The Time I Ruined Programming – Michael O. Church

There were moments when I looked around and realized that my total contribution to humanity, by working for an increasingly maleficent industry, might be negative.

What do *you* want?

Sigh, I love About Time.

In 2018 I’m going to stop using my home phone number. The line will still be there, but there will not be a phone plugged in. This means that there’s no point in calling it, as I won’t know. Please call my mobile phone instead.

For people who say “Oh no, I don’t know your mobile phone number!” things are easy - just add 5847519410 to my home phone number 😊

CDC gets list of forbidden words: Fetus, transgender, diversity - The Washington Post

Instead of “science-based” or ­“evidence-based,” the suggested phrase is “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes,” the person said.

Chilling.

Don’t let anyone tell you that I only go out on a Friday night…

As a British EU negotiator, I can tell you that Brexit is going to be far worse than anyone could have guessed:

Who knew a fortnight ago that leaving the apparently obscure Euratom Treaty would jeopardise not only the UK nuclear industry, but also the supply of medical isotopes for cancer treatment?

The experts who told the Government that, of course. Sigh.

OpenSSL, OS X “El Capitan” and Brew: Apple removed the OpenSSL headers, so building anything that uses OpenSSL requires a workaround. This one uses Homebrew.

My Week at SoundCloud – Hacker Noon:

Two weeks ago I moved from Scotland to Germany to start a new job as an iOS engineer at SoundCloud. On Monday of last week I started that job. By Thursday evening I, along with 172 of my new colleagues, was officially being laid off.

Yikes.

GitHub - mssun/passforios: Pass for iOS: Compatible with pass.