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Part 2 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series uses a controlled message to test email authentication, filtering, reporting, and response without collecting a real credential or turning...
I read Peter Bloem's post about the ten rules for keeping your critical thinking while using AI to code. I don't follow all of them but it's a great list to keep in mind so you don't forget how to think when you are using agentic coding.
a really rough sketch of how I plan and journal in a blank book I use a notebook for almost everything I might want to write by hand, the only thing I don’t keep in it are long-term lists for projects and such, those live in my notepad....
I've been watching the NFL since around the mid 80s. I remember the '85 Bears defense and all the media they were doing. I watched Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary and many...
I want to talk about something that's been on my mind for a while: search has quietly gotten worse over the past several years, and I think it's worth being honest about why, and what it's actually costing us. Anyone who's pasted a...
Do you know how we communicated with the Artemis II mission? All that crispy high definition video? When I can barely get 5G on Earth, how did they get such a good connection to stream the footage live? I am finally getting around to...
I eat grits. I always have and I always will. Because they're delicious, that's why. Grits are a simple dish: ground corn, salt and a little butter, the traditional way. Sometimes folks get a little fancy and start adding cheese, chopped...
SFUSD’s Queer Trans Parent Advisory Council had its first meeting of the new school year Thursday night. This is my second year serving on QTPAC; I joined last summer. I’m looking forward to seeing how we can help the district’s queer...
Finished reading Steve Marriott: All Too Beautiful by Paolo Hewitt and John Hellier. I’ve been a big Small Faces fan since I was a teenager in the 1990s. I knew the basic story arc of Steve Marriott’s life, but this filled in lots of the...
One day at a time. Keep going. :) A brief message. Written on a Post-It and left in the workspace where I volunteer. I don't know how long it has been there. Who wrote it. Or, the intended recipient. For someone who is discouraged? Keep...
I’m going back and rereading my novel-in-eternal-progress, and… … it’s not terrible! Hooray! Maybe 2027 will be the year I finally finish the fucking thing. I’ve only been working on it for a decade now. Speedy, I am not, at least with...
Non è affatto facile o semplice scrivere di me in questa fase diaristica intimistica sentimentalistica che comunque emerge come qualcosa di potente vista la situazione. Ma in effetti cercare di farcela è anche cercare di essere questa...
a half-assed review"> A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has–a gun that makes portals. I think this is the game I...
Reading the leftist Jacobin magazine article with the title Toward Simp Liberation? led me to the remarkable investigative journalism piece from The Cut by Ezra Marcus titled Revenge of the Simps. Its subtitle is how a community of porn...
From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That doesn’t look sustainable. And assuming this activity is driven by AI bots rather...
Title: Vobar Website: vobar.eu RSS Feed: vobar.eu/blog/index.xml A personal blog by a techy person. Writes about software, volunteering, cooking, and whatever else interests them. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm...
From the day that I stepped into a manager role till today, I've been relying on other people to do my job. Every passing year, I sacrificed a piece of my software engineering 'expertise' to organisational constraints.: the work that...
Esta semana he tratado de hacer algunas rutas por refugios de montaña. He estado en varios y hablo aquí de dos. Cueva Valiente está a 1.903 metros de altitud, en la sierra de Guadarrama. Desde arriba se ve el Puerto de los Leones y El...
2026-08-20Hello!I saw a quote somewhere that read something like: "young writers only write about themselves, not realizing that bad autobiography is the most oversaturated genre on the internet." This blog is not that high above the...
The Saturday before Easter I decided to do something I had not done since moving back in December of 2025: I went people watching. Most days, after I finish work, I am so exhausted I do not do much of anything besides eat and go to...
It’ll be wasp season soon —he says, well aware that the very idea of “seasons” is an increasingly futile one— and so any slight buzzing has me frantically scanning for something, anything, I can use as a weapon. I don’t think I’ve ever...
📌 I'm a little behind in putting up my #bookshelf books for 2026 but it's in the works. 📚 Book 18 of 2026 - Finished (8/19): The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman (5/5⭐) When I picked up this book, I honestly didn't realize it was...
♠ Today I found myself with 13 open terminals, more than half of them running Pi or Claude Code, the rest with various projects and explorations split amongst work and personal affairs. 13!! This is not a matter of pride. I need to take...
Eu mesmo aqui, o maior fã de i-COL da minha casa vindo fazer outro review, dessa vez do novo EP delas que saiu em 2025. Comparado com o Ri-Di-Dong que é de 2022, você consegue ver claramente a evolução de ambas como vocalistas. Chega a...
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I. Herein Verick considered himself a fortunate man and saw no reason his friends should think otherwise. He had said as much to Whereas that morning in the queue outside the bay, watching the ring fill for the panels. “My wife wants for...
