Weeknotes 91

“We updated our RSA SSH host key”

At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.

“Why I Will Never Use Alpine Linux Ever Again”

However, the little differences can cause all the grief. Some of it stems from how musl (and therefore also Alpine) handles DNS (it’s always DNS), more specifically, musl (by design) doesn’t support DNS-over-TCP.

Very interesting write up of potential issues with Alpine Linux because they use musl instead of glibc. This sounds like the sort of issue that wouldn’t be a problem until everything was on fire 🔥

Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, and originator of Moore’s Law, has died.

My bathroom is being renovated at the moment so I’ve been spending a lot of time out of the house in cafes. This means internet frustration: captive portals, bad signal, tethering dropouts. You name it. To try and stay online I wondered whether it’s worth getting some sort of backup SIM on another network. I don’t even know if this makes sense or not?

The more I see # rubocop:disable comments in a codebase the more I dislike them. When you can ignore the complexity of your code by wrapping it in a # rubocop:disable then what have you achieved other than littering the codebase with ugly comments?

From Sam Stephenson:

…still processing the impossibly good news that the NLRB has ruled non-disparagement clauses in separation agreements to be illegal and retroactively void

👀

Did you know that Rails includes image, audio, and video analyzers built-in?! I don’t know why I was so surprised at this. Probably because I’ve seen it re-implemented in a few codebases?

Fred Hebert…

We are releasing the well-poisoning machine, because if we don’t do it first, someone else with even worse morals might do it faster.

By being the first people to poison the well, we can know exactly what kind of toxins will be in the water such that we understand the symptoms when we inevitably make the whole village sick from it.

Great point from @searls. I have been guilty of this 🙈

…if it’s a pain to set up a development environment, then you SHOULD blow it up more often as feedback to force you to make it easier.

Telescope tip – when using Live Grep you can fuzzily refine the results by typing the path/filename. Whilst the Live Grep picker is already open hit Ctrl + Space to show the prompt.