Februar 2022 Archiv

Rausgeschrieben.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Bad News Hat.

Something magic happened: the whole company flinched at the hat instead! Seriously, people were scared of the hat, but could separate that from the people wearing it.

Weird psychological hack, but it worked. I suggest something similar for everyone's incident procedures.

Lea Kissner

Thinking in Unix.

I’m a practitioner. I’m off to write programs with any excuse or activity.

Lorinda Cherry

Luftschild.

It's a fascinating new operational security wrinkle that relies on the popularity and ubiquity of Apple's Ios devices; foiling it requires not just that a spy facility be mobile-phone-free, but that all the facilities that deliver its mail also adopt this measure.

Cory Doctorow: Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags

Basic Needs II.

Glück ist mit dem Fahrrad zur Pommes-Bude fahren und dort Donald Duck lesen.