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Lovell Fuller

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Open source software maintainer, product developer and Internet technologist London, UK lovell.info

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Lovell Fuller @lovell.info · 09/09/2026
It's been 10 years since British font designer Vernon Adams died aged only 49 He created many fonts that you see every day on the web, in print and on signs above shops fonts.adobe.com/designers/ve... Also one of the few people with a dedicated search result page www.google.com/search?q=ver...
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Vernon Adams | Adobe Fonts
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Lovell Fuller @lovell.info · 24/08/2026
If you're exposing Node.js services running on Linux to the public Internet, you may be surprised to learn that the official binaries and Docker images are *not* Position Independent. This prevents use of OS security features that would otherwise protect against some memory-related exploits.
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ASLR (pie) disabled in v12 Linux amd64 build from nodejs.org · Issue #33425 · nodejs/node
$ pwn checksec ./node/node-v12.16.3-linux-x64/bin/node [*] '/home/pdxjohnny/Downloads/node/node-v12.16.3-linux-x64/bin/node' Arch: amd64-64-little RELRO: Full RELRO Stack: Canary found NX: NX enabl...
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Lovell Fuller @lovell.info · 24/07/2026
Big news for Wordpress users as client-side media processing will be part of the forthcoming 7.1 release. make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07... A huge round of applause is due to @kleisauke.nl and @vanilagy.bsky.social for all their work creating and maintaining wasm-vips and mediabunny respectively.
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Client-Side Media Processing in WordPress 7.1
WordPress 7.1 ships client-side media processing – a capability that handles image compression, resizing, format conversion, rotation, and thumbnail generation directly in the user’s br…
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Lovell Fuller @lovell.info · 22/07/2026
This is my kind of crossover event. Chicago deep house legend @joshuaiz.com of Iz and Diz fame DJing at a tech/atproto meetup in a brewery. London can learn from this.
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Lovell Fuller @lovell.info · 20/07/2026
If you use Node.js native modules that pass JavaScript strings to C++ or Rust code, which is most of them, then Node.js 26 does this around 4x faster than Node.js 24. github.com/nodejs/node/...
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Investigating a Severe Performance Regression in Node.js v22 and v24 · Issue #60719 · nodejs/node
Investigating a Severe Performance Regression in Node.js v22 and v24 Hello everyone, We (@forwardemail) have been running some benchmarks with better-sqlite3-multiple-ciphers and came across what a...
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Lovell Fuller @lovell.info · 17/07/2026
We've just published advisories for a number of libvips vulnerabilities that affect the prebuilt binaries provided by versions of sharp <= 0.34.5 If you use sharp with untrusted input, please upgrade to the latest version, currently 0.35.3, which provides libvips 8.18.3 github.com/lovell/sharp...
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Vulnerabilities in libvips: CVE-2026-33327, CVE-2026-33328, CVE-2026-35590, CVE-2026-35591
### Impact A number of vulnerabilities, two rated as "High" severity using CVSSv4, have been discovered and fixed in the upstream libvips dependency. Those processing untrusted input with ver...
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Lovell Fuller @lovell.info · 16/07/2026
Renewed my #DHFC season ticket. Proper football starts again in 3 weeks.
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Lovell Fuller @lovell.info · 02/07/2026
Latest version of sharp (for Node.js image processing): 📦 Faster and safer installation, no more install scripts 🙌 Dual ESM/CJS 🖼️ Improved AVIF output quality and bit depth ☀️ Experimental support for HDR gain maps 👷 Transferable ArrayBuffer output for worker threads www.npmjs.com/package/sharp
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