I’ve been incredibly lucky to encounter some truly amazing people. On about my 15th anniversary of working with UNIX, I decided to send a little thank you note to the guys who invented it – Brian W Kerrighan, Dennis Ritchie, and Ken Thompson – since they’d essentially provided me with the ability to make a…
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12 helpful tips (and a few scripts) for AWS
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What I learned publishing No Name Key – part 2 – The Cover
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Don’t do the cover yourself! Get a Professional! Mike Dennis, one of Jessica’s writing-group cohorts, spent at least a half hour trying to discourage me from doing the cover. I think he’s got a point. The cover turned out to be a lot trickier than I thought it would be. I’d never really thought about…
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What I learned publishing No Name Key – part 1 – Content
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Privacy and Security on the Internet circa 2014
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I’m still cleaning up after Heartbleed – a little bug that essentially rendered a lot of encrypted communications completely useless from March 2012 to now. Plus they get bonus points for giving the bug a really cool, scary name. Plus like a totally awesome logo. That’s the best marketing for a security vulnerability I’ve ever seen.…
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Snowden blew it.
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Happy New Year. Resolution: save money on Amazon AWS using xlogs.
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YC funding cut in half – $150K to $80K
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Paul Graham just posted this… dropping funding for each YC startup from $150K to $80K. Had I been accepted, I’d be a little bummed – but I don’t have that problem But because there isn’t anywhere to comment, I’m putting up a quick blog post a…