To end out the year, here comes a new major release of reqwest, the opinionated higher-level HTTP client for Rust. We don’t really need major breaking versions to keep providing value. Improvements keep coming all the time. But we did need one to make one…
via seanmonstarDecember 30, 2025Have 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 to entertain the search engine ranking algorith…
via pcloadletterDecember 30, 2025It’s my last day of writing for the year, so I’m going to try keep this one quick – it was knocked out over three hours, so I hope you can forgive me if it’s a bit clumsier than my usual writing. For some strange reason, one of the few clear memories I hav…
via LudicityDecember 27, 2025UPDATE: Further analysis revealed the ColdFusion campaign represents a small fraction of a much larger operation. The two primary IPs (134.122.136.119, 134.122.136.96) generated over 2.5 million requests targeting 767 distinct CVEs across 47+ technology st…
via GreyNoise LabsDecember 26, 2025I noticed some people migrating away from GitHub recently. I was curious to understand the rationale. Is it a blip or is it a sign of prolonged exodus?
via Rob O'Leary | BlogDecember 22, 2025Hi all! This month the new KMS plane color pipeline API has finally been merged! It took multiple years and continued work and review by engineers from multiple organizations, but at last we managed to push it over the finish line. This new API exposes to …
via emersionDecember 21, 2025(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from “content aggregators” like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely…
via Dhole MomentsDecember 18, 2025It's now late into 2025, and just over a year since I wrote my last post on Passkeys. The prevailing dialogue that I see from thought leaders is "addressing common misconceptions" around Passkeys, the implication being that "you just don't understand it co…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logDecember 17, 2025Even with the documentation on the topic, many people completely misunderstand what the context system is for, and what problem it actually solves. For those not familiar with Odin, in each scope, there is an implicit value named context. This context vari…
via Articles on gingerBillDecember 15, 2025What if I told you that this code: use candid::CandidType; use ic_dbms_api::prelude::{Text, Uint32}; use ic_dbms_canister::prelude::{DbmsCanister, Table}; use serde::Deserialize; #[derive(Debug, Table, CandidType, Deserialize, Clone, PartialEq, Eq…
via Christian Visintin BlogDecember 13, 2025Two weeks ago I added dark mode to this website. It was late one night and I was revisiting an article and my eyes were tired, so that was that. It was based solely on system dark mode settings, and I started using some more nice, modern CSS features like …
via macwright.comDecember 09, 2025You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so. The chat logs are really upsetting. Someone two degrees removed from me took their life a few weeks ago. A close friend …
via Drew DeVault's blogNovember 08, 2025Comfort of accepting used things
via Ishan WritesOctober 25, 2025i either want my US$2.5k professional-grade device backdoored or not at all
via maia blogAugust 20, 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, 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, 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…
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