Tag: satire
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Das Platoon
Kevin war kein Nazi an sich. Gut, in seiner Jugend hatte er zu viel Spaß beim „Gruftieklatschen“ gehabt und auch zwei Mal kurz im Knast gesessen, aber im Grunde stand er damals nur auf kurze Haare, Bomberjacken, Männerfreundschaften und natürlich Saufen. So hatte es jedenfalls sein Sozialarbeiter ausgedrückt. Seiner Karriere war das natürlich nicht gerade...
Outjerked by the Trickster
I've been satirized by circlejerk.blog, and I reflect on the history of online circlejerking, Indigenous trickster traditions like Coyote and Chi-Jean, and the concept of survivance. A call for more humour and satire in online spaces, and how trickster storytelling can build empathy through shared laughter.
In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future, There Are Only Memes
How Warhammer 40k's satire of fascism got adopted by the people it was mocking — and why it doesn't matter
How This Blog Is Built
A full walkthrough of the custom static site generator, content pipeline, and edge deployment behind nesbitt.io.
Supplier Security Questionnaire
Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes.
The AI Phrasebook
We have autonomous agents at home.
Interview with a Maintainer
Episode 214 of Green Squares.
Satire: Denkt denn niemand an das Kind? Es hat jetzt Jens Spahn zum Vater!
Berlin diskutiert über Doppelmoral. Das ist ausgesprochen höflich. Doppelmoral setzt schließlich voraus, dass irgendwo zwei Moralen vorhanden sind. Im Fall Jens Spahn gestaltet sich bereits die Suche nach der ersten traditionell schwierig. Was hier sichtbar wird, ist weniger Doppelmoral als ein politischer Einwegmaßstab: einmal auf dem Parteitag feierlich hochhalten, danach am Flughafen entsorgen. Doch während...
Package Management as Org Chart
Conway's Law applied to dependency management designs.
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
A series of unfortunate agents.
Joint Guidance on Vulnerability Naming and Disclosure
Every named CVE now ships with a single-page site at .vuln.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don‘t Die
Tja, wow! Wer schon immer wissen wollte, wie sich die Welt wirklich weiterentwickeln wird, wenn wir den Weg, den wir eingeschlagen haben, weitergehen, der ist in der Science-Fiction-Action-Komödie „Good Luck, Have Fun, Don‘t Die“ bestens aufgehoben. Regisseur Gore Verbinski hat ein über zweistündiges „Look Up“ zum Thema Künstliche Intelligenz geschaffen und ich habe das von...
The Infosec Phrasebook
a/s/l/threat model?
RFC: Artificial Contributors to Open Source
Intended status: Best Current Practice.
Madame Semver Will See You Now
The cards do not lie.
Announcing the 2026 Open Source Fantasy Draft
Twelve teams, snake draft, standard scoring, no salary cap
The Apartment Complex: Agent Governance for Tenants and Landlords
Every agent governance proposal is a theory about who owns the building.
The Fool's Autopsy
A review of the prank I pulled yesterday, in addition to serious discourse about being silly, including thoughts on the role and importance of satire and literacy. I also share a detailed technical breakdown of the scripts that I added to the prank as well.
The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source
I'm not connecting these dots. I'm just pointing out that the dots are there.
How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project
A practical guide to getting the engagement your project deserves.
Guided Meditation for Developers
A practice for finding peace in your dependency tree.
Announcing New Working Groups
The Open Source Foundations Consortium announces seven new working groups.
npm Data Subject Access Request
A response to a GDPR data subject access request.
ActivityPub
The federated protocol for announcing pub activities, first standardised in 1714 and still in use across 46,000 active instances.
CHANGELOG.md
All notable changes to the math module will be documented in this file.
Sandwich Bill of Materials
SBOM 1.0: A specification for sandwich supply chain transparency.
Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
A series of unfortunate events.
Introducing Package Chaos Monkey
Resilience engineering for your software supply chain.
The Lesser Evil of Compliance: Enterprise SBOM Strategy for CRA Readiness
You are not paid to find good options. You are paid to choose.
My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.
16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise
A practical guide to ignoring security updates responsibly
The Nine Levels of JavaScript Dependency Hell
Come, I will show you what I have seen.
PromptVer
A semver-compatible versioning scheme for the age of LLMs.
A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff
Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the numbers better is to stop feeding and sheltering people and their families. Nothing personal.