andrew

It took me a while to get comfortable with how to use it effectively, and I'm still not convinced the trade offs are worth it, but it pushing non-full time devs past road blocks is my favourite outcome so far, going to lead to so many community projects that bring real value

It's pretty wild to watch the discourse decide that a failure to enforce strong MFA is an indictment of

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open source package repositories as a concept.

The Wikipedia community isn't a huge fan of it, I don't think it's explicitly banned but certainly frowned upon from a conflict of interest perspective

Watching Ertz score for Washington is tough 🦅

Nothing makes me want to pack up and move countries like having to use a VIA train

Jamaican patty as a croissant is a hell of a sales pitch

Any idea on order out of the pits? Is it in quali order or based on new parts taken?

It’s a crazy experience seeing a decision you suggest be pushed to thousands of orgs, incredibly humbling

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

Would make some of the cuisine easier to order as well, a plate of hot food in already hot temps is a tough sell but give me a guaranteed breeze and that concern goes away

Booked a hotel in Nice last summer specifically for its AC, the lowest it would go? 27. It’s like they hate comfort.

I prefer mine in .pdf’s

Definitely the best player to come out of that program (not even really close) so makes sense

Maliata has been great but over Jason Peters?

Most breaches are a result/or are made significantly worse due to org’s failing to do the basics consistently

A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post is that from a cryptographic…

I wrote a bit more about X’s new encrypted DMs and the Juicebox protocol. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/06/09/a...

I’m having way too much fun writing about Bluetooth.

I see it as more about where these products live in a network vs what category the vendor fits into

I like to think of it as clipboard between reboots

Worked at one in a gap year, i had cars rejected on any aspect you can think of, country of origin, interior materials, expected gas mileage, colour, trim model.. and the entire business model relies on having most cars rented every day so you really don’t have a massive selection to pull from.

I dont know the Andy halftime adjustment for THEY BETTER THAN US AT ALL THE SPOTS.

This really is just Spags v Stoutland isn’t it

It’s the exact sort of thing I was looking for in a NFCE championship game

That’s an expensive fuck

This has always been the case, you have 10-20 seconds to get the viewer to commit to the first 2-3 minutes. Longer form videos need a reason to keep people there, either by making the video ‘background noise’ (ie podcasts, game play throughs) or by having content dense videos that require focus.

I have a brilliant plan, all I need is:
- the copyright to everything
- all the money in the world

I haven’t seen underfunded either, I would hope the org would understand that they were taking those risks by not investing (which is a valid strategy sometimes too)

You got it though, the cases have been where there’s a ‘disconnect’ on what’s been done to prepare/where they are maturity wise

The most common case I see it happen is when IT leaders are clearly unprepared on the incident call, damages relationships throughout the org pretty instantly and is hard to come back from

For most companies? Not really. There will always be exceptions, mostly orgs in sensitive spaces (ie Ashley Madison), but in general I’d take it over an operations disruption any day of the week.