Monthly Archives: March 2023

Vulnerability Scanning for Free (as in Puppies)

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I’m giving a talk at pyCascades this afternoon and I just wanted to share the slides for folk who like that kind of thing.

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/125cCmmk8k5UtfV3QajNOXml1YW5nxM2i/view?usp=sharing

ODP (LibreOffice Impress) : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u3_5LQUYYPiv9hSCbcgG_gOGn96a-di2/view?usp=sharing (Contains notes but they’re an early talk draft)

Google Docs version (not the original, probably has minor formatting issues but may be easier to view on your phone) : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/149coIJnNdIsW7NWkQjv5jaKAHboHBxVLgx2lOS2oZfk/edit?usp=sharing

CVE Binary Tool source repository: https://github.com/intel/cve-bin-tool

CVE Binary Tool documentation: https://cve-bin-tool.readthedocs.io/

The slides below are just images (no alt text or notes — if you want those see the ODP link above). I’m planning to update them with something closer to the talk content after the conference but it might take a while.

Rainbow Heart Mitts (Glitz Mitts)

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I live in a part of the Pacific Northwest that doesn’t get *that* cold, so I mostly get by with fingerless gloves. But then I got a dog and when I’m doing the last dog walk of the night it can be a bit nippy, so I switch to full mitts, the same ones I wear I go home to Canada in winter.

This should have worked perfectly except…

  • The warmer mitts don’t fit in my pocket, so I forgot them a lot on night walks.
  • Even when I remembered them, I wound up taking them off repeatedly so I could use my phone while Hatch checked his pee-mail.
a nearly complete mitt with a dog chomping a muppet-like toy on the background.

So I made new mitts! The pattern is the Glitz Mitts from Knit Happy with Self Striping Yarn. I liked the fact that they’re knit with two different weights of yarn, and I made one of them alpaca for extra warmth. But then instead of closing the thumbs up I put in a few rounds of ribbing and left them open.

Two colourwork hand knitted mitts featuring rainbow hearts and open thumbs.

Turns out you only really need your thumb to play Pikmin while walking the dog, so they’re perfect! ❤️

Happy hands, happy dog. Hatch is sitting on my chair with the finished mitts on his back.