Charlie Gerard
@devdevcharlie
Senior research engineer 🧪 in cybersecurity, author about ML in JS, and creative technologist. Making weird things in JavaScript (mostly)
My friends and I won a CTF! 🥳🥇 Had so much fun hanging out with the Lonely Hackers Club at @defcon.bsky.social Definitely coming back next year!
Having such a good time at DEFCON! Meeting lots of really nice people and having super interesting conversations, feels good to really nerd out.
Haven't had much time to celebrate pride month this year but trying to show up for the last few days. Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈
Didn't make it to the summit yesterday but still got to see a gorgeous sunrise 🌄 We started really well, making great time but 3h into it, the steepness got my legs tired earlier than I expected and I knew I didn't have enough energy to do 5-6h more hours to the summit + all the way back down 😞
Gear and layering check before my 2-day climb of Mt Shasta! 🏔️ The weather is amazing so hopefully we make it to the summit! 🤞🏻
On my way to Seattle for @cascadiajs.com, I asked the pilot for a trading card and I'm so excited, I feel like a child 😂
It's been raining a lot in Grindelwald but I managed to make the best of the little bit of good weather!
Made it to Düsseldorf, went on a nice 15 miles run this morning and super excited for @beyondtellerrand.com tomorrow! 😃 #btconf
Spent a good chunk of the day volunteering at the Gardens of Lake Merritt in Oakland and I'm so glad I did. The weather was gorgeous and weeding was actually so calming 😌
Updated my old project to play a Street Fighter demo with body movements to use the Bangle.js watch! charliegerard.dev/blog/street-...
I ran my first half marathon on Saturday!! It was so hard 😫😅 I only started running this year and I used to think I couldn't run a 5k but I ended up running 2 5ks, 2 10ks and now a half marathon! 🤯 I'd like to try a full marathon next year but I really don't know how I could run for twice as long 💀
Loving the talks so far at the #webAI summit! It's giving me lots of new ideas for side projects! Now I just need to find the time... 😅
As always, awesome talk by @sarahedo.bsky.social at #jsconf!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Sarah is such a great speaker, teacher, and her illustrations are amazing!
This weekend I ran the Double Up challenge at the SF marathon so 5k on Saturday and 10k today, and I beat my PR in both races! 😃🎉 Who am I?? I actually find running fun now 😂
And I also ended up doing a glacier traverse!!! 😃 That was so cool!
Trip update: we didn't end up climbing Mont Blanc because of bad weather but we did Gran Paradiso in Italy! It was more challenging than I expected but because there was also drama in our group, one person can really ruin the experience for everyone... 🫤 Still happy I did it though!
Getting ready to climb the Mont Blanc! 😃🏔️ We're starting with a test climb of Gran Paradiso in Italy and if it goes well, we'll climb the Mont Blanc early next week! The weather forecast isn't good so I'm not super hopeful but if we're lucky, I'll be all the way up there at 4,806m (15,770ft)! 🤞🏻
Always love to watch Tobi (@baldower) make music live using samples from the previous speaker's talk! He's so good!
I've been following Yehwan Song's work for a while so I'm so excited to see her speak live! Her projects are so awesome! yhsong.com