I could say “rock music is dead” and a bunch of fans will crawl out of the woodwork to list all their favorite rock bands. And I’m sure they’re all good! But that doesn’t fix the problem. If I point out that young men are wildly underrepresented in YA fiction, people will pop out of a hole in the ground…
People ask what the future of programming (and other IT tasks) looks like with tools like Chat-GPT and Github Copilot. My take: AI is basically a summer intern. Horse Whips and Buggy Factories The trajectory of technology is always Manual effort -> Partial automation -> Full automation -> New careers built babysitting the automation. Information was remembered and only communicated…
As widely reported across the Internet, a woman has died as the result of a ransomware attack. I want to say that this drives home the importance of information security, but the reality is, this isn’t the first time someone’s life was ruined by security breaches. It might be the first time someone has died, but Stuxnet and Equifax and…
I recently bought an iPad Pro and the Magic Keyboard. More on that in an upcoming post. But when I was making my decision to purchase, I did a lot of research. And I would always come across reviews like this one from Tom’s Hardware Guide that complains about how heavy/thick the Magic Keyboard makes the iPad. They compare it…