The Capital One Hack Wasn't Even Clever
Capital One says a hacker got at data on over 100 million people through a misconfigured firewall, not some brilliant zero-day. That's the part that should actually worry you.
The Equifax $125 Check You're Probably Not Getting
The FTC's Equifax settlement promises up to $125 cash, but the fine print reveals a $31 million pool that could shrink real payouts to just a few dollars each.
The Website That Made Me Stay Up Past Midnight for a 50-Year-Old Moon Landing
A tab-obsessive night with apolloinrealtime.org, the site replaying Apollo 11 minute-by-minute exactly fifty years later, and why its restraint is what makes it work.
The BA Fine Is Huge, But Watch Where the Money Actually Goes
British Airways just got hit with a record £183m GDPR fine over last year's card-skimming hack, and the part nobody's talking much about is who actually gets that money (hint: not you).
GDPR Finally Grew Teeth This Week (Ask British Airways)
The ICO hit British Airways and Marriott with record-breaking GDPR fines this week, £183m and £99m respectively, and for once a privacy penalty actually looks like it might hurt.
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.
New Coke, Stranger Things, and the Weekend I Didn't Leave the Couch
Stranger Things 3 dropped all at once on the Fourth of July, and somehow the weirdest part of the weekend was drinking actual New Coke because Netflix and Coca-Cola told me to.
Slack Is Worth $20 Billion and Still Buries My Messages
Slack's direct listing made it a $20 billion company overnight, but that doesn't stop its threading and notification design from ruining my Tuesday nights.
Slack Skips the IPO, and My Free Tier Complaint
Slack's direct listing on the NYSE last Thursday was weirder and more interesting than a normal IPO, plus a longstanding gripe about the free tier's 10,000 message search cap.
Slack Went Public and Skipped the Usual Theater
Slack went public last week via a direct listing instead of a normal IPO, and it's got me thinking about pricing pops, and missing my old self-hosted IRC bouncer.
Google Wants to Change How My Ad Blocker Works
Google's Manifest V3 proposal is quietly reshaping how ad blockers work in Chrome, and after a week of reading GitHub threads and briefly re-trying Firefox, I've got some thoughts.
Father's Day, an E3 Hangover, and Stadia's Math
A Father's Day tangent into E3 week, my dad's Atari in the garage, and why Google Stadia's pricing still doesn't add up for me.