Matt Holiday (KØDVB)

Long-time programmer; also into ham radio & TV
(old links are now on

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

“The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.” — Henry Petroski

v/@CodeWisdom

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

fiveStagesOfSoftwareDevelopment https://t.co/Dpnov5GRpA

[Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

The EU — in private — amended draft digital identity regulation to create a legally-mandated surveillance backdoor in HTTPS.

Over 300 academics & tech experts TODAY publish an open letter calling on the EU to fix this + follow web standards instead:

[Juan Tapiador @0xjet]

Should a browser be forced by law to include a CA in its root store if it does not meet the security standards?

I am one of the 335 scientists that signed an open letter (https://t.co/95P9bWaINr) calling for the EU to reconsider parts of the proposed eIDAS reform. 1/

[Sam Hon @kopisam]

An amazing talk by @goinggodotnet on cores, concurrency, threads, cpu/io bound processes 👍 #gopherconsg

[Bas Westerbaan @bwesterb]

This EU eIDAS law is problematic: it will outlaw Certificate Transparency.

[Matt Holiday (KØDVB) @k0dvb]

This the paper describing Google's ServiceWeaver
https://t.co/DBmbVZH4jq

[Matt Holiday (KØDVB) @k0dvb]

@CodeWisdom And it doesn't matter how quickly you were able to *develop* the software that doesn't work, either

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

Contact verification done using Vaudenay's protocol. https://t.co/CyM48qIDFT

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

Key verification system for end users that provides consistency and privacy for users’ name-to-key bindings, without requiring explicit key management by users https://t.co/ZS6c3TnVTE

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

Apple will let users verify if the person they speak to over iMessages is really the person, or maybe the account is hijacked. Via implementation of COSIK, key transparency/verification cryptographic protocol. Some serious cryptographic engineering here. https://t.co/kVzqXdUn7W

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

A principal engineer showing you around their home made framework.

[Ardan Labs @ardanlabs]

Gophers, here’s the quote of the week selected by @goinggodotnet! 🤓

#ArdanLabsQuoteoftheWeek

[Matt Holiday (KØDVB) @k0dvb]

This 👇

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"As a principal engineer, I view it as my role to keep us off the bleeding edge as much as possible. That way, when we really do need to innovate, we have the capacity to do so. And when we don't need to, we can go really freaking fast." – Nicole Tietz

[Matt Holiday (KØDVB) @k0dvb]

@cirobispo Go moved away from binary-only packages a while ago

I think that's good both from a security perspective as well as allowing the compiler etc. to evolve faster

[Matt Holiday (KØDVB) @k0dvb]

@ardanlabs @goinggodotnet I just finished this, and it was great!

Thanks, and Happy Birthday to Bill!

[Matt Holiday (KØDVB) @k0dvb]

Payam Azadi is #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested? https://t.co/vKkLKBvg0i

[Matt Holiday (KØDVB) @k0dvb]

I used to say that the two biggest sources of tech debt were documentation and testing.

But recently I've seen a blog post by Yevgeniy Brikman of Terraform fame suggesting that there are three main sources of tech debt: he adds automation to that list.…https://t.co/FX843d02P2