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While this document starts strong and has some good points, it strongly conflates “scrum” with “agile” and goes downhill pretty quickly. > wrong answer: what’s a sprint cycle? You …

This is just rubbish. Safety arises from multiple dimensions - Kevlar-threaded armour is a single, last line of defence that helps only when everything else has failed. Actual safe…

> The needs of security are opposed to the needs of a convenient user experience. Improving one typically hurts the other. I must be Dr Contrary tonight but this strikes me as bull…

Safety is not a “luxury enabled by profit”. It’s one of many necessary dimensions for efficiently creating value over time. If you are a sole trader and you fall off a ladder and h…

These are just assertions with little to back them up. As TFA says, you can make all the same claims for REST. And GraphQL works the same as REST. But instead of a complex mishmash…

Unfortunately I’m on a bus to the airport for a couple of days so I’m a bit constrained. If you know Postgres, I would recommend taking a look at Postgraphile. It’s awesome, and co…

This is nonsense. GraphQL queries are simple HTTP requests, with no more complexity than REST. You POST a query string and some JSON and it’s done. If your client makes it harder t…

I’ve always felt that writing apps for Apple devices is more like creating phone accessories than building products. Apple cares about selling iPhones and other devices. If your id…

I don’t disagree with you in principle, but this history is not quite right. IIRC the IE6 team was shut down. Basically only Mozilla and Apple were building browsers at scale until…

Not my partner, but I bet they knew each other, it was a great little community and she was there for the better part of 20 years. Great parties in the 00’s!

Curious where that was? My partner was a jeweller in the Nicholas Building in Melbs.

The US has the worst health outcomes in the OECD - in particular for life expectancy, infant mortality, healthcare access, and chronic disease. So if you care about health, “anothe…

Allow me to introduce you to the Sackler family. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family

Why smart people continue to say this is beyond me. There were so many problems with the USSR - central planning, corruption, bureaucracy, secrecy, misaligned incentives - and it's…

Isn’t the only real difference that the yield function is being passed into the iterator instead of being a reserved word? I don’t think it’s clunky, although it took a few minutes…

What was the uptake like? Would be super handy to know how well it was tolerated or if there were any unexpected surprises. I’m pretty much decided on Capacitor for my new B2B SaaS…

Hmm, I recently found my old official “Zilog Z80 CPU Programmer’s Reference Guide” from October 1982. I thought I’d lost it. It was very much loved by my teenage self!

> I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled ove…

Yeah - I understand why they do this but I reckon they could have made them renewable without having to replace the tokens themselves. Also granular PATs still don’t work everywher…

Witness K and Bernard Collaery came to mind when I was writing it. They blew the whistle on illegal espionage used to pillage the resources of our tiny neighbour, and the governmen…

I understand that Wikileaks is controversial but I don't think there is any dispute that he has acted in the role of whistleblower to some extent. But that's not really the point I…

Are strong whistleblower protections what’s needed to balance this? As an Australian I am absolutely horrified that we continue to put people in jail who have blown the whistle on …

It feels this way with PATs as well, with legacy PATs still necessary for most of the things I use them for, despite being pushed into the newer ones. And the documentation is terr…

> For a long time the X Window System had a reputation for being difficult to configure. Honestly I thought it was hard to configure because until I used Linux, my X terminals didn…

I first used Slackware Linux off floppies in the mid 90s, yet every time I see linux in the browser I am gobsmacked. I’ve said for a while that a browser is basically its own opera…