14 April 2024

17 links · Sunday

Can You Grok It :: dade

My friend sent me a tunnel link where he had to manually set it up with socat and his nginx ingress controller in his k8s cluster. He made an offhand comment about needing a better way to setup tunnels and it got me thinking. This post is the result of a long …

Developing an integration option strategy

Do you have a product and want external developers to integrate with it? Deciding whether to build APIs, low-code, or no-code integration products can be tough. This article offers a strategy for deciding and ensuring developers integrating with your...

The Integers In Our Continuum

Could it be the case that integers are an artifact of a computational understanding of reality?

Revealed: The software scalability game | Samuel Lissner

Software scalability isn't just a fancy engineering exercise. It's a game where businesses need to level up. And if you can’t figure out how to play the game, you’ll probably never succeed to move your architecture to the next level.

Beware of EuroDNS – Ian's notes

Established in 2020, this site serves as a memory bank of notes and guides for me to reference again down the line, made public with the knowledge that others are likely to encounter simillar situations, especially in niche environments.

Implementing an SHA transformer by hand

So the first question, you, and any reasonable person, may have when seeing this post title is "why?? why would you ever do this?" Well, I have a pretty good reason—Andis and I came up with a scheme to insert undetectable backdoors into transformers, but it de…

My Cat Alerted Me to a DDoS Attack

A few years ago, my cat gave me my most memorable middle of the night software engineering incident. I was working at a startup, and we didn’t have a formal on-call rotation yet. That was a deliberate decision, since being on-call is painful, and the team was …

Action Breeds Clarity

Bid farewell to overthinking and embrace taking action to propel your growth. Learn how taking action breeds clarity and how this enhances your personal growth.

You probably don't need GraphQL

It might be surprising to hear the co-founder of a GraphQL company say you probably don't need it. Let me explain.