My spicy take is that XML is better than YAML, because there are situations where XML is appropriate, but there’s no situation where YAML is appropriate. Let me explain…

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The story of how a misplaced decimal point at Alameda Research caused a market crash that echoed around the world.

This incident happened just a few weeks after I joined Alameda. I had just gotten a hang of our engineering workflows and was starting…

The expiration of expansions to federal programs during COVID-19 resulted in lower post-tax household income and higher poverty rates.

OpenTofu - Modern Infrastructure as Code

Linux's six-year long-term support was meant to help embedded devices.

Aka, how do I know if a product leader knows what they're doing?

There are thousands of articles, courses, and guides on how to build a roadmap for product managers. Even with all these resources, roadmaps often become a point of contention between product…

Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm.

Y Combinator has been on the defensive as of late. This past weekend, leaders from the popular accelerator were vocal on X (formerly known as Twitter) in Leaders from the popular accelerator were vocal on X in their reaction to a comment made by the CEO of…

Organic Maps impressed me with its elegant UI, effective routing, and good ethics.

BlueTriton, the company that owns Arrowhead brand, has been taking water from San Bernardino springs for more than 100 years

The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored,

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Having Fun with Technology

On a Saturday night, a security engineer at Equifax was updating an SSL certificate on a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Immediately after, suspicious connections were detected. After a more in-depth investigation, it became evident that the situation…

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Linux has rich virtual networking capabilities that are used as basis for hosting VMs and containers, as well as cloud environments. In this post, I will give a brief introduction to all commonly used

As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a n…