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Echo Show Me The Door
Why I'll never buy an Echo Show again, and what Amazon could have done differently to make Alexa with a screen useful.
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront
How to configure Amazon CloudFront to apply gzip compression for websites hosted using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Cloud
Photo of clouds spelling cloud (actually a cunning crop of a sky writing advert).
Server Migration Complete
ITCHWY has migrated to a beefer box and a new OS and still seems to be working. Oh, and search is faster!
Nonfiction
According to the New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers list on Kindle Stephen King and Margaret Atwood are no longer fiction...
Securing the Internet of Things
A proposal to secure the internet of things via sandboxing to manufacturer owned URL by MAC address. No more DDOS from toasters.
California, I can save you billions with a small and reasonably priced computer program...
A cunning plan for a fully automated government software procurement analysis system that would save billions.
Stamp out B2B spam with an evil calendar
A modest proposal for a service to randomly connect salespeople together on useless video calls to raise the cost of spraying us with endless spam.
Google Cloud Vision Sightings
Things that Google Cloud Vision claims to have seen from my San Francisco web cam (including an ice hotel and a ballistic missile submarine),
I'm not afraid of Google
Google advertises Project Fi to a Project Fi subscriber signed into Chrome on a Pixel XL