Learning fragments of Korean bit by bit as my kids force me to listen to the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack on repeat.

“I got my brown belt in BJJ!” he screamed into the empty federated void.

I hope all 5 of my followers are excited at this news.

I wonder if the last season of Stranger Things will lead to a resurgence in interest in A Wrinkle in Time.

I sure hope so. More people need to hear that learning and compassion can push back the darkness.

Sending love to my inner child, specifically the one from before I heard The Cramps.

If you’re about to interview for an #infosec position, be sure to brush up on how the TLS handshake works!

I have never, in ~15 years of academic or professional work in security, needed to know what a pre-master secret was for, but BY GOD do interviewers love to ask about it.

Have any other lavabit users lost access to email? SMTP and IMAP are both borked and their website is down. It’s been since last Wednesday.

“When am I ever going to have to use fractions in real life?”

*dumps your SAE hex bits on the ground* “Now, motherfucker.”

Do all nerds develop an interest in HAM radio as they approach middle age?

One day I got the sudden urge to buy a couple Baofengs and study for my Tech license. Came out of nowhere.

YES

YOU ARE A BLACK BELT YOU KNOW THIS BY NOW

Currently resisting the urge to refer to myself as “your friend and humble narrator” in technical documentation.

My younger child has learned to point at my plate and say, “a bite!” It’s all downhill from here, folks.

If we were to start a church of Dale Earnhardt, what would the equivalent of the cross be?

A wall?

I would like to thank the movie Clerks for teaching me that you can mix and match to get a full dozen unbroken eggs at the store.

Have you ever opened a help ticket?

And then gathered extensive logs to add to your help ticket, because you want to be a good customer?

And in the process of gathering the logs, you debugged your own issue and closed the help ticket?

I just did that (SPOILER ALERT it was DNS)

fuckin shit I have to rebuild my whole following list from birdsite huh

I've read a bunch of protocol specifications and I thought I was good at parsing them.

Then I saw AUTOSAR docs.

I yearn for the days when I didn't know what SOME/IP was.