Timezones are insane

I've wanted to have consistent OpenGraph images for my website for a long time but did not want to involve any expensive-to-run services. The approach outlined here worked perfectly for what I needed.

Anything I say about it will ruin the delight of experiencing this page for the first time.

A great summary of a paper that analyzed how medical professionals teach themselves to work around security hygiene that prevents them from doing their job. It's a great look into how people working on securing systems often overlook the day to day reality of how these systems are operated.

A somewhat dated but still quite useful list of things to look out for when diving into building distributed systems

A great read about a bunch of smart hackers who converged around the One Million Checkboxes game and started hiding secret messages inside it, their eventual discovery by the game's creator and everything they accomplished while the game was still up. Honestly made me a tiny bit emotional.

SwiftOnSecurity wrote this in 2014, about a fictional teenager named Jessica and how general purpose computing let her down. Must read for everyone in tech.

Great read on understanding the incentives behind software development.

Airbnb has always felt sketchy about how they try to avoid responsibility for hosts but the deposition sheds light on just how deep this runs. Turns out not even sexual assault perpetrators are deemed as unsafe enough to be banned from being hosts on Airbnb.

Probably the most in-depth history of the events that led to the creation of Git by Linus. Great read!

Great read on why the distinction between technical and non-technical folks is simply meant to be exclusionary, and whether the word holds any weight at all.

Kinda wild to me that such a city could ever have existed outside the pages of Science Fiction.

Just beautifully written. I would recommend reading this even if you are in a good place mentally.

Businesses prioritizing shareholder value over everything else seems to have become the norm, but I didn't know how this insane sounding behavior started and this is a great history lesson on it.

Being able to make slides with Compose sounds fun!