It’s that time of year again: where I remind everyone to back up their shit and one or two of you listen to my beautiful, unsolicited advice. Millions of photos (mostly terrible selfies)… Those old MP3s you ripped (or STOLE) twenty years ago… tax returns… files you don’t even want to know about but have … Read more
There are plenty of quick hit articles out there about moving to remote work in the current situation. Most of them are decent. Some of them are ridiculous. I’m not here to review those articles or drop a bunch of keywords in here with top ten lists for remote working. I am here to help. … Read more
Google should be fixing this on their end, but they haven’t yet. And they have no way to report spam (see below for an update on reporting spam through the web interface). If you’re seeing something like the screenshot below, read on for how to fix it (via The Verge, among others). I’ve seen a … Read more
This is not how you get me to subscribe. Holy overlays, batman! First, we have both a top and bottom pop-up. And that narrow space in the center? That’s not even the content from the article. It’s an ad. One that auto-plays. Horrible. Here, learn something about accessibility and usability. Okay, I’m going to close … Read more
The pace of technology is extreme and accelerating. I have never considered myself a coder or developer. I am an applier of technology. Early in life, I explored bleeding-edge technologies as they rolled out. I was curious. I wanted to learn all about these new tools. As I grew in my career, I continued to … Read more
Sitting at the library. Spent the afternoon Force-quitting Safari and Firefox to close about 100 browser tabs that I’ll restore when I restart those apps later this week. Working through Chrome now. Been at it for over an hour. 174 tabs remain. One hundred and seventy-four! Even for me, that is shockingly high. (I found … Read more
Last year I deactivated my Facebook account for a few months. This kept everything as is but turned off the ability for people to tag me and find my info when searching. I was generally just tired of the fake and the time suck it had become for me. I also wanted to experiment. Would … Read more
First things first. Go buy this. Now. It’s $10 off ($35) for just a few more days. What is Transmit? Transmit is one of those apps, and Panic is one of those companies, where I rarely even read the actual feature list for a new version of their software. I just buy it. They make … Read more
I found Tyler Vigen’s site, Spurious Correlations, sometime a few months ago. I’ve back a few times and spent what some might consider an outrageous amount of time reviewing all the crazy correlations. I like the simple, interactive charts generated, and I was curious how they were built. I was curious, so I went geek mode with “Inspect Element” … Read more
I love NDT. Here is his take on robots taking over our jobs. “You’re smart. Learn something new.” Exactly. Rather than complaining or freaking out about a robot taking your job, go out and learn something new. Learn how to work WITH the robot. Learn how to manage the robot. Learn how to make the … Read more