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I made a thing. In a world where prompt-to-code costs twenty bucks a month, writing about your side project is basically singing the song of my people. It is called Hisohiso, it lives at hisohiso.org, and it does two things at once. That...
My father by trade was an ironworker and on the side he ran a welding business. The garage was his workshop. There he kept the usual oxy-acetylene gear, used when he was making wrought-iron railings. For certain jobs he relied on the arc...
June has been a bit of a slow reading month for me. The hot weather has certainly not helped. On the plus side though I had a great time at the 11th Bodies in the Library conference and it was fun catching up with my GAD friends....
A simplified list of rules I try to live by. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to others.
There is a small voice inside of me that always tells me, “You’re too old to start something new.” In his book Three Mile an Hour God, Kosuke Koyama says, “When I think about time, I have no other choice than to be humble.” Bob Dylan...
Tuesday 30th June 2026 Halfway through 2026 and time for another month end round up of miscellany spotted on my travels during the last few weeks. Its very first Nationalised journey And first up is the irony of spotting the very first...
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has a model for ridership estimation for public transit lines, called STOPS. It’s designed to be simplified enough that transit agencies can compute rough projections with it without having a...
A practical guide to OWASP A04:2025 Cryptographic Failures. Learn the real-world mistakes - weak password hashing, plaintext data, bad randomness, hardcoded keys - and how to fix them with secure Python.
A practical guide to OWASP A03:2025 Software Supply Chain Failures. Learn why it's a brand-new Top 10 category, real attacks from xz to dependency confusion, and how to lock down your dependencies and CI/CD pipeline.
A practical guide to OWASP A05:2025 Injection. Learn how SQL, command, and other injection flaws really work, and how to stop them for good with parameterized queries and safe APIs in Python.
Virtually every fighting game appearing in arcades in the 1990s brought together martial artists from around the world to engage in one-on-one combat. Samurai Shodown did this as well, but it stood apart as a result of two crucial...
It's kind of interesting to see 7 Dogs hit American theaters a week after Unidentified; they've got very little in common aside from having "Saudi Arabia" as the first country listed under "Country of Origin" on IMDB, and sort of...
Swedish death cleaning is about discarding possessions before you die as a kindness. But in the smaller universe of personally meaningful objects, the ones you leave behind will be the last story you tell. And you shape that narrative by...
LGB couplings, Accucraft choppers, both incompatible with each other. The solution? A length of bath plug chain. Small scalers won't be impressed with the lack of fidelity of this setup, but outdoors, we are just happy that it works, and...