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Silicon Valley Gets High On Its Own Supply
Picture a typical Monday morning catchup with Slack. “Great news,” says Bob, “I was experimenting this weekend and AI can automatically extract, maintain, and translate strings! Now we can finally do that localization project we’ve been ignoring for years!” Leadership chimes in with “LFG!” A few hours later, the rest of the problem has surfaced.…
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Always be Prepared for Hammertime
I’ve had a laptop stolen at a conference. I also remember poor designs that meant a liquid spill would instantly kill a laptop. I have also changed jobs plenty, usually voluntarily. I have developed some habits that I recommend no matter how careful you are with equipment or what shape your job is in. Gear…
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2025 Blogging Review
Posting 2025 was a busy year, and I didn’t get as much writing done as in prior years. My process hasn’t changed from that described here, but job, band, and fitness commitments have left me wrung dry. The weekly reminder to post something still goes off, but I have been ignoring it. In 2023 I…
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When to Build Reliability
Features win sales. Lack of sales kills the company. Everyone in leadership can be focused on that as the wolf currently at the door. Most developers and product managers can agree as well; obviously we have to sell the bits to pay the people. What surprises us is that the features don’t have to be…
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Prioritizing Vulnerability Findings
Most shops are small. Small shops as a rule (there are exceptions!) do not dedicate resources to security, and that represents risks to big shops that depend on those small shops. Big shops don’t like risk, so we have compliance baselines. Big shops usually have lots of dedicated security people who might even think compliance…
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