Transit Passes on Google Wallet Are a Disaster
Expanding public transit in the United States is crucial, and integrating technology into existing public transit systems is important, too. Over the past couple of years, many of America’s …
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Best of 2022
I spent the last days of 2022 with my family in the lovely southern California town of Oceanside. As 2023 begins, I’m taking a look back at the best of 2022, from my favorite books, movies, and …
Static Website Pagination with Gatsby and Hugo
In my various posts about developing static websites, I’ve pointed out that some critical functions can be tricky to implement. One example is pagination—splitting a long list of posts across …
Building a Website with Hugo
I experimented with rebuilding my personal website using Hugo rather than Gatsby, and found that the speed and development process were much improved.
Development on Windows is... Good?
Not that long ago, most people would laugh if you told them you did any serious software or web development on Windows. All the serious coders used Macs, except for the handful who ran Linux. I was in …
Meditations on Decentralization
I got an NFT with a movie ticket. Accessing it and using turns out to be an adventure that reveals some of the flaws in the crypto onboarding process.
Slow Horses
Apple TV+ is on a roll. Its content strategy seems to be the opposite of Netflix’s; whereas Netflix produces a ton of shows and movies and gives directors and writers essentially free rein, …
ProtonAOSP on Pixel 6 Pro
One of the best things about Android, the world’s most popular operating system for mobile devices, has always been its customizability. For the truly adventurous, that’s often meant …
"Countdown to Zero Day" by Kim Zetter
Countdown to Zero Day is an account of the Stuxnet worm, widely regarded as the world’s first cyberweapon. It was a computer worm that most cybersecurity analysts believe was designed to target Iranian nuclear weapons facilities. Stuxnet sparked an intense debate of the use of cyberweapons and our vulnerabilities to cyber attacks.
"This is How They Tell Me the World Ends" by Nicole Perlroth
Nicole Perlroth is The New York Times’s cybersecurity and digital espionage reporter, and This is How They Tell Me the World Ends is her definitive account of the shady market for zero-day exploits. A zero-day exploit is a software vulnerability unknown to those responsible for fixing it, and zero-days are crucial tools for hackers, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement.