@devdevcharlie

Senior research engineer, published author 📗 and maker 🧪. Researching human-computer interaction and creative technology on the side. She/Her

 San Francisco, CA
charliegerard.dev/
Joined December 2009
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Darshita Patankar
@_darshiOct 19
Hi, it's Darshita. I am a designer. And I'm pitching myself in public 'cause I'm done with a year full of anxiety. Everyone says design is dead and AI killed it. But the real parasite was hiding in plain sight. So here's my film, DESIGN IS DEAD. She's bold, fearless and very PINK 💖 Hiring? My DMs are open.
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Terkel
@terkelgOct 6
made a rug for your desktop so you can sweep your mess under it
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ali
@endingwithaliSep 16
About @AnthropicAI's latest cybersecurity report
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Klaas
@forgebitzSep 9
i don't think tech people understand how little non-tech people care about tech the average person does not have a basic understanding of how a computer works the idea of everyone just prompting their own software is only for a small subset of people
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was showing my normie friends codex and how you can just make whatever you want and they literally didn’t give a fuck
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The first talk from HRV @ DC34 has dropped on our YouTube! Come check out @Jon - K4CHN talk about Meshtastic! youtube.com/watch?v=kPFhV_mk… More talks will be uploaded soon!
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Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edoAug 12
Speaking today at 3:15 on the main stage, see you there!
Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edoAug 10
So excited to speak at @RenderATL this week! I'll be presenting on Evolution of the Web in the age of AI. We’ll look at the composition of the web and how it’s changed, we’ll talk about WebMCP, security concerns, mitigations and the future. See you there!
Hero banner for RenderATL, The South’s Tech Conference, showing smiling people posing with a trophy and peace signs in front of a large "RENDER" backdrop. It says the South's Tech Conference

ALT Hero banner for RenderATL, The South’s Tech Conference, showing smiling people posing with a trophy and peace signs in front of a large "RENDER" backdrop. It says the South's Tech Conference

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Rachel Tobac
@RachelTobacAug 11
One thing you learn early on as a hacker is that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do that thing. Trying to scam/phish/hack people on your way home (on a flight!) from @defcon means you weren’t really paying attention to that basic fact.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofbAug 11
NEW: Someone jammed the in-flight Wi-Fi on a Delta plane after the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas and replaced it with a malicious network. Pilots alerted air traffic control: “We believe they are trying to scam the [other passengers].” techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/de…

Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight | TechCrunch

The Delta flight crew switched off the aircraft's legitimate Wi-Fi network for around 30 minutes due to the incident, according to a spokesperson.

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Cthulhu ( ;,;)
@Cthulhu_AnswersAug 11
You do this shit it impacts all of us. Some folks want to cancel defcon permanently and give government a reason to label and target us as dangerous. Doing this shit on a plane causes safety risks and fear amongst passengers, hope these fuckers get on the no fly list and banned from defcon, but they are probably looking at jail time.
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@omgsidewalksAug 9
You CANNOT rage against the machine if you’re asking it to summarise your emails for you.
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HOPE tickets are close to selling out! 2600.com/content/hope-26-tic…
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Martin
@cantcomputerJul 29
The AI didn't magically escape the network. It found the same exposed secrets, flat networks, overprivileged service accounts, and forgotten admin portals we've been documenting in pentest reports for the last decade. Apparently those findings only became urgent once the attacker could read them at 500 tokens per second.
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Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edoJul 30
🛠️ I've made a useWebMCPTool hook for React! Chrome (myself and others) will keep this up to date with any spec changes. The hook has hygiene around unmount, result normalization, etc. Cheers!
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CascadiaJS 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
@CascadiaJSJul 21
Karaoke still runs on technology from the '80s. 🛼 What if we rebuilt it with Web Audio, AI, open-source models, and modern web APIs? Watch @monteslu give one of the most delightfully nerdy talks from CascadiaJS 2026. youtu.be/wk2Fj2H5eoI
CascadiaJS. Luis Montes. Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza. Photo of Luis Montes on stage at CascadiaJS 2026.

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Tim Holman@twholmanJul 19
Replying to @lionel_mora
Recently snapped and archived the sites we lost... theuselessweb.com/sites-we-l… I think it'll maybe be lost on the next gens that people spent days/weeks making these wacky things, and all the effort to prop them up online, then paid year after year for domains. The best of times!

The Sites We Lost

A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.

theuselessweb.com
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Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edoJul 20
Since you can see me now, here's a site I made to demo/explain WebMCP: Maybe you've heard about WebMCP, but if you'd like to see it in action and learn how to work with it, how agents use it, what the spec looks like, and some important links? It's interactive! Use the extension to actuate the page:
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Jason Lengstorf
@jlengstorfJun 22
a little reunion of the greatest devrel team to ever do it: @sarah_edo, @philhawksworth, @cassidoo, @bencodezen, @tzmanics, @devdevcharlie, with special guest appearances from @marisamorby, @dizzyd, @editingemily 💜💜 I miss this team so much
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Phil, Jason, Emily, Sarah, Tara, Matt, Marisa, Charlie, Cassidy, and Ben in a speakeasy together

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Neal Agarwal
@nealagarwalJun 18
Made a site that takes objects from wikipedia and turns them into endless I Spy > neal.fun/wiki-spy/
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Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edoJun 10
🛠️ We in Chrome wrote security guidance for WebMCP: Agent Devs: developer.chrome.com/docs/ag… Site Devs: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai… Written by the wonderful @JuliaPagnucco, a Sr. Security Eng & @AlexandraScript, great tech writer. If you're using WebMCP, this is important guidance!
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Joseph Azar
@parazarMay 29
Built a pottery app today, where your real hands throw virtual clay 🏺 Hand tracking > clay deformation > real-time physics No controller. No stylus. Just hands. Everything built within @omma_ai + threejs Model of the puppet hand: credit to LiamVandeWouwer (SketchFab)
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@measure_planMay 26
i made snake but the only way to move is by playing guitar chords
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