Complete Web Vulnerability Prevention Hub Every web vulnerability guide on the site, grouped by class, with the attacks and the defenses side by side. 🔥 Most-read web security guides SSRF Prevention — cloud metadata, filter bypasses, webhook callbacks XSS Prevention — context-aware payloads, CSP/WAF bypasses IDOR & Broken Object Access — enumeration, bypasses, and a testing checklist Bug Bounty Methodology — where these bugs turn into paid findings OSINT — the recon that feeds every web…

Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]

The new US$299 Apple TV. It's expensive. It offers no substantial new features beyond Siri AI. There are a lot of bells and whistles that many customers do not need. Are we looking at Apple's last hurrah before getting out of the TV set-top business? Is this just like that Apple Silicon Mac Pro? Yes, we know why it is expensive. (AI.) But why isn't there a cheaper version? Jason Snell of Six Colors offers some possibilities. But then, we have also heard rumors that Apple is re-evaluating its…

A few days ago, Allison Sheridan wrote a very persuasive article about using TextEdit, the “unsung hero of macOS,” as a simple word processor. I’ve been trying it out and… I’m going to stick with Pages. Let me explain why. First, you should know that I almost never use a word processor. The overwhelming majority of my writing over the past 30 years has been done in a text editor, and its plain text is then fed to some sort of formatting software—Markdown or LaTeX, typically—to set the styles…

I got this crinoline out to drop off at the costume swap but Mina was so excited to have it back that I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it — it’s extremely cute playing with the dancer toy in it because she uses the folds as cover 😸 Win of the week: got my flu and COVID shots — went for both in the same arm — very little soreness and no other symptoms 💪 The pharmacist told me about racing his corgi! Looking forward to: been researching stuff to do with the fam in SF! Stuff I did: 14 hours…

watching my way through all the Laika films, starting with Missing Link.

Scarlet Crunch, large and conical, wears a streaky warm red blush over green-tinted yellow. ¶ They are only slightly ribbed (you have to hunt for that) and are decorated with nearly invisible lenticel dots.

For most of us, we think of recordable DVDs as an early-2000s thing – inexpensive, multi-speed (4x or above) and a familiar 4.7GB capacity. For those in the professional space, they may have been working with DVD-R for Authoring, an older recordable format using a slightly different laser wavelength that recorded at just 1x, but still had the familiar 4.7GB capacity. But all of these are technically DVD-R Version 2.0 or later media. While touring in Singapore, I was browsing one of my local…

I built KillSwitch, an esoteric language designed to confound LLMs and coding agents, and benchmarked the major models against it.

tl;dr: a rules-light game of playing creatures of Slavic myth, an interesting lens, something different to the usual adventurers. Potvory is a tabletop adventure role-playing game which offers "a new look at traditional Slavic mythology through a queer lens" as per the cover. I backed it during the Kickstarter originally as it came from a local team and I do like interesting zines. I had the great good fortune of getting to play it at a recent con that was being run by the authors. The game was…

On October 7, 2026, I covered a Halloween decoration making light of the long-delayed reopening of the Carroll Gardens branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, which I had first written about all the way back in 2023 (see Halloween and the Closed Carroll Gardens Library). This Halloween decoration is a skeleton, emerging from the ground, holding a white board which reads “R.I.P. THE CARROL GARDENS LIBRARY OPENING IN 2026.” In light of the fact that I had noted in prior articles that the Library,…

Jordan Wolfson, 8(L), 2026, Hand polished aluminum, aluminum spikes, digital UV substrate print on aluminum of an altered photograph of Felix Gonzalez-Torres by David Seidner with automotive clearcoat, 56 x 88 x 11 1/16 (lol) in., ed. 1+1AP, $275,000 at Gagosian “An altered photograph of Felix Gonzalez-Torres?” What did he do? The 1994 David Seidner portrait was published in an obituary/remembrance of Félix González Torres by curator Gerardo Mosquera, published in the May 1996 issue of…

It was a short visit and I didn’t get much time to go shooting. We managed to win a pub quiz despite our non-NZ knowledge handicap. It’s a nice place. I’d like to see more of it. 🔗 ∙ Tagged in My Photos, Travel.

by Cláudio Alves When one’s engagement with cinema happens mostly through mainstream productions, it’s easy to fall into the false belief that narrative and documentary film are two strictly separated categories. However, almost since the medium's birth, the line between the two has been blurred, the barrier porous and permeable. One might go as far back as the Lumières’ artificial staging for their shorts, or perhaps relitigate the authenticity of Flaherty’s Nanook of the North for the…

In no specific order: Removed the search box, because it wasn’t working. Not sure what I’ll replace this with yet. I’ll hopefully be able to leverage whatever CMS’s internal search tool is available when I move back off static-site generation. Fixed the More Buttons sidebar link. Updated the Slash Pages menu link to say /Pages. I like the concept of slash pages, but I despise the name. Sounds violent. Made the header a bit narrower, to take up less space. Implemented nicer CSS underlines, as I…

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-17.

