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: 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.

: Yeah, that’s about right.

: 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.

: Yes, I can. Gladly.

: 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 …

: Remember diving boards?

: 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 …

: Bingo.

: 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, …

: Murder on the rooftops.

: 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 …

: So, a folding phone. Why?

: 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 …

: Fixed it!

: Institutionalized stupidity is an existential threat to the human race. Fight stupidity today. Read …

: Fixed it.

: 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.

: There. Fixed it.

: 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 …

: What is wrong with people?

: 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. …

: Ugh. 🤦‍♂️

: 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 …

: No.

: 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.

: This moron has to go. Now.

: 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.

: Verizon sucks.

: 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. 👍🏻

: Snowy Morning In Tahoe

: 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 parking spot.

: 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.

: Flyby.

: Hummingbird.

: Seals on the rocks.

: 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 …

: Out on Cañada Road.

: Whenever I encounter a site that still requires users to supply answers to “security” …

: This should end well.

: Good night, Half Moon Bay.

: 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.

: OK. Why?

: 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.

: Good for him.

: 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 …

: Never a truer friend.

: 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?

: Castle? Boat?

: 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 …

: Goodbye, Monday.

: 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 …

: It’s about time.

: If you’re not failing, you’re not trying. The goal is not to eliminate failure …

: Good night, little druid.

: 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 …

: No guts, no glory.

: 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 …

: Android is gross.

: 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 …

: Just clap your hands.

: 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.

: This was inevitable.

: The following text was accidentally typed out on my phone while it was in my pocket earlier, and it …

: Man, the future is stupid.

: 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, …

: Sunday sunrise.

: Looking out my back door.

: 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.

: Life is rough for her.

: 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.

: Goodbye, sun.

: 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 …

: The edge of the world.

: 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 …

: Sunset over Big Sur.

: Big Sur meadow, with really old tombstones.

: Going off the grid and outside of cellular range is a terrifying prospect when you are responsible …

: “Unfortunately”

: 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 …

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