Most people try to build one “perfect” project.

I’m doing 100, inspired by Visakan Veerasamy "do 100 things" (https://makingmeaning.in/article/do-100-things?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

This curl source code explorer is one rep—vibe coded, imperfect, but sharper than the last.

The goal isn’t the tool.
It’s pattern recognition.

Do the reps → stop optimizing outputs
and start understanding systems.

https://mrdee.in/writing/vibecoding-005-curl_source_code_explorer/

#curl #libcurl #DanielStenberg #OpenSource #VibeCoding #BuildInPublic #Do100Things

🌀 Distro-Hopping a Weekend Fun Activity

Much like Calvinball, distro hopping has no rules—just an increasing sense of chaos.

Calvinball is a game invented by Calvin and Hobbes. There is only one permanent rule in Calvinball: players cannot play it the same way twice.

https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/Calvinball

#distrohopping #weekendfun #xkcd #CalvinBall #Linux #TuxNut

📖 Dark Wire
What if the FBI ran a startup? They did. It was called Anom, a fake encrypted phone service used by criminals who were really just texting the Feds.

Joseph Cox turns this bonkers true story into a page-turner: cartels, code sprints, hot tubs, and 500+ arrests later. Reads like The Wire if it had an FBI product team.

💡 Funny, sharp, unsettling. A techno-thriller that actually happened.

Link to review: [Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever – CyberCanon] https://cybercanon.org/dark-wire-the-incredible-true-story-of-the-largest-sting-operation-ever/

#TrueCrime #CyberSecurity #BookReview

New read alert: *Bullshit Jobs: A Theory* by David Graeber 📘

Graeber argues powerfully that many modern jobs are utterly pointless—even the workers know it. He classifies them humorously but hauntingly as flunkies, goons, duct-tapers, box-tickers, and taskmasters. Beyond the taxonomy, it’s a sharp critique of work culture, its psychological toll, and the myths tying labor to self-worth.

If you’re disillusioned with hollow “busywork,” this book is a must. Thought-provoking, unsettling, and uncompromising.

#BullshitJobs #WorkCulture #MeaningfulWork #Anthropology #DavidGraeber”

🚨 Extremists don’t just scatter randomly online — they migrate strategically.

A new Lawfare review of Tamar Mitts’s book Safe Havens for Hate shows how extremist groups choose their “digital safe havens.”

🔑 Key Takeaways:

Regulation is uneven → extremists flock to less-policed platforms like Telegram.

Migration is strategic, not chaotic → balancing reach with risk of moderation.

Messaging is platform-tailored → coded hashtags on Twitter, explicit content elsewhere.

Converged moderation reduces reach → but extremists adapt via unofficial networks.

Data-driven insights → 114 organizations tracked across 67 platforms, beyond “whack-a-mole.”

📖 Read the full Lawfare review here:
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/whack-a-mole-no-more--how-extremists-choose-their-digital-safe-havens

#CyberSecurity
#DigitalGovernance
#Lawfare
#InformationSecurity
#bookreview

Book Note: How to Build a Car — Adrian Newey

Tired of “innovation theater”? This memoir-by-machines shows how elite performance is actually designed.

🧭 Story through cars: Each chapter is a case study in decisions under pressure—what to trade, what to protect.

📐 Trade-offs are the job: Aero vs. cooling, grip vs. drag, speed vs. reliability.

🧪 Evidence over ego: Sketch → test → measure → iterate. Numbers matter—but so does engineer’s feel.

🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 Teams win titles: Drivers, mechanics, and designers amplify (or blunt) good ideas.

🛡️ Responsibility & humility: Clear-eyed on failures and safety after Imola ’94.

Why read: It doubles as a leadership manual for anyone shipping complex systems—F1 or software.

Sources:

HarperCollins publisher page.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/how-to-build-a-car-the-autobiography-of-the-worlds-greatest-formula-1-designer-adrian-newey

Guardian Bookshop listing.
https://guardianbookshop.com/how-to-build-a-car-9780008196806/

Motor Sport Magazine review (Mark Hughes).
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/single-seaters/f1/review-how-build-car/

Amazon listing.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Car-Autobiography-Greatest/dp/000819680X

Barnes & Noble listing.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-build-a-car-adrian-newey/1127091217

Bookshop.org page.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-build-a-car-the-autobiography-of-the-world-s-greatest-formula-1-designer-adrian-newey/20893120

#F1 #Engineering #Leadership #Books #DesignThinking