John Payne @john@sackheads.social

They don’t normally let me out in public. This might be a one in a lifetime opportunity to hear this. twitter.com/Akamai/st…

Forecasting the top 4 RSA Conference themes for 2019 - GeekWire

They missed ZeroTrust. Not just my employer (stop by Akamai’s booth on Wednesday), but across the expo floor. SDP, identity aware proxies and micro segmentation will be common phrases across many of the vendors.

Check out the Akamai Security Operations Center in this clip: https://twitter.com/jj_under/status/1093207857040932864

Wow, this is amazing. Anyone know of more examples from this artist? twitter.com/RedLlwyno…

Good to see some thinking outside the box here. UHW traffic is a nightmare, getting more community services into unused facilities like Whitchurch hospital is a great idea, much better than more residential units on that land. More investment in health services! twitter.com/ILovesThe…

And before you say "Y2K wasn't a big deal". The reason it wasn't a big deal is because programmers worked hard for years prior to prepare. The 2038 bug will probably get less hype because it's not as obvious and could be more dangerous because it's meant for computer timekeeping.

On a shortcuts kick today… First one reverse engineering the school lunch menu site for my kids’ schools (should be easily modified for anyone on Nutrislice), second one is for a weight loss challenge - takes today’s weight data from health kit for current day, calculates loss % from st... jpayne.sackheads.blog

My awesome 4th grader is selling Girl Scout cookies. They go great with New Years hangovers! Please support her and her troop: www.abcsmartcookies.com

Happy halfway between y2k and 2038!

This Christmas I received a cocktail shaker set. Been experimenting a little… just noticed that most of a bottle of Amaretto has gone and I don’t even like almond flavor…

Dear Vendors - when you receive a list of attendees to a conference, don’t lie about talking to me there. It’s especially bad when I missed the conference at the last minute but I’m also selective about which vendors I engage with so I will remember if I do.

The more Mastodon servers there, are, the better. The more spread out people are across them, the more the network is resilient to various failure modes.

The basic premise of Mastodon is that you follow your friends from different servers! So go forth, and explore the fediverse ☺️

Holy shit! Someone found a bootleg video of one the talks where I coined the term #lifehacks ! Before the hashtag, even!

I remember when it was really taking off and I was failing to write a book on productivity, Annalee Newitz said to me "... but wasn't your talk supposed to be a *joke*?

This talk was in Britain in front of a friendly audience, so it may have been more joke-y than the original O'Reilly event, but she wasn't wrong...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhbqrxmUlQg

Researchers built a smart dress to show how often women are groped at clubs https://qz.com/quartzy/1477709/oglivys-smart-dress-shows-how-often-women-are-groped-at-clubs/

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I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it