dvsj

Flipping interesting bits into the void (and building stuff for @Zoho!)

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@GoIvanti recently suffered a series of 0-day vulnerabilities. One of those - high severity authentication bypass.
But we can all learn from them, so here's a quick recap.
🧵x2

Takeaway #1:
Use 𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚜 for string comparison. Not 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 or 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜.

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@nataliegwinters Paper: https://t.co/3QlAuVjvlC

[Aporia @aporia9n]

Removing friction is how rich people end up losing agency and human IQ

It starts with Uber-everywhere, grocery delivery, all-inclusive holidays, then private driver, chef, assistant etc… without noticing you’re also removing exposure to reality

I see this in London with young ambitious professionals aka HENRYs (High Earners Not Rich Yet) trying to remove every tiny friction from life so they can focus on work + gym + sleep + money, while forgetting that a lot of the “inefficient” shit they’re deleting (cooking, walking somewhere, random talks etc) is also just… being a human in your 20s/30s

The thing is you’re not only saving time, you’re removing thousands of tiny reps of dealing with the world. Finding the place, fixing the booking, working out what to do when the train gets cancelled, asking someone for help, improvising because the plan is fucked. None of these makes you smarter on its own, but remove basically all of them for 10 years and I’d be surprised if it has zero effect. You can become incredibly high-agency at work while weirdly low-agency at normal life

It’s why so many high-agency rich people are deliberately paying to add friction back into their lives (difficult travel, long treks, sailing, marathons, remote places, silent retreats, climbing mountains, etc). They’ve understood that once comfort is abundant, difficulty becomes scarce. The luxury good eventually becomes optional hardship. The distinction is agency. Being forced to walk 10km because your car broke down sucks. Choosing to hike 20km in Patagonia feels meaningful

The way I think about it personally is just aggressively remove boring / repetitive friction, while keeping a decent amount of unpredictable friction. I’ll happily pay more for the direct flight, live centrally to kill a commute, outsource cleaning/admin, take the Uber if it genuinely saves 40 mins. A 15-min annoyance x300 a year is actually expensive. There is absolutely no hidden life lesson in doing your laundry for the 800th time or spending 2h getting somewhere you could reach in 30 mins

Think the objective of wealth shouldn’t be zero friction, but simply choosing your friction. Basically removing all the boring shit so you can expose yourself to more of the interesting stuff

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

YES
YES
YES

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

You can now set Claude Code's output style to Concise.

Claude leads with the result, keeps responses short, and still gives full detail when you ask.

Turn it on in /config → Output style, or set "outputStyle": "Concise" in settings.json.

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@grichadev LLMs get subtle things critically wrong. Once you notice a few, you can't afford to not read code

Otoh I don't read code on
- side projects
- prototypes
- work projects w reversible decisions and low -ve impact
- mechanical changes

Which is fine, but gotta be real with yourself

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

if you don't do stuff like this you're missing out

all the things you'd optimized out before AI - rethink it

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

When you're designing anything of even moderate interface interactivity or complexity, state machines are a great way to help you manage that.

I make these all the time, and they're remarkably useful little tools.

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@stevekrouse Yeah makes sense! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

Btw I still think about your pickling compute post! Great stuff

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@stevekrouse it's possible but it takes too much effort

ie, bikeshedding:
I want to get xyz done + price is not an issue at my scale (no $ roi) + switching bw diff models just distracts from xyz

or maybe you feel like it's worth it because it's central to Townie and that's your xyz?

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@mktpavlenko @benjaminakar false

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@samwhoo Best place to work 2026

Anthropic
OpenAI
Corgi
Deepmind

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@spakhm @maxbittker prove it

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@maxbittker @spakhm unrelated, but your runescape sims are so cool!
Makes me nostalgic.
I was such a dorky kid, schoolmates told me to search for "run-escape" to start playing this, haha

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@brittilina @quintendf @gdsimms @BlendiByl brittany it's 12:00am 1st Jan 1970, go to bed

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@quintendf @gdsimms @BlendiByl straight out of researcher test logs in the lab that caused the jurassic park

"it is 0926 hours in experiment 4862 and we see signs of T Rex life"

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

"I'll actually check this codebase rather than hand-wave"

my brother that's what I expect you to do EVERY SINGLE TIME smh

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@kousikmahadeva1 @spakhm Nice, will check it out!

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@spakhm Makes sense. Gotta be more intentional about momentum and taking bigger steps.

Best time was 5 years ago, next best is today ig

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@spakhm How to *be* them.
I've been building side projects for myself (across tech, across 7 years), writing sporadically (top on HN/reddit), taking on stuff at work as a founding engg, etc etc

But I feel like I've hit a ceiling I don't know how to break out of.

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

oh well, @claudeai

[dvsj @dvsj_in]

@robmac @spakhm Best I can do is a neat affogato on the 𝚛̶𝚘̶𝚌̶𝚔̶𝚜̶ ice cream, am I relegated to the permanent underclass?