Recent Projects
It would seem that pretty much the only thing I use this blog for is announcements. Guess what’s in this post, some more announcements, specifically regarding some new projects that I’ve started in the past month (and a bit).
Thoughts on WWDC 2012
Yesterday (June 11th) marked the first day of Apple’s famous WWDC event. As per usual, Apple opened the event with the only part of the event that isn’t under NDA (and hence the only part that I’ve actually been able to see so far), the keynote. The keynote was a blast with lots of new, exciting things announced. Here’s my thoughts on a couple of those things that were announced.
SymSteam Beta 1 Released
Good news! Just the other day, SymSteam, my small pet project, received a pretty major update. In fact, this update is so major, I’ve labelled it Beta 1. Pretty much everything to do with SymSteam has changed.
SymSteam 0.1.5 Released
SymSteam, my small project I released just a few weeks ago, received its first major update today. Version 0.1.5 was pushed to the GitHub repo a few hours ago and with it came an important new feature and some bug fixes.
Moving from 1Password To LastPass to 1Password Again
In the past few weeks I’ve had a bit of an epiphany. I’ve become incredibly security and privacy conscious. I’ve closed my Facebook account, started moving away from Google and begun using far stronger, unique passwords. In the past, for websites, I’ve had one strong password which would be impossible to guess and then used that on every website (except my bank, which doesn’t allow special characters in a password). I know, shoot me. That’s the worst thing you can do in terms of passwords next to having 123456 as your password. Every website had the same password and email and (normally) username. If you got the password to one website, you had it to all of them. I’ve realised this security flaw and over the past couple of weeks, changed all of my passwords so that they are unique to each website and totally unintelligible to humans. 30 characters of random, well, characters. How the hell was I meant to remember them? I used a password manager. In the past, I’d been using 1Password to “manage” my passwords. I’d really been using 1Password, not because I couldn’t remember my passwords, but rather to reduce the number of keystrokes needed when entering a password.