The paranoid style in application development

<p>We talked about obscuring DNS traffic based on <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-surveillance-capitalism-will-totally-transform-the-domain-name-system/">this article</a>.</p><p>Cassidy and Ben are pretty excited about all the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/apple-event">new Apple stuff announced recently</a>. Ryan, the curmudgeon, does not. </p><p>There are several theories as to where the word <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-origin-of-the-word-dongle-7-leading-theories/278180/">dongle</a> came from. </p><p>The <a href="https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/001/">Conductor framework</a> makes building web apps simpler in a  low-code/no-code  style. </p><p>Did the pandemic worsen everyone else's <a href="https://www.hanselman.com/blog/productivity-vs-guilt-and-selfloathing">guilt and self-loathing</a> over decreased productivity or was it just us?</p><p>Our only point of contact during the height of the pandemic was the Internet connection. Has the loosening of quarantine made us less likely to  live online?</p><p> </p>