This might be required posting when visiting the Royal Ontario Museum.
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Nicholas Bering
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Software Engineer. Security enthusiast. Happens to have a lot of robotics projects on the go.
I got this far in my life understanding just enough around the fringes of Calculus without actually understanding how to DO Calculus.
I’ve made casual attempts to learn it over the years, but it never really clicked.
Last night, I finally understood what the big deal was about applying limits through derivatives and it was like… 🤯
When solving analytically, the limit cancels out with a divide-by-zero. This is like imaginary numbers territory.
Got genuinely drenched on a nice walk in the rain. The sound was soothing… shame about the getting wet part. 4/5, would still do again,
Secret management for local development environments remains a painful thorn in my side.
There's some promising solutions on the market... I really like 1Password's CLI, for example. It has this great little template engine that let's you bulk-replace values in config files from your personal or shared vaults.
But there's always some tool or another that forces you to break from your nice solutions. A private key on disk with no password here, and a DB password in a command-line argument there.
I poke around every now-and-then to see what the latest "best practice" is. The best-in-class tools get better, but the fringes remain problematic.
Anyone used something they really liked lately, for local secrets management?
Finally had a chance to talk to someone about the fence they put up at a nearby development project.
Construction won’t be starting for years, and they put this plywood wall right up to the sidewalk. It’s just a flat wall, no corner, on a high traffic route for the neighborhood.
It made a very blind corner, so I pointed out that for anyone worried about getting ambushed, it’s a bit of a concern. If they’d made it just a few feet away from the sidewalk, you’d be able to keep out of reach from a potential attacker.
I doubt they’ll act on my feedback, but they seemed receptive to my concern. That’s all I can really ask.
I did some soldering on perf board today.
Everything is connected that should be, and nothing is connected that shouldn’t be! 🙌
It’s not as pretty as I imagined… but prototypes never seem to be. 😅
jodsI know that at least a handful of people follow me for this stuff, but I wrote a paper on #HIPAA #security #compliance and the tech solutions my work has to support it.
I was paid to write the paper (though my own idea to do it), but not to make this post. If you want to check it out: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jodiestruthers_hipaa-healthcaresecurity-compliance-activity-7166509925748097024-1KRR
Lesley Carhart 
Hi, it is me your harried incident responder pal, reminding you that unless you have fully fledged internal IR capacity at your organization, you need a retainer for your enterprise (and OT if applicable), and you need to actually fully onboard that retainer, please do not wait for Ransomware Friends to do it for you.
I promise it can happen to you. I promise it will cost a LOT more if you don't prepare.
People who programmed in the 1960s and 70s in languages like Cobol, Fortran, and PL/I, and weren’t satisfied to write spaghetti code…
I’m impressed, and deeply appreciate where you drove our industry.
So far this year, I’ve repeatedly had many of my core assumptions challenged… and also some long-standing beliefs validated.
Both of these things have been simultaneously glorious and terrifying.