Humour

Programming can be serious business, buffer overflows, privilege escalations, and command injections can ruin your day (or your server). But what if we let the code speak for itself? Imagine strcpy whispering, “I will politely overflow your stack”, or a rogue Python pickle.loads grinning, “I will happily instantiate whatever you smuggled in.” These literal translations are not only a chuckle for the seasoned security geek but also a cheeky reminder of why we need careful coding. They turn intimidating vulnerabilities into short, witty sentences that make you laugh, and maybe shiver a little. Dive in, enjoy the humour, and see old nemeses in a whole new light. ...

The trickster is no ordinary troublemaker. They are the necessary saboteur, the holy vandal, the one who pries open order just enough to let chaos breathe. Found in every corner of the world and across every era, the trickster is an ancient archetype dressed in local clothes, part comedian, part rebel, part divine disruption. They don’t simply play tricks; they expose the trick of the world itself. From the scheming spider Anansi to the gender-bending Loki, from Coyote’s dusty trails to Hermes’ winged heists, the trickster thrives in the cracks of civilisation, those uncomfortable in-between spaces where certainties collapse and new meanings ferment. If priests bless the structure and kings enforce it, the trickster questions the terms of the deal. They aren’t against the rules. They just want to know who wrote them and whether the ink is dry. ...