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I just got blocked by the CEO of ZoomInfo for documenting surveillance infrastructure on their GTM Studio landing page.Timeline: 1. CEO posts product demo on LinkedIn 2. I analyze the landing page with Chrome DevTools 3. I post findings in comments (40+ cookies pre-consent, biome

I am reminded of Eisenhower's Chance for Peace Speech: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_fo

First sentence:> All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theoryThat's ignoring most of formalized mathematics, which is progressing rapidly and definitely modern. Lean and Rocq for example are founded on type theory, not set theory. This might be a dumb questi

I have been following Unison for a veeery long time. Ever since those blog posts on Paul's personal website. It has been more than 10 years already so this is a great milestone. But I am just a bit disappointed. I love programming languages. I follow every programming language, e

In the world champion date picker, I had to swipe exactly twice to get to my birthday. Once for the month and once for the year. The default day was right.I had to do it several times again to confirm this was just absolutely absurd luck. Since it's bad UX, they should deliver th

I really liked Simon's Willison's [1] and Meta's [2] approach using the "Rule of Two". You can have no more than 2 of the following:- A) Process untrustworthy input - B) Have access to private data - C) Be able to change external state or communicate externally.It's not bullet-pr

I don't get why you're calling it A) a "payment processor", even though you don't process any payment yourselves, and B) "open source", even though it's running everything through your SaaS and presumably also storing data in your databases (not speaking about telemetry but real

The happiest software developers are those who write HTML, CSS, PHP, and just a sprinkle of JS like they used to do 20 years ago. I've just been calling them that anyway since I found out they existed.Also, this guy is calling HTML a programming language. Make of that what you wi

When do you expect that impact? I think the models seem smarter than their economic impact would imply.> Yeah. This is one of the very confusing things about the models right now.As someone who's been integrating "AI" and algorithms into people's workflows for twenty years, the

What irritates me the most is that, while a lot of sites allow for hardware tokens for MFA, my banks do not. Not a single one of my financial institutions support FIDO or anything like it, opting instead for SMS if they have anything at all. Passwords are usually a maximum length