Senior BizOps at Artie (San Francisco)
About Artie Artie is a fully-managed CDC streaming platform – we replicate production databases into warehouses in real time with zero maintenance. Teams use us for fraud/risk monitoring, live inventory, customer-facing analytics, and ML pipelines. We’re trusted by 30+ customers including Substack, Alloy, and Wasserman – and just raised our Series A led by Standard […]
ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
Het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag – Shutterstock Het Internationaal Strafhof (International Criminal Court, ICC) ruilt Microsoft 365 in voor Open Desk, een Europees open source alternatief. Dat schrijft de Duitse krant Handelsblatt. De krant verwacht dat het ICC met de overstap mogelijk een trend start binnen de Europese publieke sector. Microsoft bevestigt de breuk […]
A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years
Splinter Cell (2002) was one of the first games I had on the original Xbox and still remains one of my favorite games of all time. The game was developed by Ubisoft using Unreal Engine 2 — licensed from a small indie dev called Epic Games who continues to use and license its game engine […]
Benzene at 200
The Birth of Benzene (Sort of) If you look carefully at the vial, you can see that Faraday etched the name of this substance on the glass: ”bicarburet of hydrogen,” not benzene. You can see this name in the margins of Faraday’s diary too. Faraday’s understanding of chemical formulae was different to those we use […]
FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
Archive.today is apparently in the crosshairs of investigations by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). (Bild: heise medien) The mysterious website Archive.today is coming under the FBI’s crosshairs. A court order is forcing the provider Tucows to hand over user data. It is one of the most mysterious and, at the same time, best-known websites […]
Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity
Wemen Solar Farm, Victoria, Australia. Photo: Mark Stebnicki on Pexels The Australian government is floating a scheme that would share the benefits of solar power with everyone on the grid, offering totally free electricity to ratepayers in the middle of the day, when the sun is shining the strongest. Australia is a sunny place. It’s […]
Why I’m Learning Sumerian
It’s 5:43 a.m. The desk lamp hums softly. The house is still. The old wooden floor creaks beneath me as I shift in my chair. The air is cold against my feet. I stare at the page in my notebook, at the mystifying symbols I’ve been trying to memorize. Sumerian, written in cuneiform, was humanity’s […]
Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Trade Barriers
Every year, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) publishes the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers. The report is compiled based on input from key industry players. This includes submissions from copyright industry groups that frequently highlight piracy challenges that in their view act as barriers to trade. In previous […]
I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs
A few years back I did a bit of dance music related data visualization over at Lazily Evaluated. My favourite was an analysis of clubs and their lineups using Resident Advisor / RA data, I called it Clubster Analysis. I always wanted to dig into the technical aspects of gathering the data, analyzing it and […]
AI Slop vs. OSS Security
03 Nov, 2025 Author’s Note I have spent the better part of a decade in the bug bounty industry, and my perspective on this industry is shaped by this experience. The first five years were spent as a bug hunter and vulnerability researcher, where I developed an intimate understanding of what it takes to find, […]