Dave explains how the Cloud exposes us to aggregated, correlated risks rather than the types of failures we have become accustomed to in the PC age. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Rapid Fix: https://amzn.to/48WkG4x For the Sl…
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How we pwned X (Twitter), Vercel, Cursor, Discord, and hundreds of companies through a supply-chain attack - writeup.md
Envisioning the Test Client A few months ago I started playing around with Oracle Streams and .NET. I wanted to build a sample streaming solution. However like most developers I lacked having multiple devices that I could point at my solution to test...
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A measured-yet-opinionated plea to try HTMX. Skip the React complexity, skip the raw HTML limitations. There's a third option.
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
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Many claim that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from theirs.
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We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.
Starting with OBS Studio 32.0.0 a new renderer backend based on Apple's Metal graphics API is available for users to test as an experimental alternative to the existing OpenGL …
I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning.
How SQLite Is Tested
This blogpost is a synopsis of my personal journey chasing apparent oddities in the way my laptop’s brightness is set. a new laptop A few months ago my (not so) old thinkpad was falling apart. The delete key was missing (which, does not lead to less mistakes, …
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Day over day, year over year, AI is driving down the cost of writing code. Economists have a word for what happens when stuff keeps getting cheaper: deflation. And you do things…
After working in financial industry for a while you kind of become desensitised to lots of financial concepts or terminology. I realized it when I learned about a Luhn Algorithm or Luhn Check. This algorithm is a very basic checksum algorithm that works every …
Cristina Cordova - COO at Linear, angel investor, and former partnerships leader at Notion and Stripe
This post explains how I reduced the memory footprint of my Flutter-based macOS app by over 90%. This took a surprising amount of effort and included building my own flutter host, creating a custom drag & drop plugin and debugging a bunch of Rust code.
Postfix macros is the feature proposal that would allow something.macro!(x, y, z). It’s been stalled for a long time on some design issues; in this blog post I’m exploring an idea that could answer these issues.
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An article from Epsilon3 on best practices when drafting work instructions and test procedures for space missions.
Recently, I reverse engineered a dating app called Sheytoon1 and announced this on cyberplace dot com and X dot com. This app is mostly focused on dating between Iranian people. As you know, Iran is like an open-source repository, because neither the people no…
What happens when you stop protecting engineers from customers?
C# 14’s field keyword helps reduce property boilerplate code. This article examines the IL code behind the new keyword and highlights caveats you must know before refactoring your codebase.
The phrase "how are you?" bothers me when its wielder does not truly intend to discuss the other person's wellbeing. In my experience, more than 50% of conversations begun with this question start squarely in such territory. Of course, I'm guilty of mindless v…
When apps fail, when software breaks, you'll likely encounter a message constructed from a specific vocabulary: "Oops!" "Uh oh!" "Whoops!" Sometimes you'll get the full nursery treatment: an "Oopsie-daisy" with a sad cartoon robot making a pouty face. The lan…
I have a proposal: Make me CEO of Mozilla instead of Anthony Enzor-DeMeo.
It is a common ritual, grepping through http handlers or spelunking in a project’s Slack when you just want to know how to hit the auth endpoint. But it doesn’t have to be like this! If your service or app exposes or consumes an http api it should have .http f…
Security for everyone. Docker Hardened Images are now free to use, share, and build on with no licensing surprises.