Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

For your edification, the most common form factor of floppy disks:

5¼ inch (no metal door thing)
3½ inch (the one the save icon was modeled after)

There were also 8 inch (used before 1980s mainly), and various not very successful 3 inch, 2½ inch and 2 inch formats.

Minivac 601 Simulator A 1961 relay computer running in your browser

If you’re interested in 1960s relay computer circuits, take a look at this Minivac 601 Simulator I just released!

~2 years of work on and off. Simulating electricity wasn’t as easy as I originally thought :)

Cheers!

minivac.greg.technology

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Follow, in real time, the greatest hubris of Man: the construction of a 3D printer

A glass table with a variety of various tools upon it awaits our unholy mission

It is time to begin the unholy ritual of building a 3D printer in defiance of all the Old Gods who, if they wanted our imaginations to come to pass so easily, would not have taken from us substantiation magic long ago.

Soon begins the pain!

Oh look, my long-suffering friends @msrc.microsoft.com are here now.

shooting my shot 🏀 we’re hiring & here’s the lowdown. this would be a great role for someone beginning or mid career. pls apply or pass on to anyone u know who might fit!

(it is my current position, i am moving to other projects within the same team & would be training this person)

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Are you “hacker curious” (or just a hacker!) who you lives within 200 km of Raleigh, North Carolina, AND you have never attended a BSides event in person ?

If you are all three, I want to hear from you in this thread. I have something for you.

DOSember Game Jam A game jam from 2025-08-31 to 2025-11-30 hosted by emmfoolery. DOSember is an annual streaming event on twitch.tv Now approaching its 6th year, DOSember participants spend the entire month of December...

Psst... hey kid, you wanna make a DOS game?

I'm hosting a DOS(ember) Game Jam! All details are at the attached link.

Please feel free to join in – no experience necessary!

YouTube video by Marcus Hutchins Patch Analysis & Exploit Dev - Featuring Chompie1337

Going live is approx 30 mins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRlC...

OH: “Newbies get tripped up by this stuff because it’s really fucking confusing. Experts get tripped up by this stuff because it’s really fucking confusing”

Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption Buy Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

I had somehow missed that a second edition of Serious Cryptography came out late last year. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out! It’s updated and it’s really good

Oh no! If you run into problems in Atlanta, I'm a bit of a ride away but can be there in the morning if you need something. Here's to safe travels.

Oh yeah I'm at #defcon33 so there's about 2h left for me if you want to meet up "today"

yeeeaaaaasssssss!!!

Got to watch @tracketpacer.bsky.social give the RFC1925 clues at Hacker Jeopardy and if this is the thing that actually brings me back to posting on social media i guess that says a lot about how much fun this is.

Also that my brain is finally fried which, good, one more task checked off.

BLANKET FORT CON HAS BEGUN! Feel free to stop over, decompress, and make some blanket forts!

Going until 1:00 AM in W231-232.

@defcon.bsky.social #defcon #defcon33 #blanketforts #fun

Heyyyyy calling all peeps at #Defcon33: does anyone have a spare Pixel 6 Pro battery?!?! We have a volunteer who desperately needs one!

Please message me if you have one or any leads on one!

Dragos just opened 21 positions in Australia, UK, and US/Canada. Not my team, not the hiring manager, but there is an array of roles

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES

THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT

cut my heap into pieces, this is my crash report:
allocation, no alignment
don't give a fuck if it faults on assignment
this is fatal abort()

Hacker Summer Camp Donation Form Women in Security and Privacy (WISP)’s Hacker Summer Camp scholarship aims to increase representation in the cybersecurity field by providing opportunities for women and underrepresented folks to atte...

I just donated $1,000 to send 1 WISP (Women in Security and Privacy) scholar to DEF CON, etc!
The 1st person to match me is @0xTib3rius -- thank you so much!!
The goal is 45 scholars covered total & we have 2 so far!
You can write this off on your taxes ◡̈
wisporg.app.neoncrm.com/forms/hacker...

PIPING HOT SIXTEENTH MINUTE EPISODE IF YOU EVEN CARE

Aw man, this is so sad. Kevin was one of the original bloggers & a true, true mensch. He modeled thoughtful, respectful engagement in a way that had a huge impression on an entire generation of writers. Feels like the end of an era -- and not in a good way.