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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · 21h

"A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens’ voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks." 🙃

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · 1d

As always, awesome talk by @sarahedo.bsky.social at #jsconf!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Sarah is such a great speaker, teacher, and her illustrations are amazing!

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CascadiaJS @cascadiajs.com · 2d

What if you could use multimodal LLMs to interact with websites using motion control? 🎮

@devdevcharlie.com will take you through building motion-controlled prototypes using LLMs in JS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DbX...

Subscribe to get notified when we ship more videos from #CascadiaJS 2025! 📺

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · 13d

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · 23d

Same! I'm in Oakland and it felt really strong!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24d

This is so so so good. Watch it.

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · Aug 19

My DEFCON talk "We are currently clean on OPSEC" now has over 30k views on YouTube, so now more people watched my talk than attended DEFCON itself. If you haven't seen it, please do! The Trump admin's incompetence is mindbogglingly BONKERS www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33)

YouTube video by Micah Lee

www.youtube.com

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CascadiaJS @cascadiajs.com · Aug 25

This speaker lineup is 🔥

Hear from @shrutikapoor08.bsky.social, Bree Hall, @nearestnabors.com,
@kentcdodds.com, @webai.bsky.social, @jherr.dev, @nerdy.dev, @devdevcharlie.com, our emcee @jason.energy, and many more!

Use the discount code STACKED at checkout and save $50 🎟️

Link ⬇️

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jul 30

This is so cool! youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?...

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

youtu.be

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jul 27

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 😂

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jul 15

And I also ended up doing a glacier traverse!!! 😃 That was so cool!

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jul 15

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!

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jul 15

Just got back to SF and the border agent said "welcome home" 🥹

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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · Jul 8

beyond tellerrand has always been more than a conference.
It’s a creative, friendly community built on curiosity and connection. It’s a passion project with heart. If #btconf has ever sparked something in you, consider becoming a “Friend of beyond tellerrand.”
beyondtellerrand.com/blog/friends...

“Friends of beyond tellerrand” – What Your Support Means and Does

beyond tellerrand has always been more than a conference. It’s a creative community built on connection and curiosity. Now you can become a real part of it. Join Friends of beyond tellerrand, a member...

beyondtellerrand.com

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jul 2

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)! 🤞🏻

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jul 1

I'm so used to speaking in English all the time that I keep forgetting that while in France I can just... speak French 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 20

Always love to watch Tobi (@baldower) make music live using samples from the previous speaker's talk! He's so good!

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 20

I love speaking at creative conferences but boy do I feel like an amateur next to the other amazing speakers 😅
Feeling very inspired by all the talks!
bump-festival.be/2025/

Bump Festival 2025

A creative conference on June 20, 2025 in Kortrijk, Belgium where you'll get your mind blown by graphic designers, creative coders and motion graphics artists.

bump-festival.be

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 20

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

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 20

Super excited to speak at Bump Festival today in Kortrijk, Belgium! 🇧🇪
I love the mix of art & tech talks! 😃

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is a really good example of the importance of friction as texture: an algorithm-driven interface is slippery smooth, with no natural point of interruption. It feels frictionless because it is making decisions for you.

But as soon as you *want* to make your own decisions, the friction appears.

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · Jun 18

Slowly trying to radicalize myself against all algorithmic content now, to the point that I find the Prime Video interface (clunky mess, can't find anything, complete random memory of anything you watched previously) more trustworthy than Netflix', which basically has all the tics of a drug dealer

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Jun 17

Has anyone else's Instagram taken a drastic turn for the worse in the last couple of hours, few days, etc. Just went to check it and my Home feed is just absolutely riddled with movie clips, suggested accounts I don't want to follow, and the one post from someone I actually know is a week old.

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 17

Congrats and enjoy your time off!!

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 15

I'm at this bar/restaurant, catching up on work and I can't help but hear the people at the table in front of me who seem to be on a first date and they're really vibing talking about life, politics, etc, they're so cute, it's giving me hope that dating does work out for some people.

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 12

Thanks for joining!

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 11

Went for a run this morning on 4h sleep cause of jetlag and thought I was gonna struggle to do my usual 5k but turns out I ran 6k!🏃🏻‍♀️ Longest distance ever! 😃
I'm training to go slower to last longer and my new goal is to run my first 10k at the SF marathon at the end of July!

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Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie.com · Jun 10

Made it to Amsterdam for @jsnation.gitnation.org this week! 🎉🇳🇱

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