Rob Fahrni

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Saturday Morning Coffee, with Links

Celebrating 20 Years of Trustworthy Computing: ”Just by compiling software with a few switches, everyday developers could protect themselves against entire classes of exploits”

On the front lines, Ukrainians brace for possible attack: ”But while they might not agree with where an attack will come from, they are all 100% convinced it is going to happen.”

I really don’t want to see this happen. Here’s hoping it doesn’t, but if it does, we should help. Help doesn’t mean go to war with them.

Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns: ”Unicorn Riot reported in 2017 how Vanguard America’s ‘Southern Front’ server on Discord was used to celebrate Fields’ vehicle attack, as well as exposing the group’s links to Robert Ray (aka ‘Azzmador’) of the Daily Stormer, Richard Spencer and other figures in the white supremacist movement.”

Garbage people.

The Great Resignation is here. What does that mean for developers?: ”Software developers—even though their jobs can typically be done remotely and should, in theory, be more stable during a pandemic—are leading the exodus.”

A few folks I follow on Twitter have purchased RV’s or travel vans and have taken to the road.

This is a dream of mine.

Looking back at Microsoft Edge for developers in 2021: ”The great benefit of contributing these features to Chromium is the ability to partner with other stakeholders in Project Fugu and, together, help make PWAs much more powerful and closer to what people expect installed apps to be capable of.”

PWA’s being a strong focus for Microsoft makes complete sense, they’re an Enterprise company. Having great tools for IT type developers has to be really great for companies

Web3 is going just great: ”This is a personal project of mine, and reflects my own opinions. If you are looking for an unbiased descriptor of web3 and related technologies, there are short ones in the Glossary, but that is not the goal of this site.”

This site reminds me of F*cked Company for some reason. I’m keeping an eye on Web3, like many others, but most things I’ve seen so far don’t make a lot of sense to me. I’ve thought about “minting” an NFT just to understand how it works.

I could see using Blockchain for actual physical works of art as a proof of ownership. Beyond that NFTs seem weird. I “own” a token to nothing.