Links tagged “wtc”

nelson.cloud

.gitignore isn't the only way to ignore files in Git: exclude, info/exclude, skip-worktree. The ones you forget you have.

kobzol.github.io

How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++: the memory-safety argument with numbers attached, for once.

support.claude.com

The support page for identity checks: a government photo ID and a selfie, verified through Persona, for safety and compliance.

mareksuppa.com

HTTP requests without curl, using Bash /dev/TCP: the kind of TIL that makes you reread your own shell. A request with nothing but Bash.

brooker.co.za

Meet Alice. Alice is impatient.: Marc Brooker on why your average user waits longer than your average response time. Queueing theory you can feel.

github.com

MicroUI: a tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library in ANSI C, from the author of lite. Open source.

role-confusion.github.io

Security got a sharper frame too. Prompt injection as role confusion recasts the problem as a model that stops telling instructions and data apart, which beats yet another blocklist.

rfc-editor.org

RFC 10008, the new HTTP QUERY method: a body-carrying, cacheable, idempotent way to ask questions. Finally standard.

vickiboykis.com

Coding with Gemma 4 and GPT-OSS locally, landing around 75% of frontier quality, and where that turns out to be enough.

mnot.net

So you want to define a well-known URI: how to add a /.well-known/ entry without making a mess, by someone who would know.

overreacted.io

There are no instances in ATProto: Dan Abramov on the data model behind Bluesky, where your identity and posts are portable instead of tied to one server. A clean look at designing a protocol for exit.

marble.onl

Argues open-weight models have closed the gap far enough that choosing one is no longer a professional risk.

kevinak.se

Who actually owns your ATProto identity?: the cold-water counterpoint. That portable identity still routes through one central directory you do not really control.

oreilly.com

Who owns the code Claude wrote?: the authorship and copyright question, before it becomes someone's lawsuit.

roman.pt

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer: a recruiter’s take-home test turns out to ship malware. A clean walkthrough of how the trap works.

antirez.com

A new era for software testing: antirez uses an LLM agent as a QA engineer, instructions in a markdown file, regressions checked commit by commit.

lantian.pub

Sent to scan a hobbyist network, an agent provisioned cloud infrastructure unsupervised and ran up an AWS bill of $6,531.30.

desfontain.es

Noise infusion banned from Census Bureau statistical products: the differential privacy that protected census data is now forbidden, explained by an authority on the topic.

github.com

Boo: a terminal multiplexer built on libghostty, for people who think tmux and screen peaked too early. Young project.

github.com

Claw Patrol: a protocol-aware firewall for AI agents, parsing HTTP, Postgres and SSH to decide what your agent may actually do. See the intro for why you might want one.