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With 2024 now at an end, I’ve taken a moment to reflect on what has been an incredible and transformative year both personally and professionally. Here are some of the highlights: Laser Eye Surgery This …

For almost two decades (!) the de-factor object storage system for Rails apps has been AWS S3. It’s resilient (99.999999999% durability!) and Active Storage makes it very easy to use. There was also little competition …

Hire meLooking for a new role. Expertise in cryptography, security, networking, reversing. Dev, ops, security. Amongst other things I've authored a QUIC implementation, a Let's Encrypt client and an RFC. I gave a talk about …

8073/21004Thanks to @samoff on Twitter who has drawn my attention to this - Orange Burst Soleros. Is this real? Is this some kind of awful joke? Is this a product from the 1970s that someone …

December was a long, worn-out month where I counted the days till my Christmas break. I always exhaust myself as the year ends, but this was worse then usual. I was happy enough, just burning …

Flags fly at half mass today at Kindertrauma Castle as we have lost one of the true greats, the incredible David Lynch. The world is a lesser place for sure and it’s easily said that …

Hello everyone, this is a short housekeeping update episode. I wanted to point your attention to a new podcast project I've started. It's called CREATIVE JOURNEYS, and it's not so dissimilar to Travel Writing World. …

I had been lacking books from the Snoopy Museum in Tokyo, so when I saw one one for sale on eBay, I chunked up some money and ordered it. It was a bit more than …

I’ve started this post at least a dozen times this year alone, and every time I delete it and tell myself things will get better, I will feel better, and I will find the space …

Wuhan-based studio Nekcom is composing a provocative love letter to Japanese Pop culture from the 80s and 90s in the form of a post-apocalyptic RPG. Showa American Story is set in an alternative history setting …

Can I Call You Rose? is one of my favourite recent soul tracks. Its by San Diego's Thee Sacred Souls. A great write up HERE in the Guardian on the Low-Rider soul scene, and this …

State-sponsored rape, lies and deception – then a cover-up operating right across official life. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th November 2024 It’s the testimony we’ve long been waiting for. On Monday, at …

Some idle thoughts for a Friday afternoon. I was just taking a look at Source.Plus a dataset of public domain images for training Foundation models. It’s a project of Spawning.ai which is working to build …

“Best of the Best” Provides New Views, Commentary of Shuttle Launches Public Domain Image Archive Landing The Nostromo Bike Touring Stretches right to root access Stone talk

I love hackable URLs. A hackable URL is a URL that makes sense to a human reader, and where the human reader can guess what to change to get to another page. For example, if …