Author: Brandon Kraft
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Spam Everywhere
I logged into Google Analytics for a site that I never touch anymore with no real traffic. The dashboard with the browser languages of my visitors was quite depressing.
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New WiFi
I swapped my old WiFi access points that never really worked that well together for a pair of Google WiFi mesh network APs. No complaints so far. I always anticipate WiFi connection issues will hit at some point, so I named the primary network “xmlrpc”. The guest network is welcometomy.casa, which, you guessed it, is…
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Mueller: Kitty Hawk of Self-Driving Cars
Google announced this week that it spun off their self-driving car division into a new company within the Alphabet umbrella, Waymo. With the announcement, they also announced that they completed the first driverless event on a public roadway—transporting a blind gentleman alone in the car—in 2015 in my neighborhood. I’ve enjoyed our little Google Waymo friends…
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Automattic signs pledge not to build Muslim registry
Automattic, which owns WordPress.com and a number of other web development and publishing tools, has signed a pledge not to help build a Muslim registry. Source: WordPress.com parent company Automattic signs pledge not to build Muslim registry – The Verge In addition to Matt signing on behalf of the company and a large group PR,…
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Utah: Where corn dogs are that important
Visiting a grocery store in Utah and realized I had no idea how important corn dogs are to the world.
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It Begins!
The service isn’t on yet—they still need to lay their fiber to the house—but it is coming. We already have AT&T’s Gigabit service—for three years now—but Fiber is cheaper and I’m ready for a change since having AT&T for eight years as an ISP. It isn’t lost on me that we’ve gone from AT&T for…