Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination - Ars Technica
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Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination
Software developer plans to appeal after admitting to planting malicious code.
Hiring in 2025 vs 2021
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Hiring in 2025 vs 2021
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How to get a tech job in 2025 interview with Kai Lentit and various - aired on © The Tech Job.
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How to get a tech job in 2025 interview with Kai Lentit and various - aired on © The Tech Job.
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tech job market
Tech jobs
Big tech layoffs
big tech hiring
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big tech job interview
cracking…
Why Go for TypeScript compiler?
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Why Go? · microsoft typescript-go · Discussion #411
Language choice is always a hot topic! We extensively evaluated many language options, both recently and in prior investigations. We also considered hybrid approaches where certain components could...
Forcing AI on devs is a bad idea that's going to happen
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/opinion_column_on_forcing_ai_features_on_developers/
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Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen
We’ve still got time to make it better before it does
HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-nowhere/
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HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now...
Microservices: The Architectural Cult That’s Bankrupting Your Sanity (and Your Startup)
https://medium.com/mr-plan-publication/microservices-the-architectural-cult-thats-bankrupting-your-sanity-and-your-startup-877e33453785?sk=0d5e112b5ed7b53ea0633f83a9b2c57a
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Microservices: The Architectural Cult That’s Bankrupting Your Sanity (and Your Startup)
How chasing ‘scalability’ turned simple systems into Rube Goldberg machines — and what to do about it before your team mutinies
As an engineer, I’d rather be called stupid than stay silent
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As an engineer, I’d rather be called stupid than stay silent
This is how you can overcome imposter syndrome in tech - by embracing vulnerability and asking questions.
When AI Spits Your Own Shitty Code Back at You
https://maho.dev/2025/03/when-ai-spits-your-own-shitty-code-back-at-you/
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When AI Spits Your Own Shitty Code Back at You
A rollercoaster of pride, panic, and AI gasliting I code to relax. Some people do yoga, some meditate—I open VS Code at 11 PM like a gremlin-raccoon. Don’t judge.
I work full-time at Microsoft, and between family time and my other hobbies, I somehow keep…
I work full-time at Microsoft, and between family time and my other hobbies, I somehow keep…
Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury
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Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury
On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the US Treasury was prepping a notice to lawmakers to notify them that their systems, which (obviously) contain highly sensitive, confidential data, had been compromised.
Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/why-your-harmonious-team-is-actually-failing/
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Terrible Software
Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing
Teams often confuse psychological safety with everyone getting along perfectly. I see leaders bragging about teams where nobody ever raises their voice, where meetings wrap up with everyone nodding…
(Satirical) Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by
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GitHub - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder: Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by
Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder
Fired “Kill Switch” Programmer Faces 10 Years In Jail: What Went Wrong?
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Programming’s Sacred Cows: How Best Practices Became the Industry’s Most Dangerous Religion
https://medium.com/mr-plan-publication/programmings-sacred-cows-how-best-practices-became-the-industry-s-most-dangerous-religion-07287854a719?sk=2711479194b308869a2d43776e6aa97a
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Programming’s Sacred Cows: How Best Practices Became the Industry’s Most Dangerous Religion
Why your obsession with “doing it right” might be killing innovation and crushing your soul
Popular GitHub Action `tj-actions/changed-files` has been compromised with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets
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Semgrep
🚨 Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised
Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has been compromised with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets, impacting thousands of CI pipelines.
Getting back to the EU: from Google Cloud to Self-Hosted EU Infrastructure
https://pgaleone.eu/cloud/2025/03/15/getting-back-to-the-eu-from-google-cloud-to-self-hosted-vps/
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Getting back to the EU: from Google Cloud to Self-Hosted EU Infrastructure
A detailed walkthrough of migrating a web service from Google Cloud to OVH, covering PostgreSQL database migration, CI/CD pipeline setup on Github Actions, and significant cost savings by migrating from Cloud to a self hosted solution. This migration represents…
LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut
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LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut | sr.ht status
We have deployed Anubis to git.sr.ht.
After some internal discussions we have ultimately decided that the best course
of action to protect git.sr.ht from LLM crawlers is to deploy Anubis. This
software presents some users with a proof-of-work challenge which…
After some internal discussions we have ultimately decided that the best course
of action to protect git.sr.ht from LLM crawlers is to deploy Anubis. This
software presents some users with a proof-of-work challenge which…