My text feed: Thabks for the food. thanks* Over and over and over agaan. again* It’s just too easy to quickly type and hit send. Proofread a text: catch 80% of the problems. Eighty percent is good enough most of the time. But, when I’m writing something more important, like…

Simple designs easily cater to a large segment of society, or sometimes allow more accessibility to someone with a disability at the expense of making it clunky for the average user. Good universal design, however is a win-win that helps everyone. There is a cost in the effort of the…

My code is a remix, your code is a remix. Almost everything is a remix. When I code for school assignments I copy simple examples from the textbook, I transform online examples to match my needs, and I combine together small bits of code from these various sources and my past projects to create a bigger project. Even when I code without any references, I’m thinking about code I’ve seen or written in the past. Now I think this is still creativity. My end result is unique and useful (at least for a grade and learning). However, if you break it down, looking at 3–5 lines of code at a time, each individual building block looks extremely familiar and less creative. In general we all work with the same building blocks and 99% of our creative works are built from the shared mental models we share.

Sometimes cyber attacks slow down a nation’s path to nuclear weapons. It’s exciting, and book are written about it. Most cybersecurity situations are much more mundane and are the result of human error: opening emails, clicking ok on operating system prompts, or running programs when you shouldn’t. Reading about cyber…

In their viral reaction video twins Tim and Fred Williams listened to Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” for the first time: they loved it. It brought an almost four-decade-old song back to the spotlight, including peaking at #2 in the iTunes chart. The reaction video “In the Air Tonight”…