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And just like that #F1 is back. That seemed like a short break. Excited for the new season with new regs and teams. #formula1

Matthew Saunders Brown Mar 5

Neil Brown Feb 28

My washing machine doesn’t need Wi-Fi.
It's a feature that I would regret.
I just need a way to wash my pants.
Not show them to the Internet.

My oven doesn't need Wi-Fi.
I'd value that least of all.
It's already shielded from getting too hot.
It doesn't need another firewall.

My fridge does not need Wi-Fi.
That is just not useful for me.
I want a place to chill my food.
Not chat via TCP/IP.

Matthew Saunders Brown Feb 28

Nicol Wistreich Feb 20

Mike Little: the British co-founder of WordPress you’ve probably never heard of (but should)…

In the story of WordPress –the tool that powers 45% of the web, including 10s of 1000s of film sites– Mike Little is Steve Wozniak to Matt Mullenweg's Steve Jobs. Matt polished the interface, the marketing and curly quotes – while Mike added the blogroll, rebuilt the code, and added the one-click easy-upgrade that's been central to its success. But unlike Woz, Mike never had shares in Matt's $7bn business – or even a job there. He didn't know you could make a living from WordPress until he turned up at the first UK WordCamp. He hasn’t been knighted or hall-of-famed, and isn’t known outside of old WordPress developer circles. Is this because he’s a cheerful and easy-going northerner from Stockport? Because he didn’t have a degree? Because he’s black? I don’t know. All I know for sure, is this is someone who anyone in tech, or who uses WordPress, should know about.

https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

Matthew Saunders Brown Feb 20

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Feb 19

Oh this is wonderful news:

DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html

> Instead of publishing a new challenge record for each issuance, you publish a standing authorization in the form of a TXT record that identifies both the CA and the specific ACME account you authorize to issue for this domain.

#DevOps #SysAdmin #InfoSec

DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation

When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice. DNS-01 works well. It is widely supported and battle-tested, but it comes with operational costs: DNS propagation delays, recurring DNS updates at renewal time, and automation that often requires distributing DNS credentials throughout your infrastructure.

Matthew Saunders Brown Feb 14

Juan Carlos Muñoz Feb 13

Happy Friday.

Matthew Saunders Brown Feb 8

Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦Feb 8

Writing used to be proof-of-thought...

This how I feel about genAI: it's informational poison. If you read or look at it without knowing it is AI, you have already lost.

The solution they proposed is exactly the one I adopted while working on the CRA standards: if you send me AI output, tell me it is AI output and any due diligence you did on it. Then I can make a decision about whether to engage.

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Feeding slop is an act of war

Matthew Saunders Brown Feb 5

Kegged a batch of Sequoia IPA today. Boy is that beer delicious. This is a repeat of the recipe that won the Mendocino Homebrew Festival back in November. And I get to brew a batch of it on the pilot system at Anderson Valley Brewing soon!

#beer #homebrew #ipa

Matthew Saunders Brown Feb 5

Prof. Sam Lawler Feb 5

Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

Comments due March 6.

I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

Matthew Saunders Brown Jan 31

Grow Your Own Services 🌱Jan 31

Mastodon server admins, important news!

The Mastodon developers are going to stop suggesting mastodon.social as a "default server".

Instead, the "default" server suggestions are going to be ones for a user's language and/or geographical location.

If your server matches these:

- General public server
- Running vanilla Mastodon
- Mastodon Covenant compliant
- Have existed for 1+ year
- Have shut-down & disaster plans

...then see this post for details: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989802617165343

#MastoAdmin

Matthew Saunders Brown Jan 30

PorchFest Sebastopol Jan 28

Sebastopol PorchFest, Saturday, September 12, 2026. Free local music on multiple stages. Join us to celebrate community. Latest news at sebastopolporchfest.org/blog/

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