The Great American Phone Insurance Rip-Off
Why I skip extended warranties on my devices
“Xbox One Reveal 2013 Highlights”
A console presentation with some questionable priorities
Everyday preferences, divided into two camps
Numbers Every Software Engineer Should Know
A sense of scale for caches, memory, disks, and networks
Posting a review comment shouldn’t take a search
“Go GC: Prioritizing Low Latency And Simplicity”
Go 1.5 aims for shorter garbage collection pauses
An interrupted recording takes an irreplaceable moment with it
“Federal Circuit Strikes Its Own Blow Against Overbroad Software Patents”
The problem with patenting what software does instead of how
Taxes make for a game nobody wants to play
Comcast makes waiting on hold even less pleasant
“Notes On Distributed Systems For Young Bloods”
Hard-earned lessons about building and operating distributed systems
Remembering a vanished collection of Matrix production material
A comedian takes on the absurdities of English
Jack Bogle’s Advice For A Rocky Market: Follow Ben Franklin
The cost of letting money managers take the returns
“Wealthfront: Silicon Valley Tech At Wall Street Prices”
Small investment fees can compound into a large cost
It’s Time To Kill The Monthly Fee For Small Accounts
The case against charging small investors a monthly fee
“Foie Gras Ban Proves Confusing, Hard To Enforce”
An expensive cracker gets around a ban
Facebook Adds Generics To Golang
A Facebook project offers generics for Go
“Knowing How Doctors Die Can Change End-Of-Life Discussions”
A different perspective on care at the end of life
A financial advice joke with a questionable premise
“Roth Retirement Accounts Are Very Overrated & Over-Hyped”
Making sense of Roth and traditional retirement accounts
Solid-state storage gets more affordable
“1Password Is Ready For John The Ripper”
How extra words strengthen a master passphrase
Toward Better Master Passwords
Rethinking passwords with Diceware passphrases
Another summer sale, another long list of games
“The Quest To Save Today’s Gaming History From Being Lost Forever”
The challenges of preserving games as cultural history
Federico Viticii’s IOS 9 Wish List
Improvements I’d like to see in the next iOS release
A reader finds an awful lot of tea in space
John Harris’s Science Fiction Cover Art
The artist behind a familiar science fiction book cover
CBS Spills The Beans On The New Apple Streaming Service
An unusually public hint about an unannounced Apple service
Standing against the renewal of NSA surveillance powers
“Go Is Unapologetically Flawed, Here’s Why We Use It”
A hopeful critique of Go’s limitations and attitudes
“Simple String Comparisons Not Secure Against Timing Attacks”
Early returns can leak information about secret strings
“50 Shades Of Go: Traps, Gotchas, And Common Mistakes For New Golang Devs”
A collection of Go pitfalls worth learning early
“The Cultural Evolution Of Gofmt”
How a code formatter changed expectations beyond Go
Using embedding to adapt an existing connection
Jackass Further Destabilizes The Korean Region
A misguided attempt at diplomacy through illegal entry
Changing The Size Or Case-Sensitivity Of A Sparse Bundle
Adjusting a Mac disk image’s capacity and format
Seeing the promise without being sold on the first version
A sharp take on Go’s design and its designers
“Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement”
The EFF’s objections to a secretive trade agreement
When Safari reclaims memory, open tabs can lose their state
What engineers say about other engineers’ code
Manhattan DA: Smartphone Encryption Will Endanger New Yorkers
A privacy objection to the case against encrypted phones
Is Life Insurance A Smart Investment?
Weighing whole life insurance against term coverage
“10 Things Life Insurance Agents Won’t Say”
The case for separating insurance from investing
What those grid lines in the camera app are for
“The Star Wars George Lucas Doesn’t Want You To See”
George Lucas’s preservation argument meets his own films
Robin Milner on what types can guarantee
Texas Finds More Lethal Injection Drugs After Almost Running Out
Questioning the choice of drugs used in executions