TechPicks 02/06/2024 -

Recall: Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible
https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed-or-viewed-on-your-own-windows-pc-is-now-possible-da3e12e9465e

Manifest V2 phase-out begins
https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html

The decline of the user interface
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715333/the-decline-of-the-user-interface.html

Why, after 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/

htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions
https://www.erikheemskerk.nl/htmx-simplicity/

Paged Out! Issue 4
https://pagedout.institute/?page=issues.php

How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop
https://www.unterminated.com/random-fun/how-to-copy-a-file-from-a-30-year-old-laptop

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TechPicks 03/06/2024 -

Some Thoughts As I Sit Here in Another Standup
https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/some-thoughts-as-i-sit-here-in-another-standup/

Big Tech’s role in enabling link fraud
https://eligrey.com/blog/link-fraud/

RFC 7807: Problem Details for HTTP APIs
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807

History Of Window Systems
https://blog.dshr.org/2021/03/history-of-window-systems.html

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TechPicks 04/06/2024 -

Oren Farchi - The Benefits of Using RTK Query: A Scalable and Efficient Solution
https://orizens.com/blog/the_benefits_of_using_rtk_query_a_scalable_and_efficient_solution/

How much memory do you need today?
https://84-24.org/

Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
https://samcurry.net/hacking-millions-of-modems

Parsing JSON Is a Minefield
https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html

Why are vulnerabilities out of control in 2024?
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2024/06/03/why-are-vulnerabilities-out-of-control-in-2024/

Stop Scraping my Git Forge
https://gabrielsimmer.com/blog/stop-scraping-git-forge

Why I retired from the tech crusades
https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-i-retired-from-the-tech-crusades-107a51ea

SerenityOS leader resigns, forks Ladybird Browser
https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos

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TechPicks 05/06/2024 -

Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?
https://scottarc.blog/2024/06/02/encryption-at-rest-whose-threat-model-is-it-anyway/

You'll regret using natural keys
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2024/06/03/youll-regret-using-natural-keys/

Don't fix it just because it’s technical debt
https://blog.danslimmon.com/2023/05/08/dont-fix-it-just-because-its-technical-debt/

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TechPicks 09/06/2024 -

What is PID 0?
https://blog.dave.tf/post/linux-pid0/

Clean Code Means Good Code: Performance Debate
https://tobeva.com/articles/clean/

Moving Beyond Type Systems
https://vhyrro.github.io/posts/effect-systems/

Flaky Tests Overhaul at Uber
https://www.uber.com/blog/flaky-tests-overhaul/

ASCII Silhouettify Algorithm
https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/#algorithm

Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers
https://www.datagubbe.se/stupidslow/

LLMs are not even good wordcels
https://demian.ferrei.ro/blog/chatgpt-sucks-at-pangrams

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TechPicks 10/06/2024 -

So You Want To Build A Browser Engine
https://robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html

Detecting a PS2 emulator: When 1*X does not equal X
https://fobes.dev/ps2/detecting-emu-vu-floats

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TechPicks 13/06/2024 -

1/6 | How We Hacked Multi-Billion Dollar Companies in 30 Minutes Using a Fake VSCode Extension
https://medium.com/@amitassaraf/the-story-of-extensiontotal-how-we-hacked-the-vscode-marketplace-5c6e66a0e9d7

2/6 | Exposing Malicious Extensions: Shocking Statistics from the VS Code Marketplace
https://medium.com/@amitassaraf/2-6-exposing-malicious-extensions-shocking-statistics-from-the-vs-code-marketplace-cf88b7a7f38f

3/6 | A Letter to Microsoft: Uncovering Design Flaws of Visual Studio Code Extensions
https://medium.com/@amitassaraf/3-6-uncovering-design-flaws-in-the-visual-studio-code-marketplace-ea1d8e8b0171

Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/fortune_200_oracle_java_audit/

Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob
https://theaxolot.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/dont-refactor-like-uncle-bob-please/

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TechPicks 17/06/2024 -

Alex Raihelgaus - React.js Breaking Changes: The Hidden Cost of Progress
https://x.com/ar7casper/status/1802225330146488509

Introducing ExtensionTotal: How to Assess Risk in VS Code Extensions (Free community tool)
https://medium.com/@amitassaraf/4-6-introducing-extensiontotal-how-to-assess-risk-in-vs-code-extensions-3ac5bfd83fb1

How Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
https://staniks.github.io/articles/serious-engine-networking-analysis

The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/one-man-saas-architecture/

What Emacs got right, or how I wish modern apps were more like a 50 year old text editor
https://danielde.dev/blog/what-emacs-got-right

Postgres is all you need, even for vectors
https://anyblockers.com/posts/postgres-is-all-you-need-even-for-vectors

Manifest V3 updates landed in Firefox 127
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/06/13/manifest-v3-updates-landed-in-firefox-127/

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TechPicks 18/06/2024 -

How React 19 (Almost) Made the Internet Slower
https://blog.codeminer42.com/how-react-19-almost-made-the-internet-slower/

Why People are Angry over Go 1.23 Iterators
https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/06/17/go-iterator-design/

Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

Why Take Home Tests Suck: A Developer’s Perspective on Hiring Practices
https://medium.com/@dcam/daed731806b7

htmx 2.0.0 has been released
https://htmx.org/posts/2024-06-17-htmx-2-0-0-is-released/

DDoS attacks can threaten the independent Internet
https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/ddos-attacks/

