https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/products/uacc-sfp-wizard

I have to re-code SFPs and QSFPs to different switch manufacturers often and this little gadget is never out of my rucksack. It’s cheap enough that I’ve started buying them for customer’s engineers just to limit the number of times I have to waste half a day just to go back.

Android now supports #IPv6 DHCPv6 PD! This means you can assign an IPv6 block to an Android device and it will use as many addresses from there as it needs to. This includes support for reporting on address usage. This creates a path for Enterprise IPv6 deployment of Android, giving them control over which devices are using which addresses, without limiting devices to only a single address as DHCPv6 IA_NA does. Exciting and great to see.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/simplifying-advanced-networking-with.html?m=1

The Register wrote a story about a single maintainer open source project, I think it's shameful and upsetting. So I wrote a blog post about it

An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Mildly cursed factoid about UNC paths:

- UNC Paths can contain IP addresses such as \\192.168.1.1\share
- IPv6 addresses are supported as well
- IPv6 addresses contain colons
- can't have colons in Windows paths since colons are reserved for drive letters

So Microsoft came up with the the ipv6-literal.net domain that's special-cased by Windows so you can to write IPv6 addresses in UNC paths as 2a0e-3c0--21.ipv6-literal.net without it hitting any resolvers.

Unexpectedly, the CSSWG have accepted our proposal for a new <meta name=text-scale> tag!! This will change the initial font size based on the user's text size setting.

Unfortunately it's going to become part of the boilerplate for every website you make! But will really improve a11y, I hope!

I was on a panel today at the FITC conference and I kind of just blurted out:

"Low fidelity prototypes are built with arrows while high Fidelity prototypes are built with pixels"

The point being that low Fidelity prototypes are about the movement between within a product where high Fidelity prototypes focus on one screen at a time.

It's overly simplistic to be sure but it gets to the core superpower of low fi work: it focuses on higher level questions that no vibe coding will ever get you.