The Pragmatic Engineer
What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not
I've worked at various tech companies: from "traditional" shops and consultancies, through an investment bank, to high-growth tech firms. I've also...
Benji's Blog
Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer - Benji's Blog
There has been more discussion recently on the concept of a “10x engineer”. 10x engineers are, (from Quora) “the top tier of engi...
The case of the 500-mile email
Starting to get pretty convinced that AI development isn't going to work
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
Convene - Chat for everyone
Convene - Chat for everyone
Tired of looking for the messaging app everyone is using? Chat with Convene.
xz-utils backdoor:
Gist
xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094)
xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094). GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
 and Ken Thompson lecture: 📄.pdf
GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers
A new microarchitectural side-channel attack exploiting data memory-dependent prefetchers in Apple silicons.
 - and a good explanation of how it works
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks – Computerworld
Pretty Vacant by The Sex Pistols is a masterclass in avoiding censorship. All he had to do to say the word he really wanted to say - and he does repeat it over and over - was torture the word "vacant".
Yeah this got me - and inspired me: