Random family dinner conversation to online merch store with ~3 hours off-and-on effort, what a wonderful world. (If skulls and dropbars are your jam, check out dropbargoods.co.)

Got kids who want a friendly introduction to Python? Get them to check out learnpy.dev, an interactive, web-based introduction to coding in Python. I built it for my 9 & 11 year-olds... maybe it'll be useful for others?

"... whenever Claude logged on, its context would be immediately filled with ASCII pictures of fish..." Time to replace all those boring /etc/issue legal-required login warnings with... animations of aquariums? red.anthropic.com/2025/cyber-c...

Security should be a property of how your system behaves under stress, manipulation, and misuse. What if a baseline of security testing could be woven into the same unit, integration, and end-to-end tests that developers already use to ensure quality? chair6.net/security-tes...

"But security doesn't always work that way. Sociologist Hartmut Rosa calls this 'uncontrollability', and argues that it isn’t a flaw to be fixed, but a vital feature of how we relate meaningfully to the world." chair6.net/security-ref...

Good album.

Do we need to make "vulnerability management industrial complex" a thing?

New chairlift at the local mountain has an aesthetic...

$ sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.2-RELEASE

Baguettes from a vending machine for lunch. The French know how to do carbs...

I used Google Translate to buy some coolant from a one-pump mechanic in Saint-Martin-des-Besaces this evening. Modern technology has changed the travel experience significantly!

Continuing the "listening to whole albums" theme, Gentlemen of the Road by Mumford and Sons is the order of the evening. Solid collection of live performances.

I've been enjoying "Flamingo" by Brandon Flowers the last few evenings.. 2010 is a while ago already. Making a conscious choice to get away from Spotify's automagic sameness and start listening to whole albums again... good times!

Just got done making chocolate mug cake with one of kids... perfect for a cold/dark winter evening, only takes ~5 mins in the kitchen. Pro tip - add more chocolate chips that the recipe calls for. Also good with a splash of bourbon, and/or served with a lil' dollop of ice cream.

Finally getting to the point where I can `terraform destroy` a long-lived-but-abandoned project... mostly mentally freeing, with a little side of sadness. Cloudy dreams floating away into the void. Cancelling one domain name means I can register another one though, right?

Continuing the ski film theme, Crazy Karl is keeping it real with Brap Ski 4 over at www.youtube.com/watch?v=chKT.... Winter is coming...

It's ski film season, and this was a good one!

The proliferation of emerging password/login technologies makes my head spin. And I know what is going on. I can’t imagine the impact on folks who are just trying to login to the thing.

Bluesky is cool and all, but Strava is still the best social network. No bots, no politics, mostly just motivation to go do something. This new personal heatmap thing is nifty.. I guess I do a lot around the I-90 corridor!

When you're driving through Tennessee, and see a sign to Frozen Head State Park, you kinda gotta take that detour. (My family is very patient with me, sometimes.)

Random thought of the day... SBOMs are exactly what you'd expect government to push for, they're repeating a pattern. Look at food safety, and finance, and [..], and now software. One step towards more effectively regulating your product is to get more transparency about what is in it.