“New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix - Ars Technica”
Azure has been getting a bunch of these lately.
“Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble - WIRED”
I’m guessing that the trust many younger devs have in broader industry trends and practices is because they don’t remember the dot-com bubble.
TIL that you can use pretty much any arbitrary programming language for recipe execution in GNU Make. Even JS. Instead of setting node directly as the SHELL var, you instead go through a bash script like so:
\#!/bin/bash
node -e "$2"
“GitHub - cloudflare/miniflare: 🔥 Fully-local simulator for Cloudflare Workers”
Keeping an eye on this because I want to experiment with Durable Objects some day.
“I Guess People Really Hate AMP — Pixel Envy”
When your fancy HTML superset is so disliked that people will pay for an app to get rid of it permanently.
Pondering more about going ‘buildless’ with front end development (or achieving ‘build-zen’):
Can anybody outline just how slow CSS imports are and why?
Are there circumstances where its impact is negligable?
If it’s unusable, has there been any discussion on fixing it?
I’ve been experimenting with ways to do frontend unit testing without building, node, or npm.
AFAICT it’s only doable with firefox.
“What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man? ‹ Literary Hub”
Asimov and Heinlein, in literary terms, were flip sides of the same coin. In life, Asimov seems to have been much much worse.
Web 3.0 is shaping up to be the same sort of self-serving VC grift that dominated Web 2.0.
The last couple of times we got Web 3.0 (semantic web x 2) it didn’t stick which goes to show that the “Web *.0” nomenclature is totally owned by grifters.
Alternate theory: companies that get into the habit of losing money find it hard to break the habit once they grow.
We do this here in Iceland as well.
“Designing the Smallest Possible Thing - Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)”
“In Iceland’s election, political stability again at stake - Reuters”
Voter attendance so far promises to be very high. Looks like this could be a fun election and we might end up with our most diverse parliament ever.
Voted💪🏻
“British indie STRANGEHAVEN optioned by IDW Entertainment - The Beat”
I interviewed Gary Spencer Millidge for some online outlet or another back in the late 90s. He’s one of the nicest people in comics and the series is delightfully strange.
On the EU USB-C mandate:
- It has built-in future-proofing: no mandate for wireless chargers which is what will come after USB-C
- Rules like these can and are updated, so we aren’t stuck with USB-C if wireless doesn’t pan out
I really wish OSS communities would stop defaulting to Discord or Slack. Your software isn’t a lifestyle. I don’t want to live with the goddamn thing. I want a forum I can visit once in a while, not to take out an attention mortgage.
“Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who showrunner - Doctor Who”
🙏🏻
“Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness”
Interesting results. Java, so apply to other languages with a grain of salt. But it does find that more tests = more effective
“Bringing instant page-loads to the browser through speculative prerendering”
“Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever”
We’ve needed better metaphors than f&f for a while now
OTOH: when the dominant form of computing is a sealed widget, of course competence is going to drop like a stone across the board