The BlogPage 1
I believe strongly in owning your own words on your very own home online, which is why I concentrate most of my writing here, and less on various social media outlets. You should consider the same, for a more open web.
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Five Things, August 2017
It’s mid-August and I have things to share, in no particular order or even with a greater purpose other than to get it out there. So here goes, a (perhaps long overdue) five things enjoyed post for mid-August 2017. I updated my setup page, mostly because of the 10.5” iPad Pro, which has replaced the […]
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On the app subscription model
1Password, Day One, and now Ulysses, turn to the subscription model. I don’t think this is a good thing. 1Password started to push for their server sync feature, with personal and family accounts. Subscribe ($36 for personal, $60 for family), get your passwords in the cloud, that sort of thing. It works well enough, we […]
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Believability
There was an interesting discussion about realism in fantasy the other day (thread here). Lots of good points were made by my friends Tim and Gábor (whom you should follow, obviously). Personally, I think the term “realism” is flawed when used to describe fantasy. It’s not a matter of if something is real or not, it’s […]
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Twitter DMs are dead
It’s no secret that I prefer Twitter (say hi to @tdh if you like) out of the social media offerings available. The short form format is something special, in my opinion. I don’t belong to the crowd that thinks adding more characters per tweet is necessarily a good idea. 140 characters might be a bit […]
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Welcome to TDH Thirteen
This is, according to my limited mathematical skills, the thirteenth iteration of my site. That’s obviously not entirely true, I am a liar by trade after all, but it serves my purpose for this piece. The previous version of my site, by which I mean TDH.me (I’ll get to that) was the twelfth. I never […]
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Author Chuck Wendig shares some business advice
Chuck Wendig is a successful author with lots of experience. When he writes about the, err, writing business, you should listen. Or read, as it were. There’s just too much to quote on this one so I’ll just point you to the blog post, if you’re a fellow wordsmith. If you’re not, well, have a […]
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Dropping the tech giants
A widely spread NYT column talks about dropping the five tech giants – Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet – and in what order. It’s an interesting premise, one that I’d like to dive a little deeper into, with my own reasoning.
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Was WannaCry the NSA's fault?
Wired reporting on the Windows ransomware that’s wreaking havoc at the moment: One reason WannaCry has proven so vicious? It seems to leverage a Windows vulnerability known as EternalBlue that allegedly originated with the NSA. The exploit was dumped into the wild last month in a trove of alleged NSA tools by the Shadow Brokers […]
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Longreads is thriving
Longreads is thriving under Automattic. It’ll be interesting to see where this ends. They’re using a member funded model to pay for original stories, with a bonus attached: Longreads has raised about $250,000 from “thousands of members” since it added memberships in 2012. The suggested monthly amount is now $5 a month or $50 a […]
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SMS is not a secure protocol
This was bound to happen: O2-Telefonica in Germany has confirmed to SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung that some of its customers have had their bank accounts drained using a two-stage attack that exploits SS7. In other words, thieves exploited SS7 to intercept two-factor authentication codes sent to online banking customers, allowing them to empty their accounts. The thefts […]