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TechPicks 19/06/2024 -

Cognitive Load is what matters
https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load

GitHub Copilot Workspace Review
https://matduggan.com/reviewing-github-copilot-workspaces/

I've Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
https://nightingaledvs.com/ive-stopped-using-box-plots-should-you/

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TechPicks 20/06/2024 -

Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep?
https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-bad-rep/

GitHub Actions: Cache Chaos
https://prosopo.io/articles/github-actions-cache-chaos/

Demystifying Rust's ? Operator
https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/demystifying-rusts-questionmark-operator/

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TechPicks 23/06/2024 -

CSS Pro Tips
https://github.com/AllThingsSmitty/css-protips

A virtual DOM in 200 lines of JavaScript
https://lazamar.github.io/virtual-dom/

Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987
https://gaultier.github.io/blog/write_a_video_game_from_scratch_like_1987.html

Programmers Should Never Trust Anyone, Not Even Themselves
https://carbon-steel.github.io/jekyll/update/2024/06/19/abstractions.html

Why Swift's type checker is so slow
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/why-swift-is-slow/

Ownership
https://without.boats/blog/ownership/

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TechPicks 24/06/2024 -

Detecting Element Visibility Using CSS
https://pillser.com/engineering/2024-06-23-detecting-element-visibility-using-css

llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/

Promises From The Ground Up
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/javascript/promises

Never* use Datagrams
https://quic.video/blog/never-use-datagrams/

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TechPicks 25/06/2024 -

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites
https://danilafe.com/blog/blog_microfeatures/

MIME, RSS, and existential torment
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/fixing-rss-mailcap/

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TechPicks 26/06/2024 -

My spiciest take on tech hiring
https://www.haskellforall.com/2024/06/my-spiciest-take-on-tech-hiring.html

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites
https://danilafe.com/blog/blog_microfeatures/

Why Test?
https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/why-test/

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TechPicks 27/06/2024 -

Polyfill JS Supply Chain Attack Affects Over 100,000 Websites
https://cyberinsider.com/polyfill-js-supply-chain-attack-affects-over-100000-websites/

Why I Attack
https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/why-i-attack.html

Forget about Y2038, we have bigger problems
https://dpolakovic.space/blogs/y292b

Sprint Planning: Stop Wasting Time on Spreadsheet Capacity Micromanagement
https://mdalmijn.com/p/sprint-planning-stop-wasting-time

Can You Make It Bigger? - A Journey In Building Arcade Cabinets
https://www.leighhack.org/blog/2024/arcade_cabinet/

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TechPicks 30/06/2024 -

ChatGPT is bullshit
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

A Eulogy for DevOps
https://matduggan.com/a-eulogy-for-devops/

Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/researchers-upend-ai-status-quo-by-eliminating-matrix-multiplication-in-llms/2/

Why You Shouldn't Use AI to Write Your Tests
https://swizec.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-use-ai-to-write-your-tests/

A Bunch of Programming Advice I'd Give To Myself 15 Years Ago
https://mbuffett.com/posts/programming-advice-younger-self/

Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua security flaws
https://memorycorruption.net/posts/rce-lua-factorio/

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TechPicks 01/07/2024 -

TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them
https://www.ntietz.com/blog/til-uses-for-the-different-uuid-versions/

Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-rejects-cve-severity-makes-his-github-repo-read-only/

Compilation of architecture, design and study summaries
https://github.com/muhtasimTanmoy/notebook

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TechPicks 02/07/2024 -

Around 2013 Google’s source control system was servicing over 25,000 developers a day, all off of a single server tucked under a stairwell
https://graphite.dev/blog/google-perforce-to-piper-migration

Problematic Second: How the leap second, occurring only 27 times in history, has caused significant issues for technology and science.
https://sarvendev.com/2024/07/problematic-second/

My programming beliefs as of July 2024
https://evanhahn.com/programming-beliefs-as-of-july-2024/

Code Reviews Do Find Bugs
https://two-wrongs.com/code-reviews-do-find-bugs.html

pwr - paced web reader
https://muxup.com/pwr

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TechPicks 03/07/2024 -

Total Annihilation Graphics Engine
https://mavorsrants.blogspot.com/2012/04/total-annihilation-graphics-engine.html

Your Gut is Smarter Than Your Spreadsheet: The Art of Software Estimation
https://jonahdevs.com/your-gut-is-smarter-than-your-spreadsheet-the-art-of-software-estimation/

14 Million OpenSSH Servers Potentially Vulnerable to "regreSSHion" Bug
https://cyberinsider.com/14-million-openssh-servers-potentially-vulnerable-to-regresshion-bug/

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TechPicks 04/07/2024 -

The sad state of property-based testing libraries
https://stevana.github.io/the_sad_state_of_property-based_testing_libraries.html

Don't Make Your Developers Sweat, Make Your Features Sweat
https://mdalmijn.com/p/your-companys-problem-is-hiding-in

Ready Player Mode
https://lmno.lol/alvaro/ready-player-mode

Lua: The Easiest, Fully-Featured Language That Only a Few Programmers Know
https://medium.com/gitconnected/lua-the-easiest-fully-featured-language-that-only-a-few-programmers-know-97476864bffc?sk=548b63ea02d1a6da026785ae3613ed42

Building a multiplayer infinite canvas
https://www.rob.directory/blog/infinite-canvas

On the origins of DS_store
https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store

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