speedof.me
Doc Searls mentioned in passing that he uses a new speed test website. I checked it out, and it was very cool… www.speedof.me is an all-HTML5 website that seems to …
speedof.me Read MoreAuthor: Rich Brown
Mayday.us – Bringing sanity back to campaign financing
I recently joined Lessig’s citizen-funded MAYDAY.US campaign, an ambitious experiment to win a Congress committed to ending corruption in 2016, and we did something amazing: We raised $1 million dollars …
Mayday.us – Bringing sanity back to campaign financing Read MoreNew CeroWrt Router scripts
I posted a set of scripts that people can use to test, configure and debug their CeroWrt router installations. CeroWrt router firmware is a test bed for learning about and …
New CeroWrt Router scripts Read MoreNet Neutrality & Whitehouse.gov petition
There’s a Whitehouse.gov petition posted about Net Neutrality. It’s a little bit of a rant, but I agree with its punchline: No bandwidth modifications of information based on content or …
Net Neutrality & Whitehouse.gov petition Read MoreLibreSSL fork of OpenSSL
A small team of well-known developers from the OpenBSD team is working on a fork of OpenSSL, to be named LibreSSL. This group is going through the OpenSSL source code …
LibreSSL fork of OpenSSL Read MoreHeartbleed and InterMapper
I created an InterMapper probe that detects whether a web server is vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. You can read about it on my Blueberry Hill Software blog at: http://blueberryhillsoftware.com/heartbleed-probe-for-intermapper/
Heartbleed and InterMapper Read MoreGet your IRS transcript!
Why can’t the IRS tell me how much has been reported? Various companies and entities forward the same information to me and to them. If only I could look at …
Get your IRS transcript! Read MoreBetter than rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100
My MacBook Pro (10.9.2) was running slowly. I saw frequent spinning beach balls, systemstats was consuming 100% of the CPU on a regular basis, Apple Mail was grinding away indexing …
Better than rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100 Read MoreLearning about Single Page Apps
I’ve been looking for a way to sort out Angular, Backbone, Bower, Grunt, Node, NPM, Yeoman and all the other buzzwords that get thrown around for writing a Single Page App …
Learning about Single Page Apps Read MoreAnd the H@ckfest results…
What a great weekend! What interesting ideas came from the H@ckfest! My team, the inforMED project, presented an idea for helping first responders (EMTs, ED triage) to get relevant data …
And the H@ckfest results… Read More