My company hosted a business dinner last night for infosec leaders. It was a reminder how small the San Francisco tech community can be. What you see in advance: Jane is the CISO at an intimidatingly large corporation whose stuff you use every day. What you see when you get there: Jane is awesome and funny and you have 3 mutual friends from past gigs.
The Bay Area tech pool seems enormous at times. It’s way more interconnected than you’d imagine.
This is interesting and dangerous. I’m trying the new macOS Sequoia Passwords app. I exported my passwords from 1Password to a CSV and imported them into the new app, then soon saw a bunch of ancient logins from old employers. What? Searching for them in 1Password found nothing.
Oh, turns out those are archived in 1Password. The normal cmd-F search doesn’t look in Archive even if you’ve selected it. The other opt-cmd-F find does.
Hope you remembered to delete the passwords that would get you beaten up.
I’ve recently started playing with Zellij. What you need to know:
I’m beginning to doubt that I’ll ever go back.
I think I’m going to upgrade my personal MacBook Air to Sequoia tonight. YOLO!
Let’s go Ballers!
It’s time to view the samizdat, the Entertainment.
Since Ben Surtees sold his Bartender 5 app to some (IMO) shifty company without telling his users, I’ve deleted it from my Macs and installed Ice. It’s not yet as nice as Bartender, but it’s open source and does 95% of what I wanted.
The conference has little rubber duckies all over the place to play with.
My boss was right: having an unusual job title is an excellent icebreaker.
A dozen times today someone’s done a double take, then laughed. “What on earth is a Chief Security Alchemist?” “Hah! Well, let me tell ya!”
I’m heading in to staff the booth at a convention. That’s far outside my comfort zone, so when my boss asked me, I immediately said yes to commit myself to doing something new.
This has traditionally worked out well for me. I highly recommend everyone do this to extent they can.
