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Stop Using Pull Requests

Your team’s code review process is probably an expensive illusion of quality. Here’s what the evidence says, and what to do instead.

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How to open calc.exe from S&Box

So, S&Box went “open source”. I don’t personally have any interest in the platform, but I did have interest in how they securely execute C# code…

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Yes We Scan: backstory and how it works

Do you have an old USB scanner that your computer can’t talk to? If so, this is the web app for you. And this is how it came about. But first, here’s a short demo of yes-we-scan.app in action (at 3x actual speed):

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A Private pkg Repo Behind Mutual TLS

I am a big fan of mutual TLS ("mTLS" if you prefer the shorter spelling, "client certificates" if you are describing the half a user actually touches). Strangely, I rarely see it used in the wild. That probably says something worrying about how I choose to...

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