WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.860 The Weekly Thing, issue 43. Mar 3, twenty eighteen. Published March 3, twenty eighteen. By Jamie Thingelstad. In this issue: Pwned Passwords with 1Password, David Lynch Teaches Typing, Amazon buys Ring, Requests-HTML, erasing history, small b blogging. 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:32.106 I was able to transition the Weekly Thing to this new custom template without breaking everyone’s email experience! I can now happily continue to make small tweaks to improve the experience. My brief experiment with serif fonts only lasted one issue though. 00:00:32.606 --> 00:00:49.335 Here in “the North” the days are getting longer and warmer. It’s very nice to see the sun more. I am going to leap frog all that and head to India for the first time this week. I’m hopeful the 100 degree temperatures and transition to full sun doesn’t cause me to melt. 00:00:50.735 --> 00:00:52.079 Now, the Blog section. 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:54.308 Book: Why Buddhism Is True. 00:00:54.808 --> 00:00:59.741 Good read connecting Buddhist concepts and practices to benefits in modern life. 00:01:00.241 --> 00:01:01.370 Your Version Number. 00:01:01.870 --> 00:01:05.269 Applying Semantic Versioning to every day of your life. 00:01:06.669 --> 00:01:07.937 That's the end of Blog. 00:01:09.337 --> 00:01:10.617 Now, the Photo section. 00:01:11.217 --> 00:01:25.118 This section of Minnehaha Creek, as it leaves Lake Harriet, never freezes. We went on a walk during a recent dumping of snow, and it was cool to see all these ducks in the creek, braving the winter, with snow piling up on their backs. 00:01:25.618 --> 00:01:32.456 February 24, twenty eighteen at 7:46 PM 1401–1467 W Minnehaha Pkwy, Minneapolis MN. 00:01:33.856 --> 00:01:35.101 That's the end of Photo. 00:01:36.501 --> 00:01:37.981 Now, the Security section. 00:01:38.581 --> 00:01:43.201 A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded | WIRED www.wired.com. 00:01:43.701 --> 00:01:50.864 I’m continuously surprised why GitHub is so frequently the target of DDoS attacks, but this is an amazing timeline. 00:01:51.364 --> 00:02:20.948 Quote. GitHub briefly struggled with intermittent outages as a digital system assessed the situation. Within 10 minutes it had automatically called for help from its DDoS mitigation service, Akamai Prolexic. Prolexic took over as an intermediary, routing all the traffic coming into and out of GitHub, and sent the data through its scrubbing centers to weed out and block malicious packets. After eight minutes, attackers relented and the assault dropped off. End quote. 00:02:21.448 --> 00:02:25.837 That is an impressive, automated response to such a significant event. 00:02:26.337 --> 00:02:30.957 AgileBits Blog | Finding Pwned Passwords With 1Password blog.agilebits.com. 00:02:31.457 --> 00:02:52.409 It’s awesome to see AgileBits incorporate the Pwned Password service from Troy Hunt within 24 hours of it being released! Also great that this is going to be incorporated into the Watch Tower capability of 1Password. I’m a big fan of 1Password for Families. I'd recommend all families use it to share secrets and passwords. 00:02:53.809 --> 00:02:55.423 That's the end of Security. 00:02:56.823 --> 00:02:58.290 Now, the Software section. 00:02:58.890 --> 00:03:02.501 David Lynch Teaches Typing by RhinoStew rhinostew.itch.io. 00:03:03.001 --> 00:03:06.485 This is so weird, but I’m a David Lynch fan so it’s pretty fun. 00:03:07.885 --> 00:03:09.400 That's the end of Software. 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:12.278 Now, the Business section. 00:03:12.878 --> 00:03:17.324 Amazon Agrees to Buy Smart-Doorbell Startup Ring - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com. 00:03:17.824 --> 00:03:20.719 1 billion dollars? Wow, that makes no sense to me. 00:03:21.219 --> 00:03:26.008 Berkshire Hathaway twenty seventeen Annual Report www.berkshirehathaway.com. 00:03:26.508 --> 00:03:30.399 Warren Buffett's shareholder letter is always a great read. Nea. 00:03:30.899 --> 00:03:47.527 Quote. The 65 billion dollars gain is nonetheless real – rest assured of that. But only 36 billion dollars came from Berkshire’s operations. The remaining 29 billion dollars was delivered to us in December when Congress rewrote the U.S. Tax Code. End quote. 