So I had a server on Linode that I had not updated for a while, and it was running Ubuntu 11.04 — which was so old that it was no longer easy for me to just update the OS from that server. Essentially, all the tools to upgrade that OS were so out of date that I … Continue reading Migrating an old Linode on Ubuntu 11.08 to Ubuntu 18.04
Ok, so I have wanted to set up HTTPS on my personal sites for a long time now, but I haven’t done so. I also hadn’t really explored how to do it yet. I had heard about LetsEncrypt but when I had tried it on my server I ran into some road blocks since it … Continue reading Trying to Set Up HTTPS for Free with LetsEncrypt and CertBot
Trump should be impeached. He should have been impeached a month ago, six months ago, a year ago, and still today. What particular point are we waiting for to say, “ok, now this is too much — ok, this isn’t ok?” We’re so far past that and we’ve been past that point for a while. Say you have … Continue reading Impeaching Trump — What are We Waiting For?
I recently published my top 5–10 year trends, which are: Computer Science Education Distributed Work Cryptocurrency I thought it would also be fun to write up my top 10–20 year trends. The timescales could be wildly off on all of these but these are some things I expect to start and then become big in the … Continue reading My Top 10–20 Year Trends
We’re excited to be launching the first online blended Introduction to Cybersecurity course for K12 this fall at CodeHS. Each week in the news you’ll hear about a new cyber attack, or a major company or organization that was hacked. In a connected digital world, this has become commonplace. But as important data moves increasingly … Continue reading With the CodeHS Cybersecurity Course, Teach Your Students, Practical, Applicable Digital Skills
For people who are just starting to learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain I wanted to compile a list of resources I found to be very helpful in learning about it. Here’s a short list! This is just a beginning, but there is lot’s more to read about. Whitepapers Bitcoin Whitepaper The original bitcoin whitepaper … Continue reading Getting Started Resources for Cryptocurrency
A young woman read a powerful poem at the Stockton Scholars launch event which I attended a couple of days ago in Stockton, CA. Her poem was about her father, who was being deported. He had moved to the country, and lived there, now having to move four times — to the US, and out, and to … Continue reading Poem at Stockton Scholars Event
Here’s a few travel notes from my trip to Thailand and Cambodia. I got a lot of helpful recs before I went and so here are a few of the tips and notes I had. I did a two week trip to a lot of cities — probably too many cities for that period of time. The … Continue reading Thailand/Cambodia Travel Notes
Here are the software tools I found the most helpful or were my favorite to use in 2017. Work Guru Get Guru today for your company! Yes I am now a walking advertisement for guru. It’s a super simple product — a chrome extension that provides a shared internal, easily-accessible knowledge base — and it is crucial for information … Continue reading My Top Software Tools from 2017
Twitter is a cool technology tool, but it has a lot of bad things. One of those bad things is the ease with which one can spread misinformation. Twitter should build in source links as a native feature to tweets to help promote better sourcing and reduce the viral spread of fake news. Twitter should … Continue reading #FreeIdeas for Twitter — Build in Sources as a Native Feature for Tweets
