Geeky, sweary things.
I have a friend here in Portugal who is very interested in getting into infosec. He currently works at a quiosque here in Portugal that we really like (and sometimes work from), and he happened to see my “hacking is not a crime” sticker on my laptop so decided to start asking questions. We chat […] The post Welding, Failure, and Self-Sabotage appeared first on Snipe.Net .
If you weren’t already aware, my husband and I moved to Portugal this year. You can learn more about that on our Portuguese blog – that one documents the logistics and emotions behind the journey, the pitfalls and the victories – but has a little less of my snark, since it’s meant to help people, […] The post Portuguese Road Signs appeared first on Snipe.Net .
Two days ago, I received a terrifying phone call. This is a cautionary tale about a two-minute conversation I had earlier this week. For those of you who don’t know, my husband and I moved to Portugal 5 months ago, so calls coming in on my US phone number (technically a NY area code, but […] The post Mexican Mafia Scams: A New Twist On an Old Trick appeared first on Snipe.Net .
Welp, Elon won. I won’t be posting on the bird site anymore. Since purchasing it, Musk has managed to make an already chaotic place much, much worse. It honestly sucks. I’ve met a ton of people there that I would never have known, and people on Twitter helped get me through some of the hardest […] The post Bye-bye Birdie appeared first on Snipe.Net .
This is a culmination of tweets I sent in 2019 as I was documenting the process of caring for my mother in Florida while she was dying from stage 4 cancer. This post isn’t really for anyone else, I just wanted to keep a longer-lasting record for myself. The post Fuck Cancer appeared first on Snipe.Net .
My team at Grokability has been fully distributed since I started the company five years ago. Some of us are local, some of us are halfway across the country, and some even in other countries. All of us work from home all the time. While you’d think we’d be just fine dealing with the self-isolation […] The post Managing Stress, Anxiety and Depression During Covid-19 appeared first on Snipe.Net .
Composer is a PHP dependency manager that’s used in just about any modern PHP application, and it works similarly to how Bundler works for Ruby. Even though Composer itself gives you a warning about not running it as root, lots of people disregard this warning and run it as root anyway. We run into this […] The post So you ran composer as root… appeared first on Snipe.Net .
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the gigantic hurricane that battered the Caribbean islands and Florida, and continues to travel up the east coast, affecting as far north as the Great Lakes. I live in San Diego, California, clear on the other side of the country, but my family just moved […] The post How iOS Helped Me Navigate My Mother to Safety During Hurricane Irma…
I recently spent some time replacing all of the alerts and ringtones on my iPhone to be sound FX and music from my favorite NES games, and the quality of my life improved dramatically. I wanted to do this for two reasons, the first being to break the Pavlovian stress reaction I have when my […] The post Replace Your iPhone Alerts and Ringtones with Awesomeness for Free appeared first on Snipe.Net…
When I explain to people that I run a business writing free, open source software, most people look at me like I’m an alien. Understandably so. It’s weird and confusing to those who aren’t knee-deep in it. It works, and it’s great when it works, but there are some unique challenges that this type of […] The post Choosing a Model for Your Open Source Business appeared first on Snipe.Net .