Seth Larson

@sethmlarson.dev

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Python core developer, Security & Fellow of Python Software Foundation (@python.org) 🐍 Minnesoootan, he/him, #Python, #opensource, #security #retrogaming 🌐 https://sethmlarson.dev

Video game store shelves full of retro and new video games.

Tetra from Wind Waker on the back of the Four Swords Adventures manual

Two boxes, manuals and GameCube disks for supposedly Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures +…. But the right disk is blue green and the left disk is green… the right disk is for LOZ Wind Waker not Four Swords Adventures!

Seth Larson and Mirko Swillus leading a session during the UN Open Source Week "Maintain-a-thon" on LLMs and vulnerability handling for Open Source projects.

A Python pull request with a semicolon unexpectedly...

Floppy disk with “urllib3==2.7.0” and a urllib3 sticker on the label.

HackerNews front page showing "Hand Drawn QR Codes" and "The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls" at positions 14 and 25.

On the left, the original Japanese title screen. On the right, the title screen with the English translation patch applied: "For the Frog the Bell Tolls". The official title translation referenced by Nintendo is "The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls".

Picture of my “Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru” Game Boy cartridge.

Trailblazing Python Security talk track in app with a button that says "Favorite all Trailblazing Python Security" talks.

Dizzy Sheep Distaster EX, Retro Dot Cards Series One, e-xtender for the Analogue Pocket, original Retro Dot Cards Solitaire pre-release card, and an e-Reader oeripheral.

Lego set for the Gameboy DMG

Phone with two Pocket Tacos on either end completely obscuring the emulator on screen.

List of Nintendo racing games like Mario Kart, F-Zero, and Kirby Air Ride grouped by console.

A table showing different Mario Kart titles along with the columns "Platform", "Year", "Portable?", "Local?", "LAN?", "Wireless?", and "Game Sharing?". The columns contain true or false boolean values, and the "true" values are highlighted in green.

A fridge magnet of the Peanuts character "Snoopy" in a giant red puffer coat

Blogroll featuring many other blogs, but a single blog title appears heavily corrupted, covering all the other parts of the screen with garbled demon-text.

GitHub contributor graph style boxes of blue and red showing days playing particular consoles.

Playdate console running a simple game with the text "Hello from sethmlarson.dev" and a QR code to https://sethmlarson.dev/getting-started-with-playdate-on-ubuntu

Playing Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles on iOS using the Delta emulator

Table showing food sprites for Kirby Air Ride, Smash Bros Melee, Brawl, 3DS, Wii U, and Ultimate. The rows shown are apples, bananas, bread, burgers, and cake.

RSS feed reader item titled "Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden II, Bionic Commando, and Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters" are now available on Nintendo Classics.

Numbers either highlighted or not in a list. Numbers are highlighted inconsistently, based on whether the browser is automatically detecting a phone number or not.

Kirby Air Ride for the GameCube released in 2003.

Table showing the before and after Ice Pikmin percentage chances of completing a decor set for a number of seedlings collected. For example, if you collect 20 seedlings before Ice Pikmin you'd have a 70.4% chance of completing the set versus only 53.1% chance of completing the set with Ice Pikmin. This represents a 17.3% chance drop in likelihood of completing the set with this amount of seedlings.

ASCII art of an X-Wing, TIE fighter, and imperial lambda shuttle

Railroad diagram showing the words "reblog", "retweet", "retoot", "reskoot", "reskeet", "repost".

Graph showing the total values of each platform available on Nintendo Classics over time.

Table showing columns for Platform, Total ($), number of Games, and price per game. Table data is:

| NES | $1,980 | 91 | $21 |
| SNES | $3,600 | 83 | $43 |
| Game Boy (& GBC) | $1,615 | 41 | $39 |
| Nintendo 64 | $1,130 | 42 | $26 |
| Sega Genesis | $2,910 | 51 | $57 |
| Game Boy Advance | $930 | 30 | $31 |
| GameCube | $640 | 9 | $71 |
| Virtual Boy | $2,580 | 14 | $184 |

Table showing all treasures collected in JP, US, and PAL except for the "Prototype Detector" which is highlighted as missing for PAL.

SMS URLs containing a single recipient and optional body

Table showing Genesis games with prices, other columns labeled "Mega", "SADX", "Gems", "Origins", and "NSO".

Table showing Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Chibi-Robo, Pokemon Colloseum, and F-Zero GX coming to NSO+ GameCube Classics

Platinum GameCube with an attached memory card with a screen. The screen shows "Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door". There's a red arrow pointing to a separate screen showing Seth's Discord status with "Playing GameCube. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door" and the cover art for the game.

Discord Rich Status showing Seth playing the game "Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door" on his physical GameCube console.

Table showing Pikmin 2 (JP and NA) with last play times and total play times. Pikmin 2 JP had been played for 2+ hours, Pikmin 2 NA had been played 5+ hours.

Seth standing in front of a crowd presenting a talk "Security work isn't special" with the characters N-apostrophe-T are striked-out horizontally.

Dark presentation hall with the words "Phantom Dependencies" in red spooky text. Photo credit: Dustin Ingram

Table showing Pikmin 2 treasures for the "Shower Room" cave with the entire "Japan" region collected and rows for the US and PAL (EU) specific treasures not yet collected.

Table showing Pikmin 2 treasures, regions, and areas along with collected datetimes. Some of the treasures have been collected, some haven't yet been collected.

Platinum GameCube disassembled on a desk

Animal Crossing character set in a table being mapped to Unicode characters on a web page.

A graph showing "diversity of mediums" being high in the past and then all converging to "TikTok" as time goes on.

Seth and Justin smiling with two bags of Bogarts Donuts

Slowly spinning chocolate Oreo cookie that looks like a record. In the center are the words "OREO" and "POST".

Email from PyPI reading:

" A Trusted Publisher for project truststore was just used from a CI/CD job configured with a GitHub environment. The environment used was: Deploy.

Since the Trusted Publisher is configured to allow any environment, for security reasons we recommend constraining it to only one.

If you are an owner of this project, you can automatically constrain this Trusted Publisher to 'Deploy' by following this link: constrain publisher.

Alternatively, you can do this manually by going to the project's publishing settings, deleting the existing Trusted Publisher and creating a new one with the environment set to 'Deploy'."

Title: Connection without Connectivity in Animal Crossing.

Dōbutsu no Mori+ (どうぶつの森+), known as "Animal Crossing" in the Americas, was released on the GameCube in December 2001 in Japan. The game was ported and localized from the game Dōbutsu no Mori which released on the N64 in April of the same year.

According to director Katsuya Eguchi (江口勝也), Animal Crossing features three themes: “family, friendship, and community”