Thanks to Matt at Things tech support
I've been using the task-list-management app Things since 2009. It's far from perfect, but it's the only to-do-list software that...
Archive for Software
Attacking the compiler: Xcode and “Trusting Trust”
The Intercept recently published a long but interesting article about (among other things) CIA-connected researchers' attempts to subvert Xcode, the...
How to install Unix-like software
How to install Unix-like software: A text adventure transcript. Based on a true story. Or rather, several remarkably similar true...
Ingress: Augmented reality game
I've been playing Google's augmented-reality game Ingress intermittently for a few months now. Yesterday, I reached level 7 and (coincidentally)...
Ruby on Rails: Not as easy as it sounds
I've been making small database-backed web apps for years now, after learning how by reading the PHP code generated by...
Neat sliding-number-puzzle games
There's a nifty iOS game called Threes, in which you slide numbered tiles around on a board and combine them...
When the Internet of Things fails
For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...
Coraline and the perils of DRM: A case study
In 2003, on the evening when Hugo votes were due, I bought a copy-protected PDF ebook of Coraline from the...
Debugging principle of the day
Say your code is suddenly wonky, but the only change you've made recently didn't have anything to do with the...
Too many places for notes
Sometime in the past year or two, I was thinking about anthologies I'd like to edit, and I came up...
The scariest threats are the invisible ones
Three items that feel thematically related to me: I've been concerned for a decade or so about the possibility of...
Giving MIT access to your email
NPR reported today on Immersion, a project from MIT that shows you a graphical view of your email connections to...