The Rundown January 7, 2021 — Lateral Vectors

Rebuilding/reconfiguring my dev stack so I can really get into programming projects this year. First, I have to give version control to the workflow for editing the UP College of Law website (which is hosted in Wordpress.com). Once you’ve setup SFTP access, it’s pretty easy to put integrate it with a GitHub-based repository.
I can’t believe it took me this long to start using local digital payment systems like PayMaya. I’ve always been a bit queasy about storing value in a consumer device, but cash is a potential vector for infection.
Fascinating account of the Bellingcat investigation on Russia’s involvement in the Alexey Navalny Novichok poisoning. It’s both encouraging (and scary) about how so much can be gleaned from online, open sources.
The Lab Leak Hypothesis - So this is a considered, well-reasoned argument for the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab and escaped (without any malicious design).
From Building the Woke Web:

Engineering that makes inclusion an afterthought is engineering that operates without morality and in doing so actively enacts harm. The fact that this kind of engineering is commonplace on the internet doesn’t make it OK. It just highlights that the way we have built the web is fundamentally broken. We can do better.