hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

SSH Key Safety; AirTags Deconstruction; CyNER It’s (almost) all about “safety” today, from securing your SSH keys, to taking a deep dive into AirTags and how [un]safe they really are. We close with some data science to take the tedium out of extracting threat intelligence from reports. SSH Key Safety Secure Shell (or SSH) is nothing…

The ‘Right’ Type Of Graph; Starship 🚀; Performance Reviews Today’s post is rather diverse, ranging from chart idiom choices (with a dash of design principles), a fairly new and robust cross-platform shell prompt, how to kick performance reviews up a notch, and a follow up to a previous newsletter. The ‘Right’ Type Of Graph April…

Ngrok 3.0; Data Factories; Data Science-enabled Accessibility Ngrok 3.0 As both a developer and cybersecurity professional, there is a category of tools and services which regularly pits both of those personas at odds with each other. Ngrok is one of those tools. Daniel Miessler is also a cybersecurity professional who put together a great ‘splainer/tutorial…

CLI Data Wrangling; Tolkien Maps; DataVis Design Principles CLI Data Wrangling This category will come up fairly frequently as there are so many great CLI tools to work with various kinds of data. If the acronym is unfamiliar, it stands for Command Line Interpreter, which is a fancy way of saying that unadorned black-background, text-only…

GitHub Actions; Tiffin; Sonantic; Design Principles GitHub Actions GitHub Actions (GHA) is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows you to automate, well, anything! Traditionally, CI/CD is used as a build, test, and deployment pipeline in software development circles. This is not the only way you can use CI/CD services. One way…

macOS Multitasking Made Easy; Email Bias Filtering; Internet Networking Challenges; Dodgy 🇷🇺 Certs Welcome to the first edition! This AM edition feels like one of those “loot box” deliveries that has a bit of something for everyone. Better macOS Multitasking Rectangle is a freemium macOS app that levels up Mac application window management. Sure, Apple…

Cybersecurity, Interesting Social Coding Repos, Ukraine Happenings, And Saving Democracy Hey folks, I’ve spent decades following the latest happening across a wide spectrum of topics. Over the past ~6 years I’ve kept most of those items private, shared mostly with internal teams. No longer. As I trawl through the daily feeds, I’ll be dropping 1-2…