Kill all browser plugins
In the last few years all big players on the internet, started adopting HTML5 for video streaming. Like YouTube, Netflix and all kinds of news websites.
Development
2015
100 posts
What is warmd?
If you see warmd running on your Mac, here is what this app preloading process does.
Mac
De Cock en een recept voor moord by A.C. Baantjer
De Cock and Vledder find fashion house director Verbruggen dead with a note pinned to his lapel. A jealous mistress and a rumoured merger both seem to matter.
Books
Monthly update #0302 • June 2015
Monthly update 302 • June 2015 • 2015-06-01 - 2015-06-30
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0107 • June 2015
June 2015 closed the door on the NSA telephone dragnet while a wave of breaches, court orders and new surveillance laws showed how far the fight over personal data still had to run.
Privacy
CloudKit
CloudKit, a powerful framework by Apple, enables iOS developers to integrate iCloud functionality into apps, eliminating the need for custom backend code and server maintenance by providing seamless user authentication, data storage, and file management.
Development
Eurobloat #0061 • May 2015
The month Brussels promised to abolish twenty-eight digital markets, grade its own members like errant schoolboys, hand out migrant quotas nobody wanted, and call all of it simplification.
Eurobloat
The Geneva Strategy by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Geneva Strategy, co-authored with Jamie Freveletti, Covert-One's Jon Smith hunts kidnappers who seized officials at a Geneva summit and threaten a cyberattack.
Books
Monthly update #0301 • May 2015
Monthly update 301 • May 2015 • 2015-05-01 - 2015-05-31
Monthly Updates
De Cock en moord in triplo by A.C. Baantjer
Arendje van Nijmegen reports her husband missing, and he is soon found dead. When her lover dies too, De Cock stops believing in coincidence.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0106 • May 2015
May 2015 was the month the courts and Congress turned on bulk surveillance even as fresh Snowden files and a wave of breaches showed how deeply data collection had spread.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0060 • April 2015
The month Brussels rationed your shopping bags, charged Google, lectured Turkey, watched a thousand people drown and then proposed bombing boats. Spring in the Union.
Eurobloat
Pentecost
At this stage Pentecost prompts serious thought. The Holy Spirit came to give us power and direction.
Christianity
Fletta
Fletta is a webbrowser specially designed for usages in public places, for example in hotels, restaurants, libraries, etc. It wil take cares of your users privacy.
Projects
Ascension Day
At this stage Ascension Day prompts serious thought. Christ went up to heaven to give us hope and direction.
Christianity
Privacy Roundup #0105 • April 2015
April 2015 brought state hacking, regulator fines and a fresh fight over surveillance and encryption.
Privacy
De Cock en de dartele weduwe by A.C. Baantjer
Soon after a young widow reports being stalked by a former lover, her new partner is found murdered. Money, blackmail and jealousy all seem to play a part.
Books
Monthly update #0300 • April 2015
Monthly update 300 • April 2015 • 2015-04-01 - 2015-04-30
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0059 • March 2015
The month the central bank switched on the printing press, the Commission president called for his own army, and Brussels discovered that the cure for opaque tax deals is to share them only with itself.
Eurobloat
Useful macOS defaults: Crash Reporter
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.CrashReporter, controlling how crash dialogs behave.
Mac
The Imitation Game
The Grey (2011), directed by Joe Carnahan, follows men who crash in Alaska. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a hunter who guards oil workers. He knows wolves and death.
Movies
De Cock en de dood van een kunstenaar by A.C. Baantjer
A painter who is De Cock's friend fears for his life and asks him to lead the case if anything happens. Soon after, the man is shot dead while walking his dog.
Books
Monthly update #0299 • March 2015
Monthly update 299 • March 2015 • 2015-03-01 - 2015-03-31
Monthly Updates
Happy Easter
At this stage Easter prompts serious thought. Christ rose to give us new life and purpose.
Christianity
Good Friday
At this stage Good Friday prompts serious thought. Christ died on the cross to give us purpose and forgiveness.
Christianity