The Toilet PaperCan a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?Published 22 Oct 2023Written by Chun Fei Lung 🤔Back to top
Why “Nigerian” scammers say they are from NigeriaDear Sir/Madam, I am a prince of the Nigerian royal family and I urgently need your help…
Israel’s attempts at songwashing in the 2024 Eurovision Song ContestThe 2024 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was an absolute shitshow, and Israel was a major part of that.
Five things that are (not) made in JapanJapan is good at inventing things, but in these five cases it was actually just good at adopting things.
Best practices for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scriptsThis week’s paper presents a catalogue of best practices for infrastructure as code programs.
Bad practices in continuous integration pipelines and processesThis catalogue of 79 bad smells can help you make your continuous integration processes less shitty.
A method for preventing browser extension fingerprintingWho could have thought that DOM-based browser extension fingerprinting can be easily mitigated by splitting reality?
Is there a time and place for single-letter variable names?We are often told that variable names should be meaningful and avoid abbreviations, yet some variables are simply named “k”. What gives?
Automating chaos experiments in productionThe people at Netflix tell you how they intentionally break things on production to test remote procedure calls.
Gender stereotypes are steering girls away from STEMMore female role models may help, but they’re merely a part of the solution.
