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*On the layer of craft you can't see

*A case study in systematic email abuse, ignored GDPR requests, and how one company treats your unsubscribe button as a suggestion

Right now, AI agents help individuals become more productive.

Many organizations declare design principles:

When providing feedback to a product team, it’s infinitely more helpful to communicate *problems* rather than *solutions*.

Pendle Finance is a “yield-trading” dApp in the decentralized finance ecosystem, that is tremendously useful but not well understood.

The purpose of this article is twofold:

In this article, I will describe:

After two decades, I recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Jekyll, a static website generator.

I own a Specialized Roubaix bike that came with a 4iiii power meter installed on the Dura-Ace crankset.

One of the use cases of smart contract blockchain networks that has always excited me most is programmable, composable finance.

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As a bag addict in continual pursuit of the optimal setup, I’ve recently updated my daily carry to include a Waterfield Essential Cross-body bag.

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This is the second in a series of articles that explore cryptocurrency futures trading, available on platforms like Bitmex and Deribit.

This is the first in a series of articles in which I explore cryptocurrency futures trading, available on platforms like Bitmex and Deribit.

In the midst of this possibly one-in-a-lifetime shock, I’ve been very interested in thinking about and imagining what life will look like moving forward.

Ray Dalio of Bridgwater Associates made a virtual TED appearance to discuss the context and consequences of this current COVID19 crisis.

In this article, I’m going to make the case for considering to allocate a small amount of your savings to Bitcoin.

In 2020, I learned about the macro economist Raoul Pal through a number of podcasts, and his pessimistic view of the global macro situation resonated with me prior to the COVID-19 crisis.

Recently, my MacBook Pro, running Mac OS X Mojave, got into a state in which the Finder wasn’t uploading or download files to and from iCloud Drive.

When sourcing work at Upwork, we tend to look for staff who are located in Europe, so that we have the chance to work in our timezone and have face-to-face meetings.

A challenged I’ve always faced in running Keyboard Maestro on multiple Macs, is the maintenance of macros that are common to all, i.e. when updating a macro on one machine (say, changing the API keys of a service I’m accessing), I have to remember to go m…

Apple recently introduced in the Numbers spreadsheet the ability to pull live stock prices from the internet, making it now possible to track portfolio performance.

One of the best, and most spot-on, comics from xkcd:

In episode 45 of his “Waking Up” podcast, I loved this piece by Sam Harris on **identity politics**, and wanted to capture it here for future reference:

I’m the owner of a Gmail address that bears my name, in the form **first.last**@gmail.com.

The first business email address I used, matt@makalumedia.com, now almost twenty years old, is the source of 95% of the spam I receive.

On December 1, the Canadian company formerly known as BitGold, sent an email to their customers, announcing a change that fundamentally affects how their customers use and experience the service.

When I signup for an online service, I like to use an email address that’s unique to that service, i.e. something like **service@my-special-domain.com**.

This is the story of how Goldmoney botched the communication of a fundamental change in policy, that ultimately may lead to me taking my business elsewhere.

Long-time Apple customers became accustomed over the years to thoughtful and delightful interaction design.

Because every WhatsApp “informational” group eventually devolves into a water cooler chat, my app badge currently shows 1,457 unread messages.

Our company is bidding on the re-development of an existing product that has outgrown the technical framework on which it was originally built.

In the world of web application development, we sometimes face technical decisions whose trade-offs extend beyond the technical.

As I wrote about a few weeks ago, I have my home network connected to the internet through a VPN router, running the Tomato firmware.

**Update** Readers will note that I’ve changed the title and URL of this article, and that’s because shortly after posting it, representatives of SendGrid reached out, apologizing for the situation, explaining that my situation isn’t what they intend, and…

In a recent blog post I explained how I secure my home network with a VPN.

Continuing in my spammer Hall of Shame series, here’s an persistent (and ongoing) series of spam from Spencer Mains at a company called LiveRamp.

In this interview, Milton Friedman responds to Phil Donahue’s concerns about greed.

Since 2011, I’ve been receiving spam from this company, Designstraw, and always with the same, “We’re looking to take on a few extra projects...”

In this article, I describe how I added security to my home network by installing a router that directs all internet traffic through an encrypted VPN connection.

I’ve never been good at remembering my social media URLs.

To give you a sense of life in Andalucia Spain, I present to you the short journey from my office in Marbella, to the small restaurant where I frequently have lunch.

TextExpander is a Mac utility for creating auto-expanding text shortcuts—“snippets”—that can save you time on things you repetitively type, such as email signatures, your telephone number or boilerplate responses to support emails.

In this article about Roger Ver’s $100,000 bitcoin bounty to Bernie Sanders for a debate on the topic of patriotism, we come across this quote (emphasis added by me):

Inna Demianova is doing her best to overtake Ronak Parker’s persistency record.

Makalu was recently hired to redesign an e-commerce site running on WordPress, and implementing its shop using the WooCommerce system.

> It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.