In a previous post I talked about WezTerm, a cross-platform terminal emulator application written in Rust that I liked. This time I’m going to talk about another one written in Zig called Ghostty, and I like this one even more. Ghostty...
I’m a bit late with Pook-Emu Bee links today, but the streak continues. By the way, WordPress’s admin area looks different after the latest update. Change in color contrast. I’m not complaining. I ordered a Wacom One tablet on Ebay. Need...
WordPress.com Education, is an initiative launched earlier week, designed to give school students across the world resources to setup and maintain their own blog: This isn’t a stripped-down classroom version of WordPress.com. The Student...
August 2026. Coventry. Nearly finished. But not quite. Oxford Nick and I found a short cut to the legendary Broomfield Tavern tucked away off Spon End, and I immediately sighed “Oh, that’s the Broomfield“. In my mind, I visited all the...
The great mercy of life is that we can change, we can reroute, we can surprise ourselves. The great pitfall of prediction is that, mercifully, we are unpredictable. — “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me...
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Read Never Quit Your Post now!Do you have any cats?Do I ever! I have four, three Maine Coons and one feral trash cat adoptee. It’s roughly eighty pounds of cat. Their names are Fergie, Fiona, Fidget, and Phoebe. I thought it would be...
An unconventional photo post Back in May, I bought a new (to me) camera: a Rolleicord V, which I wrote about here. Since then, I’ve taken it with me on a couple of walks, and have familiarised myself with its controls. After some initial...
A detailed database of Microsoft brands for their cloud solutions: the names, dates and duration of each one, all backed by trusted sources. I don’t think there is another technology company with an identity crisis as acute as Microsoft....
Die Schatten, die die Kieselsteine am Morgen werfen, werden länger. Sie sind langgezogener, als vor ein paar Tagen um dieselbe Uhrzeit. Auf den Straßen sieht man nun mehr langbehoste und daunenbejackte Körper, deren eingeschriebene...
An introduction to wizard-style inline skating, a creative style combining flat-ground tricks and street obstacles.
…pending an investigation into possible “discrimination” against the late Professor Arday. It was Dr. Cofnas’s July 21 substack post that opened the flood gates of media coverage of allegations against Professor Arday, that ultimately...
“State, provincial, and national policymakers in Canada, the UK, and US have pursued controversial proposals regulating access to gender affirming care, public bathrooms, and competitive sports… Many trans and nonbinary philosophers find...
Au départ de Montréal, quelques 1 700 km au compteur pour visiter une partie de l’Ontario, dont les fameuses chutes du Niagara, avant de revenir au Québec par les Laurentides. Récit d’une belle semaine de découvertes. Escapade dans...
In his talk “Why AI Is Breaking Software Security As We Know It” (my notes here), Feross Aboukhadijeh talks about the Axios npm incident and how the maintainer got phished by succumbing to (amongst other things) a faux Microsoft Teams...
It's nice when studios get a chance to spin out independent rather than be shut down entirely With larger companies doing evil shit on a regular basis and the workers getting inevitably fucked by that, it's nice when there are stories...
I've just made a small update to BagOfStuff, my little support library for my personal Python-based FOSS projects. This release makes some more changes to the history classes, adding an add_or_replace method, and also making some...
Back in January, I wrote about how over the past several years I’ve actively worked to decentralize my online presence and reduce (as much as is realistic) my use of giant social media platforms...
I figured out how to use Indesign back then and made these little guys. Dioxazine was supposed to have more issues but I got a job shortly after. Jet's Cook Book This one was all the recipes I had collected and used often enough that I...
Últimamente he dedicado ya bastante de mi tiempo en refinar y dar los últimos detalles a Hitz-Musik.net, y todo este tiempo me he puesto a pensar bastante en una contradicción que nunca vi venir (al chilindrín). La neta, me siento muy...
În ultimele zile am observat că tot cade reițeau wireless. Ieri sau alaltăieri am oprit și pornit router-ul pentru a reveni internetul - bine că merge prin cablu. Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
We’re nearing the end of August 2026, and I figured it’s time I give up the pipe dream of writing a 2025 recap the way I envisioned a whole year ago. Some sections are what I did write over the past eight months; other sections I simply...
We had a solar eclipse here in Europe last week. I didn't see it this time, but I've seen I think two partial eclipses before and they were always fascinating to witness. We had a total solar eclipse that was visible in South Germany...
The Nintendo 64, Nintendo’s 5th generation home console, just celebrated the 30-year anniversary of its June 23, 1996 launch in Japan (it made it to the United States on September 29 of the same year). Nintendo Life commemorated the...
Just for the records: The first morning of the year on which I had to turn on the lamp at my desk when starting to work. Reply by email