miniblog.

It's always depressing looking at the SSH logs for my tiny server. I have it appropriately locked down, but it's a sobering reminder of how hostile the internet can be.

Remarkable, sobering discussion of how hard it is to write bytes to a file robustly: https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/ APIs are subtle, filesystems have different safety modes, they sometimes discard errors, not everyone complies with POSIX, and sometimes hardware doesn't meet its spec!

Computational Thinking: The Subtle Effect of Hidden Dependencies on the UX of VCS https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/42942.pdf Interesting and sobering.