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The Daily Standup Is a Waste of Time
Daily standups feel like a waste of time. I will teach you two new techniques the will make every minute count.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,497 posts.
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The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
The headline is pretty self-explanatory so in the interest of time, let me just jump directly into the details of how this all works. There's been huge interest in this incident, and I've seen near-unprecedented traffic to Have I Been Pwned [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/
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Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
Abusing CRLF, cache poisoning, and other misconfigurations for a no-interaction XSS against GitHub Private Pages.
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Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
Over the last few years, the software development community’s love affair with the popular open-source relational database has reached a…
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Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals
Non-Judicial Punishment is a key part of democracy and free-market capitalism, and highly problematical, at the same time.
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Strong software tips from 2000 that are 100% valid today
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…
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Apple can own I/O to own the universe
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
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Git as a NoSql Database (2016)
Git’s man-pages state that it’s a stupid content tracker. It’s probably the most used version control system in the world. Which is very strange, since it doesn’t describe itself as being a source control system. And in fact, you can use git to track any
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Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
Crusader Kings III is a pretty impressive game. It’s impressive not only for its official content, but also for its extensive modding…
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Elixir and Phoenix after two years
Thoughts on the Elixir language and its Phoenix framework after two years of professional work.
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Things I learned while developing a billing system
Half a year ago, I joined Pleo, a FinTech startup with around 15,000 customers (we’re always hiring at Pleo!). I joined to take on and further develop the billing infrastructure. When I joined, I was actually a bit concerned about the narrowness of the new role and the new team. I mean, really… How much […]
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Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software
For a while now I’ve been telling people that I want Polypane to be prescriptive, not descriptive. In this article I want to expand on that and explain what I mean when I say “prescriptive”. I usually explain it like this: there is no shortage of tooling that will tell you everything you do wrong […]
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Teaching Machiavelli through his letters
Hello! It’s been a while since I posted since, as usual, many projects press, so it’s rare for me to have the time to write the kinds of polished essays I like sharing here. But I’ve been hoping to share more things, since a lot of the history work I’ve been doing lately has helped me with reflecting on current…
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Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019)
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Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators
In a follow-up to his first article about Moses Schönfinkel, Stephen Wolfram looks for the whereabouts of Schönfinkel after 1924 through his family history.
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Exploring Databases Visually
Things you can do with a terminal emulator that renders images: generate contextual entity-relationship diagrams and navigate your data model from the inside!
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Against Hickelism
Poverty is falling, and it isn't because of free-market capitalism
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The Lost Apps of the 80s
In an email conversation, Ray Ozzie and I talked about all the writing tools of the 80s that didn't transiiton to the web.
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Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity
Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press.
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Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2021175 points47 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This post is also available in audio form, thanks to the efforts of our volunteer narrator. This is the first half of the fourth part of our four part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb) look at the production …
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On Cache Invalidation: Why Is It Hard? (2018)
Many people must have heard this quote (by Phil Karlton) many times: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. Two days ago, Nick Tierney mentioned it …
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I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD
When it rains it pours. After making a splash with D , 1 I remembered that some time ago I began an attempt to bring the GNU Modula-2 compiler to OpenBSD . Because why not? Modula-2 is a language that exists and has compiler implementations. I guess my goal is to bring all the languages and compilers to OpenBSD. And…
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Apple 2001
David Shayer worked at Apple for 14 years, and he has a wild experience to share. Apple has a unique culture, and David will give us an insider view of what it was like for him at Apple during the 2000s, roughly between 2001 to 2015 when Apple transformed into the powerhouse that it is today. David worked as a…
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My experience releasing failed SaaS products
Build it and they will come! In the 1989 classic: Field of Dreams an Iowa farmer has a vision to bulldoze a portion of his corn crop in…
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Tales from Prediction Markets
Prediction markets are fun, at least if you're making money.
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“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
Note: I link to a bunch of paywalled studies in this essay. Please do not use sci-hub to access them for free and do not use this trick (a) to easily redirect papers to sci-hub. For the clearest example of deliberate data manipulation, see how Walker edits out the data that contradicts his argument from the graph…
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said, it’s because compensation isn’t merely…
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Ergodicity, What's It Mean
Ensemble averages and time averages