Password managers: what to use and why
Contents Why you NEED a password manager Over the last year, I’ve become increasingly interested in digital security. I’m obsessed with things like the podcast Darknet Diaries and other cyber security stories. To me, hacking stories are the perfect combination of true crime, intrigue and nerdiness. The more I learn, the more frightened I am. […]
Community involvement
It’s great to vote, but election day is just one day of the year. Not to be jaded… OK, maybe being just a little bit jaded – our votes don’t really count that much. How many races are likely to be won or lost by my one vote? Zero. That’s not to say that I […]
Programming progress!
I have been on the fringes of computer programming for a long time. My dad is a programmer and has been since before I was born. I work providing customer support for his program. As a math major in college, I studied algorithms for programs to solve math problems. The classes were focused on the […]
Digital clutter
The digital clutter problem Right now, I am working on cleaning up one of the external drives I use to backup my work stuff. And oh my gosh! It is a total disaster! There is no sense to the file structure. I have folders within folders within folders. I have lots of folders labeled things […]
Why I’m Learning to Program
Discovering the Grow with Google scholarship program for Udacity led me to discover Udacity itself. Udacity offers tons of free, high-quality classes on web design, programming, mobile app development, and some other cool things. Many of the classes are collaborations with leading tech companies. They also offer ‘nanodegrees’ in several different areas. They’ve extended the […]