Setting Up Jitsi So I Can Stop Worrying About Zoom
Zoom's security mess pushed me to spend an evening self-hosting Jitsi Meet on a cheap droplet instead. Here's what actually broke and what I'd do differently.
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My Actual Home Office Setup Now That Everyone's Remote
A practical rundown of what's actually working for suddenly working from home this week: router placement, VPN split tunneling, a cheap headset, and keeping some shape to the day.
Windows 7 Is Dead, Long Live the Dell in My Parents' Office
Windows 7 lost official support this week. Notes from actually migrating my parents' decade-old Dell off it, including a free Windows 10 upgrade trick that still worked.
Two Days With Android 10's Gesture Nav
Android 10 landed on Pixel this week, and the new gesture navigation is good but fights with half your apps' own swipe gestures. Here's the sensitivity slider fix and what still doesn't work.
Two Weeks With GitHub Actions On An Actual Project
I finally moved a real project off Travis CI and onto GitHub Actions now that it's out of beta, and wrote down what actually worked and what was just more YAML.
A Long Weekend With SwiftUI
Spent the Fourth of July weekend messing with Apple's brand new SwiftUI framework in the iOS 13 beta. Some notes on what's great, what's broken, and why you shouldn't ship anything with it yet.
How I Spoiler-Proofed My Internet for Endgame Weekend
A practical, slightly obsessive walkthrough of muting Twitter, blurring Facebook, and dodging Google's own search results so nobody ruins Endgame before you get to the theater.
Firefox Send Killed My WeTransfer Habit
Mozilla's Firefox Send launched out of testing this month and I've been using it instead of WeTransfer ever since — here's why the encrypted, self-destructing file links actually stuck.
My Chromecast Started Telling Me to Subscribe to PewDiePie
My Chromecast got hijacked into telling me to subscribe to PewDiePie this weekend. Here's what UPnP has to do with it and how to actually fix it.
Moving My Side Projects to GitHub Now That Private Repos Are Free
GitHub made private repos free for everyone last week, so I spent the weekend migrating my junk drawer of side projects off Bitbucket and deleting the dead ones.
My USB-C Dongle Shopping List for the New iPad Pro
The new iPad Pro dropped Lightning for USB-C, and my first weekend with it was mostly spent figuring out which dongles I actually needed to buy.
Still Waiting on That October Update
Windows 10's October Update is still paused a month after it started deleting people's files. Here's how to check your build number and why you shouldn't force the upgrade yet.