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Four Log4j Patches Later, Here's Where Things Actually Stand

Log4j just shipped its fourth patch of the month (2.17.1, December 28th) and I spent part of my holiday break re-checking every server I run. Here's where things actually stand and what to check first.

December 31, 2021·4 min read

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Log4j Patch Number Four Just Dropped and I'm Done

Apache shipped Log4j 2.17.1 on December 28th, the fourth patch in three weeks, and it ate what was left of my holiday.

December 29, 2021·3 min read

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The Weekend I Didn't See Spider-Man

Two weeks into the Log4j mess and a third CVE later, I finally admit the patching is eating my whole holiday week, Spider-Man included.

December 23, 2021·3 min read

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A Cable, Ten Billion Dollars, and One More Delay

NASA pushed the James Webb Space Telescope launch again, this time over a loose communication cable, days before it's set to finally fly.

December 21, 2021·4 min read

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How a Minecraft Bug Ate My Saturday

A weekend spent patching a home UniFi controller, a Minecraft server, and a forgotten Elasticsearch box after Log4Shell, plus some thoughts on how a Minecraft chat exploit turned into a federal cybersecurity directive.

December 17, 2021·4 min read

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My Weekend Patching a Minecraft Server for Log4Shell

A personal, slightly panicked account of patching a home Minecraft server (twice) after Log4Shell blew up the internet's Java software this week.

December 15, 2021·4 min read

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The Morning Half the Internet Lived in Virginia

A big AWS outage this morning knocked out Ring, Disney+, Venmo and Amazon's own site all at once, and it made me think about how invisible cloud dependencies are until they're not.

December 7, 2021·3 min read

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Graviton3, SageMaker Canvas, and Vegas Being Vegas Again

AWS re:Invent came back in person last week with Graviton3 chips and a new no-code ML tool, but the real story is how absurd the gap has gotten between what AWS builds and what most of us actually need.

December 6, 2021·4 min read

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How I Spent Black Friday Weekend (Hint: Not In A Store)

Skipped the Black Friday chaos this year and spent the long weekend in Halo Infinite's surprise-launched multiplayer instead. No regrets, mostly.

November 27, 2021·3 min read

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Halo Infinite's Battle Pass Grind Is Already Wearing Me Out

Halo Infinite's multiplayer dropped as a surprise free launch tied to Xbox's 20th birthday, and after a weekend with it the gunplay's great but the battle pass XP grind is already grating.

November 20, 2021·3 min read

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YouTube Just Took Away the Smoke Detector

YouTube just hid the public dislike count and I have a lot of unhedged opinions about losing the one honest metric the platform had left.

November 12, 2021·3 min read

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Peloton Just Had The Worst Day Anyone Saw Coming

Peloton's stock got cut to pieces this morning after the company admitted demand is drying up. Anyone who's walked past a bike collecting laundry could've called it.

November 4, 2021·3 min read