Lawyer Up: Rep. Robert Garcia's Warning, and the Trump Scandals Congress Can Now Investigate
"Lawyer up." That was the entire statement from Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming chair of House Oversight, the night Democrats took the House. Here is what his committee walks into on January 3: 430 Trump scandals, every one sourced and tagged by what actually happened.
The Security Enigma Called Trump
President Donald Trump and his family are the biggest open security hole in the United States government. Classified files in a bathroom, war plans in a group chat, a Chinese intruder on the grounds, clearances forced through, and billions in Gulf money flowing to the family while it sets policy. 110 documented episodes, every one sourced and tagged.
Let's Encrypt Is Moving to 64-Day Certificates: A Small-Site Checklist
Let's Encrypt will shorten its default certificate lifetime from 90 to 64 days on February 10, 2027. Here is what changes, what does not, and the one thing every small-site owner should grep for.
Home Router Settings and Work VPN Tussles: How a TV Ad Blocker Locked Me Out of Work
Home Router Settings and Work VPN Tussles. A privacy tweak on my home mesh router, made to stop a Samsung TV from spying, silently broke my work VPN sign-in for a day. The lesson: if your home router carries work traffic, it's work equipment. Research before you tinker.
It's 4:20 Somewhere. Now a Free, Open-Source API Tells You Exactly Where
The Official 420 World Clock at 420.menow.us shows live where on Earth it is 4:20, with cannabis-law cards for every zone, and its data is a free, no-key, MIT-licensed API at api.420.menow.us.
JellyDazzle and KoiKnife Are Out on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android
Two LIBCSystems apps, the music-reactive kaleidoscope JellyDazzle and the koi guide KoiKnife, are now on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac and on Google Play, with every store link here.
One Light-Day: A 1977 Machine Hits the Edge of a Day, the Night Before GTA 6
NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will be exactly one light-day from Earth at 5:16 a.m. Eastern on November 18, 2026, the day before Grand Theft Auto VI ships. A message sent to it now takes a full day to arrive, and the reply takes another. Here is how that conversation actually works, from an 18-kilowatt dish in Australia to a 12-watt transmitter and a computer with less memory than a photo.
JellyDazzle 3.5.8 — now on iPhone and iPad
The engine that has been painting to music on the Mac (24 modes in hand-written ARM64 assembly, 610 patterns in C) now runs on a phone. 634 routines, your music still playing at full volume, and one crash that taught me exactly what iOS 27 changed.
25 Terror Years of Technology
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks on New York, a look at what the technology of that morning could and could not do — Windows XP had not shipped, 6% of American homes had broadband, and by 9:30 the news sites had fallen over — and what the machines became because of it.
JellyDazzle is in the Mac App Store review queue
An audio-reactive visualiser with 634 routines, 24 of them hand-written ARM64 assembly, is signed, notarised, downloadable, and waiting on Apple. Here is what it actually took.