Half-Baked and Fully Broken: The Art of the Abandoned Project There’s a special kind of tragedy—or comedy, depending on how much you enjoy schadenfreude—in watching a grand project collapse into a half-finished mess because someone forgot to carry the zero[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you know that magical moment when you return from vacation to trade sandy beaches for a digital avalanche of updates, patches, and the cold realization that your computer missed you way too much. You left with Outlook humming along[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The temporary Band-Aid solution is the tech world’s most famous last words, right up there with “I’ll document it later” and “This won’t cause any problems.” You slap a quick fix into place, bypassing all the security protocols like a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No sane person would voluntarily sign up to crew under Captain Jack Sparrow. And yet, somehow, the man is never short of desperate, foolish, or temporarily insane individuals willing to join his misadventures. Why? Well, let’s examine the “benefits” of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cybersecurity engineers build Fort Knox, only for users to prop open the door with a rock labeled “password.” There’s a hilarious disconnect between what developers think users will do (Surely they’ll enable 2FA and memorize 20-character passphrases!) and what users[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First off, I actually enjoy putting together complex passphrases, but for most people, creating a password is a one way trip to a bad day. Welcome to the modern password circus, where you’re expected to create a masterpiece that’s part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Parents quickly learn that no amount of brightly colored plastic toys can compete with the siren song of mundane objects – especially anything with moving parts. While adults see a grocery store conveyor belt as a simple mechanism for transporting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes when I’m sitting there trying to come up with the answer to a security question, I get that awkward realization that the person I was years ago is basically a stranger at this point. What were you into in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
App permissions are a nightmare. So, there you are blazing through app permissions like you’re speed-reading War and Peace before a nap. “Location? Sure! Camera? Why not! My hopes, dreams, and existential dread? Uhh… Allow All it is!” It starts[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…