Archive - I Make Things Work

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For Privacy and Security

Aug 10, 2021 •

Mathias Hellquist

Are You Leaking Personal Details Online?

Your house. Your family and kids. Your health status & insurances. Your job & income. Your car. Your friends. I'm guessing all of those things are, to a…

Aug 7, 2021 •

Mathias Hellquist

Feedbin Feedreader quick review

Looking at alternatives for feedreaders I came across Feedbin. This is my quick review on it and their service.

Aug 4, 2021 •

Mathias Hellquist

Observations on a selection of topics such as privacy, productivity tools, infosec, innovation, ux and photography

...it could cover other topics I find interesting too though. :)

Aug 4, 2021 •

Mathias Hellquist

July 2021

Time to move on from Feedly and I need to find another good RSS Feed reader. I have been a paying "Pro" user of Feedly since 2014. In general it has…

Jul 29, 2021 •

Mathias Hellquist

February 2021

Social Media Alternatives

You might have seen me on Facebook/Twitter saying something along the lines of that you/we/all should stop using "Big Tech" social media services, and…

Feb 13, 2021 •

Mathias Hellquist

Dependency Confusion

To install A you need B which depends on C which can only be installed by D which... Looking at installing a new "theme" for a blog. It's using…

Feb 12, 2021 •

Mathias Hellquist

November 2020

I came across an interesting article about gamification of the real world, in particular on the topic of QAnon, which I realised I knew nothing about…

Nov 13, 2020 •

Mathias Hellquist

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