TBT: The devastating decline of a brilliant young coder

PLUS: The best WIRED stories from this month a year ago. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 04.01.21 Lee Holloway's personality was consistent for decades—until it wasn't. The programmer behind internet security firm Cloudflare became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable, until he became almost unrecognizable to the people who knew him best. Rooting out the cause took years of detective work—and forced his family to confront the trickiest questions of selfhood. Read the story of the devastating decline of a brilliant young coder, plus the best WIRED stories from this month a year ago, below.   The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. Then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it. The Best Stories From This Month, Last Year How to Cut Your Hair at Home If your hair-care professional is still on lockdown, you might be getting desperate for a trim. Let us help you avoid a DIY disaster. This 30-Year-Old Sci-Fi Epic Is a Saga for Our Times Clocking in at five hours long, the restored director's cut of Until the End of the World arrives as if on cue, with spooky prescience. I Am Not At All Relaxed by Animal Crossing Millions of people have found comfort in the Switch smash hit. I, however, have found myself trapped in an endless cycle of kawaii capitalism. You Can Now Check If Your ISP Uses Basic Security Measures "Is BGP Safe Yet" is a new site that names and shames internet service providers that don't tend to their routing.  Space Photos of the Week: Awesome Planets and Ancient Gods Earth aside, all the planets in our solar system were named after Greek and Roman gods. How We Will All Solve the Climate Crisis We only have one Earth. And we have the technology to save it. GET WIRED Spring Sale! Ending soon: Get WIRED for $10 $5. You can't see into the future, but you can subscribe to WIRED. Subscribe now.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.