Viewing profile — jlward4th

I'm not an expert on this, but know enough to know the KVM doesn't need its own IP. In fact, the KVM I replaced it with provides ethernet to both my machines (at the same time) wit…

The network was active for both machines connected to it. And it had its own IP. So 3 MAC addresses in total. I didn't ever open it up. But maybe someone will be interested in buyi…

The KVM didn't have any documentation on anything related to its network interface. I ran a port scan on it but didn't know if there was a way to log into it.

It is this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP4PD3SM I did post a review there citing my security concerns. Honestly I didn't go further with the investigation because if someone r…

I recently discovered a similar concerning security issue with my KVM. In my case it was a pretty standard KVM for multiple machines to share a keyboard, mouse, and screen but also…

We are working with the Effect folks and will make some noise about it with them. Otherwise, you can follow me on X: James Ward

Shilling my book "Effect Oriented Programming" https://effectorientedprogramming.com/ The book uses Scala & ZIO but intends to be more about the concepts of Effects than the actual…

I'm definitely biased but I think Kotlin for Desktop apps ( https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-desktop/ ) will take a lot of the energy in this space.

Author here. Yeah, the Go language feels very archaic when using more modern languages. Some things I miss when I use Go: immutability as a default, monadic error handling, type cl…