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The Year of Disconnect

13 minute read Published: 2024-12-26

What a year huh? I thought about doing a broad review of the year in cyber news. Over a year of running the TTI Intel Feed has given me a front-row seat to the weirdest show on earth. Problem is, there's just too much. 0-days, ransomware, nation state activity, cybercrime—any one area would take more time than I have to write, certainly more time than you have to read.

But as I read through article after article, one thought kept popping into my head:

"Boy, Microsoft sure ate a lot of shit this year."

Meditations on The Human Web

13 minute read Published: 2024-05-19

A year on from writing "Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", much of what I had feared has come to pass. In fact, in many cases things are worse than I expected.

Interfaces

9 minute read Published: 2024-02-05

There's nothing a user interface designer loathes more than complexity. Every design—at least, every modern design—seeks to minimize clicks, icons, visual noise. What if instead of a button, we had a borderless icon? What if instead of navigation controls, we used gestures?

And what if—hear me out—instead of search results, we had language model-distilled text delivered to you, hot and fresh?