“I use zip bombs to protect my server”
The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bots crawling content to power LLMs. But then there are the malicious bots. These are from spammers, content scrapers or hackers. At my old employer, a bot discovered a wordpress vulnerability and inserted a malicious script into our server. It then turned the m … ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev what makes Kagi “the best search engine”? It is premium, alright. Allegedly you don’t get ads, but pay up-front for it, monthly.

Kubestronaut in Orbit: Jana Vonšák
Get to know Jana We’re thrilled to recognize Jana Vonšák from Slovakia as our first-ever female Golden Kubestronaut. A dedicated DevOps Security Engineer with a background in software development, Jana brings a rare blend of development… ⌘ Read more

@thecanine@twtxt.net Yeah this is where I think all the hype really falls down. It’s all just a really really expensive search engine and auto-complete 🤦‍♂️ That’s it!

The design of software engineering course projects
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I guess this is trivial to do with some pre-existing engine, but it’s more fun to do it yourself: https://movq.de/v/0cfa4e9504/world.tar.gz

Anatomy Of A SQL Engine
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These ideas are dr the two books:

• Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems by Sidney Dekker (2011)
  
• Engineering a Safer World by Nancy Leveson (2011)
  

The former I haven’t read. The later I haven’t finished reading 😅

Hmmm there’s a bug somewhere in the way I’m ingesting archived feeds 🤔

sqlite> select * from twts where content like 'The web is such garbage these days%';
      hash = 37sjhla
  feed_url = https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/1
   content = The web is such garbage these days 😔 Or is it the garbage search engines? 🤔
   created = 2024-11-14T01:53:46Z
created_dt = 2024-11-14 01:53:46
   subject = #37sjhla
  mentions = []
      tags = []
     links = []
sqlite>

**Hmmm there’s a bug somewhere in the way I’m ingesting archived feeds 🤔

sqlite> select * from twts where content like 'The web is such ga ...**
Hmmm there’s a bug somewhere in the way I’m ingesting archived feeds 🤔

sqlite> select * from twts where content like ‘The web is such garbage these days%’;

  hash = 37sjhla

feed_url = https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/1
content = The web is such garbage these days 😔 Or is it the garbage search engines? 🤔
created = 2024-11-14T01:53:46Z
created_dt = 2024-11-14 01:53:46
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Shocking scale of avocado waste inspires engineer’s new venture
In the heart of WA’s prime avocado growing region, a former engineer is turning formerly rejected fruit into sought-after oil. ⌘ Read more

Godot Game Engine Discord Adds Mandatory “Consent to Being Recorded” for Audio Chats
Remember when the Godot Game Engine mass banned Conservatives from their project? ⌘ Read more

Introducing sub-issues: Enhancing issue management on GitHub
Explore the iterative development journey of GitHub’s sub-issues feature. Learn how we leveraged sub-issues to build and refine sub-issues, breaking down larger tasks into smaller, manageable ones.

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Introducing NEO Gamma - Another Step Closer to Home
NEO Gamma is the next generation of home humanoids designed and engineered by 1X Technologies. Source: 1X ⌘ Read more

DOGE Cuts “Move Login Link” Dev Time from 103 Days to 71 Minutes
“This engineer worked with the DOGE team to delete the red tape and accomplished the task in 71 minutes.” ⌘ Read more

IBM unveils z17 mainframe, z/OS 3.2
IBM today announced the IBM z17, the next generation of the company’s iconic mainframe, fully engineered with AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations. Powered by the new IBM Telum II processor, IBM z17 expands the system’s capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities to enable new workloads. ↫ IBM z17 press release Alongside this brand new behemoth of a computer, IBM also announced z/OS 3.2, the next version of its mainframe opera … ⌘ Read more

aleph - stateless multiple choice survey engine | https://nilfm.cc/aleph.html

The insanity of being a software engineer
Software gets more complicated. All of this complexity is there for a reason. But what happened to specializing? When a house is being built, tons of people are involved: architects, civil engineers, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, interior designers, roofers, surveyors, pavers, you name it. You don’t expect a single person, or even a whole single company, to be able to do all of those. ↫ Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira I’ve always found that softwa … ⌘ Read more

