Promising technologies
Recently there have been a couple of stories about promising pro-liberty technologies: DarkMarket, for enabling free market transactions, and Dark Wallet, for preserving financial privacy.
View ArticleGood article on the folly of net neutrality
Net Neutrality: Don’t Let the FCC Control the Internet! Under the proposal currently in play, the FCC assumes an increased ability to review ISP offerings on a “case-by-case basis” and kill any plan it...
View ArticleGood news for Mac scripting
JavaScript for Automation Release Notes The JavaScript OSA component implements JavaScript for Automation. The component can be used from Script Editor, the global Script Menu, in the Run JavaScript...
View ArticleTime to look elsewhere
Apple to cease development of Aperture: Apple has announced that it is ceasing development of its Aperture photo editing application. The company will instead be focusing on the upcoming Photos for OS...
View ArticleAperture replacement
When looking at Adobe Lightroom as a possible replacement for Aperture, I quickly discovered that it wasn’t suitable. Lightroom just can’t handle the very large files produced by scanning large-format...
View ArticleA useful term
I learned a useful term related to my job: A schrödinbug (named after Erwin Schrödinger and his thought experiment) is a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber Coming
Google Fiber announces Austin sign-up dates and first neighborhoods to get service. Google Fiber announced Wednesday that Austinites will be able to sign up for the service in early December. For now,...
View ArticleClueless Cable Company
Yesterday around noon I signed out of my company VPN and fired up my VOIP software for a telephone meeting, only to find that the software (Jitsi) was unable to log in to my SIP account. A quick...
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Oh, the humanity!
This weekend I was playing Victoria II, a historical strategy game where you control a country from the beginning of 1836 to the end of 1935. The objective can be pretty much anything you want it to...
View ArticleTwenty Years
As of this month, I’ve been working in the software industry for twenty years.
View ArticleJob listings can get pretty stupid
While looking through job listings, I occasionally come across one that makes me wonder how the poster managed to operate a computer long enough to post the listing. Consider this one, seen on...
View ArticleBlog glitch
In the past few days something has started interfering with WordPress’s XML-RPC interface. That’s a problem because MarsEdit, the client app I use, depends on it. Although they initially denied it, my...
View ArticleBlog fixed
The problem I was having with my blog software has been fixed, thanks to MacHighway’s support people. It’s nice to do business with a company that actually cares about their customers!
View ArticleAmusing Easter Egg
This weekend I was playing Crusader Kings II, a historical strategy game covering 769 to 1453. While playing a Norse ruler, I discovered a mysterious metal box while sacking a French city. Shortly...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber
My apartment got Google Fiber yesterday, so I got it set up last night and cancelled my Time Warner internet service today. I get twenty times the speed for $50 less per month. Google also allows their...
View ArticleThe end of CityDesk
RIP CityDesk – Joel on Software. In those days all the cool kids wrote their own blogging platforms. I wrote CityDesk. In what turned out to be a monumentally wrong bet, I thought that people would...
View ArticleA very large difference in ease
Simple Web Development with Xojo. Do you find it frustrating to create web apps? HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX can be challenging, and frameworks such as Node, React, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, PHP and...
View ArticleTwitter’s new rules supposedly going into effect
The Twitter Rules. You also may not affiliate with organizations that — whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform — use or promote violence against civilians to further...
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Cities: Skylines Traffic Lights
I’ve been playing Cities: Skylines lately–it’s a city building game along the lines of the old SimCity series. It’s a very complicated game and doesn’t have any tutorials, so I spent some time watching...
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