Mark Gordon

Software developer & team builder. Excellent listener & explainer of complex things. I build the simplest thing that works. Tweets are mine, not employer's.

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

Hey Bonnie Dooners, we need y'all to donate some Christmas Trees! Ours are tired and broken. Reply if you can help us out. ☺️

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

"most security challenges have technological solutions that sufficiently address them. Instead, the main problem I see [...] boils down to human factors and the cost of adopting existing security technologies." -- @NielsProvos
https://t.co/RCjSuYX4kI

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

"The research shows that AI systems that seem to perform at a human level are often doing so in a very alien way, and so can fail in ways that are surprising to humans" https://t.co/iZVdeDwSwA
REMEMBER: No matter how impressive an AI is, at base it is a high speed idiot.

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

Akamai purchased Linode. Somehow I missed this. https://t.co/ZY61UAuoTR

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

@mckeay Why, was he not Good enough? 😉

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

"a performance boost of anywhere between 20 to 33 times compared to traditional server hardware running well-tuned transcoding software" 😮

[Changelog @changelog]

YouTube now controls its hardware roadmap

https://t.co/WMrjnVFRxr

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

@BrideOfLinux Transparency.
I like it. 👍

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

Warm, sunny day, backyard, cold beer. Of course, my thoughts turn to villainy...

1. Discover browser implementation twitter uses to render a page when you click on a link in their app.
2. Devote waking hours to compromising the browser code.
3. Rick-roll the planet.
😆😎

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

Smart article... Developers will need answers to questions like:
"Who calls this service?"
"How long does this function run?"
"What values does this field hold?"
"How many times do we hit the database, and for what?"
https://t.co/PUifhlhmkS

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

This slide from a presentation on #AppSec I made to a Java Users Group 10 years ago; made me smile!

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

C99 allowed vars to be declared anywhere a statement is legal, like Java. Most of my C was written pre C99.

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

I just read about an important element of C's syntax that I had COMPLETELY forgotten and am sitting here, gobsmacked. Two decades+ since my last C/C++ coding but, still! 😵‍💫
(In C local vars must be declared at the top of a block)

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

@brianleroux rough night? 😉

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

When Google says "Your recovery phone is used to reach you in case we detect unusual activity in your account or you accidentally get locked out."
AND I THINK
Those are 2 really different use cases.

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

@vibronet you will begin to name your coffees??

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

No.

[Kyle Alspach @KyleAlspach]

End of support for older enterprise software is helping to spark an expansion of the right-to-repair movement (via @BenBrodyDC) https://t.co/5d53wuOqCo

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

Yeah, what HE said...

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

Nice: docker app tells me that the new "docker sbom" command can tell me what's in an image! @CycloneDX_Spec #SPDX
(Downside: I am now that much more responsible for what I run!)

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

The joy of npm install:
added 1393 packages in 48s
6 high severity vulnerabilities
Less than 0.5% of the packages. Let's count that as a 'win'. 😶

[Mark Gordon @cognish]

#microservices Until end of 2025 "the combination of the GraalVM Native Image AOT compiler with a framework like Quarkus, Micronaut, [or] Spring Boot 3 [is] best option to avoid Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance & large footprint." https://t.co/5vlIMOiIo9