This NYT article titled “Stop, Before You Close This Tab (or Any Others) …” by Ali Jaffe Ramis was shared on kottke.org today and I want to talk about it for a bit.
Continue reading “Tabbed Out”Today I’m a Ball
While reading a book this morning I had my Just the Instrumentals Please playlist on as background music. I like having such playlists playing while reading as it helps me stay focused on the reading. This particular playlist has a lot of music by the band Khruangbin in it. Three whole albums of theirs in fact.
Continue reading “Today I’m a Ball”The Curious Case of basejumper.apple.com
After updating two of my iOS devices to iOS 17.1 I noticed some odd DNS queries coming from these devices in my local DNS resolver’s logs.
Oct 29 21:05:54 dnsmasq[1711]: query[A] basejumper.apple.com from 10.0.0.126
Oct 29 21:05:54 dnsmasq[1711]: cached basejumper.apple.com is NODATA-IPv4The odd thing here is that basejumper.apple.com does not resolve to anything. All A/AAAA/HTTPS queries for the name return a NOERROR empty response. So what is this endpoint?
Continue reading “The Curious Case of basejumper.apple.com”Reading List 4
It’s a cloudy and windy day here in Toronto with a temperature of 6C (42.8F). This time around I am writing this while sitting at my desk at home. I’ve spent the morning after breakfast going through my unread queue in Inoreader while my playlist of “Just the Instrumentals Please” plays. It really is a ideal day for staying indoors and catching up on some reading.
Before I do my usual list of links, I did read two books this month that I’d like to mention. The first was Heroic Hearts, a collection of fantasy short stories edited by Jim Butcher and Kerri Hughes. The second was On Antisemitism, a collection of essays from various authors on the topic of Palestine activism and antisemitism, put together by the Jewish Voice for Peace. That was research reading for a blog post I wrote for the Ten Forward blog which you can read here.
Oh also, in case you missed the last reading list, you can find it here.
Continue reading “Reading List 4”Recommended For You
Recently I signed up for Storygraph, a service for recording what books you read, sharing them with friends, writing reviews and most importantly (according to the site’s own copy) getting recommendations for books you want to read in the future. I wanted something to better keep track of my reading, something better than me adding entries into a Google Sheets spreadsheet.
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