fanpuns

For the second day in a row I've gotten what seem like strange emails from family members with iPhones. All of them are incomplete in some way like they were in draft but never finished and some of them can be dated by subject matter to years ago.

I've gone through Gmail access logs with everyone, there isn't any unauthorized access, but the iPhone messages in question are just sent from SMTP rather than the detailed authorized app description usually provided (but with the same IP, so it's coming from the same phone).

The one thing they have in common is that they did an update overnight.

I don't know if I could pinpoint exactly when this started for me, but I realized the other day that I never read the questions when I'm trying to debug something and SO pops up as part of my Google results. I just read the title, then scroll down to the answers to see if any of the proposed code will work for me. Maybe 1 in 50 I'll flip back up to the question to see if a specific variable or setup is mentioned and therefore used in the answer.

I have been wondering with the discussion around SO culture and community if maybe this is important. For all the discussion about "good" questions and wanting to archive generally applicable programming advice, would it change the assumptions about the value of either if it turns out that people aren't reading the questions anyway?

I haven't been working in web development for very long, but I have always had a strong preference for working on the back end. Recently after some increasingly frustrating hours of making and then throwing away mockups for a new project I realized that either a) I will simply never be able to design things for the front end because I'm fundamentally lacking something or b) it's a skill that I never bothered to develop and I have to start somewhere at the beginning. I'm hoping it's the second option.

Whenever I try to google for front end design I get a lot of hits for JS, HTML, CSS...but it's not the coding part with which I am struggling, I feel like I don't have a vision of how things should be put together or why. What's even more frustrating is that I've been around long enough to know the basic building blocks and so it feels like I have all the parts sitting in front of me, I just can't put them together. I have tried decomposing other people's designs, but whenever I try to apply the results, it ends up looking like a poor copy.

The parameter I'm thinking of specifically would be one username with multiple passwords such that it's not obvious to another person that there are multiple accounts.

I've been thinking a lot about US border agents and law enforcement generally demanding to have access to people's digital devices and though I think it would be great for everyone to take a stand and refuse, it seems like this could mess up your day pretty bad. If you could give a different password that would then show them a generic or empty account so you can be on your way it would probably go a lot smoother. You could also have this dummy account signed in to generic social media accounts if you wanted to go this step.

How possible is it to build something like this on different platforms (win/mac, android/ios)?