Finally Moving techpad to HTTPS: Let's Encrypt Notes
Notes from finally moving this whole four-and-a-half-year-old archive over to HTTPS with Let's Encrypt, including the mixed-content cleanup nobody warns you about.
Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, and I Can't Stop Thinking About Kinja
Gawker filed for bankruptcy this week amid the Hulk Hogan verdict and Peter Thiel's secret funding of the case. Some scattered thoughts on Kinja, blogging since 2011, and what it means when money quietly decides which publications survive.
The Password Zuckerberg Reused (And Why I Finally Ditched Mine)
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter got hacked with a reused password from the old LinkedIn breach dump, and it pushed me to finally fix my own terrible password habits.
Nest's CEO Just Left, and My Thermostat Didn't Notice
Tony Fadell is stepping down as Nest's CEO, and my thermostat on the wall has absolutely no idea any of this happened.
Uber's New $3.5 Billion Investor Has Some Awkward Timing
Uber just took $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, and almost nobody's talking about the obvious weirdness of that given the country's driving laws.
The Landing Nobody Was Supposed to Stick
SpaceX stuck another droneship landing on Friday with the Thaicom 8 launch, and it was the harder GTO kind of landing that almost nobody talks about right.
Google Allo's Privacy Default Is Bugging Me
Google I/O gave us Home and Duo and a talking Assistant, but the detail that actually stuck with me is that Allo's regular chats wont be encrypted end-to-end by default.
I Can't Find Instagram On My Home Screen Anymore
Instagram swapped its old camera icon for a flat gradient blob last week, and now my home screen is an unreadable wash of pink-orange squares.
Moving techpad to HTTPS (and why I put it off for years)
Finally switching this blog to HTTPS with Let's Encrypt's free certs, cron-job renewals, and the four years of mixed-content cleanup nobody warns you about.
Nobody I Know Is Upgrading Their Phone Anymore
Apple posted its first revenue decline in 13 years this week and everyone's writing the same doom-and-gloom piece about it. Here's why my three-year-old iPhone 5s isn't going anywhere.
Silicon Valley Is Back and It Got Meaner
Silicon Valley's season three premiere hit the office harder than expected, and the Jack Barker storyline is scarier than anything in season one.
One Cracked Building and a Million Phone Cameras
Sony shut down its earthquake-damaged Kumamoto sensor plant this week, a small detail buried in a much bigger tragedy that's still worth thinking about for anyone who cares where phone camera chips actually come from.