Code comments just got a lot better

So GitLab posts their internal Zoom call recordings on YouTube, and some have HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of views... Because people use them to pretend like they're working.

Bought a prison laptop on eBay. Thought it should be just some generic laptop with a clear shell, turns out it's actually a bit more than that.

The xz backdoor is, well, setting a fire under the entire Linux ecosystem... but I'm also so impressed with how it was set up: 2-yr maintainership, oss-fuzz, etc. ...and who knows how long it would've stayed undetected if the injected sshd code ran faster (<600ms) Highlights:

So with all the negative talk about Microsoft security recently it occurred to me it's interesting to remember that MS also achieved one of the most consequential security successes of the last decade. A success that no one--including MS--ever talks about. Hardening Office.

and we call this Apple Stance™️

Why spend money on a ChatGPT subscription when you can just ask Amazon.com on literally any product page?

Only request I have for this upcoming season is that the advanced stats guys come up with a stat that quantifies whenever something like this happens with Wemby. The HELLNAH metric.

Let’s go, Coach Kerr! Thanks for bringing home the gold for Team USA, and for your leadership at a crucial moment for our country.

Devs what title from other professions should we steal next? We already destroyed “engineer” and “architect” …I’m thinking I like “software doctor” or ooooh maybe “software surgeon”

never studying OS again

meanwhile, European power sockets

So my wife recently started going to my local gym's spin classes -- but there's a problem: The classes get booked up quick and there's limited bikes. These other women are super fast at getting their reservation in! But you know what they're not faster than? A GitHub action

In America’s darkest hours, Canada has always been there.

make software silly again

I worked on Figma's sync engine LiveGraph and before that Meteor (the open-source sync engine), some thoughts:

I just wrapped up 40 straight days of: - no booze - lifting or cardio - 10k+ steps - 200g protein Honestly, it was whatever. Maybe these stunts are only gamechangers for people who have completely let the wheels fall off the bus.

The boutique banker memes.xlsx They be like we don't do vlookup anymore, instead we have to open a ticket in Jira, mock-up the output in Figma, load the data into a cloud-based relational database and write a new SQL query every time someone has a question and tie it to a customer in Salesforce.

I opened VSCode in Mexico and it automatically adjusted to the sepia theme