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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This fall!???? i open bsky for the first time in months and see this. Good omen thanks ixi

Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Ugly Christmas sweaters, sparkles and sequins, large chains, belts with large buckles, underwire bras, wet or sweat-stained clothing. Saved you the click. Oregonian stop doing clickbait challenge difficulty: impossible

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My name is [your name] is a power move of an introduction.

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I like mdbook, least work to get up and running

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

When doing misc jail ctf challenges pays off in real life

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I'm with you though, I think the tools employees use really do shape how they work (and the ways they're able to work) and it kind of inevitably leads to some conformity of thought and behavior for better or worse

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Hmm I wonder app what this post could be about!

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Writing a lil' libfuzzer runtime

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Genuinely thought I was the only person who didn't like this game

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I gave it a shot yesterday but it just crashed every time 😭

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

lol, Linkedin web app on mobile sends you back to previous page if you scroll enough then hit the "no I don't want the app" button. I didn't want to use your site anyway!

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

My problem with unwrap is when it's unwrapping a multi-level error that stringifies in a way that hides the chain of failures!

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I'm gonna say it, this is about Clair Obscur.

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I grew up in Albuquerque and one of my friends in high school had a Pontiac Aztec exactly like this one with a glass pack muffler on it and no other modifications. It was the best car ever

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Me, uneducated: why would I want watered down espresso when I can have milked down espresso

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Americanos are so good I can't believe I've been missing this

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

So wack that in C++ you dereference a pointer to get a reference instead of &*-ing it. Rust once again most intuitive language

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Finishing a game I really didn't enjoy and seeing it has a 91 on metacritic makes me feel like a colossal hater lmao

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/11/2025

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Tell me why my climbing gym is trying to sell TWELVE DOLLAR smoothies no wonder I never see anyone drinking one

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Oh I wasn't being sarcastic when I said it was king shit I'm all for this

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I don't have a horse in the baseball fight but listening to the game on the free radio broadcast rules

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Truly the "I told you so" of all time

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Gotta say this is king shit from the libxml2 folks who know perfectly well it's used in all kinds of external facing mission critical places

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It's fun! But probably only good if you hate nuance or dislike Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Spent the entire new Frankenstein movie scared the monster was going to come out of the screen and start beating me over the head with the moral of the story

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Fair point I think that specific CVE is relatively hard until you add autodict which is actually a great example for my use case

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Yeah agreed I just mostly want a good set of known bugs in the sample set so there's a sense of accomplishment instead of just "cool more coverage this way! You'll probably never find a bug though"

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Fuzzer shallow e.g. CVE-2023-50268

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Luckily there are some really really shallow bugs out there, it's just taking a couple hours to find em

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I know unifuzz and fuzz bench exist but they don't quite serve my purpose, I need more bugs because the benchmark is for a fuzzer that starts off quite bad with no feedback and I need serotonin for users

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Is the best way to make a bug based fuzzing benchmark really just to go through CVEs and find every issue in the tracker and hope there's a POC 😭

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Kristopher Micinski @krismicinski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Talk Tomorrow: "Scalable Static Analysis and High-Performance Logic Programming" (github.com/kmicinski/mi...)

github.com

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

me (recently into bouldering): CI: me: CI: ... me: nice, come on CI: ... me: yeah, come on... CI: ... me: CI: ... me: COME ON!! CI: ... CI: ❌ me: ah! good attempt!!

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dmnk @dmnk.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Must-read for fuzzing folks (read: tooling/algorithms/academia) by Addison Crump addisoncrump.info/research/wha...

addisoncrump.info

What the hell are we doing? · Addison Crump

Homepage for Addison Crump

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A sandwich is $3000 but if you want meat that's another $1500 and oh if you want lettuce that's another $1500. Mustard? You're not gonna believe this

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I don't have a pic but when I was a kid I made a wooper out of the red wax from a big basket of babybel cheeses

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Update I did not use beamer so it only took 3 hours!!!

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Ooh I don't know if I can get behind this I had a little party when they added File::lock/lock_shared to std

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Making my conference slides and formatting code in google slides sucks and the devil on my shoulder is telling me to use beamer but I will NOT

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The emphasis on "clone means perf loss" made me try and avoid it at all costs but that meant I didn't actually evaluate whether that's true until kind of recently because for refs it's not!

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Yeah, you could say I'm a vibe coder (using claude to suggest synonyms of my traits with different first letters so they can all be abbreviated prettily as generic parameters)

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Sad I didn't come up for this one I'm becoming a Mariners fan by default (lack of a pdx team besides the pickles who run out of fried pickles at their games constantly)

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I have a hot take that Result is extremely overused in places where stuff should probably just panic and often ends up obscuring the problem by bubbling up errors too high. Panicking is okay!

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Rowan @novafacing.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

TIL about # [expect], I've been bitten a couple times by changing # [allow(unused)] that actually was!

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