FedRAMP is planning to hire a Security Director and will hold an information session about the role on Thursday August 22: https://join.tts.gsa.gov/join/FedRAMP-Security-Director/

FedRAMP has a huge influence on the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS tools that federal agencies can access, so the person in this role could do a whole lot of good for both the government and the tech industry. #GetFediHired

I don't know who to credit for this but it's perfect

#media #DNC2024

@danluu Not really engineering levels, but some coworkers produced this document on “anchortypes” - not sure if it’s what you’re thinking of, though:

https://labspractices.com/learningpaths/anchor-playbook/

@jacob @b0rk

I’ve occasionally used > instead of | and have overwritten things I mean to pipe to as commands

zsh without CLOBBER has saved my bacon numerous times for this - it prevents > from overwriting and you need to use >! instead to force an overwrite.

Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

The novel concept of the "key crush" in the world of esports. https://www.esports.net/news/industry/esports-world-cup-2024-keys-trophies-and-the-totem-explained/

A nice writeup from @nat on allocations at Pivotal. Pretty close to how Labs worked, though this process went through a number of iterations during my tenure, so this captures a slice of it at a point in time. (But the broad strokes remained largely the same throughout.)

https://www.simplermachines.com/r/bcb5bfdd

One funny thing is that a number of our larger engagements that were working with multiple teams across a single engineering org wound up needing much of this same functionality to manage personnel inside of the broader engagement as well.

finally!!
https://alexanderpetros.com/triptych/form-http-methods

so I knew google was fucking up ublock origin badly with the recent manifestv3 shitshow, but apparently that's not the only reason firefox is better at blocking: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

I'm looking for new technical consulting and contracting projects.

More details here: https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/looking-for-new-projects

If you've got any David-shaped problems you'd like help on, drop me a line (e.g. here, at david@drmaciver.com, book a call at https://calendly.com/drmaciver/consulting-intro).

@Miikka Huh, I’ve always this backwards compatibility as well:

Forwards compatibility is required so that the old app versions accept responses from the backend service.

@charliepoole @fabs I started at Microsoft during their transition from STEs to SDETs, and saw exactly that point missed.

This description of Apple today by @viticci perfectly captures my feelings. Using Apple products is still great, but developing for their platforms isn't what it used to be. https://www.macstories.net/linked/the-slow-decline-of-the-apple-cult/

@ethanschoonover Not that I frequent burger chains terribly often, but which one is the Nazi one so I can avoid it?

This whole series is worth reading.

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112972404873929719

@tenderlove What is this for?

Interesting notes from Paul Gauthier on how asking an LLM to return code wrapped in a JSON object can result in a quality reduction compared to asking for that code in a less complex format such as fenced code Markdown blocks https://aider.chat/2024/08/14/code-in-json.html

(Cross-posted from my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/16/llms-are-bad-at-returning-code-in-json/)

Any recommendations for a massage therapist in Somerville-ish? Near Davis/Porter/Magoun is ideal but not required. And ideally someone who is at least somewhat Covid cautious or is willing to come to my house and wear a mask. #SomervilleMA #cambridgema

I was doing an activity with my youngest and then told him I had to go back to work. As I walked over to my laptop he said “Okay, go touch your letters daddy.” which is such an amazing burn.