I've been doing the Duolingo chess course for a month now. It's engaging and I like the puzzle solving aspect of the exercise. I am still very bad at _playing_ chess, however.
Dan 🌈
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DevRel at Cerbos. DevOpsDays global core. Formerly Datadog, Mozilla, & Ubisoft. The king of Nynex—I know you play the game.
I wrote a thing! It's sort of about npm, but mostly about things like WebAuthn and token hygiene and supply-chain security in general. :)
Datadog Security Labs@securitylabs.datadoghq.com · 9mo agoDecoding the GitHub recommendations for npm maintainers securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/dec... by @phrawzty.com
Behold the finest project @phrawzty.com and I have ever done github.com/mattstratton...
GitHub - mattstratton/yaagfss: Yet Another Another Generator For Static Sites
Yet Another Another Generator For Static Sites. Contribute to mattstratton/yaagfss development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
The future of web development is… - Java applets - ActiveX - Flash - XHTML - Silverlight - Progressive Web Apps - CSS-inJS - Blockchain - AI …Get on or get left behind. alex.party/posts/2025-0... 😆
The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.
Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity.
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The refresh of Elder Scrolls #Oblivion is wild y'all. It looks now like I *thought* it looked like way back when. If this release does well enough commercially, perhaps they'll refresh #Morrowind next? A boy can dream.
I'll be speaking at #OWASP #Snowfroc this Friday! The talk is called "Patterns of failure in modern #authorization" and it's about why #authz is getting harder instead of easier. Some academic research but also interesting examples of authz failure at large, well-known brands. Hope to see you there!
Listening to some classic rock lately and have rediscovered Blue Öyster Cult. Apparently they're still active, having released an album in 2024. For reference, their eponymous debut album came out in 1972. For further reference, my parents were kids when that album came out. That's wild to me, haha
Fascinating commentary of what statehood means with respect to land, or the lack thereof.
EJIL: Talk!@ejiltalk.bsky.social · 2y agoTrouble in Heaven: Do the Changes to the Sovereign Military of Malta’s Constitution affect its relevance for the future of Small Developing Island States | by Michel Rouleau-Dick
Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
I have written a piece for @energiewendeger.bsky.social about why 2025 is a crucial year for #CrossBorderRail in the EU. New Commissioner, political commitment, and a bunch of problems that can be fixed! energytransition.org/2025/02/2025...
2025: finally a breakthrough for cross-border passenger rail in the EU? | EnergyTransition.org
Boosting passenger train transport is key for reducing greenhouse gas emissions of transport and for accelerating Europe’s energy transition. Are EU railways on track? Establishing a fair picture of…
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« astroterm is a #terminal based star map written in C. It displays the real-time positions of #stars, #planets, #constellations, and more, all within your terminal. Configure sky views by date, time, and location with precise ASCII-rendered visuals. » github.com/da-luce/astr...
GitHub - da-luce/astroterm: A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐
A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐 - da-luce/astroterm
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«There are no built-in constructs for looping. Nobody has time for yesterday's loops or last week's break statements. If you must loop, use recursion. Every program must end with PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, because you have to grow your audience! Hashtag hustle.» 😆 tabloid.vercel.app
Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language
Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.
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Got the inevitable message that my Windows 10 is now EOL and that I need to upgrade to 11. The machine is perfectly fine but it doesn't have the secure boot stuff, so there's no good upgrade path. This isn't even my daily driver (I use a MacBook for work), so I'm definitely not buying anything new.
#HTTP status code 451 "Unavailable For Legal Reasons"; for use when a server operator has received a legal demand to deny access to a resource. Used to provide transparency in circumstances where issues of law or public policy affect server operations. www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725....
RFC 7725: An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles
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It is heartwarming to see three of the four #NHL divisions currently being lead by Canadian teams. Notably, my beloved @winnipegjets.com—who appear to have an active account—and the other great prairie team, the Edmonton Oilers. (Oh and the Leafs too, which is fine, I guess.) #GoJetsGo!
All these companies out here with job listings for "senior developer" and "staff engineer", are the same companies that are busy trying to replace juniors and mids with LLMs. Where do you think the seniors and staffs are coming from, my dudes?
The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
Mittlerweile ist klar: Nicht 50.000, sondern 70.000 Menschen sind heute in Köln auf die Straße gegangen. Gegen die AfD und den Plänen von Friedrich Merz, gemeinsam eine Mehrheit mit ihnen zu finden. Das ist ein starkes Zeichen. Danke! ♥️
«What truly limits democracy is the power of the elites […] It is the power of those who think that because they are rich, they are above the law and can do anything. That is why, my friends, that is why the tech billionaires want to overthrow democracy.» www.politico.eu/article/spai...
Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says
“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression.”
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
LinkedIn is cool because I was always wondering what it would be like if people I sort of knew wrote mediocre press releases about themselves.
Via @bylineseast.bsky.social: « #Privatisation has had little effect on long-term trends on prices or productivity in #Britain. Instead it has led to more wealth for the already wealthy, declining services and has been costly to the taxpayer. » eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin...
Privatisation promised prosperity but delivered decline
Privatisation promised efficiency but led to declining services and higher costs. No wonder the public now favours renationalisation
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I’ll be honest I just don’t think I can commit to 2025 right now. I need a gap year or something. Just some time to find myself and figure out if another calendar year is really what I want to do with my life.