Super impressed to see that Monzo (a modern mobile-first UK bank) has published a detailed post-mortem of a recent outage: https://monzo.com/blog/2019/06/20/why-bank-transfers-failed-on-30th-may-2019/
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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.
Spent a bunch of time learning about text diffing algorithms this evening.
"Myers Algorithm" refers to a specific paper written by Eugene Myers, and he published faster algorithms later!
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/wiki/LCS-Algorithms
Overall it seems like the Rust for Linux is making huge strides. Greg KH is super supportive of it[1] and the wider Linux community is pretty positive[2] (see all the quotes at the end of the slides).
1: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2025021954-flaccid-pucker-f7d9@gregkh/
2: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6507-rust-for-linux/