Still need a #HalloweenCostume? We pulled four ideas from our collection, including one for people who’d rather spend the night on the couch.
After this week, this was a comical relief.
I hope you can enjoy the joke as well.
https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b
NPR plans to move its public editor partnership from the Poynter Institute to the University of Maryland in 2027, as public editor Kelly McBride leaves the role (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2026/10/npr-to-move-public…
New York By Way of China
My great-grandfather’s brother Phillip immigrated to America at 15, apprenticed as a fresco painter, joined a wagon train heading west, and spent years wandering through mining towns and lumber camps before returning to New York by way of Panama. I envy his wanderlust.
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read a couple dozen of the ~1000 CVEs in the latest debian kernel security release. most of them are driver bugs, not surprising. a few are trivial null pointer dereference that would be caught by a stronger type system.
many are initialization or cleanup sequence failures that could probably be found with static analysis. I'm not sure how they would be avoided with language design.
unclear why there's a burst of ~1000 CVEs. maybe half of them were found with an LLM
Using modern Swift, so in the last couple of months, unsafe Swift code and unsafe pointer code was removed. The one area that hurts: I cant use is Array.span as it requires a new OS.
Vincent Sellaer was a Flemish painter active during the 16th century, and though little is known about his life, his art had an interesting mix of both Italian and northern styles. His painting “The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Elizabeth and Zacharias” shows a young Jesus with members of his family. A green parrot, perched on a woven basket, references the fact that parrots were associated with the divine word of God because they could imitate human speech.
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NFL odds: Week 7 parlays featuring favorites, underdogs include Buccaneers-Panthers, Bengals-Ravens
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl
Gaetano Gandolfi, whose background and style are most aligned with the other works currently on view, was one of the leading Italian painters during his lifetime. Created at the height of his career, “The Annunciation” depicts the moment the archangel Gabriel visits Mary to inform her she will give birth to Jesus.
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