Riding a unicycle or bicycle up and down Eating a cake Wearing trousers Eating a refreshing slice of pineapple Checking the time Calling Rome “Italy” “Hey bud, have you invented your salad yet?” Referring to years as AD / BC instead of ‘ab urbe condita’ or the names of 2 consuls Vaguely and regularly bringing up ‘the fall of Rome’ and ‘your mate Brutus’ in passing and refusing to elaborate

Dawn is so beautiful and so perfect. The grey light is not sleepy, but full of quiet life, as though the world had never slept while we did; but treated us to that illusion so that we might. The birds seem like they know this secret, as they drift through a world that’s theirs for now. I imagine myself in the streets, looking up at the clouds, and for a moment, seeing all we’ve made for what it is, than how we experience it when the sun is up and the air is full of voices.

This is an extended version of Brian’s Pizza Recipe, which, because I’m a dumbass I fucked up a few times, with some amendments also from my brother who linked it to me. It also specifically describes toppings I like. …

For a discipline operating on the forefront of today’s technology, security for both better and worse has its roots in an almost universal super-cultural experience of safety that even as our society becomes expressed more and more on essentially imaginary electrical oscillations on a network, continues to work invisibly behind…

A grey kitchen lies before you. Therein stands a person attempting to peel an apple. Painstakingly, they cut it slowly bit-by-bit with a knife. “Couldn’t this be easier?” the advertisement asks. Clearly the answer is meant to be ‘yes’. Out comes a shiny contraption, where linkages make short work of…

Every now and then, the incredible aesthetic quality of the UIs in Neon Genesis comes up. And for good reason. They’re incredibly cool. Everyone who works with interfaces should be looking at these and asking themselves why interfaces don’t look like this. Where did we go so wrong? Where’s the…

Here’s a question from a co-worker I get quite often: Considering that curl requests do not have the restriction of the fetch API, how does this browser policy [CORS] prevent circumventing abuse or misuse of server endpoints if an attacker can anyways do so by default via curl? And since…

on the security implications of locally hosted web services — I. Spotify’s All Singing, All Dancing Musical Backdoor II. The Übersicht RCE III. Wrapping Up I try to bring this up whenever I have the chance to talk about application security architecture: the way we think about networks as boundaries is useful, but inadequate in 2018 and this has serious…