New article: Windows SBOM work and Alpha-Omega 2023 annual report
Getting started with SBOMs for Python Windows artifactsAlpha-Omega has published its 2023 annual report with quotes from Deb Nicholson and IProposal for...
New article: Websites without servers or networking
What would a local web without HTTP, servers, or networking look like? This article is a theory-crafting session based on a feature that has been removed...
New article: Challenges while building SBOM infrastructure for CPython
Today I go over the challenges I encountered so far when building the SBOM infrastructure for CPython, both technical and social. This was presented to the...
Software Bill-of-Materials documents are now available for CPython
CPython now has official Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) documents starting in 3.12.2! 🥳 You can read the announcement on the PSF blog which has info about...
Security Developer-in-Residence weekly report #26: Releases on PyPI are never "done"
This is the 26th weekly report for the Security Developer-in-Residence role: Discussion of open-ended PyPI releases and PEP 740 (digital attestations on...
New article: Defending against the PyTorch supply chain attack PoC
This is the 25th weekly report from the Security Developer-in-Residence role. This week I discuss how to defend from the proof-of-concept attack on PyTorch...
New article: urllib3 is fundraising for HTTP/2 support!
2023 was a transformative year for urllib3, headlined by the first stable release of v2.0 after multiple years of development. This release sets the stage...
Starting 2024 off strong for securing Python (SBOM, provenance, macOS build repro, software IDs, oh my!)
2024 has only just begun and there's already so much to talk about. Here's a summary of topics in the first weekly report for 2024 from the Security...
New article: 2023 year in review
2023 was a transformative year for me, so much has happened and I'm thankful for the good times with family and friends. Read my 2023 year in review...
Last weekly report of 2023: some thoughts about publish and build provenance
This is the last weekly report in 2023 for the Security Developer-in-Residence role, look forward to more in 2024! This article has some loose thoughts about...
New article: AI and Wonder
Do you feel a sense of wonder when experiencing AI-generated works of art? Read more: https://sethmlarson.dev/ai-and-wonder
New article: Security Developer-in-Residence Weekly Report #22
The second-to-last weekly report of 2023, this one is mostly a status report of Software Bill-of-Materials support for CPython and a few other projects. Read...
New article: Mahjong tiles and Unicode variation selectors
This is a short post about to learn about a small Unicode feature while admiring Mahjong glyphs. Enjoy! Read more: https://sethmlarson.dev/unicode-variation-...
New article: Python listed as memory-safe language by CISA
The US government organization CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) released new recommendations regarding memory-safety of programming...
New article: Review of the Security Developer-in-Residence role in 2023
With 2023 on the way out, I've been putting together multiple end-of-year reports detailing what I've accomplished in the first 6 months as the Security...