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This is maybe going a little too far, but today turn off a few notifications on your phone.  You don’t really need them and you be OK without them.   View story at Medium.com  

Encrypted data is only as secure as its decryption key. I once had a salesman tell me the data was safe because it was encrypted in binary. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rhalbheer/2011/06/16/ten-immutable-laws-of-security-version-2-0/

Nice use of graphics to explain the flow of an idea. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/04/technology/jobs-not-mobs.html

I wonder if we are too far down this road to turn around now. Do you do it better? or the way users expect? http://uxmovement.com/forms/why-you-should-use-a-text-area-for-address-form-fields/

A failed pineapple and a better design that worked.

Although the planet’s atmosphere is presently losing about 100 grams per second—the equivalent of a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder—scientists say Mars lost the bulk of its once thick atmosphere billions of years ago, a relatively short time after our solar system formed . … Continue reading →

It’s a nice day when you move all your hosting off Go Daddy.

Does anyone at Popular Science fact check or are they just printing press releases now? http://www.popsci.com/half-oceans-population-disappeared-in-past-45-years

I picked these two up from Ali Express to monitor my room temperature and the temperature inside the enclosure.  Without the enclosure the temperature was about 13C in winter but the enclosure warmed up to about 25C.

I have already destroyed a nozzle on my Lulzbot Taz 5, through my own stupidity, so when the the ESun Cleaning Filament was available and in stock I gave it a try. I found it on Amazon for about $10. … Continue reading →