Daniel Hepper

To reverse my devolution from Homo Sapiens Sapiens into a Homo Distractus1, I’m going to run a little experiment: I’m going to stare at a point on a white wall for an hour every day for 30 days2.

Last weekend, I read a post on Reddit where /u/TeckFire claimed that his iPhone 6s became much faster again after replacing the battery.

Last week I attended the MicroConf Europe 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal and spent two days and three evenings listening to interesting talks and having inspiring conversations.

For a quite a while, the book Zero to One by Peter This (with Blake Masters) has been covering dust in the “to-read” section of my bookshelf.

While slacking off doing research on the internet recently, I stumbled upon Raptitude.com, where David Cain writes about getting better at being human.

I’ve been running for about 18 years now, and knee pain was a regular companion throughout my running career.

For the last 8 years, this blog has been my primary outlet whenever I had the urge to share some written worlds with the world.

On the first day of Python Unconference Hamburg 2015 I moderated an open discussion about how to convince customers and employers that Python is a good choice for their upcoming project.

If you run any kind of webservice, you should set up a security@yourdomain.com email address, display it prominently on your website and make sure it gets read by an employee with a technical background.

TL;DR: sudo discoveryutil mdnsactivedirectory yes After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, I found myself unable to access any hosts with a domain name ending in .local I could resolve the hostname with DNS tools like dig and nslookup, but other tools,…