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Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Improving Geographical Resilience For Distributed Open Source Teams with FREON
In a recent blog post, I laid out the argument that, if you have securely implemented end-to-end encryption in your software, then the jurisdiction where your ciphertext is stored is almost irrelevant. Where jurisdiction does come into play, unfortunately,…
via Dhole MomentsAugust 09, 2025What's new with Himitsu 0.9?
Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux. I haven’t blogged about Himitsu since I announced it three years ago, and I thought it would be nice to give you a closer look at the latest rele…
via Drew DeVault's blogAugust 08, 2025warp v0.4
Yesterday, warp v0.4 was released. warp is a Rust web server framework, with a focus on functional programming and type system routing. Upgrading is likely pretty simple, the main API stayed very similar. The biggest deal is that it should be easier for y…
via seanmonstarAugust 06, 2025The PoC Pollution Problem: How AI-Generated Exploits Are Poisoning Detection Engineering
As 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, 2025Can you move a Copy in Rust?
Introduction This article came from a question I saw on Reddit, and it is a good one to ask, even if it seems dumb at first. So we all know that Rust has a concept of ownership, and usually whenever a value is not passed by reference, it is moved. So for…
via Christian Visintin BlogJuly 28, 2025Testing multiple versions of Python in parallel
Daniel 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, 2025Status update, July 2025
Hi! 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, 2025LLDB's TypeSystems Part 2: PDB
In 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, 2025Recently
I 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, 2025Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI
A 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, 2025Elevate hover/focus effects with transitions across multiple elements
You 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
Generative 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, 2025#Rx Writing Challenge 2025
This 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
My 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, 2025Simple Web Augmented Generation
A guide to building a simple web application using augmented generation.
via Ishan WritesMarch 10, 2025Backup Yubikey Strategy
After 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, 2025Physics Simulations in Bevy
Bevy is the most popular and powerful game engine in Rust. Because of its flexibility, it can be used not only for games but also for (scientific) physics simulations. In this blog post, I will share my experience using Bevy for physics simulations from sc…
via mo8it.comJuly 19, 2024Generated by openring-rs