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Good write up of security vulnerabilities in a useful web-based tool for Google Cloud that should be relatively simple. It wasn't as simple as the authors intended.

Interesting security bug in Google Cloud's IAP, from 2021. Since fixed. https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/concepts-overview

My crusty Python code implementing EPUB, with the conforming uncompressed mimetype file as first member in the archive: https://github.com/davidwtbuxton/ucflib/blob/e576fb97fc2a2ea…

I got hooked by the stereotypical 1970s production and the decidedly untelegenic (but informative) introduction from Dick MacKinnon, but the whole thing is a fascinating view of in…

Relevant Computer Chronicles episode from 1988: BUS wars https://youtu.be/aYt4ZPxVkSs IBM engineer responding to the accusation that MCA is proprietary (around 14' 15"): "I really …

I am guessing the commenter means computing with and without use of your fingers on touch screens.

My memory of Frak! on the model B was glacial speeds, but looked great.

I was interested to read about got, which uses the same on-disk format as git. https://man.openbsd.org/ports-current/got.1 The command-line interface is consistent and minimal. It …

That UI only made sense if you already understood: - That there were 4 octets in an IP address. - Class-based IP addressing. - Subnet bit masks. The UI that replaced it was an impr…

Also this https://github.com/xeno14/recordio

From the article: > That program, which he described as a “shell” around the computer’s whirring innards, gave inspiration—and a name—to an entire class of software tools, called c…

I found this article via Wikipedia as a result of wondering why unix shells are named so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)

I was at a private boarding school, aged 10 in 1985. They had a computer lab with ~20 BBC model B's and we were taught BASIC, how to load and run programs from tape, how to use thi…

Also Threads, from the same era, incredibly bleak depiction of British society in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. https://youtu.be/vgT4Y30DkaA (For those who haven't seen it, it…

I've seen UTF-8 with a BOM while consuming data when integrating with strongly Windows-centric environments. Relatively uncommon, but does happen. And it is very annoying!

Yes, but I still want this for combining dictionaries. Python already violates this property, I don't find it confusing. Python 3.7.2 (default, Dec 30 2018, 08:55:50) [Clang 10.0.0…

WebDAV wasn't a native Exchange protocol. But it was officially supported for Exchange server 2003/2007, and used heavily by Mac Entourage 2004/2008 to connect to Exchange servers …

Me too. I love In Our Time, so many interesting subjects and I think it is a very well produced programme.

> Simpler code almost always wins. Predicting the future is hard, refactoring simple code that does the minimum it needs to is comparatively easy. Don't write what-if code, YAGNI. …