miniblog.

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-27-why-we-designed-tigerbeetles-docs-from-scratch/ has an interesting distinction between "physical" and "logical" hash of a tarball. By storing the hash of the decompressed tarball contents (i.e. the logical hash), they can verify the validity of files without needing to keep the tarball around.

I haven't found a nice way of reporting "N/N tasks done" in progress interfaces. Users don't like seeing "Baking cakes 10/10 (100%)", especially if the last cake is slow. It's weird to them to see 100% when you haven't finished, but mathematically it's logical.

It's the logical progression of vulnerabilities, but the weaponisation of zero-day exploits with no user interaction is scary. https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hacked-with-suspected-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit/