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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 20/09/2026

With that last post in mind, whilst our last attempt to take a newbie to DefCon didn’t end well, if you want to go but feel you need a little support, well you know which flights I’m on now. Just reach out.

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 20/09/2026

Last years FOMO was too much too handle, so guess who has just booked to return to DefCon again next year (BTW 30k points is just £390 right now, so that makes the flights £705, not the usual £1200 !)

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 13/09/2026

Second day at Sheffield Ice arena. However, watching Knights today will be a little easier than yesterday across the road at the Utilia!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 28/08/2026

First ball hockey training session with Leeds Rams, first injury Still, I mugged my son during our first sift against each other, then expertly used my wrist to stop a Team GB U18 from scoring (I didn’t just get in the way, and paid the price, honest)

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 27/08/2026

Don’t think I’ve ever been this excited for an advert #gta6 #gtavi

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 24/08/2026

Finally got Icon bagged to turn Blackpool all Blue again on Coaster Count

A screen shot of Blackpool Roller Coasters

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 23/08/2026

My hackerstickers.org sticker scanning rig! @0xtib3rus

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 23/08/2026

I wait 18 months for this to finally ship, and Evri leave it in a bush in the garden whilst I’m on holiday! (It’s a MiSTer FPGA in a PS1 style case …. Much more suited for the living room that my DE-10 MiSTer)

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 16/08/2026

Jordan’s, long shorts, and a muppets themed Hawaiian shirt (and a mullet) Definitely his father’s son! Also, he’s too tall to be allowed on the water slides now … but my wife isn’t :)

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 15/08/2026

Well that’s sub-optimal. Especially as it includes several grands worth of utterly irreplaceable #Spezial /// gear!

A list of air tags in Tenerife, except ‘Glenn’s Case’ which was last seen in Manchester AirPort a few minutes ago!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 15/08/2026

Just landed in Tenerife. First time back since 1993. Fair to say I expect this will be a very different holiday to that one.

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 14/08/2026

With Kel playing, I’ve obviously watched a lot of ball hockey, but tonight was the first time I’ve played! Twice! Sure it was only a silly coaches & parents vs kids scrimmage, but I loved it. 54 isn’t too late to pick up a new sport is it?

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 14/08/2026

I am delighted that Binface hasn’t just joined Lord Sutch in the history books, but smashed his record and been the first novelty / comedic / protest candidate to keep their deposit But now all that’s done with, can we get back to the investigation into Farage’s donations please

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 13/08/2026

Jills homemade cold brew is super!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 09/08/2026

3 episodes in and I have to say ‘Stewart Fails to Save the World’ is far better than it has any right being. ‘Big Bang Theory minor characters do Sliders’ it a terrible premise, but somehow it works as a quirky silly self-aware sci-fi comedy. The episodes are too short though!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 09/08/2026

Went up on Torrisholme Barrow for the first time since I was a kid, at ai don’t think I’ve ever seen the view to clear. Ingleborough, Clougha, Williamson’s Park, Heysham Power Staton, Morecambe Bay. All visible from one spot

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 07/08/2026

Most years I’d be at defcons linecon introducing people to Benedictine. I’m not there this year, but I’ve just spotted it in smokestack, so I’ve just introduced these two amazing people to it!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 29/07/2026

Every time a vendor asks if I’m going to BlackHat/Bsides LV/DefCon this year! (Though I suspect we’ll be back in 2027)

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 26/07/2026

1st day of the week long Bradford Bulldogs hockey camp. I suspect he’ll look a little differently next Saturday! Glad he’s finally ditched the Crocs for sliders (even if they are mine!)

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 25/07/2026

I came back from EMF camp to a mostly dead main daily-driver PC. A week later not only do I have even more screen real estate, I’m gaming at a solid 60fps for the first time, well, ever probably (at least on my own PC hardware)

A game showing a current, max and min of 60fps.

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 09/07/2026

Knowing that I know people on both sides of this, we absolutely need to get The Lancashire Hotpots and Count Binface collaborating on a reworking of their classic ‘Has the bin man, bin mon’ as ‘Has Count Bin Face won mon?’ youtu.be/RATXBp1v2gA?...

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 08/07/2026

Before I take a crack at it myself, nobody is working on putting #EMFCamp on @hackertracker are they?

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 07/07/2026

Anyone I know got an Apple developer program membership, and would be up for using it in a demo of a small open source app for signing wallet entries? I really don’t want to pay $99 a year for something that isn’t likely to be used more than a few dozen times.

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 04/07/2026

Seems like only 5 mins ago, we were in here buying his first non-baby clothes!

