Sending notifications telling me to buy stuff from your app is the fastest way to get me to block your notifications or uninstall your app. I want useful notifications, not thinly veiled messages to try getting me to spend more money on you.

I hate being the person to tell someone to RTFM, but please RTFM.

I'm starting to get YouTube ads for literal tinfoil-hats. I've either done something really right or REALLY wrong to get AdSense to tag me with that.

Having some fantastic Pho with an iced coffee while I read a classic sci-fi book, HG Wells “War of the Worlds”. Perfect way to spend a few hours.

Please follow these steps when you are asking for technical help: 1. What you did, what you expected to see, and what you saw. 2. If you did anything new shortly before. 3. What steps you have taken to try fixing. 4. If it has always done that, or if you’ve never tried it before.

Friends don’t let friends use Python 2 in 2020, the true New Years resolution.

Due to worries about DNS over HTTPS concentrating all traffic through a single server that can see your traffic, the only logical next step is DNS over Blockchain.

I wish IPv6 was actually supported by ISPs. Giving all of my VMs public addresses and DNS entries would be a dream come true.

At the Beartooth / I Prevail / A Day to Remember concert tonight!

TIL macOS 10.15 uses LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL. Awesome! Also TIL Homebrew Python segfaults when dynamically linked against this. Not awesome! 😫 Can be fixed by installing OpenSSL and adding it to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. Hopefully it gets linked against LibreSSL soon!

My left foot keeps trying to hit the imaginary clutch in my rental car -_-

I didn't realize, but the Center for Naval Analysis released a report on the analysis on memes in 2018. It features citations and "subject matter experts", and its glorious. apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fullte…