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Bookmarked Secrets Exposed: How to mitigate risk from secrets leaks — and prevent future breaches by Paul Roberts 
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Software secrets are targeted by malicious actors. Here are three key steps to mitigate risk — and best practices you can take to prevent future breaches.

Yep! I have a list of common patterns I look for in logs and source code, but you really need to have developer education as well as tooling and processes

Recommended read: https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/secure-your-development-secrets-3-essential-steps https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/secure-your-development-secrets-3-essential-steps

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #security.

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Bookmarked Monoliths are not dinosaurs by Dr Werner Vogels - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ 
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Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.

Recommended read: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/monoliths-are-not-dinosaurs.html https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/monoliths-are-not-dinosaurs.html

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #microservices #monolith #architecture.

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Bookmarked Six ways to shoot yourself in the foot with healthchecks
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One reason I like working at startups is you get to wear many hats. Of course, by "wear many hats" I really mean "suffer occasional periods of extreme stress when things fail and there are no grownups you can go to for help". I like to think of it as Extreme Learning.

Recommended read: https://philbooth.me/blog/six-ways-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-with-healthchecks https://philbooth.me/blog/six-ways-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-with-healthchecks

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Bookmarked Silence Isn't Consent by @edent 
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I was in one of those interminably dull video-conferences a few weeks ago. The presenter was pitching their grand vision of what our next steps should be. "So!" They said, "Any comments before we …

Recommended read: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/silence-isnt-consent/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/silence-isnt-consent/

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Bookmarked Jamie Tanna (or why I decided to resume writing)
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I'll resume writing about technology and software engineering, inspired by Jamie Tanna's blog I came across recently. This is my blog: https://manuelschmidt.net. Subscribe through your favorite feed reader, or follow me on social media.

Thank you very much Manuel, this was lovely to read and hear 💜 I look forward to seeing how your blog evolves over the years!

Recommended read: https://manuelschmidt.net/jamie-tanna/ https://manuelschmidt.net/jamie-tanna/

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Bookmarked Google Assured OSS by Seth Michael Larson 
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Let's talk about Google's newest software supply chain product. Reading the GA announcement I had many mixed feelings. Starting with the good, compared to other implementations of "curated open s...

Recommended read: https://sethmlarson.dev/google-assured-oss https://sethmlarson.dev/google-assured-oss

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #open-source #security.

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Bookmarked Continuous Productivity Is Toxic by Wouter Groeneveld 
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A few days ago, a stressed-out gamer confessed on ResetERA he was considering giving up on gaming, as he felt the time spent could be put to “better” use. The thread somehow struck a chord here, not …
(https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/03/continuous-productivity-is-toxic/)

Recommended read: https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/03/continuous-productivity-is-toxic/ https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/03/continuous-productivity-is-toxic/

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #burnout.

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Bookmarked Why Engineers Need To Write by Ryan Peterman 
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I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare. But my perspective on writing changed once I started working full-time as a software engineer.

Recommended read: https://www.developing.dev/p/why-engineers-need-to-write https://www.developing.dev/p/why-engineers-need-to-write

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogging.

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Bookmarked Tech's Elite Hates Labor by Ed Z 
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I am furious. Though I try not to humour conspiracy theories, or suggest that there is any grand overture to what is usually an uncaring and cold world, but I cannot ignore what is a transparently-synchronized movement against the tech industry’s workforce.

Recommended read: https://ez.substack.com/p/techs-elite-hates-labor https://ez.substack.com/p/techs-elite-hates-labor

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Bookmarked Logs as end user UI by Ryan Barrett 
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https://snarfed.org/matrix.webp https://snarfed.org/matrix.webp A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON …

Recommended read: https://snarfed.org/2023-01-11_logs-as-end-user-ui https://snarfed.org/2023-01-11_logs-as-end-user-ui

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #logs #ux.

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Bookmarked Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
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In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride , it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every...

Recommended read: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #go.

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Bookmarked Bring Back Blogging - Chris Coyier by Chris Coyier 
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Ash Huang & Ryan Putnam on a microsite: For the month of January, we’ll make a pact to blog a few times to get into the habit, and create a directory of all the creators who participate. Readers can then find new makers to follow before we all scatter to the winds. Win-win! I’m all […]

Recommended read: Bring Back Blogging - Chris Coyier https://chriscoyier.net/2022/12/26/bring-back-blogging/

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogging.

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Bookmarked Welcome to hell, Elon by Nilay Patel 
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Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready?

Recommended read: Welcome to hell, Elon - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation

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Bookmarked How to Build Software like an SRE
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I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, how does it get its configuration? What kinds of instances does it run on, and are those the best kinds to use? What steps does it take on its path from “code in a repository” to “running in production”? And I’ve always kept track of what I liked – which mechanisms allowed fast iteration and which caused frustration, which led to outages and which prevented them.

Recommended read: https://www.willett.io/posts/precepts/ https://www.willett.io/posts/precepts/

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #supportability #sre.

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Bookmarked Entitlement in Open Source by Mike McQuaid 
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There have been discussions in the aftermath of the log4j vulnerability about whether or not open source is broken or sustainable, what we can do to improve the sustainability of the open source ecosystem moving forwards, and the entitlement of users and companies in expecting maintainers to fix their problems.

Recommended read: Entitlement in Open Source https://mikemcquaid.com/entitlement-in-open-source/

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #open-source.

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Bookmarked Your attention span is being robbed! by Mihailo Joksimovic 
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Remains of your attention span. Photo by Pablo Martinez on Unsplash This is exactly why you can’t focus on reading anything longer than a mobile page length these days. Not even a blog post, let alone …

Recommended read: Your attention span is being robbed! – Unstructed.tech https://unstructed.tech/2022/09/07/your-attention-span-is-being-robbed/

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Bookmarked Operational convergence, for REPL-less languages like Go — brandur.org
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Life without a REPL, and how to still be able to manipulate production which even has quite a few benefits over more one-off REPL-driven operations..

Something I've been thinking about for an alternative to rails console for Go, and of course Brandur Leach has excellent thoughts about it

Recommended read: Operational convergence, for REPL-less languages like Go — brandur.org https://brandur.org/fragments/operational-convergence

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #go #automation.

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Bookmarked The Future of Tech Nottingham Events - 2022 and beyond — Tech Nottingham - Your local tech community
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As the world changes, so too must Tech Nottingham. We explore the future of Tech Nottingham events.

A lovely post, and I know that it was a very difficult post to write - but also not that TN will cease to be a thing.

The team have worked so incredibly hard to make remote work and it definitely feels like the right call, albeit a shame!

Recommended read: The Future of Tech Nottingham Events - 2022 and beyond — Tech Nottingham - Your local tech community https://www.technottingham.com/news/2022/6/8/the-future-of-tech-nottingham-events-2022-and-beyond

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #tech-nottingham.