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I've done a whole bunch of talks, interviews and stuff on other people's YouTube channels over the years so I'm going to try and catalog them here. First up is a video with my good friend STÖK in which I demo some big bounty workflow stuff. This one is special. youtu.be/l8iXMgk2nnY

"I wrote a Skill for that" Yo, you wrote detailed documentation in a markdown file is what you did. How come you couldn't do that before now?

Our first-ever keynote: Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social. Original L0pht vulnerability researcher, Veracode co-founder, and one of the first people to warn the world about insecure software. Boston hacker history, back on a Boston stage at MinuteCon. April 30 – May 1, 2027 minutecon.org

🚨July Speaker Update🚨 We've got a couple of brilliant talks lined up for July thanks to Harvey Baxter and @tomnomnom.com Meeting on the 8th July at the usual place and time - all details in the link: dc151.org/posts/july-2...

Sometimes I say "I will die on this hill" about something I care about, but I'm increasingly thinking: you know, I don't have to die on the hill; I could just visit it often for picnics and such.

Instead of sending an email generated by an LLM, just send the prompt instead. It's shorter for the recipient to read, they can more clearly see your true intent, it's cheaper, better for the environment, and if they really want to: the recipient can feed it into an LLM to get the long version.

Just been reminded of what might be the wildest personalised plate I've ever seen.

Big Trouble In Little China With Big Naturals

toast is technically a biscuit

I know now why you fry

There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.

This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS

amazing talk. they decap and also reverse the custom roland jp8000 dsp chip, make a faithful emulation plugin, and along the way reveal the famous supersaw as simply 8 detuned, aliased (!) 2x oversamped naive saws. youtu.be/XM_q5T7wTpQ?...

Super Mario Land at ~20x scale. The pixels are about 6mm square

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

ovO

for example if it's a picture of their arse it means they're flirtatious

Hey Amazon can you just use a decimal point like normal people so I don't have a fucking heart attack next time

tired: PR is too large wired: PR has big diff energy

Fair's fair, if I knew I'd be putting my name on this I wouldn't have been able to sleep either

Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.

A lot of folks know me for one or two posts, and might not know I've created nine (9!) visual explanations of computer science topics, aimed at practitioners. If you're looking for things to read this Thanksgiving, I think you'll love them. Computer science is a lot of fun, when explained well. ❤️

OMG, example.com has *changed* 😮 Really took me by surprise

14 year old son just did an insult at me that made me laugh out loud: “old man, show us your landline”

Oh damn they invented find and replace

Gooners never say die

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

apropos of nothing I have a ton of silicon valley secrets btw

One lesson from yesterday's AWS outage is that we found a flaw in the advice to "have a Signal groups with core staff as a backup channel during outages". (So change that to also have their phone numbers so you can use WhatsApp or Telegram or SMS if needed.)

Please stop throwing stones at the Overton window

My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke! youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...

okay i laughed source: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

Liege waffles are the superior waffle.