“Smart home gadgets, fitness trackers, toys and more, rated for their privacy & security”
“Firefox is getting ready to turn on its automatic anti-snooping tools to stop web ‘fingerprinting” tricks.”
“JavaScript drag and drop, resizing, and multi-touch gestures for modern browsers”
“I just need to put two boxes side-by-side and I hear flexbox is good at stuff like that.”
“Explore the hidden risks of “sharenting” on this episode of the Reset podcast.”
Nowadays I make a conscious effort to obscure the faces of my kids if I’m taking a picture for social media. I wasn’t always so careful, but the the youngest two have grown enough since I instituted this policy (a few years, starting at an early age) to protect them at least a bit from facial recognition.
Similarly I never use their real names unless it’s a message/post with a controlled audience.
“The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn’t suck.”
“I’ve recently been going down a rabbit hole of making improvements to my CanIUse embed. To give a bit of a background, it is an interactive embed I created to easily embed data from caniuse.com in my blog posts and anywhere else. I previously wrote about how I first”
“So will you all please move to IPv6? World: Nope.”
“If you’ve browsed your Twitter or Facebook page feeds in the last week, you have probably noticed that we changed the presentation of the posts, so they are more coherent with how a microblog post should look like.
Initially, Inoreader started as a pure RSS reader and titles are an essential part …”
This is a nice little change, that will hopefully make some of my subscriptions that little bit nicer to read.
Maybe a future “next step” could be detecting the various IndieWeb post kinds, and formatting appropriately? 😉
“I’ve been doing a lot of weekend house projects lately. I started with hours on YouTube watching videos on how to wire up wall switches because I wanted to control more lights on my network. …”
Homebridge sounds like something I should try out sometime; HomeKit has quickly become my favourite way to control devices in my home… but device support is seemingly getting rarer (especially here in the UK)
“It’s no secret I dig WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and now that WSL2 is available in Windows Insiders Slow it’s a …”
“British advertisers rely more on keywords than microtargeting tools, according to source”
“*On October 24, 2019, I presented the Hawley Foundation Lecture at Drake University. It was an update and reexamination of a 2006 [speech on professionalism](() I originally gave at Trinity University”
“The role of ethics in our modern web space has been on my mind for the past few years and I suspect it will occupy my thoughts increasingly as I move”
“I’ve been using 1Password for years without too many issues. It’s a nicely designed and implemented app with a long history. I really had no reason to look elsewhere.
However, there’s been a lot of noise lately about them taking $200 million in VC money. I’m not that concerned. They’ve grown and want to grow faster, so fine. It did, however, make me take a quick look at the alternatives, just in case.”
“The human rights organisation disputed the Spanish Supreme Court’s definition of ‘sedition’, the charge facing exiled Catalan minister Clara Ponsati”