00:03:48.027 --> 00:04:00.375 44% of their gain was a result of the tax overhaul. The read on his 10-year "bet" against managed funds is very good (news flash, the index fund won). Plus bonus points for quoting Kipling. 00:04:00.875 --> 00:04:05.437 Flavors of Engineering Management · Thinking inside a large box blog.benjamin-encz.de. 00:04:05.937 --> 00:04:13.305 Interesting look at some different ways to manage engineering teams. I've always done "Product Team Engineering Manager" structure. 00:04:13.805 --> 00:04:19.660 Introducing C.A.R.E. – a simple framework for user onboarding - Inside Intercom blog.intercom.com. 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:29.352 Solid set of practices from Intercom on how they do customer onboarding. This is a huge area of focus for SaaS companies, particularly B2C ones. 00:04:29.852 --> 00:04:46.757 Quote. As your business grows and gets different types of customers, your onboarding will need to adapt. You’ll never be “finished” working on onboarding. And even your most loyal and active customers need to be continually onboarded to new areas of your product. End quote. 00:04:47.257 --> 00:04:53.924 You have to adapt these plays in the B2B market but the thinking behind this is what I would attempt to model. 00:04:55.324 --> 00:04:56.778 That's the end of Business. 00:04:58.178 --> 00:04:59.680 Now, the Programming section. 00:05:00.280 --> 00:05:06.162 Forde's Tenth Rule, or, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and love the State Machine" raganwald.com. 00:05:06.662 --> 00:05:19.116 Good introduction to state machines and how they are used in programming to deal with complexity. If you are around programmers and have heard state machines referenced this is a good introduction to the concepts and benefits. 00:05:19.616 --> 00:05:22.665 Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans github.com. 00:05:23.165 --> 00:05:33.768 A new Python module from Kenneth Reitz of Requests fame. Reitz designs modules very well and this is worth looking at. Previously, the go to for this thing was Beautiful Soup. 00:05:35.168 --> 00:05:36.520 That's the end of Programming. 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:39.122 Now, the Web section. 00:05:39.722 --> 00:05:43.274 Erasing history - Columbia Journalism Review www.cjr.org. 00:05:43.774 --> 00:06:11.733 The permanence of digital content is something I think about for personal websites, but I hadn't considered how damaging that intersection could be for newspaper sites. I've supported Internet Archive for years and their mission is to capture and save content. It seems like a good path would be for news websites content management systems to directly archive content into a place like Internet Archive and not rely on the web crawler to capture it. 00:06:12.233 --> 00:06:14.411 Small b blogging tomcritchlow.com. 00:06:14.911 --> 00:06:17.585 I like this thought about how to approach blogging. 00:06:18.085 --> 00:06:29.122 Quote. Small b blogging is writing things that you link back to and reference time and time again. Ideas that can evolve and grow as your thinking and audience grows. End quote. 00:06:29.622 --> 00:06:39.574 Personally I think of my blogging activity as being as much or more for me as a way to clarify my thoughts and share learning, and if others dig it that is cool too. 00:06:40.974 --> 00:06:42.326 That's the end of Web. 00:06:43.726 --> 00:06:45.545 Now, the Self-Improvement section. 00:06:46.145 --> 00:06:49.569 Live Like a Hydra – Thinking Is Hard – Medium medium.com. 00:06:50.069 --> 00:06:57.528 I've read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile but this essay on applying anti fragile concepts to your life is interesting. 00:06:58.028 --> 00:07:14.771 Quote. An antifragile way of life is all about finding a way to gain from the inevitable disorder of life. To not only bounce back when things don’t go as planned, but to get stronger, smarter, and better at continuing as a result of running into this disorder. End quote. 