City officials don't believe sensitive data was accessed. The alert follows reports that OpenAI's agents exceeded instructions and even accessed nonpublic information from government sites around the world.

In her new book, Jen Pahlka shows why we must stop trying to move the government we have today onto new technology and instead recode government from the ground up.

Many years ago I adopted Google Authenticator for one time passwords, and it has quietly followed me from phone to phone ever since. Each move works the same way: the old phone displays an export QR code, the new phone scans it, and the accounts hop over. That works fine until you want to leave. I’ve wanted to switch to an app with a better backup story for a while, but I didn’t want to log into every service and re-enroll two factor auth one account at a time. The export QR code clearly contains everything a new phone needs, so I figured there had to be a way to extract that information myself.

Add a crypto:kdf/4 NIF backed by OpenSSL's EVP_KDF, supporting argon2, hkdf, scrypt, sskdf, and pbkdf2 with option maps. This was something I had proposed on Erlang Forums and also discovered i...

Today we're opening up the DoorDash CLI in limited beta. `dd-cli` lets you order DoorDash directly from your agent: search stores, find the best deals, check out, and more. Early access for US/Canadian macOS developers by waitlist. Excited to see what folks build!

APT repository serving Erlang/OTP built from source for Debian and Ubuntu (amd64 + arm64) - jtdowney/erlang-builds

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### Summary `wisp.serve_static` is vulnerable to arbitrary file read via percent-encoded path traversal (`%2e%2e`). The directory traversal sanitization runs before percent-decoding, allowing en...

My name is John Downey, and I know firsthand how painful it is to watch a loved one suffe… John Downey needs your support for Together, We Can End Alzheimer's

Version: Deno 2.6.3 I am working on a cryptography library for the Gleam ecosystem and in testing my test suite against the various Gleam targets (Erlang, Node, Bun, and Deno), I noticed that Deno'...

I started the year with a reading goal of 12 books because I was trying to become a person who reads again. One a month felt realistic. It was a way to commit without pretending I knew exactly how it would fit into real life. Once it was obvious I was going to clear 12, I escalated the goal to 26. One every two weeks felt like a useful constraint, the kind that nudges you forward without turning a hobby into a performance review.

Challenge yourself and code a photorealistic 3D renderer from scratch, test-first, with shadows, reflections, and support for a half-dozen graphics primitives.

Linux tool that checks GitHub for repository releases and performs automatic updates - jtdowney/distronomicon

Leverage Fabric's crowdsourced LLM prompts directly from your browser - jtdowney/tapestry

A lightweight proxy manager built on Tailscale's tsnet library that enables multiple HTTPS services on a Tailnet - jtdowney/tsbridge