Post-incident review

Yesterday I discovered that I had leaked 3,638 email addresses by uploading them to a public GitHub repository.

Here's what happened, how it happened, what I did about it, and what I'm doing to make sure it can't happen again.

TL;DR

This post will be long, so here's…

My blog has an offline mode that lets you view articles you have previously read on my website. This mode allows you to read something on my website even if you don’t have an internet connection. If the page you want to view has not been cached, you will see…

I dropped into a pub in central London and ordered two pints of draught beer. Obviously the price of everything is nuts these days - and doubly so in London - so I only winced a little bit when the cost came to about twelve quid. Shocking, obviously. But as…

By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city's buildings and left most of the rest damaged. There was no functioning government, no reliable electricity, no clean water…

I uploaded your email address to GitHub

Further to my discovery of the data leak earlier today, I spent most of the day trying to figure out what had happened. Finally, on a walk with Lucy after we knocked off, the lightbulb went off.

I didn't, did I? Surely not.

I am writing about a few paintings to help me build my description skills. My analyses are not formal or comprehensive. If nothing else, I hope that you enjoy the painting that I feature!

The warm colours in Monet’s The Church at Varengeville (1882) stood out to me the moment…

I already share links every time I do week notes, but I still read quite a bit of things on my FreshRSS instance and thought I’d share some more thoughts on articles and things I found interesting today—maybe yesterday.

Just some musings here for you guys to enjoy, check out…

“Will the dog hunt?”

My sneakers squeaked on the concrete floor. Twenty entrepreneurs in black hoodies looked up at me, taking notes. This room had been a working garage once; now, we ceremonially opened the garage door to let in new cohorts of early-stage media startups with the potential to …

State of the Browser was electric. This is how I summarised my experience at the annual State of the Browser event in London in my notes. I like to capture moments as they happen, then write about them later. The note is the essence of a blog post; the starting…

My new year's resolution is to play more video games. Specifically co-operative games.

I hate playing competitively; it's rubbish to achieve victory at the expense of someone else. So I asked for recommendations and picked the cheapest thing that looked reasonable.

Unravel Two is a little gem! It's a…