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$54.20 a Share, and Yes, That's the Joke

Everyone's talking about Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion, but almost nobody's talking about the fact that the per-share price is a weed joke he's used before, and that should worry Twitter's lawyers more than its users.

April 26, 2022·4 min read

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The GitHub OAuth Mess and My Broken Heroku Pipeline

GitHub disclosed that stolen OAuth tokens tied to Heroku and Travis-CI let an attacker pull data from dozens of orgs, including npm - and it broke my deploy pipeline in the process.

April 18, 2022·3 min read

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Fifty-Five Million Dollars a Seat: Some Thoughts on Ax-1

Four private citizens are floating around the ISS right now after Axiom's Ax-1 mission, and I can't stop doing the math on what a $55 million ticket actually buys you.

April 16, 2022·3 min read

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Watching Four Guys Fly to the ISS Before My Coffee Was Ready

I got up at 6am to watch Axiom's Ax-1 launch, the first fully private crewed flight to the ISS, and ended up thinking more about the recycled Crew Dragon capsule than the $55 million price tag.

April 10, 2022·3 min read

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Watching Four Non-Astronauts Launch to the ISS This Morning

Four guys, only one of them a career astronaut, launched to the ISS this morning on a reused Crew Dragon capsule. Some thoughts on watching it live and what it actually means.

April 8, 2022·3 min read

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Two Months Is a Long Time to Sit on a Breach

Okta finally explained the Lapsus$ screenshots that went around last week, and the timeline shows they knew about the incident two months before anyone outside the company did.

March 30, 2022·4 min read

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Okta Took Two Months to Tell Anyone

Okta finally admitted Lapsus$ had access to a support engineer's laptop back in January, and the two-month gap before anyone outside the company knew is the part that actually bothers me.

March 28, 2022·4 min read

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Why My Mac Studio Is Stuck Somewhere Near Shenzhen

My Mac Studio order got delayed this week, which sent me down a rabbit hole into the Shenzhen COVID lockdown and why one city's outbreak can slow down half of Apple's lineup at once.

March 21, 2022·4 min read

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Apple's $1,599 Monitor Has a Webcam Problem

The Mac Studio and Studio Display shipped this week, and reviewers agree on one weird thing: Apple's $1,599 monitor has a genuinely mediocre webcam.

March 20, 2022·3 min read

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The Mac Studio Looks Great, the Stand Tax Does Not

Apple's new Studio Display starts at $1,599, but if you want the stand to actually adjust height, that's another $400 on top. A closer look at the one line item from last week's Apple event that's still bugging me.

March 13, 2022·4 min read

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Apple Wants Another $400 So Your Monitor Can Tilt Properly

Apple's new Studio Display starts at $1,599, and the stand that actually adjusts height costs $400 more. I have thoughts.

March 11, 2022·3 min read

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Elden Ring, My Frame Rate, and a Weekend I'm Not Getting Back

A week and a half into Elden Ring and I'm still fighting the frame rate as much as the bosses — some thoughts on FromSoftware's long history of janky PC ports.

March 5, 2022·4 min read