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Patrick Smyth

@patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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Python, Lisp, data, docs, teaching, security, accessibility. Not necessarily in that order. Also weird old books, music, cooking. devrel at Chainguard. [bridged from fosstodon.org/@patric on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 11/06/2026
@patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy and myself did some research into how quick @chainguard.dev pulls in fixes for vulnerabilities. Turns out, we often have a fixed version before the vulnerability is even disclosed. www.chainguard.dev/unchained/fa...
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Faster than the advisory
Chainguard often ships security fixes before advisories reach scanners. Learn why upstream speed matters in the era of AI-driven exploits.
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
Pretty www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuamF4JECXg #music
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026
Found this cool website celebrating 20 years of CSS. Guess CSS is actually more like 30 years old now? www.w3.org/Style/CSS20/history.html
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A brief history of CSS until 2016
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025
Another great post in the I Want to Love Linux series, this time about Wayland #accessibility: fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-t… #a11 #linux #gnome
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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025
The Zen of Task Management with #Orgmode (in #Emacs) bzg.fr/en/the-zen-of-task-managemen…
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The Zen of Task Management with Org
I don't use Org Mode to be more productive, but to achieve a kind of "ataraxia" (i.e. a "lucid state of robust equanimity" according to Wikipedia) about the things I have to do: pay my bills on time and enjoy concentrating on my work. After more than 15 years of refining my Org configuration, I can't say it's perfect, but it's stable and comfortable enough that I think it might be useful to others.
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2025
You guys know Clarissa, right? That doorstop by Richardson? *crickets* OK let me start again. There's this really long book. Not much happens. It's the perfect read for 2025! And some folks from my alma mater are doing a reading group on Substack, reading the letters from the book on the dates […]
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2025
Candle auctions are still held today as a form of tradition. In Chedzoy ... , a plot of church land is sold by candle auction once every 21 years. In Tatworth, a 6-acre (24,000 m2) plot is auctioned by candle once per year. In Leigh, Dorset, two pieces of land, Alton Mead and Bere (or Beer) […]
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024
I love landing on one of those #apache or (less common but possible) #nginx pages that is a list of files and directories. Happens less often these days cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/v… #web #internet #old
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2024
This game is a weird historical curiosity. Interactive fiction game where a genie teaches you #lisp ifdb.org/viewgame?id=zj3ie12ewi1mrj… I think @zarfeblong coded a Lisp interpreter in z machine. for this. #functional #interactivefiction
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Lists and Lists
A tutorial in which a genie teaches you the basics of a simplified version of LISP. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2024
Gary Dahl came up with the idea in a bar while listening to his friends complain about their pets; this gave him the idea for the perfect "pet": a rock. [2] A rock would not need to be fed, walked, bathed, or groomed, and it would not die, become sick, or be disobedient. Dahl said that they […]
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2024
WTF #kubernetes in like 17k lines of bash #devops #weird github.com/simplenetes-io/simplenet…
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2024
Very amusing video. I fixed my lactose intolerence by eating all the lactose" www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90rEkbx95w
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I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging ALL the lactose
My newfound dark academia knowledge: chug lactose for 2 weeks while your body cries out begging to rend your soul asunder.Don't do it. Or do, I'm not your pa...
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2024
Just discovered the forgotten websites subreddit. Pretty entertaining www.reddit.com/r/forgottenwebsites This parody chemical company website is the kind of stuff you get. Pretty weird/droll www.alliedchemical.com #indieweb #webrings #old #internet #reddit
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2024
"Lowlander Great compositions produced with vivid tone colours and floating in a warm reverb... some of it reminiscent of a calming sanctuary hub in an otherwise dangerous computer game. Favorite track: Ritual of the Moon." […]
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2024
Let us assume ... that you just hate grass. You have a lawn, and you want to have a lawn't. Your disgust and loathing for the entire notion of lawns burns with the heat of a thousand suns, and you have found yourself in possession of a soulless plot of monoculture ornamental grass, in a […]
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2024
Kubernetes is hard sometimes. #k8s #devops
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2024
Just heard about a historical event called "Disco Demolition night" where they blew up a crate of disco records on an MLB field and folks started rioting O.o en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolit… #weird #music #disco #mlb
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2024
We've got a Learning Lab tomorrow on chainguard's #Python container image. Switching your #flask, #django, or #openai app over will drop you down to ~0 known vulnerabilities just by using a different base image. We'll go into depth on it tomorrow at 12 EST […]
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Patrick Smyth @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2024
Did a deep dive on where the Grype container scanner's data comes from. We also build Grype's DB with their open tooling dev.to/chainguard/deep-dive-where-d… #foss #security #cve #devops
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