IGTV and My Tired Arm
Instagram launched its standalone IGTV app today with vertical-only, up-to-an-hour video. I tried it over lunch and my arm got tired.
Musk's Midnight Saboteur Email
Elon Musk emailed the whole Tesla staff overnight accusing an employee of sabotage. The theory is interesting, but the framing is what actually caught my attention.
A Week Into the GitHub Panic, and Nobody Actually Left
A week after Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub deal, the mass exodus to GitLab mostly fizzled out, though their import queues sure didn't feel like it on Tuesday night.
The Weekend Half of GitHub Tried to Move to GitLab
Bloomberg's Friday report that Microsoft was closing in on GitHub sent developers into a weekend-long panic, and GitLab straight into a traffic spike. Some thoughts from someone who did NOT export all his repos.
The Echo That Mailed Itself
An Amazon Echo in Portland recorded a private conversation and mailed it to a stranger, no hack required. It's a smaller, weirder story than GDPR week deserved more attention.
My Inbox Survived GDPR Week (Barely)
Five days into GDPR and my inbox is a graveyard of privacy policy emails, some US news sites just blocked EU visitors outright, and I have thoughts about cookie banner design.
Fourteen Privacy Policy Emails and the Great Unsubscribe Purge
Fourteen "we've updated our privacy policy" emails in four days ahead of Friday's GDPR deadline turned into an oddly satisfying inbox purge, and a reminder that a policy update isn't the same thing as a behavior change.
The Great Privacy Policy Email Avalanche
My inbox is thirty privacy-policy-update emails deep ahead of the GDPR deadline, and a much bigger internet policy vote got completely buried underneath it.
Watching a Rocket Land While My Inbox Fills With Privacy Policies
SpaceX finally flew the Block 5 Falcon 9 on Thursday, and I watched the whole thing instead of doing actual work, while my inbox quietly turned into a graveyard of updated privacy policies.
Falcon 9 Block 5 and the Boring Future of Rockets
While everyone was talking about Google's assistant calling a hair salon, SpaceX quietly flew the first Falcon 9 Block 5 and landed it on a droneship, the boring hardware change that actually matters.
Boring Bonehead Questions
Some notes on Tesla's rough Q1 earnings call, where Elon Musk dismissed analyst questions as "boring" and handed the mic to a YouTuber instead.
That Twitter Password Bug Finally Got Me Off My Butt
Twitter admitted this week that a bug had been logging passwords in plain text internally, and it finally scared me into cleaning up a decade of terrible password habits.