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Blogrolls are the best(rolls)
November 12, 2025
Happy 6-year blogiversary to me! 🎉 To celebrate I want to talk about other peoples’ blogs, more specifically the magic of “blogrolls”. Blogrolls are “lists...
Ice Pikmin and difficulty of Pikmin Bloom event decor sets
November 6, 2025
Any Pikmin Bloom players out there? The arrival of Ice Pikmin 🧊 means that collecting complete sets of decor within an event just got more difficult... 😬...
RSS feed for new Nintendo Classics games
November 3, 2025
It's November! Many folks use this month to write more, whether it's a novel or generating text. I'm going to be trying to write and share more often, too....
Drawing an ASCII art TIE fighter for Post‑Quantum Cryptography
October 22, 2025
ASCII art of an X-Wing, TIE fighter, and Imperial Lambda Shuttle This is a funny short story about contributing to internet standards in unexpected ways,...
Re(blog, tweet, toot, skoot, skeеt, post)
October 16, 2025
Railroad diagram of “reblogging” synonyms Have you noticed the similar terms used for sharing someone else's content with attribution from your own account?...
Nintendo Classics: is the collection good value?
October 7, 2025
The “Nintendo Classics” collection has hundreds of retro games from Nintendo and Sega consoles from NES to GameCube. I’ve created a dataset of all the games...
Winning a bet about “six”, the Python 2 compatibility shim
October 1, 2025
Most downloaded dependents of “six” Exactly five years ago today Andrey Petrov and I made a bet about whether “six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and...
Infinite Precision CVSS Calculator
September 13, 2025
CVSS is a scoring system for the severity of a software vulnerability. The scores range from 0 to 10, but that doesn't mean it's a “10-point system”. A...
Draft SMS and iMessage from any computer keyboard
August 29, 2025
If you're like me, you don't love the ergonomics of writing long text messages on your mobile phone keyboard. What if you could write text messages, both SMS...
The vulnerability might be in the proof-of-concept
August 27, 2025
I'm on the security team for multiple open source projects with ~medium levels of report volume. Over the years, you notice patterns in how reporters try to...
Did you know about SMS URLs?
August 26, 2025
Did you know there are is a URL scheme for sending an “SMS” or text message, similar to “mailto:”? SMS URLs are defined in RFC 5724 and are formatted like...
Extracting Genesis & Game Gear ROMs from SEGA GameCube collections
August 19, 2025
The GameCube library had multiple SEGA game collections: “Sonic Mega Collection”, “Sonic Adventure DX”, and “Sonic Gems Collection” which all contain ROM...
How many RSS subscribers do I have?
August 18, 2025
RSS is super rad way to consume internet content (“like a newspaper”). This blog gets syndicated via RSS and an email newsletter. Unlike with my newsletter,...
5 of the 7 most expensive first-party GameCube titles will be added to Nintendo Switch Online “GameCube Classics”
August 16, 2025
Nintendo just announced that the GameCube game “Chibi Robo!” would be coming in exactly one week to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. Chibi Robo is...
Extracting 20+ NES & Famicom ROMs from Animal Crossing
August 5, 2025
Animal Crossing for the GameCube was a game far ahead of its time and one of my personal favorites growing up. One of the most beloved features was the...
Email has algorithmic curation, too
July 15, 2025
I associate “algorithmic curation” with social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, but not with email. Maybe that thinking should...
Setting Discord status from physical GameCube console
July 8, 2025
Platinum GameCube with a Memcard Pro GC setting a Discord status Have you seen me "playing my GameCube" on Discord recently? This article is a tutorial...
Open Source Security work isn't "Special"
July 3, 2025
Why is security work unlike any other contribution to an open source project? Contributing bug fixes, documentation, community management, and governance can...
Hand-drawn QR codes
July 1, 2025
I picked up a grid paper sticky-note pad from a new local stationery store in Minneapolis. My first project: hand-drawing a small QR code and scanning it...
Pikmin 2 International Treasure Hoard
June 3, 2025
Pikmin 2 is a GameCube game about collecting treasure on an alien planet. One of the most distinguishing features of the treasures is that they sometimes use...
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