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Electronic Conference Badges
Ever since attending Defcon 24 this past August, I’ve been enthralled with the idea of electronic event badges. I’m also pondering and trying to sort out what exactly would be needed to accomplish them on a budget that could be done for a WordCamp, and have it be both hackable after the event, but also…
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Nintendo’s Modular Switch
(apologies for the pun, but it was totally intended) Last night, Nintendo officially announced details and games for their upcoming console, the Switch. This morning I waited outside of a GameStop to preorder mine. I’m excited. Most of the technical details, while impressive, struck me as basically what was to be expected — nothing out of…
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Diminish.
Most of y’all may not know, but I’ve been changing myself lately. Physically, I mean, and a lot more than my recent tendency of dying my hair blue. For almost a year now, I’ve been using Invisalign to fix my teeth, and tomorrow I go under the knife for a Gastric Sleeve surgery. To be completely…
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Mod.
Mod can mean a lot of things.
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Kiri Kiri Basara, a lesson in domains
Howdy! If you’re here, one of two things happened. Either you follow me on social media or my blog and found this new post, or you’re an anime fan watching Occultic;Nine, and saw the domain kirikiribasara.com in episode one and tried typing it into a web browser. That domain — for now — redirects to here.…
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Security is Not an Elective
Here’s my slides from my talk at WordCamp NYC! Security Is Not An Elective
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On the FDA and E Cigarettes
DISCLAIMER: While I may enjoy a rare cigar or pipe of tobacco perhaps once or twice per year, I don’t regularly consume tobacco products or nicotine. This post is more my musings on the bureaucracy and workings of the federal government. Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded its regulation authority to include “Vaporizers, vape…
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Two Weddings, One Family
I attended two weddings in the family this past weekend. Two cousins, both on my mom’s side, tied the knot. Saturday was a beautiful outdoor wedding at a farm in the countryside. It was about a four hour drive away, which made it into a bit of an interesting day trip, but mostly uneventful. https://www.instagram.com/p/BE1AUyfKkuf/ Sunday…
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On Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bills
I’ve found myself now writing the same (or fundamentally similar, at least) responses to several individuals on Facebook. To save myself time and frustration in the future, I’m just stashing it here, so I can copypasta it out as needed. This specific variant of the response was inspired by someone posting an article from thefederalist.com by…
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I’m Learning the Core Media Modal.
Disclaimer: This is basically me stream-of-thought’ing things as I’m learning the Core Media Modal’s codebase. It’s my scratchpad, and I’m merely making it public in the hopes that it may be useful to someone else at some point in the future. Some things are probably very wrong. If I catch it, I’ll likely come back…
Code monkey get up, get coffee…
George Stephanis 