Blog Archive
Every post, 248 in total, from 1996 to present
202614 posts
- Cyrinx: data over sound, measured
- Detailing a phishing attack: Nyasher, a Google account-takeover kit
- Who does the district pay? Now you can look it up
- A big June tune-up (and two mistakes to own up to)
- Now you can search the whole thing
- Breaking the Sound Barrier: Symmetrical 2x2 MIMO Acoustic Handshake & THD Optimization
- Data Sovereignty, AI Agents, and Why Technical Docs Are the New APIs
- Charter schools, district property, and a small MCP fix
- What your router knows but won't tell you
- Passive Mesh Topology Discovery from Orbi Beacon Frames
- What Does It Cost to Rent a Cessna 172?
- Two weeks in: from 58 meetings to 189
- Open data for a school district: why and how
- AI-Assisted Networking: Using Claude Code to Help a Friend Find a Job
20256 posts
20241 post
20235 posts
20227 posts
20219 posts
20208 posts
- Startup Concept: StayGreat™
- HTTP/3, Safari, & Google App Engine
- Apple Silicon: Where We’re at & What’s Next
- TELI: Bridging Silicon Valley & DC
- Why Corporate Incubators Fail
- David's Take on the iPhones 12
- In other contexts this is known as "kinesthetic learning" aka "learning by doing".
- #GivingTuesdayNow 2020
20195 posts
20185 posts
20179 posts
- Reflection on Systems: Hype & Doubt
- Practice Interview Grading
- Apple Watch Series 3 Review
- On confusing position and velocity: process and risk in the corporation
- Consumer Tech: Failing to Innovate
- Medium and Message: Thoughts on Our Devices
- August Meditations
- Anatomy of a Malware Injection
- Tips on Fatherhood
201611 posts
- Acing Your Product Manager Interview
- California 2016 Elections
- California 2016 Fall Elections
- What I Think
- Clouseau: A Postmortem
- The Mechanics of AngelList Syndicates
- Avoid LendingClub
- Equity compensation at several public companies like Google and Facebook is in the form of direct…
- While this article correctly notes that a little negotiation at onboarding can result in…
- Silicon Valley, Startups, and Labor Pricing
- Startups & Macro Markets
20153 posts
20145 posts
20133 posts
20128 posts
201117 posts
- Build Your Product With Empathy For The User (VIDEO)
- TEDxValenciaSt: Go Write Some Science Fiction! (VIDEO)
- 6dot: Interview With Karina Pikhart & Peter Cantisani
- Interview with Dr. Jade Wang of NASA Ames
- Interview With Dr. William Marshall of NASA
- Interview With Browserling
- Environment California: Interview with Tim Telleen-Lawton
- Blackbox.vc: Interview with Bjorn and Aleksandra
- Interview With Jeff Lindsay (progrium)
- Interview with Jeff Lindsay
- Interview with Rhett Butler of Mongabay
- Interview: Paolo Privitera
- Ulrich’s Road Trip (interview)
- Interview with Alan Keefer on Silicon Valley
- Interview with Alan Keefer on Testing
- Interview with Jocelyn Joy Berl
- Interview with Nathan (“Nato”) Saichek
20101 post
20092 posts
200823 posts
- Philosophies on Living
- You Must Remember
- Premature Thoughts on Weight Loss
- Distillation
- David’s Two and a Half SSD Bets for 2010
- The 10 Levels of Modern Communication
- MRE Review: Sopakco Chicken Pesto Pasta (5/10)
- Great Music (for Brett Durett)
- On Beer, Wine, Mead, and Sake
- Tinkering Before Millions (VIDEO)
- TERRIBLE UI @ Hotel Gotico: Elevator
- Perill de Caigudes? Or Breakdancing?
- L0K8 – A Simple Location Service For Twitter
- Essence of Life
- Boingo Wireless: Astoundingly Confident & Poor
- Thoughts on Architecture
- Mapping the Internet
- On Free Speech
- David’s Difficult Math Question
- Mildly Controversial Thoughts for Further Exploration
- Mission Statement
- Beer Tasting Notes
- Gluing David Together Again
20071 post
20064 posts
200512 posts
- My Experience With Vonage (a.k.a. Why Vonage Sucks)
- Consumption
- work isnt wolf In a wood will not escape
- Server Issues (2005)
- Bypassing Ad Blocking
- The PS3 & Blu-Ray
- David’s Two Rules of Business
- Why Blade Servers Aren’t Smart
- VoIP Colorizing Logger
- The Intellectual Property Wage Slave
- ‘Pull’ Devices
- On Podcasting
200413 posts
200310 posts
20025 posts
200118 posts
- Adventures In Housing, Take Two
- FTAA, EFF, Skylarov, DMCA
- Active Optimism
- Lack of Updates
- Die, Record Industry, Die!
- Aphorisms
- The Efficiency of Instant Messaging
- Hired
- Secure Audio Path: A Bad Way To Go
- SDMI: Aris Wins, World Loses
- Gnutella and the State of P2P
- The Rental Home Efficiency Problem
- Rethinking Computer Interfaces
- CES Quikie: XBox Preview
- CES Quickie: Intel Keynote
- CES Quickie: MP3 Proliferation
- CES Quickie: 2001 Roundup
- Hire Me!
200021 posts
- Crash – The End of P2P
- Powering The Future Internet
- Why You Should Have a Website – and How To Do It
- Why The Net Is NOT Dead
- COMDEX Overview
- Philosophy: The Necessity of Subversion
- Alack For The Trees
- Unfreezing The Site
- Fun With Companies
- Adventures In Housing
- Why I Came Back
- Censored.
- Client as Server: A New Model
- Why XML Will Fail
- Why SDMI Will Fail
- On Collaborative Filtering
- The Need For Next-Generation Email
- Three Days of mIRC
- Sexiest Geek Alive
- Turning On a Compaq
- Response To The DVD Injunction