love to see a fad that has everyone eating nothing but butter all the time at trendy …
: Heaven help me, I’m considering the idea of running a crowdfunding campaign.
: I would like to consider my opinions more carefully before expressing them online in 2018. Perhaps …
: Fundamentally, you’re on your own out there.
: While it appears that this sort of “meddling” is among the least of our worries, …
: It’s OK to love someone or something unequivocally. It’s not healthy to start from the …
: It’s very hard to find black-eyed peas in California. They are traditional New Year’s …
: May your new year be filled with adorable nightmares.
: Sometimes our culture’s reverence of stupidity can have serious consequences, particularly …
: Troll Poll: Tabs or spaces? Vodka with vermouth in it or “vodka martini?” Tastefulness …
: We gained a lot when our work tools became globally mobile, but we lost a lot more than we realized …
: I am going to have a lot of resolutions this year. Lots of things need to change.
: Yes, of course there’s a motorcycle parked atop the baggage claim conveyor. Naturally.
: You’ll notice it has been a long while since my previous post, and yet I’m still …
: Ordinarily I might complain right now about the unpredictable but inevitable changes in plans that …
: I have serious doubts about any guy who walks out of a public restroom stall with a huge grin on his …
: I find that a mild Smoke Event is not a good way to start one’s morning.
: The following text was accidentally typed out on my phone while it was in my pocket earlier, and it …
: The most frustrating thing over which I have no control is the fact that I am a control freak.
: I am saddened by the symbolic failure on display in the waste of aspirational fruit.
: Ars reports that New York City is pushing to study the ways in which the city’s digital …
: The things you are stressed out about right now probably don’t actually amount to anything. As …
: Only America could take a holiday that’s meant to be a celebration of peace and goodwill and …
: Mozilla apparently installed a marketing-driven add-on to instances of Firefox without user consent, …
: Our tiny Bay Area apartment can’t contain much Xmas cheer, so we cheer up our patio with a …
: MobileCoin Moxie Marlinspike’s and Joshua Goldbard’s proposed MobileCoin cryptocurrency has a lot …
: Sometimes, you just have to ship 400 packages in four hours. Such is life.
: This old comic I drew kind of says it all.
: Whoever coined the phrase “mind over matter” probably never had his mind on anything …
: I strongly believe that we are at war, and our government either doesn’t notice, doesn’t …
: I know the complete lack of rain in California right now is a dire sign of bad things, but …
: Wired published a great history of the practice of tracking when emails are opened. As you might …
: If you oppose stupidity, take heart. Your opponent is stupid, after all.
: A stolen moment of peace beside the Pacific.
: The toxic nature of social media becomes more apparent by the day. We are slowly poisoning our own …
: Pai is determined to force the Net Neutrality repeal vote, come Hell, high water, or an …
: Should you say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home? No, but you probably …
: Well, this is certainly disconcerting.
: Didn’t learn from the mistakes of Deceiver I, eh?
: Have a weird Christmas, everyone.
: Christmas at Pillar Point Harbor.
: At least 5,000 Wordpress sites are infected with a script that both logs keystrokes and mines …
: My favorite lunch spot looks its best at night.
: LinkLocker is now on Micro.blog, with the rather obvious handle of @linklocker. I had to fiddle …
: Just meditate on the phrase “networked doorknob” for a moment. Sounds dumb, right? It is …
: Phishing attempts are getting harder and harder to detect at first glance. Seeing that little green …
: MacOS 10.13.2 brings a profoundly new interface.
: Would you go for a discounted phone if it had ads on it? No.
: The story of the strange attacks on American diplomats in Cuba keeps getting more and more bizarre.
