Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.

I'm a big fan of the original Kirby Air Ride. This weekend's demo was a blast to play. City Trial is still a roll of the dice, but is much more chaotic. And I'm actually looking forward to races!

Notes from a book about the Tor Project and its history. Read about the debate about whether technology is neutral and how to prioritize usability. Also learned that Tor sold an NFT in 2021, which cov...

On the warning signs we recognize and the hope we share

Had a blog post do really well this month, unexpectedly gave a talk at a PHP conference, learned some lessons about tech and US fascism, and clicked some more links this October.

I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.

For years a race-based medical calculation delayed Black patients access to life-saving kidney transplants

Got more questions? WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times provide answers.

Discord’s support provider recently experienced a data breach exposing user data such as names, ID photos, and partial credit card information. Affected users are being notified

My September 2025 featured links about tech ethics, a few random blog posts by me, and a story about pigs in Chicago.

An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Plan-Vert/open-letter

Some readers read every word, others skim. Some readers speak your language, others don't. Some readers read the original version, others a summary.

There is rarely a good reason to use `// @ts-ignore`. `any` and `// @ts-expect-error` are almost always better.

The campaign — separate from an effort to secure a community benefits agreement around the project — calls for the funds slated for a 128-acre quantum computing campus to instead be invested in resour...

After all you made your apps open source, so I can remove your ads.

In A Link to the Past‘s first dungeon, the Eastern Palace, you can hop off a ledge into a giant pot. You tumble down, down, down, into a little area with some Fairies. “Oh good,” I thought to myself when I first saw this, “some health refills.” I collected the Fairies and left the area. I had the same thought on my second playthrough, my third, my fourth, and so on. I was recently on my umpteenth playthrough of A...

Column: San Francisco's absurd, redundant startups are a relic of the past.

In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet...

Lots of links this month...mostly about the tech industry being evil! Whoops!

Gonna need all nerds of conscience to declare a complete moratorium on using 0xDEADBEEF in favor of 0xACAB8647, which has identical endianness and visual-repetition properties. 2896922183 is, while no...