Chrome Finally Let Me Turn Off That Sign-In Thing
Chrome 70 finally added a real off switch for the forced browser sign-in that caused all that fuss back in September. Here's where to find it and why it mattered to me.
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A Weekend With the iOS 12 Shortcuts App
A weekend spent messing with the new Shortcuts app in iOS 12 — what actually turned out useful, what's still clunky, and why I skipped the new iPhones this year.
Chrome Finally Shamed Me Into Fixing My HTTPS
Chrome 68 started marking every HTTP site as Not Secure this week, so I finally moved techpad to HTTPS with Certbot and Let's Encrypt — here's what broke and what didn't.
Getting Techpad Off HTTP Before Chrome Starts Shaming Everyone
I finally moved this blog off plain HTTP using Let's Encrypt and certbot, mostly because Chrome is about to start calling every HTTP site "Not Secure."
A Ten-Minute Facebook Privacy Cleanup That Actually Does Something
A practical walkthrough of the Facebook settings actually worth changing this week — Apps and Websites, the data download, and ad preferences — not another Cambridge Analytica recap.
My Weekend of Patching Everything I Own
A weekend spent patching a home server, a desktop, and an AWS box against Meltdown and Spectre, including the Windows registry key fiasco nobody warned me about.
iPhone Batterygate: What I'm Actually Doing About My Old 6s
Apple finally copped to throttling old iPhones and cut the battery replacement price to $29. Here's what I'm actually doing about my sluggish 6s before the Genius Bar lines get insane.
The Root Bug Patch Broke My File Sharing
Apple's emergency fix for the macOS root login bug also broke file sharing for some of us. Here's what happened on my machine and how I fixed it.
The KRACK Patch Checklist Nobody Wants to Do
A week after the KRACK WPA2 flaw went public, heres what actually patching your router, phone, and dumb IoT gear looks like in practice.
What I Actually Did About My Router This Week (KRACK Edition)
A practical, un-panicked rundown of what I actually changed on my home network after the KRACK WPA2 flaw went public this week, and why my router vendor is the weak link.
Before You Tap Update: Checking Which Apps iOS 11 Is About to Kill
iOS 11 landed today and quietly drops support for every 32-bit app you own. Heres a two-minute check to see what youre about to lose before you update.
Freezing My Credit Tonight (Thanks, Equifax)
Equifax just disclosed a breach touching roughly 143 million people, so tonight's post is a practical walkthrough of actually freezing your credit at all four bureaus, not just the one in the headline.