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Planning for the inevitable end
Software maturity requires planning for the inevitable death of your users. You must implement marketing kill switches, clear data retention policies, and account delegation. Stop annoying grieving families by automating bereavement reporting and protecting user namespaces. Building these mechanisms proves your organization handles every user stage with the respect deserved.
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The Shiny Object Trap: Don’t forego the basics
Software quality declines as leaders chase shiny features while ignoring basic reliability. Outlook fails at calendar imports. PowerPoint uses ancient tools. This complexity creates security risks. You must audit your core tasks and fix friction first. Do not add new code until the fundamentals work every time. Reliability is everything.
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Reclaiming Focus: The Lost Art of Downtime
Modern software builds traded the forced tea time of Borland Turbo C for complex YAML pipelines and noisy distributed failures. To avoid burnout and logic errors, you must reclaim your time to think. Build a fake commute, step away from the screen, and go make a proper cup of tea.
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Chromebook Pixel – Battery Replacement
Replacing a battery in the Google Chromebook Pixel is a very simple affair.
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Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 12th Dec
Second week of December and we see Yahoo in more security problems, malware that tests our morality, Cisco bails on their cloud, Verizon puts out the Samsung fire, Slack gains video calling, virtual assistant gets a hologram to keep us company and Henry Heimlich dies.
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Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 5th Dec
First week of the last month, we see BMW locking bad people up, Apple Watch sales fall dead, Amazon legalizes shoplifting, Bluetooth gets faster, Canada gets a data center, Java 9 may slip, clues to how Samsung built a fire starter and a true legion is no longer in this world.
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Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 28th Nov
Last week of November, we see hackers giving the residents of San Francisco a day of free rides, an anchor takes out the internet of an island, Netflix allows viewing of content in the air, FitBit rescues Pebble, Amazon beats its chest in Las Vegas, Russian bank loses a lot of shekels and once more the nation’s favorite banned executive toy, is back on the shelves.
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Chromebook Adventure
Working with a Chromebook takes a leap of faith when it comes to working exclusively through a browser. But it can work.
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Weekend’s Top 8 roundup – 21st Nov
Thanksgiving week here in the USA, we see record sales, US Navy suffers data breach, Scotland’s unicorn sold to China, Oracle buys a DNS company, Twitter laying off over 300 people, a battery that lasts for weeks from a charge in seconds, and how swearing can show your intelligence.
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Last Week’s Top 8 Tech Stories – 14th Nov
The week that was gave us another 8 interesting stories, including this year’s biggest software hack, how you can easily hack with your laptop, VW embroiled in another emission software scandal, Amazon gets into the car business, Tesla into the sun business and how users can no longer hide from Skype calls!
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The next AWS? Tesla, GM or Ford
Amazon outflanked the computing industry with their cloud offering; it will happen again, from another unlikely source.
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Last Week’s Top 8 Tech Stories – 7th Nov
Welcome to this week’s, election free, roundup of the news that caught my attention this week, ranging from self-testing USB sticks, security attacks on Tesco, how Facebook buys passwords from hackers, NFL losing viewers, cramped airlines, Yahoo still dancing with Verizon, to a warning about pervy teenagers in sunglasses.
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