Technology marches on, and many of the flash videos I’ve posted here over the past fifteen years or so have become mostly unwatchable, because almost nobody uses flash players anymore. So I’ve just spent the better part of a day updating all of those videos to more modern formats. This means that if you have occasion to read old posts with videos in them, the videos will actually work now.
While I was at it, I updated this site’s video page, which you can get to by clicking on the menu at the top or by going directly here. This too had become unusable because of all the flash video. I updated the video formats and added several more items. Let me know if you have any special favorites you think I should add.
Here’s to a long overdue good riddance to Flash! https://lifehacker.com/you-really-shouldnt-be-running-adobe-flash-player-anymo-1829721122
I won’t miss Flash, but I do miss your once a day posts.
Thanks for updating the videos. I enjoyed a couple of the goodies. I didn’t know you had debated Dinesh D’Souza about religion – that was pretty interesting to watch.
This is somewhat tangential, but I have my own story about Flash. Many years ago, I was working with an IE plugin. To test the plugin for stability, we had an automated stress test we ran in our QA lab. (It was long enough ago it was common to have in-house hardware labs). To get a baseline, I tested IE with no plugins. I could not crash IE as long as no plugins were enabled. I could run the test for days on end. I never saw a ‘naked’ IE crash. Which was the first ironic finding, as many people complained about IE’s instability at the time. This was IE 6.0.
As I added browser plugins, the stability decreased. Flash was the second-worst plugin, in that regard. “Worst” here being measured by the shortness of time-to-live before I saw a crash.
The worst offender was the Google toolbar. Which was the second ironic finding, because when Google released Chrome around that time, they told people they should want their browser to be stable.
Bonus link: IE 6 funeral.
https://techcrunch.com/2010/03/05/ie6-funeral/