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My new office is in space!

Yes, one wall in the office has a nebula, which works great for video conferencing.

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There is a qualitative and quantitative difference between a day that begins with a little exercise, a book, meditation, a good meal, a thoughtful walk, and the start of a day that begins with a smartphone in bed.

How I Got My Attention Back — by Craig Mod

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This article puts into words something I’ve been feeling for a while now. It’s a bit long, but throughly worth your time. Seriously!

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Pair Networks Support FTW

I’m consistently amazed by the level of technical knowledge and excellence of Pair Network’s tech support. In a market where “tech support” is normally handled by poorly paid outsourced labor, it’s refreshing to speak to friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable staff, without having to be transferred to higher level techs.

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Creating ecosystems which rely on “likes,” “views,” and “engagement” will not survive.

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Takeaway: never trust your hard drives “built in” encryption. If security is crucial, trust well-built, audited, open source encryption solution.

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Wow, just wow. 100% spot-on.

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This is the very thing we need more sites and services to do. Way to go Feedbin!

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Watch—this—now.

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The best way to dramatically reduce software cost is to reduce the maintenance and testing costs. This is achieved not by devising means to make programmers program faster, but by devising means to allow software to be designed with more precision and accuracy.

Glenford J Myers, Software Reliability Principles and Practices, Page 12

This single quote describes what’s fundamentally wrong with most software today.

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Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

This video is a must see. It’s hilarious, insightful, and definitely worth your time. You won’t regret it!

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No, Alan Storm, you’re correct. As system get more complex, simple things such as setting and keeping a Content-Type header fall along the wayside.

I think the only solution is to go back to the web roots and create things as simple as possible, yet not simpler. More static files, less dynamic stuff which can’t be debugged.

In other words, less magic.

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"There's nothing you can say to us that [migrant laborers] are rapists or they're lazy," he says. "We know the work they do. And they do it all their lives, not just one summer for a couple of months. And they raise their families on it. Anyone ever talks bad on them, I always think, 'Keep talking, buddy, because I know what the real deal is.' "

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers : The Salt : NPR

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Security matters. It’s no longer the last bullet point in a long list of features, it should be the first bullet point.

Security begins in the hardware (I’m looking at you, Intel!), and expands to the Operating Systems (I’m loving OpenBSD!), and lastly, your own programs and services.

It’s not easy, but it’s essential.

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Completely worth the read.

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Although its not clear how much other competitive bids were, the Falcon Heavy's $130 million cost is approximately one-third to one-half the cost of its proven competitor in this lifting class, the Delta IV Heavy.

$130 million dollars and that’s a 1/3 to 1/2 of what they were paying? Wow heavy launches are expensive!