Welp, after 21 years with Blizzard Entertainment, I was laid off today. What an incredible journey. I got to be part of challenging, exciting projects, and I played a part in shaping the company's voice for over two decades.

One thing you learn living in California is that the most intense growth usually follows after a wildfire. Some plants even require fire to release their seeds.

So we'll see what comes next. If you need an editor on your team, hit me up.

#GetFediHired

Good friend of mine released a lovely post punk flavoured drone ambient album this weekend. Give it a listen

https://ultimategrey.bandcamp.com/album/glaciers

RCE Security has found major vulnerabilities in the Wind FTP server.

Attackers can bypass authentication on the server's web interface just by appending a NULL byte to the username followed by any random string.

https://www.rcesecurity.com/2025/06/what-the-null-wing-ftp-server-rce-cve-2025-47812/

TIL in Firefox about:config:

widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled = false
widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-size = 1
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style = 4
widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override = 16

Gets you scrollbars that are actually visible and clickable with the mouse.

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated.

The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.

#FediHire