It might not look like a lot from the outside, but "just implementation details" in fact hides quite some work and complexity.

Very nice piece about the various types of complexities we encounter in our trade, and what we can or should do about it.

The creative ways to exfiltrate data from chat systems built with LLMs...

Very interesting move. I wish them well!

That's what happens where references are half hidden in a language. You think each closure get a different copy but in fact they all refer to the same object.

This is indeed a real concern... with no propre solution in sight.

This is a funny pretense, and yet... If any of this remind you of a real context, this would be paper cuts. Have enough of those and indeed the organization might grind to a halt.

Some problems are indeed tackled faster by having a simulation allowing to explore potential solutions. It's tempting to go very formal and theoretical but it'd require more effort and be more error prone.

This is indeed an easy mistake to do. It's better be avoided.

Since there are ways to offset the plagiarism a bit, let's do it. Obviously it's not perfect but that's a start.

Interesting dive into how join() and generator behave in CPython.

On the peculiarities of running a network for a university... this is an interesting way to frame it as basically being an ISP with benefits.

A deep dive into the events which led to the SolarWinds breaches. The responsibility from Microsoft as an organization is staggering. Their handling of security matters massively failed once more. I don't get how governmental agencies or other companies can still turn to Microsoft with sensitive data.

This is indeed a good way to classify events probability in requirements. It definitely impacts how you handle them in software.

Very unsurprising, the harm is probably done though. They'll have to work hard for their reputation to recover (even though it was probably low already).

Nice trick, definitely should use it more often.

Indeed this is not for any environment and projects. So take it with a grain of salt. That said, I think this piece has a core truth to it which is more general. Software architectures shouldn't be considered as something fixed as soon as they are planned, they need to be validated through use and to be prepared to evolve over time as needed.

Need to know if two shapes overlap? Good explanation of an elegant algorithm to do it.

The ordering used for matrix multiplications definitely matters.

Little and to the point reference on safer SQLite use. I should check if some of this would apply or is used by Akonadi as well.