Jun 18, 2020 from bearblog Defective by Design: Reflected Attacks on Email Privacy using DMARC Email privacy is dead, confirmed for the umpteenth time. In this post I present the SOILED-PRIVACY attacks (Systemic Online Information Leakage using Email+DMARC against Privacy). These are two ref...
Jun 02, 2020 from bearblog Wayland is Almost There I finally break down and install wayland on my desktop at home, using sway to replace i3. Things go OK, mostly.
May 03, 2020 from Randall Degges The Feature Snowball The “feature snowball”, as I like to call it, is a product and time management technique I’ve been successfully implementing for the last 10 years or so. I’ve used it across many personal projects,...
May 03, 2020 from Randall Degges The Feature Snowball The “feature snowball”, as I like to call it, is a product and time management technique I’ve been successfully implementing for the last 10 years or so. I’ve used it across many personal projects,...
Apr 07, 2020 from Randall Degges Defensive Finance in a Downturn I live in the bay area of the United States in a suburb of San Francisco. At the time of writing, I’ve been in isolation from the world for roughly 3 weeks, with no clear end in sight. And while th...
Apr 07, 2020 from Randall Degges Defensive Finance in a Downturn I live in the bay area of the United States in a suburb of San Francisco. At the time of writing, I’ve been in isolation from the world for roughly 3 weeks, with no clear end in sight. And while th...
Apr 05, 2020 from Randall Degges Don't Waste Time Getting Feedback Time is valuable. In fact, time is the single most valuable thing any of us have. That’s why I think it’s so important not to waste time if you don’t have to. Every second you waste working on some...
Apr 05, 2020 from Randall Degges Don't Waste Time Getting Feedback Time is valuable. In fact, time is the single most valuable thing any of us have. That’s why I think it’s so important not to waste time if you don’t have to. Every second you waste working on some...
Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges The Only Type of API Services I'll Use I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...
Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges The Only Type of API Services I'll Use I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...
Jan 17, 2020 from Randall Degges My Personal Financial Strategy I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about personal finance is how personal it is. Everyone has different goals and desires, an...
Jan 17, 2020 from Randall Degges My Personal Financial Strategy I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about personal finance is how personal it is. Everyone has different goals and desires, an...
Nov 01, 2019 from twilweb CLI and REST API for activemq ActiveMQ provides an easy to use api that can be used to produce or consume messages via commandline. See ActiveMQ site for detailed post. Simple command to post to a queue : curl -XPOST -d "body=<...
Nov 01, 2019 from twilweb SimpleDateFormatter is not thread-safe Having been bitten by this bug multiple times, i am posting a small program that illustrates Thread Safety issues in using SimpleDateFormatter from java . import java.text.ParseException; import ...
Jan 26, 2018 from Randall Degges Please Stop Using Local Storage Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session information in local storage, but whatever the reason: the practice needs to die o...
Jan 26, 2018 from Randall Degges Please Stop Using Local Storage Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session information in local storage, but whatever the reason: the practice needs to die o...
Jan 21, 2018 from Randall Degges How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners are a direct result of the passage of the EU directive, sometimes known as the C...
Jan 21, 2018 from Randall Degges How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners are a direct result of the passage of the EU directive, sometimes known as the C...
Jan 03, 2018 from Randall Degges To 30 Billion and Beyond Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup service. When you query its REST API, it returns your public-facing IP address....
Jan 03, 2018 from Randall Degges To 30 Billion and Beyond Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup service. When you query its REST API, it returns your public-facing IP address....