: Few things build more confidence in a financial institution than visiting a page on their Web site …
: The vibe at our local post office is so ridiculously chill. I think it’s where postal …
: I spotted a large jackrabbit running away from my headlights on my drive home tonight. Sometimes I …
: I Don't Get Why Everyone Watches YouTube So Much I must be quite alone in almost never watching things on YouTube. Maybe once per month, for about …
: I left the house without my wallet this morning, so I guess I’ll be running an unplanned …
: Have I mentioned Algo VPN lately? It’s an Ansible script that sets up a personal VPN on a …
: Beautiful sunset bike ride down the coast. One day ends, and another one begins.
: Chairman Pai and the other Republican commissioners simply do not care if consumers are protected or …
: Our small-town newspaper here in Half Moon Bay is full of stories about pumpkin farming, small-scale …
: Getting ready for Xmas on the Coastside.
: Streaming TV services still do a pretty terrible job at keeping track of what you’ve watched. …
: The fact that encrypted iTunes backup keys can now be reset with just the device’s passcode is …
: It’s strange how hard we have to fight for a little peace.
: Reddit really is a flaming dumpster full of flaming diapers. It makes Twitter look like an …
: These 1Blocker packages by @jthingelstad have made the Internet so much nicer to use for me. They …
: There are few things I find more calming than just watching the surf for a few minutes.
: I put together a workflow for Alfred that makes posting to Micro.blog on a Mac extremely easy. You …
: For some reason I actually just found myself saying “howdy do” to a person, with no …
: In a couple of weeks, LinkLocker.co will have been publicly available for one year. Here is to many, …
: The cell phone location data case currently before the Supreme Court has the potential to be a …
: Big waves in Half Moon Bay this morning.
: Spending last weekend in Big Sur reminded me that total silence is the most beautiful sound I have …
: An Australian electrician discovered that he could keep his employer from creepily tracking his …
: I dreamed about an app that lets users take 360-degree photography of their homes, and then post it …
: Correction: Brian Krebs points out that the High Sierra root bug is exploitable remotely if the …
: The MacOs High Sierra root account bug is indeed serious, and it is indeed due to a really amazingly …
: Another day, another revelation of disgusting behavior taking place at Uber.
: “Someone” submitted a million fake comments to the FCC which appear to favor their push …
: Billing oneself as a “security company” is the perfect cover.
: An ancient relic, spotted along a highway deep in a redwood forest.
: Imgur was breached in 2014. That’s three freaking years ago.
: I am experimenting with the idea of avoiding all news six days out of the week, and then just diving …
: Firefox Quantum is pretty great overall, but Mozilla will have to sort out the power consumption …
: Big Sur meadow, with really old tombstones.
: Going off the grid and outside of cellular range is a terrifying prospect when you are responsible …
: The Pythonista script I mentioned for posting to Micro.blog can be found on GitHub Gists.
: This story is particularly rich, after yesterday’s story about their throwing out comments …
: Uber’s decision to pay the ransom was stupid not just for the reasons enumerated in this …
: New Exquisite Corpse Brand Absinthe Basil Bliss Chicken Patty Man Cave Flavor Pucks
: My strategy for “Winning Black Friday” is quite simple: I plan not to buy anything.
: I put together a really simple Pythonista script that makes it extremely easy to post to micro.blog …
: I posted a thing on the LinkLocker blog about the really dumb Uber breach and the even more dumb …
: Sure, Rite-Aid Muzak Recording. Play The Christmas Song right after Hotel California. That’s …
: I think I’m going to get rid of the old jarrodwhaley.com and simply have that domain point to …
: I am so glad I started riding a bike again, and Half Moon Bay is a great place to do so.
: I turned off autocorrect on my iPhone this morning. It’s too early to say so for sure, but I …
: Is it evil to avoid speaking up (for fear of becoming a permanent de facto IT person) when you …
: I was very glad to see that my shampoo is gluten-free. Glutinous shampoo would wreak havoc upon my …
: I bought a bike. Time to ride it was sadly not included in the package.
: …aaaaand I’ve already found the first major issue. Great.
: I just upgraded to High Sierra and I’m about to test my pre-exisiting Python development …