AI Headshots Sorta Work
I gave AI headshots a try and it’s not bad. Some are quite good, but I’d call it a 7/10 over all. I made and attached a grid of the results, but I mixed in one real picture. Any guesses? The hardest part was that it required 10-20 selfies with different backgrounds and outfits, but since I don’t take a lot of selfies I had to run around my house finding backgrounds and changing clothes for 30 minutes to generate enough training data!
Read moreA Decade of Clojure at Studio71
What is Clojure and why did it fit for Studio71? Clojure is a programming language (a dialect of Lisp) that excels at concurrency and data processing. Clojure runs on top of Java so it’s runs in all of the places Java runs and can use all of the Java libraries already out there (hello, Google and AWS libraries!
Read moreEverything is a Remix: The Final Version
I’ve been a big fan of Kirby Ferguson’s work, and my fandom really started when Everything is Remix hit the web. A few days ago, Kirby uploaded this final updated version and announced that he will be stepping away from online filmmaking. If you haven’t seen Everything is a Remix, find an hour to give it a go.
Read moreThe macOS Privacy Settings Deleted My Backups
The other day I logged in to my NAS to find that all of my backed up media files were gone. No errors, the drives were fine, the directory was there, but the files were gone. Thankfully it wasn’t a freak out moment as I had my originals and my other backups, but it was a mystery.
Read moreThe Cube Keyboard
Does your custom soldered, greased o-ring, mechanical keyboard not feel as hipster as it once did? I’ve got great news for you: The Cube Keyboard exists. The bad news is that you can never set it down or it will roll over and type out > rm -rf /.
Read moreBuilding a Mastodon Client in to my Cyberpunk SSH App
Let me quickly get you up to speed: I wanted to build a website for my hacker projects, but instead of a website I ended up building an SSH app (because I’m weird). Basically, instead of visiting it in your web browser you have to open your terminal, run an SSH command, and then you use text commands to play with the application, read about my projects, etc.
Read moreCybercrime Groups Offer Six-Figure Salaries
AJ Vicens, reporting at Cyperscoop, about the high salaries groups are using to lure skilled software developers in to a life of crime: And just as the cybersecurity market is competing for the best talent, cybercriminals are also offering high salaries and perks to attract the best. Some ads boasted annual salaries as high as $1.
Read moreWhy Are Technical Interviews Still So Bad?!
Python for Engineers has a great post on how terrible technical interviews are for people on both sides of the table. There is this idiotic myth online that the majority of programmers cannot program. That everyone else looking for a job is an idiot, and our job is to expose them, to teach them a lesson, to humiliate them till they quit.
Read moreExcuuuuse me, Princess
Polygon has a wonderful (and relatively short) oral history of the short-lived Legend of Zelda cartoon that was embedded inside of the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! There were elements of the games, like sound effects and visuals, but the show mostly has Zelda and Link posted up in Hyrule castle defending the Triforce of Wisdom from Ganon while trying to acquire the Triforce of Power from the evil wizard himself.
Read moreTwitter Says That Stolen Data From Them Isn’t From Them
If you have given up on following news about Twitter, I don’t blame you, but there as been a batch of ~400 million user records being sold online and marketed as coming from breaching Twitter’s systems. Today Twitter is saying that there was “no evidence” of that data coming from Twitter’s systems.
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