As I'm more involved in organizational leadership my work is more and more "key presentations to higher level executives". Helpful content.

Data is hard. This is why science takes years until there is real consensus on facts.

Automated testing is not about bugs, but about productivity. For business success, productivity (within limits) doesn't matter that much. Building the right thing at the right time matters. That's why product management is such a high level bit.

I've indulged in snark, sarcasm, being bitter and mean about things I didn't like, and I want to say... It wasn't worth it. I regret it. Snark leads to anger... [Fill in Yoda's quote] It always ends toxic. Life’s too short to be snarky all the time. It’s just not worth it.

It shouldn't be that simple to have the top linux, git and curl developer show up in a fake project. Just a test, but a disaster waiting to happen with blind trust. Need scalable solutions - signed/verified commits, trusted identities, etc- github.com/azeemshaikh38/…

Proof that fuzzing can discover exploitable vulnerabilities that aren't memory corruption! OSS-Fuzz discovered a very interesting command injection vulnerability which was just fixed: github.com/syoyo/tinygltf…

So much this. Teaching my now 4.5yo stuff, the best first <thing> is always the one that motivates you to learn.

Four reasons why I think authorship on academic papers should be more like movie credits:

Since I've become a manager I've got better and better at sheets. Finally less need to bring appscript in.

OSS development is inefficient (velocity wise) because time to feedback for anything that's not a leaf project is way too long. Some ecosystems are faster than others, but TTF should be minutes or at most hours. Are there any large software ecosystem that truly live at head?

Change cost scales with organizational size. Combined with a long tail, that means that break-even for fundamentally good changes in large organizations can be a decade+ (e.g. changing programming languages). Getting people to plan past their retirement goals is hard.

Thrilled to announce the 3rd cohort of Google for Startups Black Founders Fund! Founders receive $100K in non-dilutive funding, $100K in cloud credits,free therapy & PR support. We're also sharing the next 7 Black-led funds to receive investment from Alphabet. blog.google/outreach-initi…

We had quite some fun for the last 2.5 years fuzzing CPUs. We wrote one system, scratched it, and wrote another one. This week we open-sourced most of it, and hope to open-source more in the future. github.com/google/silifuzz

I don't care about math!! I know too much about programming language design to ever want 84 - 72 / 6 to equal 6!!

Playing 🐒 🏝️ I realize how much like leadership in big tech it is: VPs give you a cryptic quest. You run around talking to people until you find the right talking points; talking to one person gives you new options with another one. Your inventory is full of documents.

new little song: "The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"