April King
@april
Staff Security Engineer at some random tech company, previously Mozilla, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and (pre-Elon) Twitter. Has read @kateconger.bsky.social’s autobiography. web @ grayduck.mn // also github.com/april
walked into the living room this morning and saw this. apparently my 13-year-old son somehow had gotten inspired to make a DVD bouncing program for his TI-84.
Handling Cookies is a Minefield: Inconsistencies in the HTTP cookie specification and its implementations have caused a situation where countless websites (including Facebook, Netflix, Okta, WhatsApp, Apple, etc.) are one small mistake away from locking their users out. grayduck.mn/2024/11/21/h...
“hey babe, what do you wanna watch tonight?” “I dunno, something red maybe?”
happy halloween everyone, please enjoy this costume my son wore a couple years back of himself dressed up as a TI-89 calculator (costume designer: my talented wife)
finally a vehicle that will protect me from kindergarteners with hammers 😮💨
the new iOS live voicemail feature is going to save me from having to deal with an absolutely immense about of bullshit
vehicular biologists like myself truly appreciate the sexual dimorphism of the Ford F-150. on the left, the industrious 1987 F-150, is commonly found at construction sites and farms. on the right, the 2023 F-150, with its vestigial flatbed, largely spends its time grooming and fetching groceries.
one of my favorite command line discoveries is that of “transient prompts,” where you can get a dense, multi-line, information-filled prompt that doesn’t pollute your backscroll.
since today is urbanist drama day about whether north american cities can be saved: my city went from 153 (92 separated) miles of bike paths in 2015 to 212 in 2023. the 2030 bike plan calls for 335 miles by 2035, 245 miles of it separated. it's hard but it is getting better.
holy crap, the AVERAGE monthly new car payment is $733?? And $569 for used cars? how does anyone make a straight-faced claim that a nice e-bike is elitist with numbers like that?
it’s wild that we’ve managed to invent a vehicle that neither requires a CDL nor will fit in a Walmart parking spot.
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without all the expertise stolen by the employees that we fired, how would Facebook even know how to build a social network? —Twitter (probably)
I can’t possibly imagine a better message for resonating with a bunch of 20-something hardcore tech bros.
my favorite secret campsite is one of the few places in the world where I can still find fireflies and thousands and thousands of these cute little tadpole guys 🥹
the year is 2023 and the r/anime_titties subreddit is a better place to find breaking news on what is happening in russia than twitter is.