I’ve still got it! Covid, that is.
Today was a bit of a backslide: I feel worse, and I’m having a little trouble catching my breath. My pulse oximeter (actually my mother’s pulse oximeter, which I’d like to think she’d be happy I was using, but also sad I was using) ...
June 30, 2022
Something in Anne-Marie Scott’s post about losing her love of what she does struck a chord with me. Not because I’ve lost the love of what I do - on the contrary, I’m lucky enough to have re-found it. But the way she describes the startupification of education sounds very ...
June 28, 2022
Covid kicked my ass for approximately four and a half days, and it’s still kicking my ass, but now at least I can read more than half a paragraph of text and string something approaching a complete sentence together. I’m still isolating, still contagious, still feeling like someone has come ...
June 28, 2022
Yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, undoing fifty years of the right to an abortion in the United States. Here’s The 19th’s continually-updated list of what abortion laws look like across the country. And here’s what might happen next.
On a personal note, at the end of the day ...
June 25, 2022
How can the pro-life movement protect abortion-seekers from data brokers? ...
June 20, 2022
FIDO is a new authentication technology intended to supersede passwords. Here, passwords are replaced with a biometric input: for example, FaceID or TouchID on Apple devices. iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows are all getting this soon due to an alliance between Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
I think it’s unequivocally great: an ...
June 19, 2022
Many tech companies continue to perpetuate modern-day slavery. ...
June 19, 2022
The 19th, where I now work on technology, is putting on a three-day summit, and you’re invited!
50 Years of Title IX marks 50 years of advances in gender equity in higher education, athletics, the workforce and beyond. The speaker list is genuinely incredible, and includes Elizabeth Warren, Jennifer Doudna (who ...
June 15, 2022
Like every web nerd, I’ve got a bunch of domain names (even though I’ve worked hard to reduce their number). I thought it would be fun to enumerate them.
Live
werd.io: The home of my blog since 2013. My old domain name, benwerd.com, also points here.
werd.cloud: My personal wiki, powered by Obsidian. ...
June 8, 2022
This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for May, 2022.
Books
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, by Susan Kuklin. I wanted to like this, but I can’t recommend it. Granted, it’s almost a decade old, and the discourse has evolved ...
June 2, 2022