A blog post by Robert Heaton about writing better sentences appeared in my RSS feed reader and got me thinking about my own writing style and how it has evolved over the years.
What I’ve Read This Week (November 22 2021 to November 28 2021)
- ‘Before the next big thing, Apple has a lot of little things that need fixing’ by Dan Moren for Macworld
- ‘Meta goes into lockdown’ by Alex Heath for The Verge
- ‘The future of Brazilian gaming: shopping’ by Leo Schwartz for Rest of World
- ‘Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare’ by Peter Guest for Rest of World
- City Hall Watcher #150 – Watching the dollars
What I’ve Read This Week (November 15 2021 to November 21 2021)
- ‘Android 12: The Ars Technica Review’ by Ron Amadeo for Ars Technica
- ‘Analyzing a watering hole campaign using macOS exploits’ by Erye Hernandez for the Google Threat Analysis Group blog
- ‘Rosalía’s New Bachata Video, “La Fama,” Highlights the White-Washing Issue Overwhelming Black Latinx Music’ by Johanna Ferreira for PopSugar
- ‘Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Here’s why’ by Vittoria Elliott and Bopha Phorn for Rest of World
- ‘Notes from NANOG 83’ by Geoff Huston for the APNIC blog
Understanding DNS: TTLs and Caching
In my last post in this series I talked about common DNS record types, in this I am going to be talking about how the concept of TTLs (Time To Live) and caching are used in DNS.
The two concepts are interlinked in DNS, let’s get into it.
Continue reading “Understanding DNS: TTLs and Caching”What I’ve Read This Week (November 8 2021 to November 14 2021)
- ‘Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers’ by Isaac Lyman for the Stack Overflow blog
- ‘The Art of Hand-Carving Headstones Isn’t Dead Yet’ by Alisha McDarris for Atlas Obscura
- ‘So what is “the metaverse,” exactly?’ by Kyle Orland for Ars Technica
- ‘How macOS is more reliable, and doesn’t need reinstalling’ by Howard Oakley
- ‘The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes’ by Joseph Cox for Motherboard
- ‘Threema: Three Strikes, You’re Out’ by Soatok
- ‘South African students are selling school Wi-Fi passwords for lunch money’ by Kimberly Mutandiro for Rest of World
- ‘Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, and The Internet’ by Matthew Ball