#Security
11 articles
Programmers Who Use Vim Are 47 Percent More Likely to Bring Up That They Use Vim
Study: Vim users mention Vim 2.7 times per conversation. .vimrc sent instead of lunch RSVP. Editor wars outlast heat death of universe.
I Wrote a Regex That Parses HTML and Now I Am Wanted in 14 Countries
A 4,847 character regex parses HTML in production. It sometimes matches things not in the DOM. The regex has a bug bounty from security team.
Crypto Mining Heat Is Now the Primary Source of Heating in 3 Countries
Crypto mining heats 3 nations. Hashrate correlates with winter. Summer blackouts are a problem. Grid now runs on proof of stake.
Brain Computer Interfaces Let Me Send Slack Messages by Thinking and Now I Cannot Stop Thinking About Work
Brain computer interface lets me think Slack messages. Now I dream in standup updates. My therapist is documenting this case.
Edge Computing Is Just Your Old Desktop PC With a Fancy Name
Edge computing: take an old Dell, put it in a closet, call it a micro data center. Latency is great. Reliability is not.
I Quit My Job to Become a Full Time Open Source Maintainer and Now I Live in a Cardboard Box
14,000 GitHub stars. 14 sponsors. $47 per month total. One sponsor sends $1 per month with a note: please fix issue 2847.
The Board Rejected My Promotion Because My GitHub Contribution Graph Was Not Green Enough
Promotion denied: GitHub graph not green enough. I work on private repos. Board said private contributions lack visible impact.
Our Onboarding Process Takes 6 Weeks but It Takes 8 Weeks to Get Laptop Access
6 weeks of onboarding. 8 weeks for laptop setup. You spend 2 weeks in the office with no computer. They call it observational learning.
The Company Retreat Was a Mandatory 3 Day Hackathon in a Windowless Warehouse
Mandatory hackathon. 3 days. No windows. Cold pizza. The winning project was a Slack bot that orders slightly warmer pizza.
Our Production Database Runs on a Raspberry Pi in a Bathroom and Nobody Knows
Raspberry Pi runs 47,000 queries per day from the bathroom. Boss thinks it is a Postgres cluster. For 2 years.