Jon Stewart @codeslack

The other Jon Stewart, not the one you miss. https : // bsky . app / profile / codeslack . bsky . social Github: jonstewart codeslack.blogspot.com In The District Joined July 2010

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Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu

3 days ago

Could you guys wait 5 minutes I'm in the middle of a refactor

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(4 DAYS BEFORE SUBMISSIONS CLOSE) I get this question a lot about the Find Evil! hackathon: What does “find evil” actually mean? In this case, the name comes from a real command. I built an autonomous incident response agent I built on the SIFT Workstation. Then I typed “find evil” as a prompt into Claude Code. And it did (watch the demo). I was blown away to watch the autonomous agent run a complete C drive forensic analysis, across 200+ tools via MCP. The agent identified threat actor and context, the attack chain, malware deployment method, persistence mechanisms, code injection analysis, network connections, command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, a complete malicious process tree, and a chronological activity timeline. Two days after I shared initial findings, Anthropic released their report on how threat actors were deploying Claude Code with operational tools and letting it go do evil. (Same thing I was doing.) Find Evil! is the first hackathon dedicated to building autonomous AI agents for incident response. 4,178 defenders are working on final Find Evil! hackathon submits. (This number makes me very happy to see so many diving in. And wishing that the thousands more in our community were experimenting with us.) Your job: teach an AI agent to think like a senior analyst, how to sequence its approach, recognize when something doesn’t add up, and self-correct when it gets it wrong. There are FOUR DAYS left to build with us! (Very few of us are actual AI experts. The rest of us including me are learning.) Register: findevil.devpost.com Apply to judge: We need DFIR, AI, cybersecurity, and open-source reviewers who can separate useful autonomous response tools from polished demos. Apply: findjudges-9kvkxt6m.manus.space I am SO EXCITED to see what comes out of this hackathon and goes back to the community. Sponsored by @SANSInstitute

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

a week ago

@geofflangdale @junyer

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

a week ago

Somewhere @junyer is putting down his drink and composing a retort about those who'd use his work as engagement bait. e.g., "In terms of Brzozowski, this is gówno!"

slash1s @slash1sol

a week ago

A DEVELOPER PROVED THE REGEX YOU'VE WRITTEN A THOUSAND TIMES IS SECRETLY A COMPILER AND THAT ALMOST NO ONE WHO USES THEM HAS ANY IDEA WHAT ACTUALLY RUNS 36 minutes from Paul Wankadia, the engineer behind a regex engine that compiles your pattern straight down to raw machine code

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

2 weeks ago

tfw you independently work out why/how btrfs can replace/enhance worktrees

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davidad 🎇 @davidad

2 weeks ago

No one: Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine.

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Geoff Langdale @geofflangdale

2 weeks ago

@gtrakGT @korulang with some perfsplaining about how Linked List's Aren't Really That Great After All (helpful, as if I haven't been working on latency optimizations since before most Rust fans were an itch in their daddy's pants) - gave me a "this language can't *possibly* be it" vibe:

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

3 weeks ago

@geofflangdale I mean, basically, these days Javascript _is_ compiled, Typescript moreso, and it's GC'd and it's the application lingua franca. Most of the insane JS/TS tools/frameworks these days go through a lengthy build step.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

3 weeks ago

@geofflangdale haha it's javascript

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

3 weeks ago

Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep

3 weeks ago

It's hard to stop looking at images like this from AP. Dana White, the UFC chief preparing the fights on the White House lawn, told NPR he has his reservations about the outdoor space. 1/2

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

3 weeks ago

@geofflangdale Rust will win the application-side over, I think. I do not prefer it to C++, but it's simpler so doesn't require a decade to learn, and its tooling is vastly superior. It's not really a systems language, though. Likely it will eat Java's lunch, too, as it's portable.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

3 weeks ago

@geofflangdale Core theses I have to remind myself of constantly: everyone is high now, no one knows how to read, everyone is addicted to online conspiracy theories.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

3 weeks ago

@geofflangdale 8-9 years ago I was in the office building elevator, full of people, and a business-y guy was cursing obnoxiously, being aggro. I asked him to stop, and he went full "let's step outside." Lawyers to the left and right, I would have come away owning everything he had. Insane.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

4 weeks ago

@geofflangdale @jrhennessy Vegemite tacos and carpetbag steak burritos will catch on someday, just gotta grind more.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

4 weeks ago

I've pretty much wasted the past decade of my life building cursed open source dependencies in a CI pipeline when in 2002 I'd've just committed the DLLs to CVS and been done.

Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh

4 weeks ago

Fork your dependencies, trim them to only your use case, never update unless it breaks for your users. I’ve been vocal about this for 10+ years. I’ve always said that updating is way riskier than latent bugs (which can be tracked and CVEs monitored). If you are updating a

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

4 weeks ago

on-trend for 2026, Hot Supply Chain Summer so chopped

GitHub @github

4 weeks ago

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

4 weeks ago

@4n68r or you could not use javascript

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Jon Stewart @codeslack

a month ago

@geofflangdale this is the art exhibit itself, right? challenging the very conception of Australian identity, right? the next gallery is just video compilation of Crocodile Hunter?