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Friday musings full of operational and strategic value:The Future of Web Dev is...

Friday musings full of operational and strategic value:

The Future of Web Dev is AI
https://alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-the-future-of-web-development-is-ai-get-on-or-get-left-behind/

Build your own ... Debugger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWPLgm52ICs

The State of SSL Stacks
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks

Curl bans AI
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/curl_ai_bug_reports/

Celebrating 8th of May in 2025
https://kottke.org/25/05/wwii-vet-crushes-a-tesla-with-a-sherman-tank

Friday musings of operational and strategic valueFun for Nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt9YWaHM1NsConsequences of CodeGen using...

Friday musings of operational and strategic value

Fun for Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt9YWaHM1Ns

Consequences of CodeGen using AI
https://mastodon.social/@kevlin/110136069252675177

The Zip Bomb technique
https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

Free Redis!
https://antirez.com/news/151

May the 4th be with you
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Friday musings of operational and strategic valueThe Vulgar Display of Powerhttps://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/The Value of...

Friday musings of operational and strategic value

The Vulgar Display of Power
https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

The Value of Open Source Software
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

The Problems with Password Expiry, revisited
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/problems-forcing-regular-password-expiry

Celebrating 25 Years of 'Things you should never do"
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

The versioning Struggle:
https://charity.wtf/2025/03/24/another-observability-3-0-appears-on-the-horizon/

Friday musings of operational and strategic valueAI and the return of...

Friday musings of operational and strategic value

AI and the return of Anubis
https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

Anubis, btw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis

Tarpits any Labyrinths!
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/

Vintage NT hacking:
https://phrack.org/issues/54/8#article

Vintage Debugging: Bebugging!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebugging

ICE, explained:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

ICE, explained:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

Pre-vacation musings of operational and strategic valueFalsehood Programmers believe about...

Pre-vacation musings of operational and strategic value

Falsehood Programmers believe about Languages:
https://www.lexiconista.com/falsehoods-about-languages/

Falsehood CS Students believe after Graduating:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/cs-falsehoods.html

NCSC eats Password Expiry for Breakfast:
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/problems-forcing-regular-password-expiry

The Boolean with AI:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even-ai

The Leader in AI:
https://www.404media.co/google-amazon-ai-search-mein-kampf-reviews/

Meet the Telefunken Rollkugel:
https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/rollkugel/rollkugel

Full Moon and Empty Head:

Friday musings of operational and strategic valueWe won't ever create a...

Friday musings of operational and strategic value

We won't ever create a backdoor:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/cornered-uks-demand-encryption-backdoor-apple-turns-its-strongest-security-setting

When your bed has a backdoor:
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed

How to f**k up the AI:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@kims@mas.to/114062885907968322

Krebs on DOGE:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/trump-2-0-brings-cuts-to-cyber-consumer-protections/

Long live the real king!
https://nypost.com/2025/02/24/us-news/hackers-play-video-of-trump-kissing-elon-musks-feet-on-cafeteria-screens-at-hud-headquarters-long-live-the-real-king/

Friday musings of great operational and strategic valueDeveloper...

Friday musings of great operational and strategic value

Developer Limbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48g7CRlMUD8&list=PLEx5khR4g7PJozVmHNpQTVrk1QRC7YaJu

The History of SUSE
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-suse

The Scary Moment in the Middle:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/one-dev-minute/do-you-have-a-favorite-source-code-management-story

Vintage Computing: Elite Source Code
https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_elite_source_code_family_tree.html

The Nightmare Makers:

Friday musings around operational and strategic valueAI needs your help:https://savethe.ai/Story of my...

Friday musings around operational and strategic value

AI needs your help:
https://savethe.ai/

Story of my life
https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1ijnwwb/when_someone_says_perl_is_dead_but_youre_still/?rdt=42299

Who could have expected that?
https://www.theverge.com/news/612865/doge-government-website-database-security-open

DEI is dead, long live DEI
https://charity.wtf/2025/02/10/corporate-dei-is-an-imperfect-vehicle-for-deeply-meaningful-ideals/

2025 and how it is going so far:

Friday musings around operational and strategic valueDon't be...

Friday musings around operational and strategic value

Don't be Evil:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/google_ai_principles_update/

Best Simple System for Now:
https://dannorth.net/best-simple-system-for-now/

Without constant human Input, AI Models will eventually self-destruct:
https://voxeurop.eu/en/artificial-intelligence-human-workers/

That Luddits Criticism of Open Source
https://tante.cc/2025/02/06/a-luddite-criticism-of-open-source-at-fluconf/

Late Friday musings around operational and strategic valueThe metaphor of the Desert and the...

