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This month Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday shipped fixes for 1,411 vulnerabilities. A record. Again. Records are being set so frequently now that the security press has had to invent adjectives for …

Let me state my bias up front so you can apply the appropriate discount to everything below: I don’t like Apple. Not in a casual “ew, wood desks” way. In a “my antivirus has …

Microsoft shipped the largest Patch Tuesday in the history of the company last week. 966 vulnerabilities fixed in a single release. 105 of them critical. Two actively-exploited zero-days. That is not …

Every security newsletter I read this summer has contained the same sentence, slightly reworded, like they all share one ghostwriter: “AI agents are increasingly being used to automate …

There are people who switch Linux distros for philosophical reasons. There are people who switch for stability. There are people who switch because their employer ships them a fleet of laptops …

This week a meme did more accurate technical writing than most vendor blogs, so I want to talk about it. Mark Zuckerberg posted an internal announcement at Meta announcing a company-wide AI hackathon. …

Microsoft held its developer conference this week in a converted fish cannery in San Francisco with roughly 2,500 humans in attendance. Let me repeat that number. Two thousand five hundred. For …

I fell for it. The siren song of productivity content. “Build a second brain.” “Create your personal knowledge management system.” “Organize your digital life.” I …

I wrote a programming language. It’s called Blort. It’s terrible. I’m proud of it and also I’m sorry. It started as a joke. A comment on a thread about esoteric languages. …

You know how people say “what’s the worst that could happen?” I’m here to tell you. The worst that could happen is your toaster DDoSing your entire home network on a Tuesday …

I did something stupid. I decided, in full earnestness, that I was going to go fully open source. No proprietary software. No closed-source drivers. A completely libre, ethically sourced, …

I made a mistake. I bought a smart fridge. In my defense, it was on sale, and it had a little screen on it that showed the weather. I am, apparently, the exact demographic for this kind of …

Dear Terminal, I know I don’t say it enough, but thank you. Thank you for not judging me when I fat-fingered rm -rf ./ instead of rm -rf ./build/. You watched me delete my entire project and you …

Lets be honest with each other. We’ve all written terrible commit messages. The difference between me and you is that Im brave enough to admit it while you sit there pretending “fixed …

I automated my coffee maker. Not because I’m lazy (I am), but because I wanted to see if I could trigger a coffee brew via an MQTT message. The answer is yes. The follow-up question is …

Every time someone says “just put it in the cloud” I involuntarily twitch. I dont trust the cloud. The cloud is just someone else’s computer, and Ive seen what people do with their …

I keep meaning to set up a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy. I’ve read the blog posts. I’ve watched the talks. I know what I should do. I have a whole Notion page about it. The Notion page is …

I went to a tech conference last month. It was held in a convention center so large that I’m pretty sure it has its own weather system. I saw a man in a Kubernetes t-shirt argue with a man in a …

It started innocently enough. I wanted to load a photo of my cat from my phone without waiting a whole 0.3 seconds. Three months, fourteen configuration files, and one existential crisis later, I had …

Last New Year’s resolution I decided I was going to get serious about security. So I did what any reasonable person would do: I wrote my own password manager in Rust. Not because existing ones …