Another Day In The Code Mines

Rampage was...not good. (Warning - "spoilers" below, though honestly, there's not much to spoil) I see you folks in the back...

(intro blog post here ) How to help your acquired employees succeed Out of the 6 acquisitions I've been involved with, two really st...

You've been acquired how many times ? In my career, I've been fortunate enough to have worked for a number of small software/hardw...

A key problem, maybe  the key problem  in software security is how to properly balance user convenience with security. Adding additional sec...

This weekend I read this excellent article  by Alex Gaynor responding to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's remarks on encryption ...

Less Architectural Digest, more "This is our home" We've been doing some remodeling on our house, and the overarching theme ...

I wrote a blog post last month on what your IoT startup can learn from the LockState debacle . In the intervening weeks, not much new inform...

[ editor's note: This blog post has been in "Drafts"  for 11 years . In the spirit of just getting stuff out there , I'm ...

For our recent trip to Europe, Yvette and I tried the seasoned-traveler technique of swapping out the SIM cards in our phones, rather than p...

A brief history of the Future Lessons learned from API design under pressure It was August of 2009, and the WebOS project was in a bit ...

The company LockState has been in the news recently for sending an over-the-air update to one of their smart lock products which "brick...

Why I hate the MacBook Pro Touchbar The Touchbar that Apple added to the MacBook Pro is one of those relatively-rare instances in which ...