Support our curriculum and workshops for San Diego Girl Scouts to create an epic platformer game for Scratch, web, iOS & Android! Sounds like a great cause to back. I’ve pledged and am sad to see the general lack of funding for this project.

Swati Khandelwal: Signal has already been providing fully end-to-end encrypted chat and voice calling features, but the newly added feature will make it even easier for privacy conscious people to convey their information face-to-face through video calling without compromising security. There are a lot of options out there, but Signal is by far the easiest…

Jason Kottke, writing about Ian Bogost’s post on Apple design (which is a shit show of a post): Who makes all the apps that people want to use on their iPhones to chat/connect/flirt/collaborate with their loved ones? Facebook, Snap, Google, Slack…not Apple, who initially wasn’t even going to provide a way for 3rd parties to…

Manton Reece: Owning your content by having a microblog at your own domain is empowering. Maybe you’re writing about what you had for lunch. Maybe you’re photo-blogging an important trip. Maybe you’re posting from your iPhone at a protest outside the White House. It’s certainly a step better than the arbitrary Twitter “verification” bullshit.

Aliya Sternstein: Typically, a device takes anywhere from a day to a month to break into, depending on whether Secret Service computer engineers need to disassemble the device and software to figure out how it was programmed. Interesting article.

There appeared to be eight people at the rally.

Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, in the second paragraph of the article: Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty…

Good lord, this is a perfect article.

Andrew Restuccia, Marianne Levine, Nahal Toosi: Fearing for their jobs, the employees began communicating incognito using the app Signal shortly after Trump’s inauguration. Signal, like WhatsApp and other mobile phone software, encrypts all communications, making it more difficult for hackers to gain access to them. Hard to blame them. I should note here that of…