US politics has been pretty fascist lately. The state is filling up concentration camps, engaging in mass state violence against people on the basis of racialized traits, deporting them to random countries without any respect for habeas corpus, exerting st…
via Drew DeVault's blogSeptember 24, 2025I was trying out text-wrap: pretty on my website. It didn’t appear to do anything. Is it a bug?
via Rob O'Leary | BlogSeptember 22, 2025I’ve been thinking the new Meta Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses. Not because they failed onstage, which they absolutely did. Or that shortly after they received rave reviews from Victoria Song at The Verge and MKBHD, two of the most influential tech revi…
via macwright.comSeptember 21, 2025It is tempting and forgivable to believe that we’re in control of our social media experiences. After all, we write what we want in our bio, select our avatars, and even come up with our own handles. We decide who we follow, what we post, and which recomme…
via Dhole MomentsSeptember 17, 2025n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The Standup Package managers (for programming languages) are evil1. To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers mix u…
via Articles on gingerBillSeptember 08, 2025Last week I was a guest on the Netstack podcast. We talked abit about how I got into Rust, how async Rust developed, and the story behind hyper and its surrounding ecoystem. We started (and ended) with my goal of better software: On your about page, y…
via seanmonstarSeptember 02, 2025i either want my US$2.5k professional-grade device backdoored or not at all
via maia blogAugust 20, 2025Hi! This month I’ve spent quite some time working on vali, a C library and code generator for the Varlink IPC protocol. It was formerly named “varlinkgen”, but the new name is shorter and more accurate (the library can be used without the code generator). …
via emersionAugust 16, 2025Introduction I think there's something every developer working in an environment where PR must be reviewed has experienced: PRs taking too long to be reviewed. Every company has its own process for assigning reviews and setting the amount of minimum…
via Christian Visintin BlogAugust 14, 2025As detection engineers, we live and breathe the cycle of vulnerability disclosure, proof-of-concept (PoC) analysis, and signature development. When CVE-2024-XXXXX drops on a Tuesday morning, we’re already pulling GitHub repositories, scanning blog posts, a…
via GreyNoise LabsJuly 30, 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, 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, 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