tl;dr some book recommendations since the last time I did this. I’m downstream of and benefit from a lot of good book recommendations. Passing some of them along here. (As always, I welcome book suggestions and recommendations!) There has to be something better than Medium. Recommendations welcome in comments. Just flat out good, clean, well-written joy I’m…

So about local government… — After all the US-wide, uh, excitement over the last four years, I started paying more attention to local government in the city where I live. I’ve been attending public meetings, reading the briefing packets… I even sat in on the budget process. A couple of observations from attending a bunch…

Tl;dr Reminders from a volunteer effort to build an app for the World Health Organization (WHO) about the basics of working with large organizations There’s a volunteer effort helping the World Health Organization deliver an app for people, beyond the governments and health and policy professionals that WHO technology typically…

tl;dr using a DSLR as a webcam Who doesn’t want to look better? Turns out that the front facing cameras on most devices… aren’t that great. Nicer webcams are backordered and/or jacked up in price. Q uestion: Can you use your nice relatively newish digital camera? Answer: Maybe. I am…

tl;dr some book recommendations since the last one I’m downstream of and benefit from a lot of good book recommendations. Passing some of them along here. (As always, I welcome book suggestions and recommendations!) There has to be something better than Medium. Recommendations welcome in comments. Strongly Recommended Fiction The First Fifteen Lives…

tl;dr will updated this write-up based on feedback :) Framing (not sure who to attribute to): 1. Make it harder for a bad person to get into the accounts you care about the most. 2. Make it easier for you to recover if something bad (account compromise, lost/stolen device, etc.) happens. 3. Make a list of the other “but what about…” things in one place to work through. Lists! https://cltc.berkeley.edu/2018/10/24/cltc-launches-cybersecurity-citizen-clinic/

tl;dr book recommendations since the last one — Getting a jump on writing up the end of year book list. (I guess I missed last year’s, oops, so this one is long). My intent is to add a little extra signal on top of the abundant lists that are out this time year for readers. I’ll start with…

Subhead — In Safari on the iPad it looks great. In the app on iPad, not as much… :( This is a list Aligned. Still aligned. The baseline here works. The baseline continues to work. Yep, it’s pretty But wait. As the list approaches the 10th item… Something a bit off… Happens. It looks like this. Why split it this way? OMG. It’s probably some typographic claim… No. The even ones are off? But the odd ones…

tl;dr how to protect against accidentally deleting an entire conversation in Messages on your Mac The second time this week on my Mac that I accidentally blew away the entire conversation history with someone in Messages, I decided to make it much harder to mess up this way again. For…