11 May 2022

52 links · Wednesday

How to Twitter: The Martin Way

I finally got Twitter after years of not getting it. Here's what I know.

Stealing checks worth millions & pwning a bank

Another long (hacker) story of mine! Once upon a time contracted to do a penetration test on a bank… I spent the better part of a week assessing every nook and cranny of the main web application. I mapped every function, and every web path, but the main webs…

The Death of Mystery is an Illusion

There is an existential worry I’ve had. I don’t think of it often, but it creeps up from time to time and never fully goes away. It appears in many different forms, such as the following: Hav…

Earn $200K by fuzzing for a weekend: Part 1

By applying well-known fuzzing techniques to a popular target, I found several bugs that in total yielded over $200K in bounties. In this article I will demonstrate how powerful fuzzing can be when applied to software which has not yet faced sufficient testing…

Changes after quitting social media for 1 year.

Yes, I agree that after a year of quitting Instagram, there is no difference that could set myself apart from the person who is using it. Does that mean that I

.NET Foundation - Invidious

You've found the heartbeat of .NET—where projects and communities come together to get things done in our open-source world. Share your skills for the greater good. Meet in person, get involved virtually, and stay on top of the latest news, meetups, and events…

Visual Studio Feedback

Visual Studio Feedback

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Release Candidate 2

In this release, we’ve focused on addressing top reported issues from the first release candidate. This work builds on top of earlier previews where we’ve moved the UI of the IDE to fully native macOS UI and migrated the IDE to run on top of .NET 6 (enabling n…

Soul > Features

I’m still stuck on the “Software needs a soul” thought. I’ll probably write about it more in depth at another time, but for today, for right now, I want to share one implica…

The regex [,-.]

I stumbled on this regex recently: \d{2}[,-.]\d{2}.

1,930 Remote Companies | Himalayas

Learn about and find new remote companies like InVision, marketgoo, and Bitrise on Himalayas the best remote job board and company database.

Why do USB-C hubs still have USB 2.0 ports?

[If USB2.0 is too boring, learn about the details of 50 different Thunderbolt-4 docks – yep you read that right, there are 50 different models – find out which ones are identical inside…

Software with a soul

I have never said or heard — except colloquially, that someone is described as a human with a soul. It goes without saying, right? Humans have souls. Now we have said there are humans without souls…

blockfollowers.py

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.