Protecting screen time (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Jared Henderson joins us to discuss the state of the art in software parental controls and how we protect our children and lock down our home networks from the constant onslaught of malicious and unwanted content.

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Featuring:

• Jared Henderson – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
• pfSense® - World’s Most Trusted Open Source Firewall
• Gertrude | Mac Internet Filter, Parental Controls and Activity Monitoring
• Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks
• Vapor
• hummingbird: Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

บท

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sha boy(s) (00:00:38)

3. Screen Time is flaky (00:01:13)

4. Into the Pi-hole (00:05:13)

5. NextDNS (00:09:48)

https://nextdns.io/

6. Defense in depth (00:11:54)

7. Pi-hole doesn't scale (00:17:00)

8. Addictive algorithms (00:19:40)

9. The safelist method (00:28:39)

10. Why Gertrude (00:33:17)

https://gertrude.app

11. Gertrude on iOS? (00:35:07)

12. Sponsor: Statsig (00:44:11)

https://statsig.com/changelog

13. On accountability (00:47:49)

14. Addiction is a real issue (00:52:07)

15. 3 years in the making (00:56:13)

16. Naming things is hard (00:58:04)

17. Server-side Swift (01:01:29)

18. Swift web frameworks (01:03:34)

19. Open source sales pitch (01:05:19)

20. Take it up with Apple (01:24:37)

21. Windows app? (01:26:57)

22. Final remarks (01:29:48)

23. Coming up (++ bonus!) (01:33:01)

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