Today, Barely Legally has a new look: a theme I designed called Redacre. While I’ve tinkered with and updated the design of the site pretty much constantly since launch day, this is the first major overhaul in this history of the site. If you spot any bugs, please drop me a line. Also, I used [...]
The average student graduates college with about $25,000 in loans that will take years to repay. (When I graduated law school, I had … more than that.) That kind of indebtedness can seem oppressive when you’re struggling to start a career; who’s really going to try to start the next Twitoogle or Fourspacebook when you [...]
As someone with an overwhelming amount of student loans, this essay from N+1 Magazine awfully hit close to home: Since 1978, the price of tuition at US colleges has increased over 900 percent, 650 points above inflation. To put that number in perspective, housing prices, the bubble that nearly burst the US economy, then the global [...]
SSL is what makes transacting business over the internet reasonably safe. However, in the last two weeks, two of the certifying authorities of SSL have been breached, and handed out fake certificates for sites like Gmail. The major web browsers have revised how they handle certificates (specifically, they now check to see if the certificate [...]