Next month, Discord is going to start requiring age verification. The backlash from gamers everywhere has been predictable and justified. I guess their company name checks out. I’ve had a few people reach out to me because of my prior vulnerability disclos…
via Dhole MomentsFebruary 11, 2026A long, long time ago I can still remember how a protocol used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those botnets dance And maybe they'd be happy for a while But January made me shiver With every packet I tried to deliver Bad n…
via GreyNoise LabsFebruary 10, 2026ListeningDie In Love by Greet DeathVia David Crespo, I got into Greet Death, a band that's been hustling since 2011. It's great in a simultaneously familiar and innovative way. The album has a great amount of variety: Small Town Cemetery is a really effect…
via macwright.comFebruary 03, 2026Introduction For the last year or so, I’ve started using AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to help me with my software engineering tasks. For most of the time, these tools have been a great help. GitHub Copilot has helped me automate boilerplate…
via Christian Visintin BlogFebruary 01, 2026I’ve gotten a lot of flack throughout my career over my disdain towards test-driven development (TDD). I have met a lot of people who swear by it! And, I have also met a lot of people who insisted that I adopt it, too, often with the implied threat of appe…
via Drew DeVault's blogJanuary 29, 2026Come along with me as I review the past year. Heh, I often start these kinds of posts right at the start of the year, but it takes a few weeks longer than I ever expect to think them through.1 Two years of being independent After a second year of operati…
via seanmonstarJanuary 27, 2026I'm a fan of simulating counterintuitive statistics. I recently did this with the Monty Hall problem and I really enjoyed how it turned out. A similarly interesting statistical puzzle is the birthday paradox: you only need to get 23 people in a room a room…
via pcloadletterJanuary 23, 2026Hi! Last week I’ve released Goguma v0.9! This new version brings a lot of niceties, see the release notes for more details. New since last month are audio previews implemented by delthas, images for users, channels & networks, and usage hints when typing a…
via emersionJanuary 21, 2026There are only two families of proper arbitrary markup languages: TeX and SGML I would normally link to official thing as reference but it's behind the "wonderful" ISO paywall: ISO 8879:1986.. By arbitrary, I mean the grammar specifically, and how it can …
via gingerBill - ArticlesJanuary 19, 2026plus an MMO boosting service, fully remote Android spying and patented ToS violations
via maia blogJanuary 06, 2026Some ideas about success and analysis of some of the concepts of the film Whiplash
via Ishan WritesJanuary 04, 2026It’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, 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, 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, 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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