When it comes to explaining what you are going to do, I like the "radiate intent" approach... medium.com/@ElizAyer/do...
Random family dinner conversation to online merch store with ~3 hours off-and-on effort, what a wonderful world.
(If skulls and dropbars are your jam, check out dropbargoods.co.)
Got kids who want a friendly introduction to Python? Get them to check out learnpy.dev, an interactive, web-based introduction to coding in Python.
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?
red.anthropic.com/2025/cyber-c...
Recently switched from a decades-old wallet to a Saddlers cardholder, and loving the lighter load / smaller profile. www.saddler.com/p/southalls-...
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...)
"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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
