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Many years ago (in 2015!) I published this listicle: Apps for super fast Web publishing. I became interested in Pastebin-like web services, and thought it’d be cool to list the ones I’d discovered, with some commentary. That’s 9 of them. Now, in late 2018, 5 of them have disappeared from the face of the web.Continue reading “Low-friction publishing”

Continued from part i Frequently-updated software is the norm. The frequency varies, of course, depending on the particular software. Generally, developers depend on it. Without updates, internet-connected (read: pretty much all) software would be increasingly vulnerable to hacking as security flaws are continually discovered. And without the ability to continually improve software through updates, aContinue reading “Software updates – part II”