Jon Stewart

It’s a great relief to be at CAMLIS and not have to worry about how far behind everyone my current employer is.

Oh it's like, bad bad. thehackernews.com/2026/10/crit...

Patching PHP

What a great day to not work at an IR firm

Sure, SSDs may be fast, but it’s comforting in my dotage to listen to a RAID 5 of spinning rust thrash around to prove how broken the most commonly used forensics software is. It’s not the same with silent SSDs, even if the latency disparities are more stark.

Keeping myself to just three cups of coffee today has made for a mellow Sunday.

NFAs >> DFAs ...for coding agents

These videos are great: computerhistory.org/blog/margare...

In Bowser’s first term, she paid a visit to Mount Pleasant. She pointed out a well-known issue and all the aides recited what they’d tried and Bowser challenged them, “so that’s it then? we’re just gonna give up?” “No, mayor, oh no.” Ten years later: yes, clearly.

I’m not going to turn the heat on yet.

be the karma you wish to see in the world

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It’s hard to think there’s any reasonable justification for JavaScript not to have 64 bit integers in 2026.

Subconjunctival hemorrhage really adding to the deep hackmode aesthetic.

You can just hash things.

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

You see, Claude, this is all we need. Ssh port forwarding, rsync, 3 cups of coffee, and a little bit of conversation. You and me and $200/month.

Notes from Vichy DC

I sometimes click on The Athletic stories on the NYT. But they are invariably poorly written and edited. With today's "Did Archi Manning really say that?" article, "what" is never quoted or defined. Basic rules of journalism go out the window with The Athletic.

The Swiss cheese model may be a useful concept, but it's no excuse for laziness. It's far better to be defended by armor plating than a few slices of cheese.

bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars

I use AI to code forensics software, but if it has a vibe it’s ”obsessive tests and verification.” I look forward to owning so many opposing sides in the years to come from timezone and encoding bugs in terrible slop code.

Gonna love the 2027 cases of agents breaking sandboxes and then going on to crawl health insurance sites that inadvertently have pixel trackers installed on them, those'll be fun.

Haven’t had a storm like that in DC since the derecho of ‘12. Fortunately DC went on a power-line-burying spree after the derecho. This is two doors down from me, miraculously missed the house, poor old elm.

Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

Just bought a deep freeze for my DC house so I can stock it with meat from the Midwest AMA.

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This is such a no-brainer. I can't believe DC would let itself get astroturfed by Big Corn Syrup.

Fable taking the night shift from me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFB...

70 is an amateur hour number.

It had been a couple weeks since I’d updated Claude Code in the old workstation I’ve configured to be my agentic VM host. I did that last night. This morning CC is crashing my system due to the Bun-in-Rust rewrite. It’s an old (but capable) Westmere system and CC, via Bun, is trying to execute AVX.

Shouting "least privilege still matters" until I'm hoarse over here. Also, if you must give your agent a shell tool, for the love of god sandbox it.

It’s crazy to me how anti-business Bowser has been.

I ran into Fable downgrades over the weekend, applied to Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program on Monday morning, approved Monday afternoon, and have still gotten downgraded several times since for wonky DFIR research projects described to them. It's pretty great at assembly though.

they fall in sort of a grayzone

Programming would be a lot more fun if you could branch off the branch predictor.

Fable, on being provided an implementation from Opus: “Nice design — the SoA decoupling is the right idea. Reading the hot loops with an eye on port pressure, here’s where I’d go next”, and then promptly got a 75% win. But it also stubbornly refuses to work on another algorithm problem I have.