We had it cracked in 5 minutes, and 4 minutes was brewing coffee.
Ipstenu
Read Mika Epstein’s (aka Ipstenu) post, “Stop Using Copy Protection.”
Category: Technology
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At the WordPress Louisville meetup this week I heard about a new tool, Engagely.
We were doing a bit of show and tell and one site had a member signup form and included a Captcha. The room groaned, as you’d expect. No matter how useful they may be, people hate figuring out those warped letters and numbers.
A couple folks immediately recommended Engagely as a substitute. This is a new piece of software developed by a team of students at University of Louisville. They recently won a top prize of $30,000 in the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development’s Idea State U Business Plan Competition.
According to their website, “Engagely can tell if your website’s visitors are human—without any scrambled letters.” To good to be true? I hope not. None of my current projects require member signup, but if I come up on one that does I’ll use Engagely for it and let you know more. If you test it out first, let me know in the comments.
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This tiny dev tools protip saved my life the other day. I was getting so frustrated, then Shawna gave me some education.
Maybe ‘Friday CSS Tricks’ should be a thing?
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So in August I saw this video on Matt’s blog
And for the last week(ish) Planet Money has been doing a great series on how technology takes away jobs and what that really means for the world, and you, and me:
- When Luddites Attack
- Humans vs. Robots
- The Machine Comes To Town
- I, Waiter
- The Last Job
- This Is The End
I struggle to even comment on the subject, but it seems to me like the Star Trek economy is the end result of these discussions. As automation increases, it never fully takes over all jobs, but jobs become voluntary at some point. The fiction of The Last Job is portrayed to be oddly dystopian – whereas I kind of see it as the best of all possible worlds.
As the world is now, jobs are necessary to sustain human life. But the whole point of this material is that the world is changing. If automation is doing our jobs better than us — we’re better off to let more and more people not have jobs but continue with a wonderful life.The simple but polarizing idea of guaranteed minimum income can become politically feasible in the right economic climate.
I don’t really have answers, but if you have more reading or listening on the subject, please leave a comment so I can check it out. I’ve been thinking a lot about the subject.
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Slack had to make a rather unpleasant announcement on Friday:
We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information. We have since blocked this unauthorized access and made additional changes to our technical infrastructure to prevent future incidents.
The good security news to come of it: two factor authentication is now an option. I immediately enabled it for my Slack logins, and you should too. In fact, I’d recommend enabling two factor authentication anywhere you can. A good list of services that provide it can be found here:
Alex "Gus" Gustafson 