KP in a black suit, black shirt, black tie

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 02/07/2026

Any of my old school phone hackery friends got a spare distybox they are willing to sell or loan? (Or indeed any DECT to FXS adapter)? EMF Camp has inspired me to dig out some old analogue kit, but I just can’t find my distybox

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 02/07/2026

Before I head to Decathlon or Go Outdoors, nobody has a mid size tent they’d be prepared to lend more for EMF Camp do they? I have a couple of ‘festival’ 2-man tents but EMF looks like I need to take a tonne of stuff, so much bigger is better.

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 28/06/2026

Nobody on this earth gets me quite like my wife!

4 parts of the Muppets Noir comic and an additional alternative cover, and an additional alt-cover for part 1.

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 22/06/2026

I’ve had some highlights of this trip, being sat in a Man Utd bar, listening to Morrissey, watching Argentina beat Austria is not one of them

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 20/06/2026

My old Twitter #HackerFastFood account returns of a one-off special!

Dr Pepper Cherry and Dr Pepper Vanilla Float

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 20/06/2026

Remember all the glassware Esso shifted in the UK the late 80s? Seems it still used a lot in Latvia!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 19/06/2026

Malort drinkers, Benedictine drinkers, pálenka, Becherovka, Slivovice and Chacha drinkers. If I was running a one-night ‘undrinkable local filth’ evening of the hardest hardcore foul drinks from around the world, what drink would YOU add to our bar?

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 19/06/2026

Things I didn’t predict today. 1am and I’ve just been drinking Benedictine

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 19/06/2026

Second time in as many days that I’ve been up at 4:30. This time, Riga bound!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 18/06/2026

Last weekend, BSides Leeds Today, SnoopCon Tomorrow, Riga, Latvia What a week!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 14/06/2026

An amazing 48hr focused purely on BSides Leeds focus, suddenly seems a lifetime ago as I’m back with my son in his natural habitat

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BSides Leeds @bsidesleeds.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As we get ever closer to Saturday and the conference day, we wanted to put out another huge thank you to all of our fantastic sponsors ❤️ Genuinely, BSides Leeds would not be able to run without your support. We're so grateful that you were keen to be involved and help us make this happen!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 08/06/2026

Vibe-coding is ruining me. My desktop is collecting vscode windows like they are chrome tabs. All things ‘I’ll come back and finish properly later’ deep down knowing I never will

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 07/06/2026

One thing nobody tells you about running a conference, the sheer amount of stuff you amass in the run up, and this is with most of the bulky ‘for participants’ stuff (the stuff we have 400 of each of) being at Grom’s!

A messy office jam packed with conference stuff

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 06/06/2026

I did say I’d post about my side projects more often, well for a few months they all get put aside, whilst I become one of the team behind BSides Leeds. We’re just one week away, so time to go and rescue the BSides organisers essentials box from the loft!

4 Baofang radios, and a big box of random assorted conference stuff

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 02/06/2026

Every time I come across people trying to implement security controls (not just guardrails) in an LLM system prompt, this image comes to mind

Lisa Simpson looking at two signs on a pole, one saying ‘Keep Out’ the other saying ‘Or Enter, I’m a sign, not a cop’

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 31/05/2026

Life of a Hockey Parent at Half Term ….. still it beats being sat playing Fortnite

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 28/05/2026

Yesterday he came from Hockey Camp saying ‘I worked hard today but didn’t get MVP, so tomorrow I’m gonna work my ass off and make sure I get it’ A few minutes ago he just posted this to Insta. So proud of the little guy these days!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 23/05/2026

Last nights rabbit hole. Using an LLM to reverse engineer an 80s BBC Micro text adventure into Z-Code, then devise a walk through, then build a test harness to play though both the original and the new version repeatedly, to test it all!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 22/05/2026

As much as I adore the class of Aspect, when I’m over here without the family, I do like to sneak off to Morecambe’s best sea-front greasy-spoon cafe for a change!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 15/05/2026

So, I’m working on getting TransFS working inside RetroNas I’ve got RetroNas running (to a fashion) inside docker (to more easily test my integration), but after I’ll look at merging RetroNetSecs’ networking in, to maybe make dockerised and working RetroNas finally possible!

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 10/05/2026

Friday was Roller Hockey Yesterday was Ball Hockey Today is all about the Ice This morning it’s a couple of hours at Ice Sheffield for a B2B group coaching session, then it’s off down to Nottingham (again!) to fill in as a pool player for Lancashire Lightning u16s

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Glenn Pegden @glenn.pegden.com · 09/05/2026

U14s Ball Hockey Done. 1 Goal (on video for once), 1 MVP award (kinda ‘man of the match’), and 2 games in goal. Now time for a spot of lunch before doing it all again in the u16s!

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