Here’s one such example, which is also an interesting technical deep dive: https://signal.org/blog/building-faster-oram/

The gold standard for this would be a Hardware Security Module (HSM), which is essentially a device that stores private keys with certain guarantees of physical security (e.g, that private key material cannot be extracted from the device once it has been generated or placed there, and the device performs operations using the key material on behalf of some client).

HSMs in various forms underpin all sorts of cryptosystems that society depends on, because securing private key material at rest is essential. You'll find them everywhere from your debit/credit card, to certificate authorities, financial institutions, defense, and your smartphone.

For your use case, I'd recommend taking a look at Yubikeys. I did a writeup a while back on how to use them to store different types of private keys for various purposes:

https://blog.ctis.me/2022/12/yubikey-piv-gpg/

[1] https://bundler.io/guides/bundler_in_a_single_file_ruby_scri...

>This means that the slowest computers hold back the fastest computers […]

It works so well because you’ve optimized the system’s design with respect to its bottleneck. Check out the theory of constraints :)

It's designed to military standards and to be as individually transportable as other military communications equipment:

> Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 5 (IL5) accreditation

> rugged and portable design that meets stringent accreditation requirements like MIL-STD-810H

> The appliance can be conveniently transported in a rugged case

> Weighing approximately 100lbs, it's human-portable, making it easy to transport and deploy in various locations.

> disaster zones, remote research stations, or long-haul trucking operations

Military operations are all three of these.

Its design enables the offline self-hosting of cloud surveillance tools:

> Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is designed to operate without any connectivity to Google Cloud or the public internet. The appliance remains fully functional in disconnected environments

> built-in AI solutions from the Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance like translation, speech, and optical character recognition

What about facial recognition?

I run a large Meetup group for software developers in the Tampa Bay Area [0]

We’re multi-platform, and essentially a technology vendor for other Meetup groups in Tampa ([1]). While our overall community spans ~4,000 distinct people, only ~2,300 of those are Meetup members [1],[2]

I’ve built a ton of unique integrations around Meetup, and have built a ton of custom integrations with Meetup’s API (such as [3],[4])

If you’d like to get in touch, please do send an email to the address on our GitHub org [5]. Would love to see more competition in this space!

[0] https://tampadevs.com

[1] https://tampa.dev

[2] https://go.tampa.dev/meetup

[3] https://github.com/tampadevs/events.api.tampa.dev

[4] https://go.tampa.dev/unityops

[5] https://github.com/tampadevs

[0] https://ctis.me/s/git

I've been working on Tampa Devs with the other co-founder since September of 2021, along with a group of really excellent volunteers.

We're a nonprofit that's loosely inspired by nyc's Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/). We host events, a mentorship program, and career development resources. All of which are free or very low cost.

Our community has grown to include thousands of local developers. It feels good to be part of something that drives a widely positive impact, especially on a local level. Anyone can do something similar no matter where they are, and I would highly recommend it.

For a cool technical angle, here's a talk I gave at a local conference on the tools we use to run our community at scale: https://go.tampa.dev/unityops.

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Like the author, as well as many who have commented, I've long been disappointed in the gap between macOS' support for advanced use cases (which I need), and the iPad's portability (which I like).

I picked up a Surface Go 3. Having an actual desktop OS on a well-built, decently powerful (albeit hot at times) tablet struck the perfect balance for me. Wish I had done it years ago.

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My organization is itself a 501c3, and our charitable mission is to provide developers with opportunities to learn and network. We do this by organizing monthly technical meetings, networking events, career panels, and hackathons. All at no cost to our members (no fees, tickets, or dues).

We also provide support to a larger network of meetup groups in the Tampa Bay area [2]. These groups are more specialized into specific disciplines/areas of interest. Many of these died out during the pandemic so rehabilitating that scene is an important mission for us as well.

[1] https://www.tampadevs.com/ [2] https://tampa.dev/

[1] https://xpirit.com/contact/#usa

After sorting out a couple minor snags in the build process (particularly around getting cross-compilation to work on Linux in GitHub Actions, and library validation entitlements for code signing), the finished builds work wonderfully on the M1 machines we've tested with.

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I’ve just released sssecrets. Sssecrets is a Ruby gem for generating secrets (like API tokens, etc) in line with best practices.

Sssecrets is a reusable implementation of GitHub's API token format (which is also used by NPM), and it's designed to make it simple for developers to issue secure secret tokens that are easy to detect when leaked. Structured Secrets are a compact format with properties that are optimized for detection with static analysis tools. This makes it possible to automatically detect when secrets are leaked in a codebase using features like GitHub Secret Scanning or GitLab Secret Detection.

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