Late Friday musings around operational and strategic value

The metaphor of the Desert and the Forest:
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ForestAndDesert.html

Is Open Source ever hyphenated?
https://opensource.org/blog/is-open-source-ever-hyphenated

Run DOOM on .... a PDF:
https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf

Writing a Shell in C
https://brennan.io/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/

Every! Single! UUID!
https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/

Friday musings around operational and strategic valueGetting started with libcurl in 2025https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnsuDYacwAVintage...

Friday musings around operational and strategic value

Getting started with libcurl in 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnsuDYacwA

Vintage Engineering - the biggest UNIX security loophole
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/Bell_Labs/ReedsShellHoles.pdf

The Society for the Strengthening of Verbs
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250107-01/?p=110724

How does the Kernel handle TCP requests?
https://frn.sh/posts/sockets/

Quitting the Washington Post
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

Friday musings around operational and strategic valueWhat is inside my train...

Friday musings around operational and strategic value

What is inside my train ticket?
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-what-s-inside-my-train-ticket#t=289

Happy Path Programming
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/happypathprogramming/episodes/107-The-Joy-of-Programming-with-Dave-Thomas-e2sq78t

Building BSD Kernel on PDP11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBFeM-sa2YY

Degrow or Die - Resource consumption of AI:
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-resource-consumption-of-ai-degrow-or-die#t=492

Friday musings around operational and strategic valueVB6 re-implementated in the Browserhttps://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/The...

Friday musings around operational and strategic value

VB6 re-implementated in the Browser
https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

The least favorite C++ feature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjOCouCbKGI

The Benefits of Sleep
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/need-something-sorted-sleep-on-it-11fdf8453914

Nostalgica: Amazon in 2002:
https://x.com/RetroTechDreams/status/1871557196183392519/photo/1

Wait, WTF is Obidos?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obidos_(software)

early Friday musings around operational and strategic valueGrady Booch and the Evolution of Software...

early Friday musings around operational and strategic value

Grady Booch and the Evolution of Software Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WaC429YcU

Ian Cooper and James Lewis retrospecting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iQV_vcFSE0

The Return of Procedural Programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQPHtAxOZZw

Oh my dear JavaScript
https://www.thomas-yang.me/projects/oh-my-dear-js/

RTO explained:

Peppermint Betty - 2008-2024

Peppermint Betty - 2008-2024

Friday musings around operational and strategic valueWriting VS Code extensionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybeKzw9DlBkArchitecting...

Friday musings around operational and strategic value

Writing VS Code extensions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybeKzw9DlBk

Architecting BlueSky
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Let's Build a Simple Database
https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/

The End of the Twitter Era
https://www.sandofsky.com/end-of-twitter/

Late Friday musings of operational and strategic valueConfessions of a Social Media...

Late Friday musings of operational and strategic value

Confessions of a Social Media Addict:
https://martinfowler.com/articles/2024-social-media.html

Jepsen eating Kafka/Bufstream for Breakfast:
https://jepsen.io/analyses/bufstream-0.1.0#updates

The Bonus Story about Breaking the Build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW4xW1FK678

Death Generator now has Dark Mode:
https://deathgenerator.com/

Friday musings around operational and strategic valueThe UNIX User manual from 1971 for...

Friday musings around operational and strategic value

The UNIX User manual from 1971 for Download:
https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v3man/v3man.pdf

Get Kata with Kevlin Henney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M4o0ExLQCs

The Original Diablo, JS Edition:
https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/

What does 25% mean?
https://tante.cc/2024/11/01/what-do-25-mean/

The AI hype will continue until moral improves:
https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-the-ai-slop-will-continue-until-morale-improves/

Friday musings around operational and strategic valueNew Thoughtworks Tech-Radar is out:https://www.thoughtworks.com/radarFramework Overload...

Friday musings around operational and strategic value

New Thoughtworks Tech-Radar is out:
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

Framework Overload considered harmful:
https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2024/10/framework-overload.html

Is there a SE title inflation?
https://www.trevorlasn.com/blog/software-engineer-titles-have-almost-lost-all-their-meaning

From DemoZone to Internet Transfers
https://vpetersson.com/podcast/S01E17.html

State of Science in 2024: