I Stayed Up For a Watch I Didn't Buy
I stayed up until 3am to watch Apple Watch preorders open, didn't buy one, and watched the shipping estimates slide to June in under an hour.
A Few Days Into HBO Now (And Still No Roku App)
HBO Now launched this week with no cable required, but if you don't own an Apple device you're mostly out of luck for now — a few days in with the app, the price stacking, and why the timing before Game of Thrones season 5 wasn't an accident.
A Year After Heartbleed, My Passwords Are Still a Mess
A year after Heartbleed broke the internet's trust in HTTPS, a look back at the frantic password-changing Saturday, what actually got fixed, and why most of us went right back to our old habits anyway.
The Amazon Dash Button Is Not For Me
Amazon's little WiFi buttons for reordering Tide and Gatorade launched last week, and I have thoughts about why I still won't be sticking one to my washing machine.
The Week GitHub Kept Choking
A week of GitHub choking under a massive DDoS attack, watched from the perspective of someone who just wanted their git push to finish.
Watching a Stranger Build a Bookshelf on Periscope
I finally tried Periscope this week and ended up watching a stranger assemble IKEA furniture live for forty-five minutes. Some thoughts on live mobile video, Meerkat, and Twitter's timing.
My Deploy Broke Because Someone Is Fighting China Through GitHub
GitHub has been under the biggest DDoS attack in its history since March 26th, and my client's deploy hook has been collateral damage for a week.
Meerkat, Periscope, and Twitter Cutting the Cord
Twitter cut Meerkat off from its social graph right as Periscope launched, and after a week of using both apps I've got some opinions. Also: Google Maps turned into Pac-Man and I lost an afternoon to it.
Playing Pac-Man on My Own Street
Playing Google's Pac-Man April Fools joke on my own street, and a grumbly aside about GitHub getting hammered by a DDoS attack all week.
Twitter Cut Off Meerkat's Friends List and Yeah, I Noticed
Twitter quietly cut Meerkat off from its follow graph last week, days after buying Periscope, and having actually used the app at SXSW this feels like a pretty petty move.
Periscope, Meerkat, and a Guy Feeding Pigeons in Cardiff
Periscope landed this week right as Twitter cut Meerkat off at the knees, and after a weekend of watching strangers livestream nothing in particular I've got some specific complaints and one pigeon-related anecdote.
The GitHub Outage Nobody's Fully Explaining
GitHub's been getting hammered by a massive DDoS attack since March 26th, and the weirdest part isn't the outage, it's how the traffic is apparently getting there.