Personal website of Blake Watson Online since 2005

I make this mistake in some of my own side projects, but...

When you are building user registration for a for an online service, take care that you aren't leaking membership information. Like if I try to sign up with an email (or do a password reset) and that email is already taken, don't tell me the email was already taken. Say "If this email address is available, you will get an email with a confirmation link."

That sort of thing.

It's not necessarily a huge security vulnerability, but it protects your users' privacy by not revealing that they've signed up for your service.

So I've been using macOS Tahoe for couple of weeks and my hot take is that I'm kind of into the UI redesign. I'm looking at the Finder window and I'm seeing scroll bars that look nice, that are easily draggable. I'm seeing buttons that look like buttons. Things seem well defined and shaped and I'm kind of into it.

I was kind of sick of completely flat shapes that may or may not be clickable.

Because of my upbringing, I have a deep-seated, reflexive hesitation when using swear words. I’m not offended when others use them. I just can’t use some of them myself without effort.

But sometimes the only part of speech that will do is a strong, fucking expletive.