Blogrolls are the best(rolls)
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
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
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
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)
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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”
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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...