What keyboard form factor is ergonomically right for you
How to measure what PC keyboard form factor (full-size, TKL, 60%, etc.) allow you to maintain a good ergonomic posture (for both gaming and typing).
Take precautions when linking to outdated or incorrect information
Take some simple precautions when referencing outdated, incorrect, or misinformation via a link. Label it for human and machine readers.
Yahoo!, AOL, OneSearch biased in favor of parent company’s websites
Verizon Media’s search engines promises “unbiased” search results, but serves results clearly favoring the company’s media websites over competitors.
Inconsistent user-experiences with native lazy-loading images
The various web browsers focus on different priorities and user experience trade-offs in their lazy-loading image implementations.
How to back up your password manager
Plan for the day your password manager stops working. Backing up your password manager is harder that it sounds.
Lessons learned maintaining EdgeDeflector for Windows 10
A 3-years retrospective of EdgeDeflector. The tiny utility program that lets you take back control over the default web browser setting in Windows 10.
Limit the impact of a security intrusion with systemd directives
OpenSMTPD recently had a critical remote code execution vulnerability. I look at how you can limit impact with systemd-service security directives.
Email politics, security, and why you got an empty newsletter
Last week was a busy week for email issues. Here’s what happened and why you got an empty blog newsletter this week.
The need for adversarial tech-interoperability legislation
Legislating open protocols and adversarial interoperability can help ensure more competition in digital services.
FreeStyle Libre Reader vs LibreLink app
The pros and cons of using Abbott’s dedicated Reader device or the LibreLink mobile app to read your levels with the FreeStyle Libre flash-glucose Sensor.
Smarter reusable IPFS chunks from HTML documents
IPFS splits files into chunks. Smarter splitting points in HTML files can create more reusable/deduplicatd chunks with higher availability.
systemd service sandboxing and security hardening 101
The systemd-analyze security command gives your systemd service units an automated security rating. This is a good starting point for security hardening.