Hey you! Yeah you 🫵! Thanks for takin’ some time to check out my site. If you’re new around here, I suggest going back to the home page and perusing what I’ve got front-and-center. Or, maybe scrollin’ through what I’ve made available in the hamburger menu. But, if you’re more of a regular ‘round these parts, you might be interested in a few of these things you might not know about shellsharks.com! There is a theme toggle in my site’s hamburger menu that allows you to cycle through 3 distinct…

Okie-Dokie artichokey, let me share what’s goin’ on garden-wise the past few weeks… I have a lot more plants this year to feed, and from my research, watering with rainwater is preferrable thanks to its natural acidity and chemical-free nature. So I picked up a second rain barrel similar to the one I already had. To get it set up, I had to make a few adjustments to two of the downspouts on the side of the house (connecting them and routing into the barrel) but I have it mostly working now. I…

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Three months ago I shared my gardening plan for this year, and I’m here now to give updates on how it’s all been shaking out. Things got… a bit out of hand… But at least I’m finally getting my hands dirty! 🍓 🪱 🌱 🌼 🫛 🐜 🌷 ☘️ 🌱 🫐 💚 🐢 🌸 🐝 Planting Sites There’s a few distinct zones where I have been planting things. Let me talk about each individually… The main “Garden” 🌼 🍓 🍅 The “Blueberry Patch” 🫐 🌿 🫐 The “Orchard” 🍐 🌳 🍑 The “Herb Garden 🪴 The “Garden” Let’s start with the main planting site /…

This month’s IndieWeb Carnival is hosted by Juha-Matti Santala—the theme is love letter. I’m going to write about the one and only, “Outside”. “Outside what?” You may think. Well really anywhere outside, anywhere but in(side). It’s warming up here in the ol’ northern hemisphere where I live and I like to spend as much of it as I can not indoors. You see professionally I poke at computers, which means I sit quite a bit, and a lot of that sitting tends to be inside (especially in colder months).…

Farewell “Designer Vulnerabilities”, and hello Vulnerability Garden 🪴 — the new (and improved) space for cataloguing all named vulnerabilities, attack techniques and exploits. When I first started the blog I had but two ideas for things to write about. One of those things was the list of “named” vulnerabilities. At the time, I had been working in vulnerability management and as such had dealt with a lot of these pesky bugs (e.g. POODLE, EternalBlue, VENOM, SuperFish, Shellshock, Heartbleed, and…

In the aftermath of the Copy Fail bug being (very unceremoniously) disclosed, the security news organization Decipher published a (maybe not serious?) “Mt. Rushmore of branded bugs”. The list is as follows… BEAST Heartbleed Rowhammer Meltdown And then for fun they mention Stuxnet (which is more of a worm than it is a vuln/exploit). My Mt. Rushmore of Branded Bugs I consider myself a bit of a purveyor of branded bugs, and have worked for years (since 2012) in the world of Vulnerability…

“AI” is making me, and a lot of other people sad. This collection of links will give you an idea why… ⚠️ WARNING!: Click on these links at your own peril. They’re likely to make you even more sad. AI-Linked Job Losses: Newly reported layoffs where AI is either explicitly cited or credibly blamed as a material factor. Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He’s Just the Man to Collect the Bills: Altman said, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity...