Bawolff's rants

A few days ago I was listening to some of the talks at MUDCon (The MediaWiki conference aimed at non-Wikimedia uses of MediaWiki).

Recently I've been interested in 360° Panoramas (i.e.

A few months ago, frustrated by the lack of defensive anti-XSS measures in MediaWiki, I decided to make my own.

Its no secret that the vast majority of serious security vulnerabilities in MediaWiki are Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS).

Recently I've been helping Yaron do some SPARQL query optimization for his site Commons Walkabout.

I was going to write a new years post.

The most recent issue of the Wikipedia Signpost published an article I wrote about the {{calculator}} series of templates, which I worked on.

One thing you aren't allowed to do when writing pages in MediaWiki, is use SVG elements.

This November, the company Flatt put out three XSS challenges - https://challenge-xss.quiz.flatt.training/ ( source code at https://github.com/flatt-jp/flatt-xss-challenges ) These were quite challenging and I had a good time solving them.

Recently I decided to make a Hashtags extension for MediaWiki.

Last weekend I competed in SekaiCTF.

I finally decided to watch the Foundation.

Last week I went to Portland for the MediaWiki Users and Developers conference (nee EMWCon).

Back in January, I discovered a stored XSS vulnerability in core MediaWiki (T355538; CVE-2024-34507).

Last weekend I participated in LA CTF 2024.

As we roll into 2024, I thought I'd do something a little different on this blog.

This weekend I attended WikiConference North America.

This weekend I participated in N1CTF.

Everything Was Forever, Until it Was No More by Alexei Yurchak.

This weekend I participated in MapleCTF, coming in 33rd overall.

This show is so messed up.

Over the weekend I participated in LineCTF 2023.

This was the first Stephen King book I have ever read.

This is a rather unique book.

tl;dr: [[WP:IDONTLIKEIT]] Yesterday, a new version of the Vector skin was made default on English Wikipedia.