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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.com · 04/03/2026

Built another little tool for the decentralised key distribution crowd! dane.dp42.dev tests OpenPGP DANE (RFC 7929). Look up any email's DNS record and verify your DNSSEC setup is working. Pair it with wkd.dp42.dev for full coverage of modern distributed key discovery.

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OpenPGP DANE - Tester

A web-based tool for testing and debugging OpenPGP DANE (RFC 7929) OPENPGPKEY DNS records

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

www.2600.com/content/hope... Official announcement.

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HOPE CONFERENCE BANNED BY ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | 2600

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 18/11/2025

Ugh, this sucks. Looks like @hope.net was kicked out of St. John's University and needs to find other options for the next conference. Stated reason was anti-police materials at someone's booth, but wasn't brought to the con's attention until after it was over.

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Had a great time talking with @sebsto and Richard on the AWS Developers Podcast about our migration journey onto AWS and how we built a Serverless E-Commerce platform. 🎧 Listen now: 🔹 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-a… […]

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things: 1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who joined the Serverless Meetup and to Aleios and Moonpig for sponsoring and organising! A special shoutout to Ryan Cormack for his insightful talk on Smithy. I had a blast giving my talk and chatting with so many of you afterwards.

Photo of Ryan Cormack giving a talk. The slide reads APIs in the Fastlane.

Photo of myself giving a talk. Slides read Thank you.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/09/2025

omg as a pentester PLEASE use one of these! Get them for your entire company. It’ll go great

Introducing Al Key, a small device that lets Al control your entire phone.
just plug it in and ask it to complete a task.

pre-order now.

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London GraphQL @london-graphql.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Missed out last meet up? Never fear, you can catch @chimbosonic.com's talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBme...

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Moonpig’s GraphQL Journey: Scaling with Serverless & Federation - Alexis Lowe, Moonpig

YouTube video by GraphQL Foundation Talks

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.com · 14/05/2025

Quote post this with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe.

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Taz Singh @tazs.ing · 29/04/2025

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London GraphQL @london-graphql.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thanks to everyone who came on Tuesday! We had a great relaxed atmosphere and plenty of pizza. See you in July?

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/04/2025

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage

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Pete Vilter @petevilter.me · 13/04/2025

It's hard to wrap your head around all the failure modes of a distributed system. What if you could play with the sequence diagram of a run to see how it responds, and see if you can get it into a failure state? dist-sys-simulator.netlify.app

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.com · 14/03/2025

Looking forward to speaking at London GraphQL in April! I'll be sharing insights from Moonpig's experience with GraphQL, Federation, and Serverless. Excited to connect with everyone there!

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.com · 04/04/2025

Had a great time chatting with Sam and Richard on the #Moonpig #Tech Podcast about our journey into #event-driven #architecture! We dig into the why, the how, and the intricacies of #EDA 🎧 Listen now 🔹 Apple #Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... 🔹 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4gb6...

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.com · 14/03/2025

Looking forward to speaking at London GraphQL in April! I'll be sharing insights from Moonpig's experience with GraphQL, Federation, and Serverless. Excited to connect with everyone there!

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2025

Introducing WKD Tester – a free, open-source tool for testing OpenPGP Web Key Directory implementations! I built it to help out with the Keyoxide project, making it easier to generate lookup URIs and discover keys on the fly. Check it out at wkd.chimbosonic.com. #OpenPGP #WKD […]

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

A little update on #Meshtastic at #FOSDem: Picked 66 unique nodes on day 1 and watched the network melt during the #Meshtastic talk (maybe doesn’t scale that great with all the nodes in one place). The best part of day 1 tho was that I connected to a node 300km from my location via 2 hops. Day […]

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025

As the year wrapped up, I spent some time reflecting on my transition from a CyberSecurity engineer to Principal engineer which inspired me to write a blog about the steep learning curve of writing quality coding and—how I used #rust to reinforce my skills. Check it out and let me know what you […]

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025

Waiting patiently for the #FOSDEM train!

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A peril of listening to podcasts while walking to work: the latest episode of @edzitron.com's Better Offline with @jeremykaplowitz.com has me guffawing like a madman on the mean streets of Oakland open.spotify.com/episode/0qFj...

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Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators

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mendel tweet archive @mendel-archive.bsky.social · 15/04/2021

i made this quick to shitpost in work slack but i feel like the rest of you need to see it too

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.com · 09/01/2025

At the end of this year, I reflected on my transition from a CyberSecurity engineer to Principal engineer which inspired me to write a blog about the steep learning curve of writing quality coding and—how I used #rust to reinforce my skills. tilde.club/~chimbo/blog... #Rust, #CodingJourney, #blog

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Rust, learnings and journey - Chimbosonic's Blog

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.com · 29/12/2024

Got a pair of Heltec V3s for Xmas. First thing I did was print a case and now I've modified a holster I found for the case to mount it on my Multiboard to make a charging station. Case: www.printables.com/model/741974... Modified Holster: www.printables.com/model/112350... #meshtastic #3Dprinting

H1 case for Heltec V3 mounted on Multiboard

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 23/12/2024

I've been begging people to uninstall Honey forever, just based on the idea that all middlemen are rent-seeking and scamming. Turns out, that was a good instinct: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4y...

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Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 14/12/2024

You think I want sex robots to have sex with them. I want sex robots in order to insulate the American industrial and intelligence workforce from malign foreign honeypots. We are intellectually not the same.

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Taz Singh @tazs.ing · 05/12/2024

Woah really cool space at Moonpig 😮 They told me it was but seeing it is a different story! Awesome turnout despite the horrible weather outside 😅 Come say hi if you see me!

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chimbosonic @chimbosonic.com · 16/11/2024

Who needs #AI to lie about reality when simple editing can do wonders?

Edited image of Houghton’s water mill. Nice and vibrant almost sunny.

Picture of Houghton’s mill unedited. Grey sky and gloomy looking.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 14/11/2024

When we were first implementing passkeys, we ran a usability test with folks of differing abilities. When a man with vision challenges did an authentication with a passkey for the first time, he started crying because it was so easy.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 14/11/2024

Something ingrained, that I realize now others do not have, is knowing the solution to failure is offering a better solution. I have tried shame I have endured compliance. I ground this axe years. You need the market to decide you've won. I sold modern policy baselines to fix user experience. I won.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Internet scanner noise is annoying, so i'd rather just let them go and scan other websites...

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