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Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files
Some folks on Hacker News, and Matt Holden of Dropbox in the comments, have raised the possibility of filesystem corruption, particularly because of a recently reported ext4 bug. I do use ext4, so this...
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The Making of isitchristmas.com 2012
If you visit in Chrome, Firefox, IE10, or Safari and wait a second or few for it to connect, you should see a bunch of crazy flags appear and start moving around and making ripples. Each flag is...
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Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free
From now on, you should see a delightful lock next to https://konklone.com in your browser’s URL bar, because I’ve switched this site to use HTTPS. I paid $0 for the trouble.
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How to Hack the Developer Console to be Needlessly Interactive
A stray interaction with Garrett Miller about how he put a colorful easter egg in the developer console for Mapbox sent me on a journey of console self-discovery, which resulted in me putting way too...
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Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1
To understand why replacing SHA-1 is so important, you have to put yourself in a browser's shoes. When you show up to a website using , the website presents a file — an SSL "certificate" — to your...
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Slack is now forcing users into arbitration and that is terrible
Slack, a young and wildly successful team chat and collaboration service, updated its TOS and Privacy Policy today. They have a friendly explainer that describes a very unfriendly new policy: mandatory...
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