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

1. 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/

https://medium.com/@nickrosener/an-in-depth-guide-to-personal-cybersecurity-be98ba47c968

https://securityplanner.org/

https://www.wired.com/2017/12/digital-security-guide/

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/the-new-netflix-stethoscope-native-app-f4e1d38aafcd

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/02/06/security-hygiene/

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/02/do-it-yourself_.html

https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/846874266322665472

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/back-school-essentials-security

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/staying-safe-when-you-say-metoo

https://medium.com/product-hunt/dont-get-hacked-a25fde00f869#.1yxpzmbld

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…

In Safari on the iPad it looks great. In the app on iPad, not as much… :(

This is a list

1. Aligned.
2. Still aligned.
3. The baseline here works.
4. The baseline continues to work.
5. Yep, it’s pretty
6. But wait.
7. As the list approaches the 10th item…
8. Something a bit off…
9. Happens.
10. It looks like this. Why split it this way?
11. OMG. It’s probably some typographic claim…
12. No. The even ones are off?
13. But the odd ones…
14. Wait. 11 looks OK. But the others…
15. Our work here is done.

Here is a picture of the way some of the list items don’t line up nicely :(

The end.

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…

Last night on Twitter, formatting DJT’s tweets in Comic Sans scrolled by. This morning, it seemed like a good Chrome extension to write. I wasn’t the first to write one to do this.

It also works on sites that embed his tweets. Below, the Washington Post: