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evil.red @evil.red · 30/09/2026

Sometimes the reward is as simple as being able to look at myself in the mirror the next day...

evil.red @evil.red · 24/09/2026

Seen in the wild today... Ne're truer words hath been encribed upon a bathroom wall and door. #technoblade #minecraft #fuckcancer

Lightswitch, graffitied with "technoblade never dies".

The aforementioned lightswitch in context. Next to a door with "Fuck Cancer!" Graffitied on it.

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evil.red @evil.red · 16/08/2026

I'm going to build a shrine to the #ponylang code review skill. Claude finishes building the a proposed workflow for my app, says everything is good and secure. /pony-code-review finds two authentication bypasses and user enumeration.

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/08/2026

There are two types of people in the world when it comes to when people hurt each other. People who believe that impact matters more than intent, and those who believe that intent matters more than impact. My wife and i are on opposite sides of that coin.

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evil.red @evil.red · 24/07/2026

There are two types of people in this car...

Photo of air conditioning controls in a car.

Left is full cold, Right is full hot.

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evil.red @evil.red · 19/06/2026

Went to a thrift store and my kid found an urn: "someone donated Grandma", they joked. I checked, it was empty. Relieved, I continued and found another urn. This time, not empty. My humanity told me that I had to buy it, just to ensure they were scattered somewhere beautiful.

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evil.red @evil.red · 05/06/2026

If anyone out there reading this has been curious about fountain pens, inks, and papers - now's a great time and Endless is a great company to buy from. If you want advice or recommendations - hit me up!

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evil.red @evil.red · 20/05/2026

On IRC, nobody has said anything yet today: I make a statement. At the exact same moment I hit return, someone else makes a materially identical statement on the same (random) subject. First comment at the exact same time. Same subject. No external stimulus. We live in a simulation.

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/05/2026

This is today's most insightful post!

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evil.red @evil.red · 30/04/2026

I have a talk accepted at a con coming up. It's not security related, and I'm actually pretty stoked about giving it. The area is moving so fast I'm going to be writing the presentation night-of. It is Embargod, but I will share when announced.

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/04/2026

Guessing last night was patch Tuesday since my 8k monitor now has a max resolution of 1920x1080 and is completely unusable. Yay.

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evil.red @evil.red · 12/04/2026

TIL: Why Microsoft called ASP.NET ASP.NET. Named after a 4500 year old board game! ;)

Output from an AI describing a 4500 year old board game known in modern times as "The Royal Game of Ur" (as it was found in a Royal Tomb in Ur).

A sentence is highlighted which says: "The game is still played today in Middle Eastern regions (where it's called .AspNetCore) and has been recreated by the British Museum."

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evil.red @evil.red · 01/04/2026

JK Rowling is the new showrunner for #DoctorWho?

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evil.red @evil.red · 26/03/2026

Instafollow. My feed needs more joy, enthusiasm, and wonder…

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evil.red @evil.red · 09/03/2026

Pony is on a roll right now, huge movement in performance and functionality in process...

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evil.red @evil.red · 07/03/2026

Okay, there is something quite glorious about having a human respond to what would be a normally "throwaway request". It's true, it does feel different knowing that someone chose to pick up my prompt and make something.

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evil.red @evil.red · 03/02/2026

My mother, my grandmother, and I'm sure many of the generations before them had a skill that I know I, and everyone else i know irl lack. The ability to look in a pantry and create from *anything*, something delicious and nutritious. I don't want recipes. I want to learn this skill. Where tho?

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/01/2026

That moment after attempting to clean the same #fountainpen for over an hour you give up. It's now my sacrificial Baystate Blue pen.

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evil.red @evil.red · 01/01/2026

I asked perplexity to convert a simple C app to C++ for review, and it had this *glorious* quote in its text: "Below is a minimal C++ tool that is the moral equivalent of your original program: it parses a translation unit and prints function signatures from the main file." A **MORAL** equivalent!

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evil.red @evil.red · 29/11/2025

@samuraiames.bsky.social I don't know who storyboarded or animated "Brighter"... But in the scene where it shows Vox in front of a board with suggestions for the network... Vox canonically invented Doctor Who! Words can't express how happy that little detail made me. Please thank them for us.

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evil.red @evil.red · 26/11/2025

If "everyone knows .unwrap() is a footgun", then why is it in #rust at all? Make the user use .unwrap_or, or match, or some other error flow mechanism so they're forced to make a decision. If they want to "panic!()", make them type it out. Let them ponder their life choices in those 9 chrs.

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evil.red @evil.red · 19/11/2025

I remember having a discussion with someone about how I thought that a language having a runtime "panic"-like function should be an anti-pattern. A "memory-safe crash" is still a crash. Guess I have a high-profile real-world example to quote now.

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evil.red @evil.red · 19/11/2025

Anyone else in the #hazbinhotel and #doctorwho fandoms thinking that Vox is now Ursula Blake, to Valantino's Elton Pope? ... I am nerd.

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evil.red @evil.red · 18/11/2025

Hey @life360.bsky.social Not a fan of you floating advertisements over the map or the UI during normal operation. I get it, you want to sell more trackers… If this was a free service, I'd accept it. But I pay you for this service and I don't want it cluttering up the map I'm trying to navigate.

