After Apple announced the new iPhone XR and XS Max, Greg Knauss submitted an app update to support them, saying so in his release notes. Apple rejected the update for mentioning the phones they announced to the world, and it just gets sillier from there. eod.com/blog/2018/09/r…

Two hot takes that I believe apply to 90% of all software teams: 1. You'd be better off on a PaaS like Heroku or Next than whatever custom AWS/cloud you've built 2. Postgres can do whatever you'd want from a non-RDBMS application data store. And faster. With fewer compromises

What I tell people: Don't peek at your A/B test early, it's meaningless. What I do: Come on, B! It's been twenty minutes, you can beat A!

Democracy in action? AKA Chaos. Glad I went, but not exactly impressed with the process. coloradoindependent.com/158071/unexpec… denverpost.com/news/ci_295852…

There was never a fully warrant-accessible world: Why the FBI shouldn’t object to all “warrant-proof” technologies technologyreview.com/s/601044/the-f…

New blog post: NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program? An opinion of recent events. haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-h… via @haneycodes

After the pad-left incident I wrote about why I think micro-dependencies are a disaster waiting to happen. lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/3/24/open…

Tay bot is a good example of what happens when you fail to design for evil. *Always* design for evil. businessinsider.com/microsoft-dele…

No disk encryption, again. x.com/nationalpost/s…

Receiving reports that Reddit, Inc. 's warrant canary has died. Here is what Spez (founder and CEO) had to say: reddit.com/r/announcement…

"West Virginia cop fired for not killing a man with an unloaded gun", dared to question rather than kill. washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch…

status.aws.amazon.com is currently showing that everything is green. #aws

The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" erikbern.com/2017/03/15/the… (blog post)

Reminder: PostgreSQL will return data in whatever order it feels like _unless you tell it to order it_.

Read @kristacox's excellent analysis of LSU's decision to sue Elsevier: policynotes.arl.org/?p=1537

every library should have a good science fiction and fantasy section

hey look, it's good old free market capitalism efficiently organizing resources to solve the needs and desires of the people again