Month: December 2021

New tool: Mess with DNS!

New tool: Mess with DNS!:

Hello! I’ve been thinking about how to explain DNS a bunch in the last year.

I like to learn in a very hands-on way. And so when I write a zine, I often
close the zine by saying something like “… and the best way to learn more
about this is to play around and experiment!“.

So I built a site where you can do experiments with DNS called Mess With DNS. It has examples of experiments you can try, and
you’ve very encouraged to come up with your own experiments.

I hope this project helps some of you understand DNS better, and I’d love to
hear about any problems you run into. Again, the site is at
https://messwithdns.net and you can report problems on GitHub.

[Interesting!]

Source: Julia Evans

…it wasn’t a vague VC pyramid scheme

I was there for the early web, it wasn’t a vague VC pyramid scheme. The web was a reduction of all the crazy complexity of tech platforms, web made it so you could write a network app in an afternoon. It was the opposite of the FUD that they’re calling “web3.” I’ve yet to hear a coherent explanation of why it should be called web-anything. Selfish beyond belief.

[Selfish is the new crazy.]

Source: Scripting News

Moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain ↦

Moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain ↦:

This is a nice post from developer Simon B. Støvring about getting data out of 1Password and into iCloud Keychain:

Ensuring all items in 1Password have a valid website address is necessary in order to import the items. iCloud Keychain will skip any items that do not have a valid website address.

After ensuring all items have a valid website address, they can be exported from 1Password by selecting a single vault and navigating to File -> Export -> All items…. After entering the Master Password the dialog below is presented. It’s important to change the file format to “iCloud Keychain (.csv)” before exporting.

The article also includes a link to Ricky Mondello’s shortcut for opening the Passwords interface directly on macOS or iOS.

Go to the linked site.

Read on Six Colors.

[Once again, a note to make it easier to find.]

Source: Six Colors

Fixing the date

“Fixing the date forces you to commit to shipping, no matter how much polishing you think it still needs.”

“We don’t go on because we’re ready, we go on because it’s eleven o’clock.”
—Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live

∞ Apple Support: How to turn on AirPods Pro Conversation Boost

∞ Apple Support: How to turn on AirPods Pro Conversation Boost:

In a million years I would not have figured this one out. Watch the video below, see if you agree. This is some pretty low discoverability.

That said, props to the Apple Support team for making this video. Very well explained.

[There’s almost no way I’d remember all those steps… but at least they made the video.]

Source: The Loop

iPad Pro Magic Keyboard trackpad suddenly stops working

iPad Pro Magic Keyboard trackpad suddenly stops working:

I had the same problem, 2018 iPad Pro running 13.5.1 with the Magic Keyboard. Removing the both the iPad and the USB-C power cord from the keyboard (i.e. no power going to the Magic Keyboard from any source) seems to reset things enough to get it to start working again.

[I’m marking this just for me to find again. It doesn’t happen very frequently for me, but when it does I never remember exactly what to do… (of course, now I will)]

Source: Apple Community

Don’t Not Eat at Bros

Don’t Not Eat at Bros:

In Lecce, Italy, there is a Michelin-starred restaurant called “Bros”. Recently, Geraldine DeRuiter and her friends had an amazingly awful experience there.

Recommendation: Do not eat here. I cannot express this enough. This was single-handedly one of the worse wastes of money in my entire food and travel writing career bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha oh my god

You should not visit Bros. You shouldn’t go and not eat there, as DeRuiter and her friends did. But you should read DeRuiter’s spectacularly funny write-up of their bizarre “meal”.

You never know what you never know…

Dear Liberals, Stop Trying to be the Good Guy. | by Julianne King

Dear Liberals, Stop Trying to be the Good Guy.:

Stop talking about the altruism of food stamps and start referring to it as national security. Hell, move the food stamp budget over to national security because, and here’s the kicker guys, IT IS. When people eat, they tend to be a little slower with the pitch forks. It’s no coincidence that 25 percent of the insurrectionists had recently declared bankruptcy. Poor people are desperate. Desperate people are dangerous. FEED THEM.

“This not going to go the way you think…”