Weekly update

It's time to fly! It's two months to the day since we came back from the last European trip, again spending the time with some of the agencies and partners we've fostered at HIBP over the years. This time, it's the driving tour I talked about earlier last month, and we have absolutely jam-packed it! But hey, it's a part of the world I love driving in, it's summer over there (I know, it's a bit upside-down in that half of the world), and there are lots of cool people and places to see. Interestin...

The bot-fighting is a non-stop battle. In this week's video, I discuss how we're tweaking Cloudflare Turnstile and combining more attributes around how bot-like requests are, and... it almost worked. Just as I was preparing to write this intro, I found a small spike of anomalous traffic that, upon further investigation, should have been blocked. So we've pivoted again, adding yet more logic to try and give legit humans the best experience possible whilst making it painful for the bots. Fortunate...

We're two weeks in from the launch of the new HIBP, and I'm still recovering. Like literally still recovering from the cold I had last week and the consequent backlog. A major launch like this isn't just something you fire and forget; instead, it takes weeks of tweaks and refinements to iron out all the little creases, both known and unpredictable. None of them have been significant, fortunately, but the more I look at it, the more I see, and the more we refine. This week, we're diving headfirst...

Well, the last few weeks of insane hours finally caught up with me 🤒 Not badly, but I evidently burned enough midnight oil to leave the immune system somewhat degraded and just after recording this video, I really didn't feel like doing much at all. Some congestion and sniffles aside, it's really not that bad, but definitely evidence of a very intense period, which thankfully, is now behind us. So, this week, let's talk about that awesome new HIBP website 😊 References 1. Sponsored by:...

Funny how excited people can get about something as simple as a sticker. They're always in hot demand and occupy an increasingly large portion of my luggage as we travel around. Charlotte reckoned it would be the same for other merch too, so, while I've been beavering away playing code monkey on the rebranded HIBP website, she built a merch store. Talking about it in this week's video obviously got a bunch of people excited, as a flurry of orders followed. As I said in the video, we put everythi...

The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour is upon us! I've often joked that work is always either sitting at my desk at home in isolation or on the other side of the world, and so it is with this trip. As we've done with recent travel to the US and colder parts of Europe, we've booked to travel to places we know have lots of people we're interested in seeing then we'll fill in the itinerary. Since the blog post last week, we've lined up folks in Leichtenstein, Zurich (which will be a publicly even...

Looking back at this week's video, it's the AI discussion that I think about most. More specifically, the view amongst some that any usage of it is bad and every output is "slop". I'm hearing that much more broadly lately, that AI is both "robbing" creators and producing sub-par results. The latter is certainly true in many cases (although it's improving extraordinarily quickly), but the former is just ridiculous when used as a reason not to use AI. After doing this week's video, I saw press of...

Today, I arrived at my PC first thing in the morning to find the UPS dead (battery was cactus) and the PC obviously without power. So, I tracked down a powerboard and some IEC C14 to mains cable adaptors and powered back up. On boot, neither the Bluetooth mouse nor keyboard worked. So, I tracked down a wired version of each, logged on, didn't find anything weird in the Device Manager, then gave it a reboot, which resulted in the machine not getting past the Lenovo splash screen. So, I rebooted a...

I'm a few days late this week, finally back from a month of (almost) non-stop travel with the last bit being completely devoid of an internet connection 😲 And now, the real hard work kicks in as we count down the next 25 days before launching the full HIBP rebrand. I'm adamant we're going to push this out on the 17th of May, and I reckon it's looking absolutely awesome! Do please feel free to check out what we're doing and chime in on the GitHub repository via the links below. I'm sure there's...

I'm home! Well, for a day, then it's off to the other side of the country (which I just flew over last night on the way back from Dublin 🤦‍♂️) for an event at the Microsoft Accelerator in Perth on Monday. Such is the path we've taken, but it does provide some awesome opportunities to meet up with folks around the world and see some really interesting stuff. Come by if you're over that way or if you're on the east coast of Aus, I'll be at NDC Melbourne only a couple of weeks later. And somewhere...