every year I see posts about hacker summer camp and I'm like "dang I should be in security" 😆
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My big takeaway from the blackhat floor is there is a lot of noise re:how to protect against malicious Ai , injections, attacks, Mal prompts, but there is nothing out there about protecting users from effing up their own Ai workloads, which if you know insider threats, this just made PEBKAC scalable
things overheard in the cafe "we are in alignment…" "I think there’s a gap…" "Let’s circle back on that…"
the sun is shining but I don’t need sunglasses - the smoky haze dampens the brightness
somehow ran out of every household item on the same day. dish soap. bar soap. paper towels. coffee. whoever coordinated this workback schedule was a genius.
I'm not very familiar with Minecraft, and my kid wants to install some mods on PC, and the process feels so janky.
everything looks orange today and a haze is descending on the mountains. the smoke is coming.
when your Rust project pulls in 250 crates how are you supposed to verify and trust those
I made my PDS admin dashboard mobile-friendly so that I can check things on the go. And I log in via passkey.
tempted to add a button to my PDS admin dashboard - "deploy latest code" - so that I can click it from my phone
went jogging for the first time in a while and it went about as well as you might expect
new charli xcx growing on me. very listenable in the car. good driving music.
Okay so now that we shipped stacked PRs, what's the next biggest request you have for GitHub to take on?
I love everything about a morning workout except for the waking up part
2010: every software engineer has at least one story of breaking prod with a dumb mistake 2030: every software engineer has at least one story of an *agent* breaking prod with a dumb mistake
wooooahhhh Blue Angels just buzzed the tower on Microsoft campus must be Seafair weekend
I eat poke bowls using chopsticks because I’m terrible at it and it slows me down and I wind up eating less
me: "this tiny change couldn't possibly break my PDS" my PDS: "lol guess what"
rust user@testuser.rustproto.com · last wk.made a seemingly minor change to the PDS, but it was to a code path that is important, and hoping it doesn't break anything
"I'm feeling optimistic" *clicks the "Update and Restart" button in Teams two minutes before the meeting begins*
