C33 Technology

Gadgets

The 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 /.

Project

Building 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.

Infosec

Cybercrime 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.

Work

Why 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.

Media

Excuuuuse 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.

Infosec

Twitter 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.