Getting the firmware of a VTech/LeapFrog LeapStart/Magibook
This is a very small blog post about my first reverse engineering project, in which I don’t really reverse engineer anything yet, but I am just getting started! A family member asked me to add additional book data to the LeapStart he bought for his son, this is the starting point here. ↫ leloubil’s blog We’ve all seen toy, child-focused computers like these, and I always find them deeply fascinating. I’m not buyi … ⌘ Read more

(#w4mnpkq) @xuu@xuu Actually… I’m working on a new Sqlite backend/cache for yarnd 🤣 I might revive yarns (_the crawler / search …
@xuu @txt.sour.is Actually… I’m working on a new Sqlite backend/cache for yarnd 🤣 I might revive yarns ( the crawler / search engine) one day 🤞 ⌘ Read more

Not in the mood to deal with reality today, so here’s another one of those silly things: https://movq.de/v/68c61f8ecc/r2_session.ogg This time on electric bass, tuned down to B-standard because oomph. (Well, sounds okay on my headphones, but I’m obviously no sound engineer. 🤪)

8 Ways to Empower Engineering Teams to Balance Productivity, Security, and Innovation
Explore how Docker’s suite of products empowers industry leaders and their development teams to innovate faster, stay secure, and deliver impactful results. ⌘ Read more

Found him in covered in engine oil 2 years ago, his name is Castrol. ⌘ Read more

IssueOps: Automate CI/CD (and more!) with GitHub Issues and Actions
A look into building IssueOps workflows on GitHub to do everything from CI/CD to handling approvals and more.

The post IssueOps: Automate CI/CD (and more!) with GitHub Issues and Actions appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Scaling Platform Building: Balancing What is Unique to Your Org and Common Across Teams
In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, platform engineering has become a strategic priority for organisations seeking to streamline development, enhance operational efficiency, and maintain a competitive edge. Building an internal platform that serves your organisation’s unique needs… ⌘ Read more

WinRing0: why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
When I checked where Windows Defender had actually detected the threat, it was in the Fan Control app I use to intelligently cool my PC. Windows Defender had broken it, and that’s why my fans were running amok. For others, the threat was detected in Razer Synapse, SteelSeries Engine, OpenRGB, Libre Hardware Monitor, CapFrameX, MSI Afterburner, OmenMon, FanCtrl, Z … ⌘ Read more

“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356995

Points: 500

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How GitHub engineers learn new codebases
Strategies to quickly get up to speed, whether you’re a seasoned engineer or a newcomer to the field.

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Automating NIS2 Compliance in Kubernetes with Kyverno: A Practical Guide
2025 is the year when NIS2 measures will start to bite. Is your platform team ready for the challenge? This post gives a brief overview of NIS2 in the context of platform engineering. Then it gives… ⌘ Read more

DOJ Says Google Must Sell Chrome, Can Keep AI
Plus: No more default Search Engine payments to Mozilla or Apple. ⌘ Read more

Hiring: Senior Backend Engineer | Remote (Brazil) | A new challenge awaits!
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Hiring Senior Fullstack Engineer | Remote (Brazil) | A new challenge awaits!
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LangChainGo 中的提示詞工程（Prompt Engineering）
在使用 LangchainGo（簡稱 langchaingo）構建智能應用時，提示詞工程（Prompt Engineering） 是一個關鍵環節。它可以幫助我們更精準地引導 LLM（大語言模型）生成符合預期的內容。本文將介紹在 langchaingo 中如何使用提示詞工程。什麼是提示詞工程？提示詞工程是人與機器進行溝通的橋樑，更是用戶引導 AI 精準執行任務的關鍵。提示詞基礎策略明確目標: 用戶需 ⌘ Read more

Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning
Passwords are notoriously difficult to detect with conventional programming approaches. AI can help us find passwords better because it understands context. This blog post will explore the technical challenges we faced with building the feature and the novel and creative ways we solved them.

