miniblog.

I find it fascinating how some businesses have scheduled downtime for their websites (e.g. my electricity provider last weekend), but others don't. I suspect it's primarily culture. You generally need to turn off electricity to do work, so your other tooling may reflect that.

I'm a fan of the Software Unscripted podcast, and I particularly enjoyed this recent episode about CrowdStrike and security culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjaZssBEiI The guest (Kelly Shortridge) compares attackers to lawyers trying to find loopholes. This is such a great analogy.

TikTok and remix culture (long read but worthwhile): https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/2/15/american-idle