Ultra-rapid Prototyping
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I built an app last night that allows me to look up bus arrival times via SMS. It took me 2 hours. Node is incredible!
2014
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Fasting
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Fasting isn’t just “not eating,” it’s re-sensitizing yourself to the things of this world you take for granted.
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Security, Legal Bypass, Warrants, and Apple
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Apple has announced they won’t be unlocking iOS 8 phones in response to warrants, not as a point of policy, but because the system they’ve built won’t allow it.
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If you’re not part of the solution …
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I use WordPress daily; I critique it almost as frequently. Are my suggestions contributing to a solution or just further conflating the problem?
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DNS and Cross-Site Scripting
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One of the first things on any security auditor’s list is checking to see if a site is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).
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When I Say I’m Proud of You
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For one reason or another, I relate to you and your experience. I feel similar to you in some way, and seeing someone like me do what you just did makes me proud of that identity I share with you.
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Advertising Experiments
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I took the time to run a quick experiment using Twitter’s new “Sponsored Tweets” functionality. I’m less than impressed with the results.
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Freedom of Information
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A world where the information to which we have access is tightly controlled is a world in which democracy, free thought, and liberty dies.
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Birthdays and Three-way Hash Collisions
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Let’s work out the probability that, in a given group of individuals, at least three share a birthday.
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WordPress and Default Themes
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First we had Twenty Ten. Then came Twenty Eleven. Then came the potential of a new default theme every year. We’re doing it wrong.