Notices by Jesse Vincent (jesse@metasocial.com)

The next James Bond film better be a goddamned masterpiece.

Is there a JavaScript reverse engineering framework that fingerprints the ASTs of the functions of your obfuscated target code and matches it against a set of packages from npm to be able to replace obfuscated code with imports from clean npm modules?

I asked the Washington Post’s AI “If a news publication had the slogan “democracy dies in darkness” and changed that slogan when a new authoritarian administration came to power, what would that say about the publication?

The AI did not pull its punches.

Happy Birthday to everyone in infosec.

Apple Intelligence has some funny ideas about what my most important email is.

@zoomar Kiddo went as a rubber chicken for Halloween and really wanted to make sure someone at Archie McPhee heard about it. :)

@zoomar <3

I was out of town at the time, in YiWu, China. In the market complex, I walked past the showrooms of no fewer than a dozen rubber chicken factories. It was...quite a thing. Many of the factories were small enough that they split their shops with other factories. Like this one that shared their space with a company that makes...specialized dice and fuzzy handcuffs.

Upgraded to iOS 18 yesterday. Now I'm getting frequent audio dropouts. Like half a second of silence once or twice a minute. It doesn't matter whether the audio is local or streaming and is happening on both the speaker and AirPods. Anyone else seeing this?

@thomasfuchs The last thing I started knocking together was rails, after having *never* touched it. And I was generally pretty pleased. I definitely felt some pain not knowing the conventions, which made things feel like spooky action at a distance. But almost everything I wanted was baked in. The most surprising thing that time around was that there didn't seem to be a standard autocompleter input type.

I haven't built a new SaaS thing in a hot minute. What's your favorite full stack framework/scaffold/etc for building out a hosted webapp?

One more!

@evan Outside Austin.

More photos of totality

@evan I did! Embarrassingly, I hadn't realized that multiple-choice was an option for mastodon polls.

@evan "All/any of the above"

I straight up did not believe what scrolled across the screen on the train from China to HK. It's just too good.

I keep getting bitten by trying to paste HEIC images into websites on macOS.

I finally bit the bullet and made an automator action to let me copy a photo as a jpeg.

https://blog.fsck.com/2023/12/13/copy-as-jpeg/

This is criminal.

If we’re watching in Machete Order, when are we supposed to watch The Ewok Adventure?