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Josh Ellithorpe

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I like Tim. Focus on team productivity not story points. https://dannorth.net/the-worst-programmer/
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Excellent technical write-up about a vulnerability in NetAuthAgent. https://wts.dev/posts/password-leak/
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Gotta love PostgreSQL. It has extensions for everything. NOTE: I am not advising people actually do anything in this video. LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JW732GrMdg
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Plank Reloaded now has a crowdin translation project! If you want to help us make the best Linux dock out there, we are looking for translators! https://crowdin.com/project/plank-reloaded A huge thanks to Marcos Sánchez and Minho Park for the Spanish and Korean translations!
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ToDesktop's admin Firebase keys leaked. Luckily it was fixed quickly. https://kibty.town/blog/todesktop/
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Just added Grok to https://visionati.com, and feeling good. Now we have 11 AI engines available. It would have been nice to get better docs about their error handling, but overall the experience was quite smooth.
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Really enjoyed this read. Been using Rails since 2004 and it works great for lots of projects. The web wouldn't be the same without the work they did. https://www.contraption.co/rails-versus-nextjs/
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Magma: A new multimodal AI agent from Microsoft Research. https://microsoft.github.io/Magma/
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Seems multiple threat actors are actively targeting Signal users! Be careful out there. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger
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Cloudflare has some of the best incident reports of any company. Communication is key to any system failure. https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-february-6-2025/
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Engineers are good at making decisions, and good engineers are right, a lot. =) https://www.seangoedecke.com/being-right-a-lot/
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ModRetro Chromatic: Building the Ultimate Game Boy https://thoughts.greyh.at/posts/chromatic/
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An easy way to view HTTP/HTTPS requests made from your Linux apps without root. Made by the Monastic Academy. Definitely read about how it was made, quite the story! https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap
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Solid phone privacy guide. Privacy matters. Keep yourself safe. https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
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Debugging libmodem and the hunt for error -22. https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/145/the-hunt-for-error--22
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Mac Classic II startup deep dive. https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/
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Joel has great thoughts about the future of GitHub's UI. https://hawksley.org/2025/01/08/past-present-future-of-UI-at-github.html
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I love when people get what they deserve. Write your own scripts kiddies, or at least read them first. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-infects-18-000-script-kiddies-with-fake-malware-builder/
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Awesome Desktop Client for AI models. https://github.com/Bin-Huang/chatbox
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Bryan created a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Definitely watch the video. https://www.byran.ee/posts/creation/
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