Mark Pitblado

In response to the recent events between Proton, the Swiss authorities, and the FBI, a look into the choices that all companies (even privacy-focused ones) must face in the jurisdictions in which they operate.

https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/privacy-focused-companies-still-have-to-follow-the-law/

What we've done online has always been public, but now it can be combine in seconds into a nice tidy package (with frequent mistakes), with added opinions about what we beliefs we might hold.

https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/ai-treats-us-all-as-public-figures/

I tried to write this post from the perspective of explaining end-to-end encryption to a family member or friend. It's not super technical, rather it tries to be accessible.

https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/encryption-in-everyday-life/

TIL that proton pass now has a new cli application, super useful for things like API keys in dotfiles. It also has a built in ssh agent by the looks of things

https://protonpass.github.io/pass-cli/

#protonpass

If you're busy in the terminal, the last thing you want to do is switch to libreoffice or excel! These two tools are still early in development, but can allow for some nice quick glances at either input or output data for things like pandas or polars.

https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/opening-excel-and-csv-files-from-the-terminal/

@Ryan@mstdn.ca love to see some of these options laid out! As I use many of the products you're considering switching to,, I'm curious how the transitions go and any rough points along the way! Especially Worktree as a super new company, lots of opportunity for feedback.

Created a little tool to make it easier for people to download and cite images from #GBIF, and wrote a paper about it that was published today

Paper: https://journals.ku.edu/jbi/article/view/24326

Tool: https://github.com/mark-pitblado/gbif-image-downloader

Testing a new option for static site hosting in Canada, with a CI/CD deployment from codeberg

https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/deploying-a-static-site-in-canada-with-worktree/

If you're looking for an easy way to check data for errors, pointblank is a great tool that allows for report generation and automated checks in CI/CD pipelines.

https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/validating-data-with-pointblank-in-python/

#python

As I was reading on a small e-ink display, I thought about where we had gone wrong with tech, and how we could get the magic back.

https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/tech-can-be-enjoyable-again/

Favourite day to use the wayback machine to see what the price was for things a month ago. Some very clever marketing going on.

50% off forever you say? How? Oh you just doubled your "normal" price