Google and others contribute TLS certificates to Certificate Transparency logs as they crawl the web, but there is less systematic effort devoted to discovering certificates from secure, non-HTTPS protocols. I searched the Rapid7 “More SSL” scan log for novel certificates and contributed them to CT logs.

I participate in a vegan cook-off with some friends once a month and I was happy with how my recipe came together for this month’s Pie-Off, so I thought I’d share!

Yesterday was Open Data BC’s Open Data Day Hackathon, which was a great chance to learn about civic data sets and spend some hacking on them with data nerds and subject matter experts from the city and province.

Inspired by Alex Gaynor’s “So You Want To Write An Interpreter?” PyCon talk, I decided I wanted to try to write an interpreter! In this post I’ll talk about writing Baby’s First Interpreter, porting my interpreter to RPython, and performing the translation.

As usual, some attempt to share my efforts making an even slightly informed decision about voting. More blather about propositions later.

Getting submissions to a Google Form to appear in a Slack chat is straightforward. You can use services like Zapier to do this, but it turns out to be easy to use Google’s scripting interface to get instant message-pushing without a third-party tool.

BotBot.me is a logging IRC bot. Scaleway provides bare-metal ARM servers for €3/mo. Can we combine them? We can!