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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

    Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

    When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

    Good times!




  • Teams is relative.

    At a previous job (Microsoft shop but in the public sector so 10 years behind), the standard messenger when I started was Skype for Business.

    In case you’ve never used Skype for Business, it’s “Skype” in branding only and actually has nothing to do with the Skype software that Microsoft purchased and is more like MSN Messenger.

    Compared to that, Teams is a huge step up.

    Also, at a Microsoft shop, you have to use what Microsoft provides even though it’s usually balls.

    It’s 90% of the reason I now refuse to work anywhere that’s bought into the Microsoft ecosystem. It’s just so… mediocre











  • Why is it that security guys always think their issues are more important than any other issues?

    Like well done you, you ran an automated tool over the codebase and it picked up some outdated dependencies.

    We cant just update these dependencies because the newer versions have breaking changes and we already have a backlog of 32767 issues to deal with.

    It’s not security debt, it’s just general technical debt.

    Why is the issue that is only exploitable in a contorted scenario where the user has broken out of a VM and gained root on the hypervisor more important than the issue preventing our largest customer from tripling their volume on our platform?

    Not to mention the joke that’s been made of the CVE system due to resume padding by the security industry…