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I read Atlas Shrugged recently. I went in not knowing anything about the book or author. I liked it for maybe half way through and despised it by the end. Reading about the author …

Just one more data point but this is what I’m seeing too. The extreme ‘ruthless’ prioritization has stopped and devs (who want it) have breathing room to make the enhancements they…

> One caveat: my experience comes mainly from working on infrastructure and developer tools at large companies, on teams where engineers have a lot of bottom-up autonomy to influen…

I can’t say I know much about kernels, but what you say rings true. It’s not unlike the micro service vs monolith argument. It depends on the use cases, but in a system where the m…

With any ORM, N+1 queries can be major performance problem. They can be a bit tricky to identify because individually the queries are fast, but when you execute N of them per reque…

This is just one of the many reasons I don't have the disposition to be in sales

I remember sitting in on a sales meeting early in my career. I kept quiet, but afterwards I complained to my manager that they were selling features that didn’t exist and conflicte…

I don’t have great hearing, so I’m not sure I can really weigh in here (thanks punk concerts in my teens). I remember similar arguments around screens and 60Hz vs ‘the human eye’. …

Ah yes, totally secure. I’m sure there will be no unforeseen problems or bypasses.

I’ve been very involved with the DNS blocking scene- and it’s extremely easy to circumvent. I always wonder if there are some principled nerds on the architecture side purposely de…

I doubt the ‘average consumer’ is even using a password manager, let alone going to change their password because of something so common place as it being compromised.

It’s been a little over a week since ‘An update on GitHub availability’ > Our priorities are clear: availability first, then capacity, then new features. Let’s see how long it take…

My experience is not much different then what you listed, except I discussed programming with my math teacher. She said as long as I was the one who programmed it, and that I didn’…

I’ve seen another pattern, I call it “The Document Mongerer”: I regularly work in a largish monolith. We have micro services too, but most things are in the monolith. Over the year…

I’m seeing big wins with AI, but not at the product level. I’m excited about the progress, though maybe I should be questioning our priorities more. There is so much hype around AI…

Merge queues are great. The bug only affected repos using merge queues AND squash/rebase merging (instead of the default merge commit)

> I was suddenly overwhelmed with purposelessness My kids are young enough that I don’t need to worry about it yet, but I can totally see how I might have the same issue. Beyond ju…

The thing about active mines is that they expand. I’m not saying you should be concerned, but “it’s a mine away” is just a single data point

It’s a nice idea, but why not donate directly? https://www.winehq.org/donate

I’ve seen this too, but mostly with the ‘team lead’ seniors- the ones interested in the management track. On the other hand, a SE2 was asking me for help with something that was wa…

I don’t think it was clear, but thanks for the insight. Was WolfSSL forced upon Elixir or Erlang? Did they purchase it and received a defective product? Are they held hostage by Wo…

> Asking me to open a new issue to discuss this behavior instead of it being a high priority for them to open up a new issue internally to fix this is odd. I'm not here to do their…

> if I don't do it, nothing gets done I work for a midsized fintech and I feel the same way. At least about the tech side of things.

I know this is a joke, but in all seriousness it will probably be locked to a Samsung Thermostat controller with a screen - which can absolutely show ads - and require an App with …

These are not JavaScript zero-day bugs, they are tooling bugs. researchers said the new bypass bugs were found in npm, pnpm, vlt, and Bun.