Blog & Archives

Teaser: A late scheduled post led me to compare GitHub Actions and Cloudflare Cron. The deployments were about equally fast. The schedulers were not.

Teaser: On September 24, I’ll join a conversation about the Samuelson Clinic’s work, its influence, and the continuing need for serious public-interest technology law and policy.

Teaser: Forty years after a 75-cent accounting error sent him chasing a hacker across the early Internet, Cliff Stoll returned to the story at DEF CON—with an overhead projector, his original transparencies from a 1987 NSA presentation, and a thermos of minestrone soup.

Teaser: AI can now help design whole viral genomes. That creates a security problem computer defenders know well: how do defenders recognize a threat when it no longer resembles the threats they know? DNA synthesis gives biosecurity a rare chokepoint—for now.

Teaser: Science communicators love to compare complex systems to 'the number of atoms in the universe.' It's a terrible analogy. Here is a proper tour of scale, mapping the journey from the quantized foam of the Planck length all the way to the formal axioms of set theory.