While I applaud treating Facebook as a virus to be contained, I somehow doubt a similar version for Google is right around the corner.

(Via John Gruber)

This is amazing.

I appreciate that many of these products are probably maintained by somewhat disparate departments, but the lack of consistency in how things such as iCloud synching and cleanup act could probably do with some cohesion.

And Siri’s off-by-6 bug is Hall of Fame–worthy.

This is an incredibly thoughtful response to a very delicate issue.

I am not, nor have I ever been, a Cloudflare customer, but this post makes me confident they take their responsibility seriously.

I have exactly zero sympathy for The Daily Stormer and their ilk, but I think it is very positive that Cloudflare see the gravity of their decisions. Kicking Neo Nazis off is relatively uncontroversial, but it might not be as clear cut in the future, and it is not a decision that should be taken lightly.

An in-depth look at the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. This bit has been making the rounds on Twitter:

In 2008, according to “Dark Territory,” a history of cyberwar by Fred Kaplan, Russian hackers accomplished a feat that Pentagon officials considered almost impossible: breaching a classified network that wasn’t even connected to the public Internet. Apparently, Russian spies had supplied cheap thumb drives, stocked with viruses, to retail kiosks near NATO headquarters in Kabul, betting, correctly, that a U.S. serviceman or woman would buy one and insert it into a secure computer. In the past decade, cyber tactics have become an essential component of Russia’s efforts to exert influence over its neighbors.

A proposed style guide for Python, not quite as specific as PEP8, but dealing with some things that PEP8 doesn’t.

I agree with most of this, but this one in particular stood out to me because it echoes what I said in my first impressions of Clojure:

No one wins any points for shortening “response” to “rsp”.

(Via Python Bytes, episode #14)

I tend to go for the background shorthand, and certainly the font one, but in general, implicitly setting values is something one should avoid, in CSS as in most other programming languages.

Evan Miller on an in his opinion obviously imminent future with big tablets as the form factor of choice for professionals, primarily focussing on the shortcomings of mouse pointers:

The mouse pointer was designed for a 9″ screen, not a 29″ one.

It’s an intriguing argument, especially the serious considerations of styli (cue “They blow it” quote from Steve Jobs). I think there could be something here. (Even if I have historically been swayed by Apple’s arguments about the tiring of arms, the angle at which you can use a Surface Studio should help with that.)

This is amazing.

One of my favourite books is Charles Petzold‘s Code. This seems like something straight of the early chapters, it’s fantastic.

Simple step-by-step instructions for how to take a plain old form and improving it with lots of added behaviour, provided the browser supports the features.

This should really serve as the go-to example for how to do progressive enhancement.

Eevee on a lot of the things that are great in Python 3, especially compared to Python 2.

I have been very slow to upgrade myself, but will make an effort to do so, at least for my personal projects, and certainly for new projects.