I saw this on Twitter and followed the link to read a transcript between a Node.js chat moderator and a participant that was banned. After reading through the entire exchange (and there are some choice little turns of logic in it), I have no idea why anyone would subject themselves to being a moderator. The bad actors seem like they’d take all the joy out of helping people.
On choosing to make Alto’s Adventure:
It was an incredibly enticing proposition, but I have to admit that initially I was unsure. I know almost nothing about snowboarding, and I’m typically not a fan of extreme sports games, so at first glance it all left me feeling rather cold (if you’ll pardon the pun) and I began to wonder if I was really the right guy for the job.
From Buzzfeed:
But while Glass failed to set the consumer space on fire, some clinicians and other medical professionals have embraced it as a hands-free means of sharing and accessing information quickly. As cases like Phelan’s demonstrate, Glass still has promise in enterprise markets like health care.
Stop and think about this for one second. Medical researchers, with access to extreamly sensitive data and bound by HIPAA and myriad other laws protecting patients, are going to wear cameras provided by an advertising company.
From the AgileBits blog on the Slack security breach:
The notion of infeasible depends on the relationship between the amount of work the defender has to do to secure the system compared to the amount of work that the attacker has to do to break it
Good read. There are lots of things we thought were not feasible until they were.
Slack notified users this week of a security breach. They also made two factor authentication available for everyone. This is not a coincidence. It’s time to change passwords and enable 2FA on any groups with personal information. I recommend using 1Password’s new one-time password feature.
While it doesn’t sound like anything was really compromised, Slack is increasingly becoming a honeypot. It’s nice to see how they responded to this first incident.
Given enough time and/or beer I’m likely to talk about task management. That’s exactly what happened in the latest Nerds on Draft episode.
I happen to manage projects for a living so I spend a lot of time putting things in lists and then removing them from lists. I’ve used a lot of different systems (or at least gave them a fair shot). But, you may have noticed a drop in the number of Macdrifter articles in the past year about project and task management.
Terry Dorsey updated is utillity for exploring your TapCellar data. He does some clever things with command line output for producing simple charts. I really like his average grade by style output. This is precisely the reason we made TapCellar and made the data portable.
It’s worth checking out just for the Ruby scripts.
Lore is a very well made amateur podcast. It’s a riff on This American Life but focused on the weird, mythological, mysterious and sinister stories of our culture. The first episode is only 17 minutes long and provides a brief discussion of vampires. Episode 2 walks through the Hoosac Tunnel.
It’s a refreshing change.
If you are a Plex Pass subscriber and use a Roku, then you can get immediate access to the new interface, which is a good deal easier to use. It’s still under development but since it’s just another Roku channel, there’s no risk of adding it.
I think the interface is easier to navigate than the standard horizontal scrolling list. The instructions for installing are in the linked page but here’s how simple it all is:
From Kotaku:
Though I’ve given away the solution to some of the early puzzles, each one does increase in difficulty. One of them involves solving a QR code. One of them involves slowing down audio and then translating it. One of them involves watching creepy video. Many require cracking codes, knowing different languages, visiting specific websites and finding a hidden message, checking constellations, using chemistry, using music theory, and more.
