I've never liked guns that much, but I do remember having an enjoyable time shooting rifles and shotguns while I was at Boy Scouts camp. Despite not having any real desire to own a gun, I found myself applying for a weapons carry license on my 21st birthday really just …
read moreA Bug I Squashed: py-hopscotch-dict Part 2
read moreAn Unwelcome Visitor Arrives
Like every ridiculously subtle bug this one seemed to appear out of nowhere. I always confirm my code passes tests locally before pushing changes, but I still found myself staring down a red CI build marker and a strange error:
def __delitem__(self, key: Hashable) -> None …A Bug I Squashed: py-hopscotch-dict Part 1
This bug is a couple years old now, but I'm still proud of myself for finding it. Anyway, onto the story:
I was this close to the first public release of py-hopscotch-dict: I'd organized the repo just-so, built my first CI/CD pipeline - I'd even signed up for PyPI so …
read moreTrack Day Debrief: August 2022
I was a lot more active this month than normal - beginning with a presentation at Hacker Summer Camp followed by two back-to-back track weekends. Nevertheless, the car stayed together through it all and I may have managed to find a not-embarrassing amount of pace.
read morePreheat the Petit 2022
First up …
Running Qubes 4.1.0 On A Lenovo X201
With about three weeks until Hacker Summer Camp, I'm starting to tie up the last loose ends - specifically my DEF CON badge (I'm going to email my connect) and my laptop. Normally I don't give too much thought into my tech setup - I throw a fresh copy of Kali on …
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The Passion Of The Code
I finished a moderately-sized project last week; since I want to blog more I figured I'd talk about it.
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I've blogged about my karting hobby before, but anyone halfway quick in public karting knows the biggest factor in how fast you are are the the karts themselves: maybe some …
YOLO Phone Search Results
I got into one of my sooper-sekrit James Bond moods a while back which put me down the path of trying to obtain and maintain a disposable phone for clandestine communications - I specifically call it a disposable phone and not a burner since infosec dorks are touchy about the term …
read morePrivacy Service Comparison
A week or two back one of the people I follow on Twitter retweeted a furry talking about how they maintain their privacy while commissioning artists around the globe. As someone who's never been completely comfortable over giving my card info to every site I buy from online or putting …
read moreConfessions Of A Keeb Noob
I watched a DEFCON talk on custom keyboards while I was taking time off for Thanksgiving in hopes of figuring out why keyboard nerds are how they are. One of the presenters mentioned a company they frequent, so I decided to take a look - within 20 minutes I had spent …
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