This is a furry blog, where I write about whatever interests me and sign it with my fursona’s name. I sometimes talk about furry fandom topics, but I sometimes also talk about applied cryptography. If you got a mild bit of emotional whiplash from that sent…
via Dhole MomentsJuly 24, 2025Daniel Roy Greenfeld wrote about how to test your code for multiple versions of Python using `uv`. I follow up with a small improvement to the Makefile.
via Technically PersonalJuly 21, 2025Hi! Sway’s patch to add HDR support has finally be merged! It can be enabled via output hdr on, and requires the Vulkan renderer (which can be selected via WLR_RENDERER=vulkan). Still, lots remains to be done to improve tone mapping and compositing. Help …
via emersionJuly 18, 2025Gemsubs! Gemsubs seem to be what people are calling feeds written in Gemtext. If I'd known that, or looked for even one more day I'd have found them. Subscribe away. It's almost but not quite the sort of feed I'm after, but it'll do to be getting on with. …
via Mike KreuzerJuly 17, 2025Background On the first of July (2025), CISA’s KEV brought a fun little vulnerability to my attention. The alert reports two newly known exploited vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-48927 and CVE-2025-48928. CVE-2025-48928 requires local exploitation, and so is not…
via GreyNoise LabsJuly 16, 2025One part of working on a more modular reqwest was adding support for retries. Intermittent failures are a fact of life, and a simple retry could have made things so much better. It’s a somewhat frequent feature request for reqwest. It’s also a very common…
via seanmonstarJuly 15, 2025In my previous post, I described implementing PDB parsing as a can of worms. That might have been a bit of an understatement. PDB has been one "oh, it's gonna be twice as much work as I thought" after another. Implementing it has revealed many of the same …
via Cracking the ShellJuly 07, 2025I guess I’ll cover the context first so that we can move on to the good stuff. Man, everything is going terribly. It’s hard to overstate how bad things are for America right now. We’re just doing the thing: we’ve elected fascists and they’re funding an un…
via macwright.comJuly 04, 2025Today, we’re looking at two case studies in how to respond when reactionaries appear in your free software community. Exhibit A It is a technical decision. The technical reason is that the security team does not have the bandwidth to provide lifecycle mai…
via Drew DeVault's blogJune 30, 2025A few days ago, I had a memory issue in one of my Rust applications. The application was huge, and for some reason the memory kept growing with hundreds of gigabytes of memory allocated, but I couldn't find the source of the leak. Of course I know there…
via Christian Visintin BlogJune 26, 2025A few days ago, I was presented with an article titled “My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts” by Thomas Ptacek. I thought it was not very good, and didn't give it a second thought. To quote the formidable Baldur Bjarnason: “I don’t recommend reading it, but…
via LudicityJune 19, 2025let the games begin
via maia blogJune 09, 2025You can elevate hover/focus effects by triggering transitions on more than one element. With the right orchestration, you can create more nuanced effects.
via Rob O'Leary | BlogJune 01, 2025Generative AI will probably make blogs better. Have you ever searched for something on Google and found the first one, two, or three blog posts to be utter nonsense? That's because these blog posts have been optimized not for human consumption, but rather …
via pcloadletterMay 30, 2025This is a short reflection on my experience of the recent writing challenge I took part in. Over the past two weeks, I have participated in the #RxWritingChallenge 1—a daily, 30-minute writing group starting at 9 AM every morning. Surrounded by fellow doct…
via Ul-lingaApril 05, 2025My coffee workflow by Clement Delafargue on April 1, 2025 Tagged as: coffee, espresso, flair58, v60. It is my first April cools’ and I guess I could start by talking about coffee. If you’ve seen me in person, it won’t be a surprise, I guess. This po…
via Clément Delafargue - RSS feedApril 01, 2025A guide to building a simple web application using augmented generation.
via Ishan WritesMarch 10, 2025After a local security meetup where I presented about Webauthn, I had a really interesting chat with a member about a possible Yubikey management strategy. Normally when you purchase a yubikey it's recommended that you buy two of them - one primary and one…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logFebruary 28, 2025