Jamie Finnigan

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I built it for my 9 & 11 year-olds... maybe it'll be useful for others?

"... whenever Claude logged on, its context would be immediately filled with ASCII pictures of fish..."

Time to replace all those boring /etc/issue legal-required login warnings with... animations of aquariums?

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What if we stop treating security testing as a separate thing? Prioritize using your existing unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks to cover security cases

Security should be a property of how your system behaves under stress, manipulation, and misuse. What if a baseline of security testing could be woven into the same unit, integration, and end-to-end tests that developers already use to ensure quality?

chair6.net/security-tes...

(Thanks for the introduction to Rosa's concepts, @trippfuller.bsky.social! This was a fun one to think about & riff on...)

Security-oriented reflections on Rosa's uncontrollability Applying Hartmut Rosa's concepts of controllability and resonance to the security space

"But security doesn't always work that way. Sociologist Hartmut Rosa calls this 'uncontrollability', and argues that it isn’t a flaw to be fixed, but a vital feature of how we relate meaningfully to the world."

chair6.net/security-ref...

Good album.

Christian. I think perhaps we do.

Do we need to make "vulnerability management industrial complex" a thing?

New chairlift at the local mountain has an aesthetic...

$ sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.2-RELEASE

Breton-style andouille and blue cheese, today! The chocolate covered orange slices were for secondsies.

Baguettes from a vending machine for lunch. The French know how to do carbs...

~6-8€ per bottle. France is pretty great...

Now we're sitting in Roz-sur-Couesnon eating salted Brittany butter and baguette, and drinking cheap French wine. Good times.

I used Google Translate to buy some coolant from a one-pump mechanic in Saint-Martin-des-Besaces this evening. Modern technology has changed the travel experience significantly!

Continuing the "listening to whole albums" theme, Gentlemen of the Road by Mumford and Sons is the order of the evening. Solid collection of live performances.

Ooo, yes.. added to my list of albums for this week.

I've been enjoying "Flamingo" by Brandon Flowers the last few evenings.. 2010 is a while ago already. Making a conscious choice to get away from Spotify's automagic sameness and start listening to whole albums again... good times!

Don’t ask forgiveness, radiate intent As simple encouragement to act, “ask forgiveness, not permission” is fair enough. But here are 4 reasons to signal your intentions:

I do like the concept of "radiating intent". Broadcast what you want to do, when you plan to do it, and give stakeholders space to explicitly object, rather than explicitly chasing consensus / alignment / approval. Works in some scenarios, and generally requires baseline trust to have been earned.

I don't like those words, but... yes. Pretty much a requirement if you want to get things done. It can be a real time suck though, and can be done poorly.

Easy Chocolate Mug Cake - Tastes Better from Scratch This microwave Chocolate Mug Cake recipe is the easiest and fastest single-serving dessert, and you wont believe how delicious it is!

Just got done making chocolate mug cake with one of kids... perfect for a cold/dark winter evening, only takes ~5 mins in the kitchen. Pro tip - add more chocolate chips that the recipe calls for. Also good with a splash of bourbon, and/or served with a lil' dollop of ice cream.

Finally getting to the point where I can `terraform destroy` a long-lived-but-abandoned project... mostly mentally freeing, with a little side of sadness. Cloudy dreams floating away into the void. Cancelling one domain name means I can register another one though, right?

YouTube video by Crazy Karl Brap Ski 4 - 4K Full Film

Continuing the ski film theme, Crazy Karl is keeping it real with Brap Ski 4 over at www.youtube.com/watch?v=chKT.... Winter is coming...

cc @mijustin.bsky.social, I think you'll like this.

YouTube video by The North Face CIRCLE OF MADNESS | The North Face

It's ski film season, and this was a good one!

The proliferation of emerging password/login technologies makes my head spin. And I know what is going on. I can’t imagine the impact on folks who are just trying to login to the thing.

Helped the in-laws move house last weekend and - after that experience - we're doing our own cathartic combination of cupboard / basement cleanup and donation / dump runs this weekend!

Bluesky is cool and all, but Strava is still the best social network. No bots, no politics, mostly just motivation to go do something. This new personal heatmap thing is nifty.. I guess I do a lot around the I-90 corridor!