Comments for Brandon Checketts

Comment on Disney Should Have a Developer Program by Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:25:46 +0000

The benefit would be a bunch of innovation that they don’t have to fund themselves. They get lots of developers building stuff on top of their API with them having to design, develop, and maintain it. A marketplace and ecosystem of Disney and adjacent tools that comes up with things they don’t have time or resources to build, or haven’t even thought of.

Many other companies their size do this successfully (although in different industries). Amazon Web Services for technical tools. Shopify and most e-commerce platforms have robust marketplaces. The investment in a small team to standardize, monitor, and deal with approvals can lead to lots of new functionality. The can be eventually expanded even to reward the tools with commissions on things like hotel bookings or dining reservations during off-peak times.

Comment on Disney Should Have a Developer Program by Justin Hinerman

Justin Hinerman — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:23:37 +0000

Couldn’t agree more! Plus the tools out there today are probably so brittle – the second Disney changes an API, the tool breaks and developers have to reverse-engineer to get it working again.

Sadly, the investment probably doesn’t make sense for Disney. What’s the benefit for them that justifies that cost?

Comment on SSH Agent Forwarding – An Underutilized Essential Tool by grin

grin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:57:54 +0000

Indeed, agent forwarding is considered outright dangerous (unless only you control all forwarder machines). There are multiple “vulnerabilities” where forwarded agents may be caught/cloned and used to do nasty things, and if I remember correctly some of those are architectural attributes, not bugs.

https://rabexc.org/posts/pitfalls-of-ssh-agents

Comment on SSH Key Best Practices for 2025 – Using ed25519, key rotation, and other best practices by Vilius Šumskas

Vilius Šumskas — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:53:42 +0000

Great article! I think you could expand it a little bit in regards to key creation strategy, e.g. should individuals create only one key or should they be created per one individual per their device.

Regarding cloud providers, I don’t know AWS that much, but at least on Google Cloud there is what they call “OS Login”. It basically manages SSH keys for you, rotates them, etc., and then automatically provides the keys to VMs during login. Special lean binary (which acts as an SSH plugin) lets you in. Of course, this assumes that you trust Google with your private keys. On other hand, they probably could log in into VMs running on _their_ infra without you anyway 🙂

Comment on Disney Should Have a Developer Program by Brandon Checketts

Brandon Checketts — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:52:28 +0000

Also Disney Cruise itineraries and availability!

Comment on Tracking TCP connections with netstat by Alfonso

Alfonso — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:18:36 +0000

Fristly, thanks for your site. Secondly you can put netstat showing info in a continously way with the -c option. And finally, you can find a little explanation about those timers at the end of “man neststat”.
Apologies for my English.

Comment on SSH Key Best Practices for 2025 – Using ed25519, key rotation, and other best practices by Andy Barr

Andy Barr — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:53:48 +0000

What a brilliant article, really enjoyed reading this and the part about the comments and dates is a great idea!! Two years are just coming up for my keys, so will be rotating them very soon in the new year. Now I have to remember where I have pushed out the public key to!!

Just going to do a quick search to see if you have an article on securing the SSH Server setup as this would make my life complete!!

Comment on Twenty One Innovations From the Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser by Dither

Dither — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:41:48 +0000

The way the 2 big rides on Batuu are integrated into the GSC storyline.

Culinary. Making food from a Galaxy Far, Far Away approachable by everyone. Fancy names, comfort food taste. Similar with drinks in the Sublight Lounge.

Comment on SSH Key Best Practices for 2025 – Using ed25519, key rotation, and other best practices by Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:53:55 +0000

In reply to James French. Thanks for your explanation James. What you mentioned about signing host keys might make this worth me figuring it out

Comment on SSH Key Best Practices for 2025 – Using ed25519, key rotation, and other best practices by Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:50:15 +0000

In reply to Richard. Thanks Richard, I've made this more clear