Sun Apr 13
My operating rules and way of living. This is a m.o. (mo) page, or modus operandi page. It lists out the way I approach my life and the rules I apply to it to thrive. This is a living document and will be added to as more comes to mind, or as I develop new ones. It is mirrored at /mo. Feel free to make your own. Let...
Absolutely wild attack vector I never would have thought of. It's almost as if it is targeted at "vibe-coding".AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain riskA new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model’s...
This airport wildlife signifies a degraded future Airports long ago lost their shine for me. This time was another step in the same direction. The usual bureaucrats herding crowds while inflicting petty annoyances. This flight will be less than 3 hours. We must be halfway across the Tasman Sea to Queenstown already....
Since I started using the Zen Browser, I have been more inclined to bookmark the pages that I visit and organize them in a logical way that allows me to revisit them whenever I need to. For some time, I saved my bookmarks in plain text in an org file, and just stored them in version control. This just allows easy...
Last Wednesday I received the excellent news that a “major project” application a colleague and I submitted to Durham’s Institute of Advanced Study has been awarded funding. From October 2025 to September 2028 (which intense focus October – December 2026), we will be investigating “Community as an Enabler of...
dopo due mesi e 100 ore giocate, credo di poter parlare con un po' più di cognizione di causa di questo magnifico aggeggino.
I'm no longer writing the Stack Overflow newsletter or on the podcast, but it was fun while it lasted!