After receiving some donations from obvious fakes (computer-generated addresses) and fearing some kind of fraud, I set up the extended protection offered by Stripe 1/8

Such a powerful visual by Search Engine Land on the evolving look of paid ads on Google. Even the pros sometimes can't tell the difference now between the paid stuff and everything else. nytimes.com/2020/01/31/tec…

Art Overflow (monkeyuser.com/2020/art-overf…)

Somehow I’ve lucked out and have an 8yo who thinks secretly reading under the covers past her bedtime is an act of rebellion, and it hasn’t yet occurred to her that her flashlights never seem to run out of batteries.

The backend vs the front-end

I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll make using Python better for sure (and not just on Windows :-). There’s lots of open source here. Watch this space.

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1/ A year ago, World Health Organization (WHO) started propagating an enormous error. Now we know that #COVIDisAirborne, and that surface transmission is low and large droplet transmission is minor. But World Health Organization (WHO) has yet admit this clearly, which continues to create great confusion.

Announcing API Bakery: build your REST API service in less than 5 minutes using Django: apibakery.com now out of beta

Clever Google Maps hack - naming your shop "Electrician near me" redirects searches to it instead of showing local electricians. #Google #GoogleMaps #hacks

In the last week I've started to receive inquiries from people running tree planting programs wanting my help. I am suggesting that they shut down their programs. Here I will explain why:

Last year, the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, as part of its Big Tech investigation, asked Amazon to disclose the expenses and profits for Marketplace and Prime. Amazon refused. 3/ judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrat…

How does Amazon pay for these losses? It extracts huge rents from third-party sellers. Our estimate is that Amazon had roughly $24 billion in profit from seller fees in 2020, which offset about $15 billion in losses on Prime/Direct Retail. 8/

Something I think a lot about is how video game engines are some of the last low-level performant software in the world because there is no metric for failure for any other programmer.

A little something we've been working on for the past 2 years in complete secrecy. youtu.be/sahskKAxSCY

one of the bullet points in this email reveals a terrible truth

Let's be clear: I don’t think there’s a Putin pawn inside YouTube censoring stuff to make him happy. There is however a large army of Moscow-controlled foot-soldier accounts operated by people who are savvy about how take-down algorithms work. That's all it takes.

How do I know so much about how Elon Musk does things? I spent 3 years investigating Tesla at Business Insider from 2018-2021. Here are some of sloppy, dangerous, callous, things I learned:

Super excited to release our car hacking research discussing vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of millions of vehicles, dozens of different car companies: samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs… Contributors: ꙅɿɘƚɔɘqꙅ Brett Buerhaus xEHLE Ian Carroll, sshell shubs Ben Sadeghipour Joseph Thacker