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Another day another breach. Yesterday I got a notice in my mailbox that Ticketmaster was compromised and my data was once again in the hands of hackers. Like you I have grown numb to these notices. The private sector is content to lull us into complacency when it comes to security. They tell us buying mediocre solutions like Crowdstrike are the answer while ignoring hardware security keys that can protect accounts from phishing. Here in Massachusetts we know better and it’s time we make corporations do better.

Pretty Good House is a book born of a podcast about building science. The authors, experts in building science, walk you through ideas and considerations in creating a house that is environmentally friendly and functional for its occupants. I walked away from reading it with a better understanding of home design and building considerations, and an even greater sense that these have not propagated into the mainstream trades.

After losing its antitrust case in federal court this week Google is throwing money at a tech sector that is immune to facts and scrutiny: cybersecurity. On today’s The Daily they advertised Chrome Enterprise, a version of Chrome for business customers designed to be secure, because apparently the regular Chrome they ship for consumers is not. For $6 per user per month you can tell your boss that you have paid for security for your enterprise users and pretend to be smarter than the dolts that just downloaded the regular free version of Chrome.

I just finished reading Scott Galloway’s The Algebra of Wealth. Galloway provides a well written tour of basic financial concepts for folks that might not be familiar with how to save, invest, and make choices about their careers. For folks like me who have their finances under control the content can feel like review, but Galloway has a gift for writing in an enjoyable and accessible manner. This is a great gift for a recent college graduate.

A few weeks ago I got an iPad Air. I love using this including writing my blog posts on it, but did not have an easy way to post to my blog, which uses a programmer centric site generator called Jekyll to create the HTML that is then hosted on GitHub Pages. It turns out using the GitHub API and Apple Shortcuts this problem was not hard to solve.