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Web tricks are not for kids any more
I started writing web apps in 1994. Using CGI.pm in Perl was pretty much state of the art – and the art wasn’t very pretty. ColdFusion appeared shortly thereafter, but only supported basic control...
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There’s no app for that
Putting responsibility for our children in the hands of governments and corporations is just wrong In recent years, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has been drumming up support for...
View ArticleSystemd and The Unix Way
What follows is not for the benefit of systemd supporters. I write it because somewhere out there In the wilds of the internet, there might still be some youngster with a clue who needs to get this:...
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The ‘Digital Divide’ is a chasm
The ITU, bless their binary souls, just released the 2014 Measuring the Information Society report. The headline is – or should be – that something is very wrong on the internet, and we need to fix it....
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Snowdrift? Toboggan hill!
Paul Chiusano, in the course of reinventing the world, writes: One of my personal pet causes is developing a better alternative to HTML/CSS. This is a case where the metaphorical snowdrift is R&D...
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Torrenting clichés live on for a reason
Freddie de Boer has a post up, decrying pro-torrenting ‘myths’ that need to die. Down in the comments, he writes, Many of you are dramatically underestimating the kind of resources that are necessary...
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Poettering Uber Alles
The wisdom of Dear Leader Lennart Poettering: The design of systemd as a suite of integrated tools that each have their individual purposes but when used together are more than just the sum of the...
View ArticleThe intelligence game
Some may express a lack of concern about evidence of intelligence agencies ‘hoovering up’ every single communication across the southwest Pacific. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t illegal and wrong....
View ArticleHTTPS Everywhere – what is it good for?
There’s a growing chorus of voices in infosec these days, calling for the effective deprecation of unencrypted traffic over the web. The only useful purpose port 80 serves these days, they argue, is to...
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Doing the Numbers
The pandemic is global. Why isn’t the response? When scarcity butts up against the public good, tears are guaranteed. This year—and for years to come, it seems—COVID-19 will provide ample opportunity...
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