Category: technology
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security drill
Running a website, any website, essentially means you need to become a bit a security hawk. Granted, I installed this website on a domain name that I registered over two decades ago and from which I have run various sites, subdomains, and web apps. If it isn’t in at least a dozen dark web databases…
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spring cleaning
My house is twenty years old next month, and with any time one lives somewhere for two decades there comes the inevitable accumulation of clutter in the basement. As with many people, we have that room downstairs where reside archeological grade relics from our days passed. Boxes sit where they were packed a dozen years…
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social games
I spent nearly a decade feeding the massive social media networks like Facebook and Instagram with my creative output. What did it get me? I could tell you that I learned some skills in social media engagement, but that would be a bit of an exaggeration because an invisible algorithm did most of the work.…
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only reading
Used to be that when I bought a new piece of technology I wanted to push it to the limits to see what it could do. But earlier this week I bought myself a new e-reader and I’m approaching it with a completely different tactic: I’m using it solely as an e-reader. Let me elaborate. …
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nerd-vantage
I posted an article a while back called raw code in which I detailed the notion that having skills in technology (though the lesson is transferable to virtually every refined skill, trade, or art) means that one can get a leg up on others without that skill for simple things. In my example, I talked…
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clicks and clutch
About a month ago I upgraded my keyboard. Big deal, you’re thinking. A keyboard is a keyboard is a keyboard. Turns out on my little research adventure into finding a more comfortable way to type thousands of words per day I stumbled upon and through a secret gateway into the world of mechanical keyboard subculture.…