This has been an emotionally draining week.

My press badge for the Web 2.0 Conference, October 2005. The Web 2.0 Conference kicked off on Wednesday, October 5, 2005, at The Argent Hotel on Third Street in San Francisco. I’d gone into the city on the Caltrain earlier in the week, to take in the sights of Haight St and familiarize myself with the Union Square...

Common Lisp programming is often presented as “interactive”. In most languages, modifications to your program are applied by recompiling it and restarting it. In contrast, Common Lisp lets you incrementally modify your program while it is running. While this approach is convenient, especially for exploratory...

If you had to explain it to someone outside cybersecurity, they wouldn’t believe you, but organisations including one of the world’s biggest banks and largest defence contractors have been compromised because they were too slow to apply a patch for a critical vulnerability. I was…

What I really like about having a personal web page, is that it can be ground zero for testing out ideas. If something feels right, it'll likely carry over to other projects I work on. Time to drop Tailwind? This has been a thought I've been having a lot in mind recently. Its mainly come from a combination of focus...

Highlights Listening to the QAnon Anonymous Podcast - little intense but facinating. They have smaller podcasts as well that look interesting Relaxing night reading and listening to music A bath after a difficult workday, had a screaming headache Learning that ‘Turn down for what’ came out nine years ago Getting...