Branden Williams

Hilarious that after @lastweektonight.com's expose on Medicare Advantage scams, I'm seeing a TON of these ads now. I was probably immune to them but it definitely is something anyone with aging parents should review.

SSH Proxy, Using a Jumphost Those who know me know about my love of the Raspberry Pi. I’ve got tons of them stashed around various places to provide a variety of services. One thing I use them for is to allow me access …

Those who know me know about my love of the Raspberry Pi. I've got tons of them stashed around various places to provide a variety of services. Check out this post to see how I use them to manage remote networks!

www.brandenwilliams.com/blog/2025/10...

How could Texas’ new workforce training laws impact students, companies? Texans looking for work could receive additional support under new state laws designed to reinforce career training.

Texans looking for work could receive additional support under new state laws designed to reinforce the career training that has positioned Texas as a leader in workforce development.

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress Find your members of Congress by typing in your address on Congress.gov.

Blow up your representatives phones. Fill their email boxes. Tell them your name, your address, the fact you are a constituent, and exactly your thoughts about what is happening. Even if you didn't vote in the last election, you can still have an impact today.

www.congress.gov/members/find...

Analysis | Fact-checking 26 suspect claims in Trump’s address to Congress President Donald Trump makes false claims about border crossings, regulations, the economy, inflation and many other issues.

He broke the Pinocchio scale and his fans ate it up.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help

Tech Support

Still one of my favorite XKCDs. It's so tough to get to people who actually know how to solve problems.

xkcd.com/806/

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Effect on... : Urogynecology imated $1.29 billion reduction in 2020 costs if they replaced the Medicare prices. Objectives We sought to investigate the savings for all drugs commonly used in urogynecology. Study Design We r...

We are ready to help pave a path for lower medication and healthcare costs for taxpayers

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One thing that I find really great about the Fediverse is there isn't an arbitrarily small character limit. 300 characters is too small for the last post I did on Mastodon & LinkedIn. Kind of a bummer that BlueSky has this capped.

The memes from this game are going to be epic.

Level Up Cybersecurity with Kasm Workspaces Ever look at plethora of browser tabs staring back at you with "I'll check this out later" vibes and feel the urge to mercy-close the ones that just wont get done anytime soon? Browser tabs are now another subtle, nagging to-do list that gets neglected or ignored. I'm specifically referring to the tabs in the middle of your window that you pinky-promised you would revisit.

Level Up Cybersecurity with Kasm Workspaces

Ever look at plethora of browser tabs staring back at you with "I'll check this out later" vibes and feel the urge to mercy-close the ones that just wont get done anytime soon? Browser tabs are now another subtle, nagging to-do list that gets neglected…

Working on a blog post to talk about how awesome my experience with KASM Workspaces has been last week. Every security pro should have one of these setups in their lab.

CFPB sues big banks over Zelle fraud The financial protection watchdog agency thinks banks are at fault for rampant fraud on Zelle.

Zelle finally getting the light shone on it by the CFPB. I find it amazing how much extra work goes into fraud prevention, and how somehow Zelle and the operators have escaped Reg E responsibilities: www.morningbrew.com/stories/2024...

pgMail 1.5 Released! Well, it's pretty rare that I get anyone talking about my old PostgreSQL email stored procedure, but here we are. I wrote this thing almost 25 years ago to essentially replicate the functionality of xp_sendmail into PostgreSQL. I released it to the world, because I knew other people would have this issue. And as it turned out, they absolutely do.

pgMail 1.5 Released!

Well, it's pretty rare that I get anyone talking about my old PostgreSQL email stored procedure, but here we are. I wrote this thing almost 25 years ago to essentially replicate the functionality of xp_sendmail into PostgreSQL. I released it to the world, because I knew other…

pgMail v1.5 now released! Added utf-8 encoding support as well as updated the sample scripts and README to reflect current PostgreSQL 15+ installations. More details here: www.brandolabs.com/pgmail/

You may not understand why, but the healthcare insurance and PBM contracts YOU have signed for Tesla, SpaceX , @X, along with CEOs of other big companies , have more impact on healthcare costs and quality of care in this country, than anything you can do with DOGE

Let’s Encrypt for non-webservers Let's say you want to use Let's Encrypt for something that isn't a website. So you download certbot, you get things going with your manual cert, and you realize that when it goes to rotate you will need to restart some services. When you go look through the docs, it's not very clear on how to do this exactly. So here's my post to remind myself what I did (and if it helps you as well, then hooray!).

Let’s Encrypt for non-webservers

Let's say you want to use Let's Encrypt for something that isn't a website. So you download certbot, you get things going with your manual cert, and you realize that when it goes to rotate you will need to restart some services. When you go look through the docs,…

Blog post coming tomorrow on using letsencrypt on non-web services!

Same.

Done. Joined the ranks of others here by deleting all my tweets and pointing people here and to Mastodon.

One of the best new features of our PCI DSS 4.0 book is this index-by-requirement! Check it out: www.facebook.com/watch/?mibex...

APA 7th Edition, A Basic 101 Course YouTube video by Dr. Branden Williams

Term papers are due! Are you struggling with APA formatting in your collegiate studies? My students were too, so I made a quick 16 minute video to help ensure you don't end up in an academic dishonesty conversation. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U48W...

Been on my list to do this for a while, but Twitter is officially deactivated. Not getting a whole lot of value over there for the last couple of years, and I'm glad to be here.

Guessing financial services orgs will be updating their Social Media Risk profiles based on the Chase TikTok thing that happened over the weekend.

Anyone else updating their Debian boxes from their phone while sitting in a brewery on the road?

Just me?

Technology is awesome.

Stefanik famously campaigned with great replacement rhetoric.

Ten Things Companies Get Wrong About CIAM Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) is a core component of creating your digital user experience. If you are unfamiliar with Customer Identity and Access Management, it is the process by…

Ten Things Companies Get Wrong about Customer Identity: www.brandenwilliams.com/blog/2024/01...

Are there others you can think of that I missed? Let me know!

#ciam #customeridentity #identity

Thanks to the awesome audience at #HOUSECCON who attended my talk!
This show is amazing this year. Been a minute since I’ve been here to speak and I absolutely plan on coming back next year!

Really digging LinkStack as a self-hosted option. Need to write a mailchimp integration and create a pull request!