Blue LEDs Won a Nobel and Now I Feel Weird About f.lux
This week's Physics Nobel went to the inventors of the blue LED — and it's got me thinking about the f.lux app I run every night to filter that exact light back out.
Blue LEDs, a Nobel Prize, and the Bulbs I Just Replaced
A weekend of replacing lightbulbs collided with the Nobel Prize going to the inventors of the blue LED, and it turns out the backstory is better than the physics.
I Installed the Windows 10 Preview in a VM So My Real Machine Would Be Safe
Notes from running Microsoft's brand-new Windows 10 Technical Preview inside a VirtualBox VM instead of risking a real machine, plus a stray thought about this week's Nobel Prize for blue LEDs.
Adobe's Ebook App Has Been Reading Over Your Shoulder
Adobe Digital Editions 4 has been quietly logging what you read and sending it home in plain text. Here's why that should bother you even if you don't own a single DRM'd ebook.
A Weekend With The Windows 10 Technical Preview
I spent the weekend running the newly released Windows 10 Technical Preview in a VM, and the Start menu's return has me thinking about how wrong I was about Windows 8 back in 2012.
A Weekend With FireChat, the App Hong Kong Made Famous
I downloaded FireChat after reading it spiked in Hong Kong during the protests, then spent a Saturday night testing its offline mesh networking with a friend at a bar.
Messing Around With the Windows 10 Technical Preview
Microsoft put the free Windows 10 Technical Preview up for download this week, so I threw the build into a VM and poked around at the Start menu's awkward return.
Instagram Goes Dark in China
China fully blocked Instagram this week as Hong Kong protest photos spread past the usual censors, plus a weekend spent patching Shellshock on some boxes I'd honestly forgotten I still had.
The Update That Ate My Signal
A blow-by-blow of getting burned by Apple's short-lived iOS 8.0.1 update, which killed cell signal and Touch ID on the new iPhone 6 before getting pulled within the hour.
The Bash Bug Ate My Weekend
A weekend spent hunting down every box I own to patch the Shellshock bash bug, including a CGI scare on this very blog's server.
What Shellshock Cost Me This Weekend
A weekend spent patching three servers for Shellshock, one shared host that wasn't patched yet, and a small aside about Apple's iOS 8.0.1 disaster.
My Saturday Got Eaten by Bash
A weekend spent patching the Shellshock bash bug across three servers, plus a side note on Apple's iOS 8.0.1 mess, and what it says about how much infrastructure runs unwatched.