Creative projects, science & life.
-
Mirroring known vulnerability data globally, for free.
If you just want the answer to “where do I find a reliable global mirror of NVD vulnerability data?” the answer is https://cveb.in/ . It is being mirrored on the same servers used for major open source projects so you’re probably already trusting them. If you want to hear the story of how we got…
-
Best practices in practice: Software release tracking and end of life
Continuing in my “best practices in practice series” : an API for finding the list of available software versions and an API for finding out if those versions are still actively supported (and for how long).
-
Best practices in practice: pre-commit
Continuing in my “best practices in practice series” : today’s tool is `pre-commit`. Using pre-commit takes a bunch of failure points out of our code quality and security process, and I highly recommend it.
-
Unconventional travel fountain pens: Pilot Kakuno & Platinum Preppy Wa
It was likely inevitable that I’d start thinking seriously about having some travel-specific fountain pens. I’m no longer the world traveller I was in my 20s when writing papers and going to conferences to present them was a key part of my job, but I have a certain amount of travel-specific stuff in my life.…
-
Glow Pen! TWSBI Eco (Medium)
I bought a glowing pen to replace my finicky first pen. Plus some musing on how the glowing definitely makes the pen work better for me; science agrees!
-
Goodbye gold corgi journal!
As expected, I finished my bullet journal, just barely managing to fit an entry for Sept 30th, 2024 on the last page. It was started on January 1, 2023, so it lasted just under 2 years. The corgi design is from Kela Designs, and I bought it for myself on the condition that I actually…
-
Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen
I picked this pen up at the same time as my TWSBI pens (Making this pen 5 in my collection), with a similar vision in mind: trying the big stub nibs. This one sports a CM / Italic / 1.0mm stub. My first impression upon getting the pen was overwhelmingly positive: this is a solidly…
-
Best practices in practice: Black, the Python code formatter
I’m starting a little mini-series about some of the “best practices” I’ve tried out in my real-life open source software development. These can be specific tools, checklists, workflows, whatever. Some of these have been great, some of them have been not so great, but I’ve learned a lot. I wanted to talk a bit about…
-
TWSBI ECO-T and TWSBI Swipe Fountain Pens
After a few months of using my mystery wood pen and the Pilot Varsity that I picked up when I bought ink for the first pen, I decided I was clearly having enough fun that I should add a few more pens to my collection. So pen number 3 and 4 were a pair of…
-
I hate the “future log” of my bullet journal.
One of the ideas from the “bullet journal” method that never really worked for me is the “future log” one. The idea seems solid: you need a space for writing stuff that’s coming up but maybe not in the current month or week or however you divide your journal. It’s a solid idea and it…
-
Pilot Precise Varsity (Disposable) Fountain Pen
I’ve been getting back into fountain pens for the first time since I was a teenager, and it’s a lot more fun this time. I’ve enjoyed reading other people’s musings, so I’m going to try to record some personal notes on the pens I have in my collection thus far. I picked up the Pilot…
-
Picking up a fountain pen after 3 decades
A few months ago, I found a fountain pen in a drawer. It was a gift from someone who knew me as a teenager, when I had tendinitis and used a fountain pen as a way to reduce strain during writing. I didn’t have ink when I got it and I likely forgot all about…
baking BestPractices BestPracticesInPractice blog books choir disability fanfic fiberarts fiber goals food FountainPen FountainPenInk FountainPens free pattern infosec InkSwatch knitting library Life mailman mask mastodon model building OpenSource painting parenting Python quilting reading recipe review ScreenTime security sewing spinning stationery stickers SwatchWednesday travel very watercolour weaving WonderPens wrinting