After nearly seven years of conducting boba reviews, I have built up a decent ability to predict if the boba will be good or not. I will always get a drink so I'm not merely judging a book by its cover, but it's rare that I'm surprised. The Alley in…
Earlier this year, an anonymous Montrealer declared Machi Machi to be "an elite Boba shop for YUL". I too am interested in having good boba, so I hopped on the plane to Montreal with my girlfriend, Kajol, so we could get Machi Machi. We met up with my friend Arlo…
I'll be attending RustConf in Montreal this week so I wanted to take a moment to describe how we're using Rust in SecureDrop. Historically SecureDrop has always been a primarily Python project accompanied by bash scripts and then HTML/CSS/JS for the web interface. Aaron Swartz's first commit to SecureDrop was…
Full quality video available on Wikimedia Commons, as well as the slides. I had a blast attending DebConf '17 in Montreal, and presented about my efforts to bring back MediaWiki into Debian. The talks I went to were all fantastic, and got to meet some amazing people. But the best…
