Larry Underhill

Everything is so amazing and so awful simultaneously, I have no idea how any of you are dealing with this.

I am here for the comments in the program alone. "Let there be..." random.seed(42) # Let there be order among chaos On line 12 sets the tone.

I am delighted when worlds collide. Odd Lots and Ezra Klein talking about how bewildering it is to make sense of the 2025 economy: nytimes.com/2025/12/23/opi…

As a southern man, I appreciate watching these young British lads trying biscuits and gravy. So wholesome. reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/…

This is delightful with a high reward/effort ratio: ironicsans.substack.com/p/i-get-no-mai…

I setup @erik@nygren.org as an alias that points to my Mastodon account here on Hachyderm, allowing for more stable identity forwarding and searching. Here's a blog post that I wrote up on how to setup this sort of forwarding using Apache2 rewrite rules: erik.nygren.org/mastodon-alias…

Combining CDN and Cloud to improve performance - Deploy replicas of my application+data to Linode - Modify Geo loadbalancing at the Akamai Edge Impact: Improved TTFB #webperf

Looks like Britain's embracing a Zero Truss architecture

@mikejulian has a very cogent take here. duckbillgroup.com/blog/why-cloud… (ah, uh, aligns with my experience so you know, confirmation bias for the win...)

@csoandy Pre-ordered on Amazon, big guy. I'm committing to reading at least one percent of it...

Pre-orders are apparently now possible! hachettego.com/titles/andy-el… (And yes, the Amazon page has the wrong author, working on it!)

My love language is painstakingly removing the tracking cruft attached to URLs before passing them on

I think it was inspired casting to get Neal Stephenson to play Jarl Kåre in that Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla show...

[unfolding a sheet of paper and looking into your eyes] In these wedding vows, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

I think @dangoodin001 has a sharp and cogent write-up of the this tcp middlebox reflection attack: arstechnica.com/information-te… And of course, many kudos to Kevin Bock et al. for the original research, and @_larry0 + crew in our Akamai SIRT.

Dentist: "So, do you floss daily?" Me: "Do you have strong, unique passwords for all your critical applications and accounts?"

me: did i cause an outage with my bad broken code? or did i merely cause shadows to shift on the walls of a cave, such that we all *perceived* an outage? everyone else at the post mortem: the first one

Russians, these are not sanctions, this is a special financial operation. All the world is trying to save you.

1/n Thread: Been reversing this malware that's been going around Ukraine. It appears to be a wiper that's dropping a driver to do low-level partition manipulation. That driver appears to be a legitimate EaseUS Partition Master driver

Verifying myself: I am lgewe on Keybase.io. fBhm815jUPVVw65vP1LdSq1btI1PN2AR1Ryk / keybase.io/lgewe/sigs/fBh…