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tompic823

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About tompic823

https://pic.dev

Former Co-Founder & CTO at Doppler (W19)

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    I wonder what impact this will have on Mozilla's OpenSSH configuration guide[0], which currently specifies `chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com` as its primary cipher. Should that be dro…

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    I'm the CTO of a popular Secrets Management platform. It's fair to say that I personally have a lot of experience with secrets and requirements around them, based on conversations …

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    Comment #34962510

    When this deal was originally announced, Adobe's stock took a ~10% hit. Now that the deal is getting blocked, their stock is again taking a hit? I certainly can't claim to understa…

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    Comment #34445955

    You're exactly right about those two problems, and they actually go together quite well. If a user who previously had access to a secret suddenly has that access revoked, you shoul…

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    Comment #34395428

    Our process never includes ghosting anybody, even when we pass on a candidate, so something must have gone very wrong here. Could you email me at thomas@[company domain]? I'll look…

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    Comment #34383713

    At Doppler we have a strong culture of engineering excellence, thorough PR review, security, automation/CI, and helping each other succeed. We give engineers 30% time to work on th…

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    Comment #30858890

    Co-founder/CTO of Doppler here. I'd agree that Doppler currently focuses very heavily on UX. We aim to fit into developer workflows, regardless of where devs run their code. This i…

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    Comment #29151542

    This is another good read buried in the body of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29135559 .

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    Comment #27495776

    Doppler solves this problem by storing your secrets in the cloud *hand wave*. In actuality, the Doppler CLI (a Go binary) fetches your secrets from Doppler's API and injects them a…

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    Comment #25978612

    This solves a very real problem that some services like GitHub [0] have started to address. Auth tokens are being committed to public repos at an alarming rate. Detecting this and …

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    Comment #25953040

    Really interesting development in the section titled "Crash Monitoring?": > An interesting side effect of the new processing pipeline is that imagent is now able to detect when an …

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    Comment #25864970

    I haven't gone as far as emailing support, but my single tweet asking if there would be a postmortem after a previous incident did not receive a reply. My other tweets to them, suc…

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    Comment #25864228

    I'm a happy Fastmail customer, but the number of outages recently has been a little concerning. There has been at least one outage per month for the past several months. And what's…