Month: January 2016

  • This Week in Web #4

    This Week in Web #4

    How to Make Your Own NSA Bulk Surveillance System Kim Zetter, Wired Nicholas Weaver, a senior researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley, has detailed the basic steps that it would take to create your own mass-surveillance system like the NSA employs. While he points out that you would need massive hardware…

  • Making My Goals More Useful For Another Year

    Inertia is hard to overcome; sustained change hard to enact. That’s what I used to think at least, and that’s what we’ve been trained to think when it comes to personal change. The pendulum swings to this from irrational optimism over how this year will be different, how this year you have what you didn’t…

  • This Week in Web #3

    This Week in Web #3

    The clever ways that service providers will encourage a secure by default web In a post shared by Google’s Ilya Grigorik – on Google +, of course – news broke on the imminent release of Chrome’s new compression algorithm, Brotli. Grigorik didn’t mention the estimated 17-25% performance improvements over gzip that it’ll bring to Chrome,…

  • This Week in Web #2

    This Week in Web #2

    Internet Explorer Continues to be Edged Out Internet Explorer has long been a punching bag of the web. Articles with colorful titles like "Death to Internet Explorer" are celebrating the end-of-life support for IE versions older than 11. This officially went into effect on Wednesday, 12 January 2016, but the effects aren't likely to be…

  • This Week In Web #1

    This Week In Web #1

    Is Twitter going to remove the 140 character limit? Leigh Alexander and Jeff Jarvis over at Slate talked about why it would be a good thing to up the limit to 10,000 characters, in an appropriately long 10,000 character article. What’s this all about? Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, posted a cryptic screenshot – via tweet,…

  • That Time That I Lived On The Internet

    That Time That I Lived On The Internet

    One of the things that I want to do is get better at producing content, and I’ve started a few projects to do just that in 2016. The first is a weekly newsletter for interesting stories about internet culture that I curate, the impetus of which I share below. Reposted from the launch post for…

  • Here’s to 2015!

    Here’s to 2015!

    It’s time for reflection! I’m home a bit sick today, but still scrambling to prepare for a new year. Go figure, I’m a day late on this. Like last year, I’m not going to focus on very specific resolutions though I’ve got a few things to work on in January. Some of this is a…