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Love the depth of this post.
We were actually looking at it as well recently (we're using Drata). I was thinking "Cool, this looks like the next cool step forward". The claims didn't sound out of the world in my ears.
Every time an issue like this appears I wonder how many more undiscovered frauds are out there.
Funny, I had this problem yesterday when I tried to login to Apple Business Manager. Thought I had messed up but worked fine in incognito.
Work related: The Culture Map - can strongly recommend! Non-work: the Alex Rider series. Both entertaining and serious when it needs to be without being super grim.
Agreed. My 3 free apps, one with +100k downloads were also removed because of the EU ruling. Don't want my personal address and phone number to be more accessible to bad actors more than it already is. While I can somewhat follow the idea, the execution in practice has serious flaws.
Agreeing with your points, especially regarding Cloudflare! For the record: we did pass ISO 27001 and we use Render.
Where is the guy duck taped to the ceiling?
Nice! Reminds me of the time I was working on a browser extension to do this.
My bluetooth headphones occasionally drop the connection for a moment when I'm standing to my microwave which is warming up food. 2.4GHz after all. Bluetooth and USB 3 don't play along that well either btw.
Plenty of developers paste arbitrary bash commands posted on sites like GitHub without thinking because they look "legit", I suppose. I see it similarly as you do: StackOverflow (and Copilot) can be helpful to start but it's.
Had an exchange like this some time ago:
Me: Hey, I'm reviewing your PR. Looks pretty fine to me. Except for this function which looks like it was copy-pasted from SO: I literally found the same function in an answer on SO (it was written in pure JS while we were using TS in our project).
Dev: Yes, everyone copies from SO.
Me: Well, in that case I hope you always copy the right thing. Because this code might run but it is not good enough (e.g. the variable names are inexpressive, it creates DOM elements without removing them after they are not needed anymore).
Curious to know what advantages Insomnia has/had over Postman beyond being MIT licensed.
Postman's initial startup time could be a bit faster but other than this I'm not missing much (yet). I used it for years occasionally before finally creating an account not so long to sync my requests across devices.
BTW: Jetbrains IDEs like WebStorm also have an integrated HTTP client.
Oh no, I actually liked Google Podcasts for its simplicity. First Google Music, now Podcasts - hope they don't kill this Play Store thingy next /s
You're correct, I confused it with LLAMA being more business-friendly (at least in theory) than some other models out there.
Curious to know why this is the case? I haven't played around with LLAMA yet but I figured it being open-source would make it more trustworthy than models provided by OpenAI.
Unfortunate - I didn't know till today. I had been wondering why I hadn't receive an update for September yet.
So far I've used Medium.com but I rarely find the time to blog these days. I was considering dev.to as you can rather easily convert a Medium blog post to Markdown which dev supports.
Nice post. In the past I've had colleagues (also senior people) who disliked touching "legacy" parts (e.g. Java based microservices compared to newer Express.js or Kotlin based microservices which don't provide half the value that the legacy parts do). I also think that maintenance programming can be rewarding. However, I do believe that it does not make sense to throw entry-level engineers into the maintenance mess alone: they still need some guidance in my experience. Then you'll be able to reap the benefits such as getting better in debugging and understanding more about the business problems that the software is solving.
"Reserve direct assertions for things you are actually sure about." is something I keep saying as well. I wish more people would follow this approach.
I'm sure this is a part of why this fear exists. Middle Eastern countries are especially harsh in that sense imo: you're afraid of making mistakes or making your family "look bad"™.
This is a neat post, thanks for sharing!
On my Pixel phone I'm doing this with the Macrodroid app.
Looking at the CSS using the browser dev tools, I see CSS variables like `--tw-border-spacing-x` which indicates to me that this is indeed using Tailwind. I've never tried Tailwind UI myself so I'm not sure if it's just Tailwind or Tailwind UI.
Love Render and Netlify. I've been meaning to try Render's capabilities for static websites but Netlify has just worked so far that I haven't bothered yet.
Here you go: https://ali-dev.medium.com
Nice article. As a software engineer who also specialized primarily in frontend before becoming a technical founder, I also feel like there are few people growing into these positions that have a more frontend background as well.
Both (if I remember correctly): blogging on Medium.com. It started as (and still is a) personal blog about software development things but it started to get some traction through Google search at some point.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
I've been increasingly using Ecosia for a while. They use Bing under the hood.
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