kaibo (multi-model subagents for your agent with safe shell powers) binaries are signed now. grab a binary, add it to your agent as a stdio mcp, use its /configure prompt to do the rest. containers next, then it gets a proper release. please let me know if it works github.com/tobert/kaibo...

If you’re a software engineer, designer, or technologist who wants to help make City government work better and faster, apply to join our PIT crews at nyc.gov/pitcrew.

You used to go to websites and they would have guestbooks that people would sign like it was a bed and breakfast

I'm looking to line up my next job! If you need a frontend platform girlie, let me know! I particularly like making complex web apps faster! Could an app you work on, use, or know of benefit from that? LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zeigenvec... LeadDev Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-B2... ✨

Birds in Donetsk are using fiber-optic drone wire to build their nests...

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

I love looking at old crazy ideas in expired computer patents. Modern CPU Branch Predictors are invisible. You, as a dev, can’t really see *what* paths the CPU is guessing…it’s all a bunch of AMD/Intel/Apple secret sauce. For a brief moment in the 80s, there was this wacky proposition of...

If you're in NYC on June 18, come to my talk! And if you find yourself in the NYC area and want to give a talk of your own about Web Performance in the coming months, let me know! We'd love to have you!

NY Web Performance@nywebperf.com · 2mo ago

Our next meetup - "React Performance in the Age of AI" with @zeigenvector.bsky.social on June 18 at 6:00PM! RSVP: nywebperf.com/e/314758263/... #webperformance #nyc #meetup

Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Kicks Off Pride With “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” Campaign

The campaign will highlight existing protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers.

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(part 3/3) 🪶 Kelly Shortridge - Birds of a Feather: Adapting to the Unknown: Resilience Engineering in a Time of Chaos For more details, see our article on CyberCanon RSAC sessions/signings: www.linkedin.com/pulse/cyberc... #RSAC2026 #CybersecurityBooks

Anthropic’s paper argues reality distortion is rare in software domains, but I’m not so sure. https://aphyr.com/posts/405-trudging-through-nonsense

Big props to Rick Horwitz, Senior Sales Engineer at Fastly, for speaking at FutureCon LA on “Making attackers cry: outsmarting them with deception.” Great insights on using deception to turn the tables on attackers. 👏 Take a look: vimeo.com/1156613679/2...

FASTLY - 15 January 2026 - LA

This is "FASTLY - 15 January 2026 - LA" by FutureCon Events on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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One of my 2026 goals is to start writing more, so over the holidays I resurrected my old blog and plopped out a post about silly coding interview problems in the Lean theorem prover dijkstracula.github.io/posts/provin...

Free (as in puppy) idea for an enterprising tech journalist/blogger: the 10 year rise of corporatized open source

Following last week’s critical #React2Shell disclosures, two more related CVEs dropped on 12/11. Fastly customers: Based on current info, Fastly’s platform & apps aren’t vulnerable — but orgs should still review their own React + Next.js apps. Learn more here: www.fastly.com/blog/react2s...

www.fastly.com/blog/unparal... This is my first big project since joining @fastly.com and I'm very hype about it. Literally C++ built on _top_ of our Rust SDK, because having access to C++ does, in fact, still open doors to a lot of folks.

Unparalleled Performance: Bring Your C++ Logic to the Edge | Fastly

Bring your C++ logic to the edge with the Beta Fastly Compute SDK. Achieve unparalleled, near-native performance, low-latency, and enhanced security via WebAssembly (Wasm).

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A new #Jepsen report: we demonstrate data loss and persistent split-brain in the NATS streaming system, in response to simulated power failures/OS crashes. https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

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🚨 React2Shell Update: Fastly saw a 2,775% spike in attack traffic after the public PoC dropped. Attackers are actively scanning — verify exposure and patch now. Updates: • Expanded Virtual Patch • NGWAF detecting new scanners • Bot Management flagging tooling More intel to come. #React2Shell

⚠️ Friday’s #React2Shell update @fastly.com saw a 2,775% increase in attack activity across our global network between the peak we reported yesterday (Dec. 4th) and 20:00 UTC today (see graph). We recommend you immediately patch vulnerable apps and apply proactive protections to buy time as needed.

Kelly Shortridge@shortridge.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⚠️ update on #React2Shell After the POC dropped ~21:04 GMT today, Fastly detected a profound proliferation in the # of requests triggering our NGWAF signal for React2Shell (see graph). We strongly recommend you immediately identify and update your React / Next.js apps + apply proactive protection.

You might want to check on your apps. There’s some 🔥 🥒 🔥 spicy unpickling going on …

Kelly Shortridge@shortridge.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There’s a react2shell POC circulating that appears to be viable. Fastly verified our NGWAF successfully blocks this exploit variant. ⚠️ Our initial data points suggest attackers are actively probing for vulnerable apps. ⚠️ Identify and update your React & Next.js apps + layer proactive protection.

⚠️ update on #React2Shell After the POC dropped ~21:04 GMT today, Fastly detected a profound proliferation in the # of requests triggering our NGWAF signal for React2Shell (see graph). We strongly recommend you immediately identify and update your React / Next.js apps + apply proactive protection.

Kelly Shortridge@shortridge.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There’s a react2shell POC circulating that appears to be viable. Fastly verified our NGWAF successfully blocks this exploit variant. ⚠️ Our initial data points suggest attackers are actively probing for vulnerable apps. ⚠️ Identify and update your React & Next.js apps + layer proactive protection.

There’s a react2shell POC circulating that appears to be viable. Fastly verified our NGWAF successfully blocks this exploit variant. ⚠️ Our initial data points suggest attackers are actively probing for vulnerable apps. ⚠️ Identify and update your React & Next.js apps + layer proactive protection.

the bad news: lots of sloppity slop PoCs (slopocs???) abounding for the critical pre-auth React RCE the good news: more time for you to patch your #React & #Nextjs apps ✨ my write up from yesterday on what to know & what to do: www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys...

Fastly’s Proactive Protection for Critical React RCE CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478 | Fastly

Protect your apps from the critical React RCE bugs (CVE-2025-55182/66478). Fastly's NGWAF Virtual Patch provides proactive defense.

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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

So, in case you haven’t heard, a recent upset of an A320: avherald.com/h?article=52... Was traced back to, of all things, solar flares disrupting an onboard system: avherald.com/files/AOT-A2... The fix is a software patch on most of the 6000 affected aircraft, but it still takes 3 hours to complete

OH in my downtown Manhattan hot yoga class: woman 1, sad: “Yeah, I unfortunately had to move to Boston for work.” woman 2, sincere: “Oh no! Do they even have yoga out there?”