Techiavellian

It didn’t take long for me to slip.

I’ve found myself unemployed with a bit more free time than usual for the last few months, and I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to learn a bit about LLM tool use and to try out this whole “vibe coding” thing.

I seem to have a habit of announcing my return to blogging roughly every six years.

In this video, I cover a few more interesting features of Roam Research that I find helpful for my note-taking.

I did a quick livestream today showing some new (and some not-so-new) features in Roam Research, including: Improved precision in inline calculator New block reference features, especially for using “template” blocks The new mysterious Delta (Δ) button for

I’ve done a previous video about some cool features in Roam Research, but this time I decided to show what it actually looks like to take notes on something, live.

I recorded an audio version of my first Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks blog post from March 2019.

Over the last few years, I’ve seen several instances of (and reactions against) an intellectual denial of service attack that I’ll call “The Number One Priority”.

In this episode, I show how I use Roam Research to take book notes (among other tangents).

I finally bought a camera for my desktop, so I figured I’d give it a spin with OBS Studio.

In my first post on intellectual denial of service attacks, I covered something I dubbed “bad infinitum,” a tendency for non-experts to overwhelm experts with repetitive, costly, and often unproductive demands for evidence or counter-argument to oft-debun…

We live in an era that devalues conformity, while simultaneously preserving it in many interesting ways.

Anyone who read my post yesterday is probably confused by 1) this domain name and 2) my mention of it being my “first post”.

It’s never a good time to suddenly find yourself jobless.

I’ve become somewhat obsessed with Pokemon GO since I started playing it, and I’ve been trying to cobble together a mental guide for how to be successful from a hodge-podge of sites, people I’ve met while playing the game, and some of my own experiences.

Have you ever logged onto Facebook to find “Recommended Friends” that you didn’t expect to see?

(About) 425 days ago (at the time of this writing) I started scraping Hacker News via its shiny new API.

The AddToAny Share Buttons WordPress Plugin was, until recently, vulnerable to a DOM-based cross-site scripting issue.

At the risk of spoiling a somewhat-well-known XSS game, I want to share an XSS vector I had never thought of before it forced me to.

I recently hacked together a little 300-line bash script to manage my dotfiles called dot-man.

Recently, while looking at a JavaScript function intended to generate a cryptographically-secure random IV to be used in AES-GCM, I noticed something interesting which I immediately suspected was not unique to this project.

The “snippet preview” functionality of the Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin was susceptible to cross-site scripting in versions before 2.2 (<= 2.1.1).

I’m happy to announce the latest version of a project that the Security Engineering team at Rackspace has been working on: DefectDojo!

I noticed a while back that when I carelessly entered my login credentials to the form for registering a new user account on the front page of the DigitalOcean site, it would still log me in.

Earlier today I wanted to explore using Growl / GNTP to listen for notifications from a remote server.

Innovation is accelerating and entropy is increasing (as always).

My last Nuggets post, “50 Linux Resources for Developers” was pretty well-received, so I figured I’d try to do the same thing I did there for Node.js.

These are some cool things you can do with Vim that save time and can help prevent mistakes from mouse selection.

I recently paid for something online using what I considered a secure online payments processor, and they asked that I provide a password to create an account to complete the transaction.

Tonight on the program “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, John Oliver exhorted his audience to go file comments on the FCC website to address their proposed rules that many believe will destroy Net Neutrality.

I try to always bookmark interesting things I find as I bumble around the internet.

I first created an account on reddit about 6 years ago, and I think I had been a lurker for a while before that.

If you’re like at least a quarter of the people who read my original article, " Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?"

The other day I re-discovered this post by Joel Spolsky on Hacker News, entitled " Victory Lap for Ask Patents."

Checking out Hacker News for a refreshing end to my work day, I was instead greeted with the worst of all tech-related bad news: Heartbleed, an exploit in popular versions of OpenSSL allowing attackers anonymous (read: no way to figure out how widely it’s…

In the spirit of April Fool’s, but also because I think it might actually make me more productive, I’ve made a Google Chrome extension to slow down Facebook’s timeline feature.

“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” — Mohammad When you think of free market economics, undeniably the most championed principle is deregulation.

As some of you may know, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein from California has introduced a bill called the Fisa Improvements Act that she is portraying as a reasonable reform of mass government surveillance.

You might want to grab a cup of coffee # My last article about the importance of getting started on your programming education is my most-read article on Medium so far.

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