Earlier this week, I released BMBX^[1] on the App Store. 🎉

Almost a year ago, I wrote a short quip that is turning out to be an evergreen reminder:

In my previous post, the footnotes mentioned one of the biggest challenges when using old systems online today: their outdated versions of security protocols like SSL are usually unsupported by modern services.

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, through a series of trades that involved a sibling, a friend of my girlfriend^[1], and my G4 iBook, I briefly owned a G4 iMac. I say briefly, because I think I traded my iBook for the iMac, and then the iMac for a PC all within a month or so. It sounds like a crazy trade in retrospect, but it (sort of) made sense at the time.

After I graduated college, I had the good fortune of joining an R&D team at Intermec, where I was surrounded by incredibly talented engineers.

Every few years, folks start talking about backup solutions for their personal computing needs. In fact, I wrote the original version of this post a few years ago when it popped up in my Twitter feed.

An article on Tom’s Guide says Apple’s infamously rumored AR glasses, which have been “coming soon” since the late 2010’s, are now at least another year or two away:

I’ve used quite a few different web hosting providers over the years, and most of them offered some kind of log file analysis tool. As part of my recent blogging renaissance, I did some exploration in to how I could measure website traffic for this blog.

This entry will cover some history, as well as a brief overview of how I set things up on my server.

A couple of days ago, I requested an export of my account data from Twitter. As a business subject to the rules of GDPR, Twitter makes account data exports available to all users. It takes a day or two for the data to be ready, so Twitter emails you when it’s ready.^[1]

When I downloaded and extracted the zip archive, I was pleasantly surprised.

Now that the Twitter sale is complete, I’ve decided it’s time for me to hit the pause on that account. This isn’t the first time I’ve done this on social media - it’s something I do on other platforms pretty often, for a variety of reasons.^[1]