Posts by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
(DIR) Post #AhsmS6nPKA6pevf5rE by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-16T21:39:47Z
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What’s the point of USPS offering redelivery, accepting details for the redelivery, sending confirmation and reminder emails about the redelivery, but then just doing … nothing?
(DIR) Post #AhtUAJIqTqvlDggqY4 by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-23T15:12:14Z
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There need to be criminal sanctions a la SOx for failing at cybersecurity and privacy protection. Fines just punish the shareholders, not the negligent executives.
(DIR) Post #AhtqOhPnpJKf33D7DM by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-05T16:21:05Z
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I guess NJ are getting serious about congestion pricing
(DIR) Post #AhuB7ABUDtnC6Bzfmq by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-08T02:34:50Z
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One thing I miss from Australia is dim sims (not to be confused with dim sum, which in Australia is called yum cha).https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sim
(DIR) Post #AhvpgJ6PFTHTDYtFLc by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-15T23:54:10Z
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My LinkedIn feed right now is half Kubernetes stuff and half OSS security stuff and you’ll nevvvverrrr guess which one of these I don’t miss at all
(DIR) Post #AhzZu9MdQkmKR1tpkO by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-10T14:47:18Z
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Lazy regexes strike againhttps://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112247409674879226
(DIR) Post #Ai3K0kFGOnbtvHPjWa by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-17T20:44:44Z
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But wait, there’s more: https://blog.sonatype.com/devs-flood-npm-with-10000-packages-to-reward-themselves-with-tea-tokensIt’s at the point that the package repos should sue tea.xyz for interfering with their operations.https://mastodon.chester.id.au/@jacques/112286875747492548
(DIR) Post #Ai3K0lHmWvDd9NbG5Y by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-17T20:54:06Z
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/cc @molly0xfff
(DIR) Post #Ai3kXr6OWWLfYOiMvw by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-03T19:37:55Z
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Hey so Ruby pattern matching is super neat for programming interviews (n=1)
(DIR) Post #Ai4NuMc1wj0DreEfya by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-16T21:03:23Z
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“They take the form of unwritten rules, built into the corporate culture:1. Don’t be a negative thinker.2. Don’t raise a problem unless you have a solution for it.3. Don’t say something is a problem unless you can *prove* it is.4. Don’t be the spoiler.5. Don’t articulate a problem unless you want its immediate solution to become your responsibility.”- DeMarco & Lister, “Waltzing With Bears”.
(DIR) Post #Ai4NuNaeJLUYteb5Si by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-16T21:03:42Z
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I’ve seen these pathologies everywhere I’ve worked, except for my first job at a small university where the work scope was small and I owned every part of an engagement.Even Pivotal, which got so much right, got these wrong.
(DIR) Post #Ai5hL8D1hKNvIbyfcu by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-17T13:49:11Z
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Just crypto bros messing up the commons, nothing to worry about:https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/04/14/the-implications-of-crypto-rewards-on-rubygems_org.html
(DIR) Post #Ai5rTWYk2z6ag7m8Tg by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2024-04-01T17:39:50Z
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The maintainers of libnebraska will eventually die. We’re not ready for a generation of OSS maintainers to vanish.And I’m not sure if we could be.
(DIR) Post #Ay5P4EX8MPoFEfDlTM by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2025-09-08T13:49:39Z
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@bagder @gregkh isn’t this what VEX is meant for?
(DIR) Post #Ay5P4GLrbHyysHxnBQ by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2025-09-08T13:59:13Z
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@bagder @gregkh got it. Sounds like some is trying to create the Universal Asset Graph by accident rather than on purpose.(Relevant self-post: https://theoryof.predictable.software/articles/some-requirements-for-a-universal-asset-graph/ )
(DIR) Post #Ay5P4HlQLk1TFqvifA by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2025-09-09T18:02:22Z
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@msw @bagder @gregkh I haven’t seen anything that fits the criteria, but there are partial things like Mercator, GUAC (the DB) and osv.dev (the data).In fairness I’ve been out of this space for quite a while.
(DIR) Post #AzFzQ7CWq3JwF4ubFg by jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au
2025-09-13T17:41:38Z
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My influence on this is maybe 0.1% of the proposal, but its landing it will probably be the most important 0.1% of entire career.https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/e000b367d9e595bc694893c3d845df269f9b875f/accepted/0049-link-packages-to-source-and-build.md