CC Mixter has Creative Commons-licensed music Need Royalty-Free Music for a project? Search dig.ccmixter.org to find some that is free to use. Watchsmith app provides customizable complications I’ve been an Apple Watch wearer for quite a while, and I’m surprised no one has created an app like Watchsmith …

Backlinks 2020-04-08 I’ve been an Apple Watch wearer for quite a while, and I’m surprised no one has created an app like Watchsmith (MacStories review) before. The app provides a collection of customizable complications which, when combined with one of the very flexible watch faces on the Watch, edges …

Backlinks 2020-04-08 Need Royalty-Free Music for a project? Search dig.ccmixter.org to find some that is free to use.

Backlinks 2020-04-08 A new, free to download SRE book published by O’Reilly and, I believe, written by Googlers: Building Secure & Reliable Systems.

Schneier on Zoom Zoom has had both an amazing and rough few weeks. As they’ve risen from obscurity to become a huge part of people’s lives while sheltering-in-place, there has been increased scrutiny on their practices. Bruce Schneier’s round up of Zoom’s privacy and security issues is a …

Backlinks 2020-04-05 Zoom has had both an amazing and rough few weeks. As they’ve risen from obscurity to become a huge part of people’s lives while sheltering-in-place, there has been increased scrutiny on their practices. Bruce Schneier’s round up of Zoom’s privacy and security issues is a …

A no-sew DIY face mask Because one can never have too many face mask designs in this day and COVID-19 age, here is another one. Does require elastic. And a simpler no-sew design that’s just a handkerchief and two rubber bands.

Ragmask: another simple mask design I don’t think the CDC and WHO guidance around masks for COVID-19 has changed yet, but increasingly individuals are taking steps. Ragmask is another simple, do-it-yourself mask design.

BlackHole virtual audio BlackHole is a macOS virtual audio driver, which allows the passing of audio from one application to another with “zero latency”.

Malleable Systems Collective Malleable Software is software that adheres to these principles, according to the Malleable Systems Collective: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it All layers, from the user interface through functionality to the data within, must support arbitrary recombination and reuse …