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.
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.
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://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
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.
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:
Book suggestions and recommendations welcome :)
Gist: Short pieces from a psychoanalyst’s case histories; “patients desperate for change but not if it means changing.”
Review that made me want to read it here.
Gist: Excessive pride and the resulting military disasters. Surprisingly readable and witty, covering both “big picture” and…