Katie Zacharia, or whatever her name is, is out as press secretary in less than five days. It turns out she had no idea what she was doing. Apparently she didn’t know public speaking was a requirement for the Press Secretary. She’s also claims to be a lawyer and attorney though she’s never passed the bar. One Zacharia equals one Millimucci, which is 4/10th of a Scaramucci. It’s the new math; no kid is left behind unless it was born of this sanctimonious witch. A diehard conservative, this piece…

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not exactly realistic. We have billionaires in our reality, but instead of flying around in high-tech armor saving the day, they usually just tweet ignorant tripe or share their weird opinions on podcasts. We don't have any ancient Gods hanging around (besides claims of such from grifters and/or people suffering from mental illness) with cool superpowers. We haven't been invaded by aliens (as far as we know), and I’d bet anyone who has been exposed to extreme…

THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Latchmere Stream Kingston → Ham (1¼ miles) [Latchmere Stream → Sudbrook → Thames] This barely counts as an unlost river, given all but 50m has been buried, but let's attempt to follow it all the same. Its source was close to Kingston station, not by the shops but across Richmond Road a short distance up Canbury Park Road, initially more a set of drainage ditches than a proper spring. You can't see anything rivery hereabouts, not even any telltale contours, but the…

...in the Western Addition neighborhood of the city.

Tense, funny, insightful, and terrifically entertaining, The Shark is Broken takes the audience behind the scenes on the fraught filming of cinema’s original US summer blockbuster, Jaws. First seen in the UK in 2019, the West End run of The Shark is Broken was delayed until late 2021, with a Broadway season following in 2023. Timing for this Australian premiere tour benefits from interest sparked by the fascinating 2025 documentary Jaws @ 50 The Definitive Inside Story (Disney+). The Shark is…

Well, it’s done! Also, I will be kept overnight, though I still get nurses asking if I’m ready to go home. Only one bothered to ask if I lived in the city. I did get to finally eat, though! It was actually pretty good. Chicken Alfredo fusili with cubed squash. Cappuccino cake. Tea, and milk. … Continue reading Overnight

I’m bartending tonight.

Once again waiting to pick up a kid from swim practice. Selfie a day for a year, day 49: Oct 16, 2026 edition.

The first recording today starts with the end of The League of Super Evil. There’s an episode of Newsround. There’s a trail for Live ‘n’ Deadly. Then it’s Barney’s Barrier Reef – I See You Baby. Barney and Gemma are looking at vision in sea creatures. They look at Damselfish. They explain the origin of the term Crocodile Tears. A Turtle. Next it’s a mudskipper. There’s a Mantis Shrimp. A Pistol Shrimp, and a Gobi. A Box Jellyfish has lots of eyes but no brain. The Octopus does a lot of colour…

I set my terminal’s font to Iosevka this morning after skimming this thread on HN. My old terminal font — JetBrains Mono, Ghostty’s default — was good. Now it’s Iosevka. I tried Iosevka before but didn’t bond with it, and now I’m trying it again. I tried some new color schemes recently. Everforest, Catppuccin. My standard scheme, Gruvbox, is great. Why bother changing things that work? Baty’s recent words stuck with me: I simply grow tired of staring at the same thing every day. Word. I did…

This week, I’ve been editing the final books of Chapter By Chapter, my guide to all 1,189 chapters of the Bible, and a question occurred to me: Why is Daniel a Major Prophet when it has only twelve chapters, but Hosea is a Minor Prophet with fourteen? It turns out the answer is really simple, but the reason the question arose reminded me of something interesting about how we read the Bible. How Long is Daniel? It turns out the distinction between Major and Minor Prophets comes from the lengths…

First outing with the new (old) camera. East End Park; a walk through the woods. First cool front of the season made it enjoyable, rather than merely tolerable. It’s funny how simply carrying a camera changes your perspective. I’m looking at light and potential compositions. Eyes drawn to the little pops of color amidst the weathered trees. Laughter in dappled sunlight, captured on 35mm. I’m still learning, so I left it in shutter-priority. The light meter is roughly fifty years old and…