What do you think? blog.vrypan.net/2026/05/11/t...

I built "shg" that helps you keep secrets out of shell history. blog.vrypan.net/2026/05/09/s...

@blaiseaguera.bsky.social I have not read "What is intelligence" yet, it's on my desk waiting for the summer. But I've watched a couple of your presentations and I'm really fascinated. I have a question: Does intelligence converge?

I'm building my library of agent-friendly specs. blog.vrypan.net/2026/04/30/a...

If you care about privacy in this digital world you need to learn about Third Party Doctrine and Bailment. Thankfully, @naomibrockwell.bsky.social puts the cookies on the lower shelf for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iakg...

Using stash in agentic workflows (not just agentic, but feels like agents are some of the heaviest cli users these days). github.com/vrypan/stash...

The simplest way to stash config files before editing them. github.com/vrypan/stash...

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

Why make 2>&1 | stash tee is better than make 2>&1 | tee build.log github.com/vrypan/stash...

Forget /tmp/aaa stash is a cli tool that lets you stash and retrieve piped output, or files and works with both text and binary data. github.com/vrypan/stash

1976: The Year Greece Took Cyprus to Eurovision A folk song about loss that became one of the most politically charged performances in the contest’s history eurovisionsearch.substack.com/p/1976-the-y...

The lesson in this article is simple. Do not trust ANY company to protect your private communications. The protocol itself must ensure this, and must be geographically distributed so no one legal jurisdiction can override it. This is why we should push to adopt a standard for AT Protocol DMs.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Did Trump just stop one more war, between Greenland and US? That's nine wars PLUS now! Wen Nobel Peace Prize?

Great discussion on Trump's policy towards Europe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ0P...

Immigrant detention deaths reach 20-year high under Trump

Privacy matters

It's cringe when you hear Epstein's best friend call a country "the hottest" and the "sexiest".

This is honest to god so inspiring. Look at this community absolutely and without hesitation say "NOPE, NOT TODAY" to these chuds

Ticket prices to the FIFA World Cup final game. ⚽

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

@coolsweng.bsky.social Hi Diomidi! I've built this new (?) PRNG. It behaves extremely well (both speed and BigCrush test scores), but it needs proper study to be used in production. I was wondering if you now someone who is interested in studying it. github.com/vrypan/ring3...

How I built my own PRNG -and it's quite good! blog.vrypan.net/2025/12/30/d...

Can a totally predictable pattern show more entropy than a randomly generated one? This algorithmically generated image seems to have more entropy than images generated with crypto/rand. I would love to hear from people who have better and deeper understanding of the topic.

Any entropy experts here? I have an algorithmically generated, 100% reproducible image. 250x250 pixels, with 5 colors. The calculated Shannon entropy is 2.112490 bits, when 100% randomness would have something close to 2.321928 bits, i.e. 91% uncertainty. (Right?) Is this something noteworthy?

TIL mentioning privacy preserving money on 🦋 is walking a tightrope

experimenting with a lexicon for crypto address verifications. it uses eip.tools/eip/7930 for cross-chain compatibility and supports smart contract accounts only tested with ethereum so far atproto-address-verifications.vercel.app github.com/stephancill/...

@vitalik.ca donated 128 ETH to chat apps Session and Simplex to further "(i) permissionless account creation and (ii) metadata privacy" 👀 x.com/VitalikButer...

Stay vigilant Europe www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont...

What do you think? blog.vrypan.net/2025/10/13/b...

Someone takes all your electronics. Laptop, desktop, disks, mobile. Do you have a recovery plan? (Other than, my password is "pass123" everywhere, I get new devices and login.)

bckt-mcp: a MCP server for the bckt static site generator. The idea is simple: 1. It is usually annoying to have to write the front matter by hand. 2. Most users have integrated (or will, soon) and AI tool in their blog posting flow.

Is it possible to make a static site work as a PDS? For example, pre-render the expected API responses? And if it can't be done 100%, which parts can and cannot? (atproto noob questions)

Static site generators are simple, but if you've used them long enough you know there are a thousand details that can make your life easier or harder. I finally built the SSG I always wanted: github.com/vrypan/bckt

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

(2024) Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on how governments work. I wonder if they see a problem with the current administration.

Mother Fucker.

US bails out Argentina, soybean farmers feel betrayed. Interesting analysis. > the real problem for Trump is that this bailout pits two very loyal constituencies against each other, hedge funds and soybean farmers. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

Only 3 Silver sponsorships left for the next rotki release ⚡️ 🥈 Logo + name on download page 🥉 Bronze still open (name in release notes) All sponsors receive a limited NFT collectible. Be part of v1.41. Mint today: rotki.com/sponsor/mint

Slow Horses season 5 is out, but the reviews don't seem good. Big fan, will watch it nevertheless. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I started blogging 20+ years ago, when nobody cared what a blog was. Many didn’t even know the Internet. It felt free. Then an audience came, self-awareness crept in, and posting got harder. I long for that freedom. Or is it I were 20 years younger too?

Noob questions: 1. Is there a way to have long posts in AT Proto? 2. Does it make sense to try and convert a self-hosted blog into a self-hosted PDS?

Written 12 years ago, but still holds. blog.vrypan.net/2013/07/11/t...

Web3 is focused on L1s, L2s, etc, but often ignores L0: people. But censorship resistance, and resilience in general, does not only come from tech specs. The actual relationships, sometimes mapped using tech, sometimes not, are equally important.

very excited to share this update about bringing AT to the IETF! last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)

I just started digging into ATProto. This video from @marktucker.bsky.social, has been very helpful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYc9... 🙏