As a newcomer to soccer football, the offside rule is by far the most confusing rule. Like, ever.

If you're like me, you need a clear visual example. Check out this video here. It's the clearest explanation I've come across thus far.

Biggest takeaway: the offside rule applies to passing. It's technically . . .

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In case I'm not the only person who as a little unfamiliar with Microsoft's "Verified ID" feature, I came across a great video from Andy Malone that walks through a practical example of how it works.

Here's a high-level diagram as well:

Very interesting and compelling. I think remains to be . . .

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While working on a project recently, I came across an odd warning upon running curl:

foouser@foo:~$ curl "https://api.foo.example/blah"
Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell
Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output
Warning: . . .

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I came across a nifty quote by Pete Zerger while watching one of his LinkedIn Learning courses. This one really resonated with me:

Focus on security and productivity. Ensure that security enables productivity as well as reducing risk. If it hampers productivity or increases risk, reconsider.

I know at first . . .

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This weekend, the fam and I were doing some cleaning and I came across an old relic from a bygone era: my 2008 MacBook.

Remember when these came out? The aluminum frame was new and all the rage.

I loved this thing, and ya know what? I have to give Apple credit: despite being over 15 years old it's held up . . .

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I'm digging this illustration of IoT security architecture zones, courtesy of Microsoft docs.

The beauty of it all is the simple (but effective) principles:

• Segment the solution
• Minimize the impact of lower-trust zones against higher-trust zones
• Assume that as data traverses zones, it could be . . .

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