Category: tech
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Computers for Pros: Goodbye Mac, Hello ThinkPad
Back in February, I sold my 2017 MacBook Pro. For a couple of years, I had been grumbling about the direction Apple products have taken. I did have problems with the infamous butterfly keyboard. I actually liked the touch bar – except for its tendency to freeze at the exact moment I need to mute…
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Resources for everyday folks on internet privacy and security
I’ve had several friends from non-computing fields ask me for advice about tools for better privacy and security online. Some of this is in reaction to recently repealed FCC privacy rules that prevented Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from selling their customers’ private browsing information. Some of it is concern about an increasingly invasive surveillance state,…
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Video: Colorado.gov Adopts Drupal, Learns Some Things
I recently did a joint presentation at DrupalCamp Colorado with Jeremiah Wathen, my project management counterpart at Colorado Interactive. We talked about Pacific, Colorado.gov’s Drupal-based hosting platform for hundreds of state and local entities, and what Colorado.gov has learned with each increasingly ambitious project since the initial decision to adopt Drupal.
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Video: Parachuting into Drupal Crazy
This week I spoke at the DBUG Drupal meetup in Denver about an unglamorous but very important thing that comes up for any technologist: turning around applications that have, for one reason or another, left their users unhappy. I also had no idea that DBUG meets in a TV studio and is broadcast live on public…
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Millennials, Begone!
This year, all the uninspired rants against my generation got a bit too much to handle: Writers: Every time you say “millennials,” you trade any real analysis for stereotypes made of your own anxieties. Lazy and corrosive. — Erin Kissane (@kissane) September 16, 2012 I just cooked up a Chrome extension called “Millennials, Begone!” to…
Zeke Weeks 