00:07:15.271 --> 00:07:16.273 Thought provoking. 00:07:16.773 --> 00:07:20.997 The two mental shifts highly successful people make — Quartz qz.com. 00:07:21.497 --> 00:07:33.829 This is an interesting read and challenges many thought patterns. I like the model it suggests of two shifts, and how different those shifts may be. Give this one a read and reflect on it for a while. 00:07:34.329 --> 00:07:37.241 Brave Enough | Jessie Diggins jessiediggins.com. 00:07:37.741 --> 00:07:47.705 Fabulous post from Olympic athlete Jessie Diggins on goal setting and her approach to the twenty eighteen Winter Olympics. Thanks to Leah Cunningham for the link. 00:07:49.105 --> 00:07:51.073 That's the end of Self-Improvement. 00:07:52.473 --> 00:07:53.868 Now, the Privacy section. 00:07:54.468 --> 00:07:59.212 Differential Privacy for Dummies – Roberto Agostino Vitillo's Blog robertovitillo.com. 00:07:59.712 --> 00:08:19.152 The first I heard of differential privacy was when Apple started to use the term to describe how they use advanced data techniques to make smart recommendations without reducing privacy. This paper is filled with more math than I can follow, but it explains a bit more about what differential privacy really is. 00:08:19.652 --> 00:08:46.372 Quote. Differential privacy formalizes the idea that a query should not reveal whether any one person is present in a dataset, much less what their data are. Imagine two otherwise identical datasets, one with your information in it, and one without it. Differential Privacy ensures that the probability that a query will produce a given result is nearly the same whether it’s conducted on the first or second dataset. End quote. 00:08:46.872 --> 00:08:53.277 If your working on systems that collect user data and also want to protect privacy this would be a good read. 00:08:54.677 --> 00:08:56.155 That's the end of Privacy. 00:08:57.555 --> 00:08:59.019 Now, the Sports section. 00:08:59.619 --> 00:09:04.574 Duluth welcomes home golden curlers | Minnesota Public Radio News www.mprnews.org. 00:09:05.074 --> 00:09:09.619 Great to see the Gold Medal US Curling team coming back home to Minnesota! 00:09:11.019 --> 00:09:12.267 That's the end of Sports. 00:09:13.667 --> 00:09:15.025 Now, the Culture section. 00:09:15.625 --> 00:09:20.930 programmers-oath: An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath github.com. 00:09:21.430 --> 00:09:34.511 I've written a lot about the intersection of programming and ethics. Specifically the idea of a moral oath that programmers should vow to uphold. Here is someone taking an initial attempt to put something like that together. 00:09:35.911 --> 00:09:37.133 That's the end of Culture. 00:09:38.533 --> 00:09:39.732 Now, the Tech section. 00:09:40.332 --> 00:09:43.280 Oscar Forner's personal website oscarforner.com. 00:09:43.780 --> 00:09:59.547 Honestly bash would be in my top 5 most often used tools and I know many people turn there nose to it. This writeup on tooling around bash though, including formatting, listing and unit testing is pretty cool. I had no idea there was a linter for bash! 00:10:00.047 --> 00:10:08.578 Google Cloud Platform Blog: 12 best practices for user account, authorization and password management cloudplatform.googleblog.com. 00:10:09.078 --> 00:10:14.101 Thorough list of things that you need to deal with if you are building an authentication system. 00:10:14.601 --> 00:10:19.704 Feed43: Convert web pages into professionally looking RSS feeds feed43.com. 00:10:20.204 --> 00:10:33.496 I use feed readers extensively and it’s a bummer when there is a website that doesn't have a feed for what I want. This site allows you to parse the HTML of the page and create an RSS feed from it. This could be handy to have. 00:10:34.896 --> 00:10:36.002 That's the end of Tech. 00:10:37.402 --> 00:10:39.169 Now, the Productivity section. 