The Night I Blamed My Router for Wikipedia Being Down
Wikipedia went down for hours this weekend thanks to a DDoS attack, and it took me way too long to realize it wasn't my own wifi acting up.
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.
The CEO Got Locked Out of His Own House
Jack Dorsey's own Twitter account got hijacked through a relic SMS-tweeting feature from 2006, and it says a lot about why SIM swaps keep working.
The Titanium Card Finally Showed Up
My Apple Card showed up in the mail this week, a blank titanium slab with no numbers on it, and here's what actually surprised me after activating it.
The iOS 12.4 Jailbreak Nobody Saw Coming
Apple accidentally reopened an old security hole in iOS 12.4, and for the first time in years the current version of iOS is jailbreakable. A look at the bug, and some nostalgia for the Cydia days.
The Note10 Ditched the Headphone Jack and I'm Weirdly Sentimental About It
The Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ hit stores yesterday, and the detail that actually stuck with me wasn't the price - it was Samsung finally dropping the headphone jack on its last holdout flagship.
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.
Reading Cloudflare's S-1 at 1 AM
Cloudflare filed its IPO paperwork this week, and I spent way too long reading the actual S-1 instead of just skimming a headline about it.
Adam Neumann Sold WeWork the Word "We" for $5.9 Million
WeWork's newly public S-1 filing is a wild read, especially the part where Adam Neumann sold his own company the rights to the word "We" for $5.9 million.
Samsung Killed the Note's Headphone Jack and I'm Not Over It
Samsung's new Note10 lineup dropped the headphone jack this week, and after years of Samsung mocking Apple for doing the same thing, it stings more than it should.
Samsung Killed the Headphone Jack on the Note, and the Irony Is Not Lost on Me
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note10 today and finally killed the headphone jack, three years after mocking Apple for doing the exact same thing.
The Capital One Thing Wasn't a Password Problem
The Capital One breach wasn't a stolen password, it was a misconfigured firewall and an AWS metadata endpoint handing out IAM credentials for the asking.