Properly organizing information is essential, but it can be hard to know where to start. Learn the fundamental building blocks of a modern information architecture. We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. Christopher AlexanderContinue reading… via…

Since Pokemon Go blew up the world a couple of weeks ago we’ve been trying to catch ’em all. Not the Pokemon; we’ve been trying to collect all the hardware hacks, and in particular the most complete GPS spoofing hack. We are now ready to declare the first Grandmaster GPS spoofing hack for Pokemon Go.… via…

Summary: System integration by writing and reading claims on a distributed ledger solves some big problems. Consider a distributed ledger that provides people (among other principles) with an identity and a place to read and write, securely and privately, various claims. As a distributed ledger, it’s not controlled by any single organization and is radically… via…

One of the options available when using Apple’s two-factor authentication (2FA) is to have a code sent to you via SMS. The US National Institute for Standards and Technology, which sets the standards for authentication software, says that text messaging is not sufficiently secure, and that its use for two-factor authentication will in future be…

One of the most interesting presentations at DockerCon was on the implementation of containers (and Docker specifically) on the Microsoft Windows Server platform. The Microsoft presentation was given by John Starks and Taylor Brown, although John did the majority of the presenting. You can find the video online here. Implementing containerisation for Windows has obviously…… via…

Samsung today introduced the world’s first flash memory cards in UFS form-factor. The cards are compliant with the UFS Card 1.0 specification and offer performance comparable to that of desktop SATA SSDs. It is worth noting that the new cards are not backwards compatible with current microSD devices, which use various versions of SD cards,… via…

Is a country merely constituted by a census of number of supposed inhabitants? It memes so. Via, I believe a recommendation on YouTube (based upon algorithms that absorb my activities), last night I watched the english translation of the documentary Facebookistan In this country, there are people who delete their content, but on request for… via…

800 years after its creation, the Scrolls of Frolicking Animals are still inspiring new content, thanks to the anime studio Hayao Miyazaki built. For the most part, Studio Ghibli doesn’t do sequels. Yes, Baron, from 1995’s Whisper of the Heart also plays a key role in The Cat Returns, released in 2002, and the Mei… via…

Important look at how to promote limnal thinking. I think it builds an elastic kind of mind that doesn’t discount or worse undermine “other” ideas. Jon Udell My short 2009 review1 of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline includes this Kevin Kelly quote that continues to resonate for me: Kevin Kelly calls the book “a short…

Not all ATMs are international ATMs. Your ATM at home is part of a banking network that might not exist in Japan. Citibank at one time was your only option and you had to know where those ATMs were located in Tokyo. However now, the Japanese Post Office (the biggest bank in Japan) has international…