00:10:39.769 --> 00:10:44.751 Things 3 From an OmniFocus and TaskPaper User —Macdrifter www.macdrifter.com. 00:10:45.251 --> 00:11:08.386 I was very interested to read this. I've been an OmniFocus user since it was in beta, and lately Things 3 continues to get a lot of positive comments. I've considered switching, but I really don't want to do that. Switching task managers Is a major pain. This review ultimately came down on Things 3, but I’m going to wait for OmniFocus 3 before I make any decision. 00:11:09.786 --> 00:11:11.619 That's the end of Productivity. 00:11:13.019 --> 00:11:14.243 Now, the App section. 00:11:14.843 --> 00:11:16.672 Still Mind - Meditation Timer. 00:11:17.172 --> 00:11:19.274 by 1092599.com. 00:11:19.774 --> 00:11:29.858 Still Mind is the perfect minimalist meditation timer. It includes everything you need, regardless of your style of meditation, in an intuitive and beautiful interface. 00:11:30.358 --> 00:11:39.027 Want a minimal meditation app to simply keep track of time, work on your iPhone and Apple Watch, and integrate with HealthKit? This is the one. 00:11:39.527 --> 00:11:40.032 Free. 00:11:41.432 --> 00:11:42.757 That's the end of App. 00:11:44.157 --> 00:11:45.496 Now, the Status section. 00:11:46.096 --> 00:11:47.680 Friday @ 9:24 PM. 00:11:48.180 --> 00:11:50.220 Dan Wilson all-request on piano. 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:52.712 Friday @ 9:01 PM. 00:11:53.212 --> 00:11:58.277 Dan Wilson taking the stage for his 3-ring Binder “all-requests” show at Icehouse! 00:11:59.177 --> 00:12:00.704 Friday @ 8:57 PM. 00:12:01.204 --> 00:12:05.723 Fun performance of The Lion King at Justice Page Middle School tonight! 00:12:06.623 --> 00:12:08.284 Tuesday @ 9:12 PM. 00:12:08.784 --> 00:12:11.839 Still finding Alto’s Odyssey very fun. Great game! 00:12:12.739 --> 00:12:14.611 Monday @ 10:53 PM. 00:12:15.111 --> 00:12:20.726 I’m amazed at the “superpowers” Workflow gives me from my phone! Automating routine things! 00:12:21.626 --> 00:12:23.246 Monday @ 9:11 PM. 00:12:23.746 --> 00:12:30.031 My sons second grade class also has a mindfulness practice. It’s a great idea and it seems to work for them. 00:12:30.931 --> 00:12:32.532 Monday @ 9:09 PM. 00:12:33.032 --> 00:12:39.135 I got to be a guest reader in Tyler’s class today. Was fun to pick out a bunch of books for the second Graders. 00:12:40.035 --> 00:12:41.667 Sunday @ 8:33 PM. 00:12:42.167 --> 00:12:47.956 Another very good meal at Martina. Shaved brussel salad, beet salad, swordfish and panqueque. Wow! 00:12:48.856 --> 00:12:50.464 Sunday @ 2:17 PM. 00:12:50.964 --> 00:12:57.224 Theatre this afternoon. Make Believe Neighborhood at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. 00:12:58.124 --> 00:12:59.876 Saturday @ 9:27 PM. 00:13:00.376 --> 00:13:03.892 Mass Start Speed Skating reminds me a lot of track cycling. 00:13:04.792 --> 00:13:06.544 Saturday @ 5:57 PM. 00:13:07.044 --> 00:13:09.084 Interesting strategy in Curling. 00:13:09.984 --> 00:13:11.736 Saturday @ 5:28 PM. 00:13:12.236 --> 00:13:17.677 Congratulations to Duluth Curling Club for bringing home the first US Gold in Curling. 00:13:18.577 --> 00:13:20.353 Saturday @ 5:23 PM. 00:13:20.853 --> 00:13:25.822 Forestry.io is working great for me. Removes the friction from static blogging. 00:13:26.722 --> 00:13:28.083 Saturday @ 5:16 PM. 00:13:28.583 --> 00:13:32.318 If Curling can be an Olympic sport than surely Kubb could be too. 00:13:33.218 --> 00:13:34.946 Saturday @ 4:20 PM. 00:13:35.446 --> 00:13:45.820 macOS Photos app grinds my laptop to a crawl. Fans blaring, everything sluggish. Very frustrating. Seemingly doing nothing and it’s taking 280% and more of CPU. 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:48.736 Saturday @ 10:55 AM. 00:13:49.236 --> 00:13:53.767 We made 34,344 meals, enough to feed 94 kids for a year! 00:13:54.667 --> 00:13:56.680 Saturday @ 10:53 AM. 00:13:57.180 --> 00:14:03.885 We packed 22 boxes at Feed My Starving Children this morning! Tyler picked a great event for his birthday! 00:14:04.785 --> 00:14:06.535 Saturday @ 9:00 AM. 00:14:07.035 --> 00:14:14.811 At Feed My Starving Children to pack meals. Tyler wanted to come here for his birthday. Love this handmade graph of progress. 00:14:16.211 --> 00:14:22.417 That brings us to the end of the Weekly Thing, issue 43. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.