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/11/2025

Can someone tell me what a "Black Hatter" is in #hazbinhotel ? I've looked, and searched - and find no (cannon) reference to it… just fan-art. They're mentioned in S2E4, and feels Chekhov's Gun-like…

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evil.red @evil.red · 31/10/2025

I have two 30m slots of Radio Time every week on an AM Shortwave broadcast station that can be heard almost everywhere in the World - over *actual* radio. None of this "streaming" nonsense. My next show needs to be 30 minutes of @amirtalai.bsky.social cackling over screams with no context. Spooky

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evil.red @evil.red · 17/10/2025

When I was in my early 20s I was offered a job in a third world country to build their first Internet Service Provider. "What a potential to do good!", I thought to myself. The salary was near nothing, but the offered housing, a driver, armed guards, and a live-in cook and maid. Ok…

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evil.red @evil.red · 09/10/2025

AI summaries really do need to be opt-in. I don't need an Ocean boiled to give me ludicrous reesponses.

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evil.red @evil.red · 03/10/2025

Two months ago I spoke at @codescarolina.bsky.social on the subject of @ponylang.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co2o... I had a most excellent time, met some most excellent people, and had many most excellent conversations with others around developing concurrent and safe software.

youtube.com

Redvers Davies - Fast, Concurrent, Secure, Correct Actors… and a pony!

YouTube video by Carolina Code Conference

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/09/2025

Conjuring up some magic to finish my #ponylang #ODBC library. My one unsolved problem is that different databases return different error codes for the same issues! How does one solve this in a portable manner?

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evil.red @evil.red · 14/09/2025

I just bought a sonic cutter. It's basically an X-Acto-knife that vibrates at 40khz. It may be my favourite tool purchase since my thermaltonics iron!

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evil.red @evil.red · 08/09/2025

Haha, classic. "Hacker" tries to modify passwd file to provide themselves with persistent access. passwd file is immutable. "Hacker" gives up. I can think of at least three different approaches to get past this if this were a legitimate engagement.

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evil.red @evil.red · 07/09/2025

When log4j vulns appeared, I wrote an app that recursively searched .zip/.war/ear/.jar files in memory for a specified regex. (…or just recursively show you all the files in each). I've been using it recently to inventory all my backups and it was so useful I'm considering renaming it.

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evil.red @evil.red · 18/08/2025

I just found a news article about the first security incident I ever worked. In 1997 (!) archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.... Even in 1997, having a default policy of blocking all outgoing traffic from our production servers saved our bacon.

archive.nytimes.com

Usenet Servers Under Hacker Attack

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evil.red @evil.red · 18/08/2025

Have my talk at @codescarolina.bsky.social . First time at a conference since the before times. Talked about one of the languages I've been working with the last 5 years or so: @ponylang.bsky.social 289 "Slides" in 30ish minutes. ... and somehow I resisted theming it MLP all the way through!

Photo of my mostly good self in front of a slide saying: "Pony programs exit when, no messages in system and all actors are reaped".

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/08/2025

Chillin' at @codescarolina.bsky.social #polyglot and #infosec community conference. This morning's topics: #AI #DevelopersAndSecurityKissingInATree #QBasic64 #php #Fsharp and #NoCorruptionMigration. If you're here, come say "Hi" to me. Hint: I'm wearing a very "Subtle" Cat shirt 😉

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evil.red @evil.red · 22/07/2025

I don't know what it is about fountain pens, but my EDC selection colors my mood for the day. Carrying a 100+ year old pen frames my day with care and deliberate wonder. Carrying a modern pen with sparkly ink frames my day like "Star vs the forces of evil" and I giggle like a 12 year old all day

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evil.red @evil.red · 19/06/2025

Heading into my last days with my current employer - and as an Employee whose job was research and creativity I am leaving behind what feels like a thousand unexplored loose ends. All had some value to me. Few will be picked up by others and explored. Never enough time to do them all justice.

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evil.red @evil.red · 24/05/2025

Okay #doctorwho - that's creepy af

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evil.red @evil.red · 17/05/2025

Is this the first time #eurovision had allowed voting from the beginning, as opposed to at the end of all the songs? I don't remember it being this way... ... it just seems unfair to those later in the show. #esc2025

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/05/2025

Votes cast for #Malta #esc2025 Come on and win this thing! ❤️

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/05/2025

I really hope this is the case. I adore this song with every fiber of my being... So catchy!

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/05/2025

Is it me, or has the sound mixing of most of the songs this evening been just awful? #Eurovision #esc2025

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/05/2025

Is that a treadmill on stage or really clever camera-work? #esc2025 Subtitles: "singing in an international language". Useful.

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evil.red @evil.red · 15/05/2025

I'm kinda vibing to the lack of awful American hosts for #Eurovision. Let's hope this continues for the final too! #RestOfWorldVoter

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evil.red @evil.red · 28/03/2025

Looking at this double-stacked nib under the microscope to see if I can work out why it's suffering from dry-starts from time to time. Where / how can I get training for nibmeister skills? As a fountain pen fan, I need to know!

Photograph through a microscope showing the end of a double-stacked nib. It is smooth, but the feed shows some dried-out red ink.

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evil.red @evil.red · 23/03/2025

More good stuff in the ponylang world...

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evil.red @evil.red · 23/03/2025

Just putting together my weekly radio show. Need to find a theme for this week and struggling. Open to ideas...

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evil.red @evil.red · 14/03/2025

Let's see if I can create a Feed for #ponylang…

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