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I typically buy books with mine but I'm open to new ideas this year. Curious to hear what others have spent theirs on.

"Triumph of the Nerds" Discusses the history of computing and the rise and fall of tech companies as the industry changed. It's old but worth it imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

It is brittle but an evil compiler can account for that by attempting to compile the hacked program and falling back to real compilation if it gets a compilation error. It could ev…

Yeah I discuss this at the end of the post. Will link it here: The current best known defense is Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC), introduced by David Wheeler in 2009. To briefly sum…

> This is something that could easily occur with scripting languages, backend systems, open source, closed source, etc. Basically any black-box system that takes in some input coul…

Here's one on Quora. This story actually inspired me to write this blog post: https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answe...