The post [Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning](https … ⌘ Read more

Genode OS Framework 25.02 released
The prime feature is the continuation of the multi-monitor topic of the previous release, covering multi-monitor window management and going as far as seamlessly integrating multi-monitor virtual machines (Section Multi-monitor window management and virtual machines). The second and long anticipated feature is the Chromium engine version 112 in combination with Qt 6.6.2, which brings our port of the Falkon web browser on par with the modern web (Section Qt, WebE … ⌘ Read more

Docker Engine v28: Hardening Container Networking by Default
Learn how Docker streamlines developer onboarding and helps organizations set up the right guardrails to give developers the flexibility to innovate within the boundaries of company policies. ⌘ Read more

My little girl. 14 years old. She still hates when I have to go to work. Purring like a diesel engine and cuddling, saying “don’t leave”. ⌘ Read more

Kubestronaut in Orbit: Samah Eddaoudi
Get to know Samah This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Samah Eddaoudi! As a recent graduate in networks and telecommunications, Samah transitioned into the field of DevOps and cloud engineering, building on her strong technical foundation…. ⌘ Read more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 co-located event deep dive: OpenTofu Day Europe
Chair: Sebastian StadilApril 1, 2025 London OpenTofu Day is the best place to connect with the OpenTofu community. It’s a fantastic place to talk shop with other infrastructure or platform engineers, trade stories, discuss best practices,… ⌘ Read more

Chromium Ozone/Wayland: the last mile stretch
Lets start with some context, the project consists of implementing, shipping and maintaining native Wayland support in the Chromium project. Our team at Igalia has been leading the effort since it was first merged upstream back in 2016. For more historical context, there are a few blog posts and this amazing talk, by my colleagues Antonio Gomes and Max Ihlenfeldt, presented at last year’s Web Engines Hackfest. Especially due to the Lacros pr … ⌘ Read more

Leaked Recording Confirms Apple’s Discriminatory DEI Hiring Policies
Apple VP of Engineering, Jon Andrews, on refusing to hire for a management role “until we find a diverse slate”: “This is super important because… ⌘ Read more

Powered by Docker: Streamlining Engineering Operations as a Platform Engineer
Learn how Docker streamlines developer onboarding and helps organizations set up the right guardrails to give developers the flexibility to innovate within the boundaries of company policies. ⌘ Read more

How GitHub uses CodeQL to secure GitHub
How GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team manages our CodeQL implementation at scale and how you can, too.

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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Nelson Hilario Filipe
Get to know Nelson This week’s Kubestronaut in orbit is Nelson Hilario Filipe, a DevSecOps Engineer and our first Kubestronaut in Mozambique. Nelson has a strong passion for shift-left security, and embarked on the Kubestronaut program… ⌘ Read more

10 Things You Might Not Know About the Panama Canal
Building the Panama Canal was one of the greatest civil engineering projects of all time, but how much do you know about the history of this waterway that joins two oceans? The building caused thousands of deaths and cost an enormous amount of money, but it has bestowed priceless benefits to world trade and prosperity. […]

The post [10 Things You Might Not Know About the Panama Canal](https://listverse.com/2025/02/08/10-things-y … ⌘ Read more

From finding to fixing: GitHub Advanced Security integrates Endor Labs SCA
The partnership between GitHub and Endor Labs enables application security engineers and developers to drastically reduce time spent on open source vulnerabilities, and gives them the tools to go from finding to fixing.

The post [From finding to fixing: GitHub Advanced Security integrates Endor Labs SCA](https://github.blog/security/from-finding-to-fixing-github-advanced-security-integrates … ⌘ Read more

In some organizations, engineers in the general field of IT (Software, SRE, etc) are recognised hierarchically as: Intern, Graduate, Junior, …
In some organizations, engineers in the general field of IT ( Software, SRE, etc) are recognised hierarchically as: Intern, Graduate, Junior, Mid, Senior, Staff, Principal, Distinguished. ⌘ Read more

Hiring: Staff Software Engineer @ American Express (UK)
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> Hi James, great to hear your interest. So this is an exclusive roundtable luncheon with people in the IT, Engineering, DevOps and Technical pr …

Hi James, great to hear your interest. So this is an exclusive roundtable luncheon with people in the IT, Engineering, DevOps and Technical professionals. This is an opportunity to benchmark and share stories and experiences with like-minded peers in a closed-door, Chatham House Rule environment where you will be given the opportunity to speak openly and candidly.

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