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justincormack··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
That was planned after the war, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Ringways but mostly didnt happen apart from a few pieces like the Westway.

But we did remove traffic from half of Oxford Street last week.

justincormack··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
They were valued at $5.6bn in 2021, in the ZIRP boom, and havent raised since. Unlikely they can raise at anything like that now.
justincormack··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
No, they are providing a service, LTS, that customers still want and pay for. Only once the customers realise its not a workable product and they want a rolling update product, with all the changes that implies, will this change.
justincormack··on Digital minimalism
Richard Sutton is on this great social network https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Sutton,+...
justincormack··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
That doesnt mean the key leaked - its likely in an HSM for example, but there is an API to get it to sign stuff. Access to use keys is less bad in many ways than leaking keys, but still pretty useful.
justincormack··on Building an AI-native engineering org
You have to get the agent to refactor it doesnt spontaneously do it.
justincormack··on Northflank Breached
AWS Q3 year on year growth was 39%, which is the highest it has been for a long time, so are you sure its significant?
justincormack··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
You can also reduce blast radius from breaches, and make systems more robust, rather than just trying to make zero mistakes. How bad breaches are and how well you can recover is also part of the outcome, just framing it as zero breaches or nothing is not that helpful, even though reducing breaches is important.
justincormack··on Northflank Breached
If you look at the numbers for revenue at the hyperscalers right now this move doesnt seem significant.
justincormack··on Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs
Windows Nano Server nearly was that although wasnt cheaper.
justincormack··on An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada
Where in the UK? I am in the UK and I grow wildflowers all over my front lawn and no one stops me, and there are no powers to stop me.
justincormack··on An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada
Could it? Where else in the world has this sort of control? Most countries have more lawn freedom I think, you might get people disapprove but there are no controls.
justincormack··on An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada
More likely a native plant.
justincormack··on 188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved
I think a daguerrotype might be reversed, as its a direct positive image, so thats probably intentional to match the layout.
justincormack··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Coal is a dead end anyway.
justincormack··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Something about AGR in this great Stross piece https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-l...
justincormack··on Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
Dial up! We had to type in listings printed in magazines. And we liked it!
justincormack··on Docker is weird
I interviewed Solomon about the Go history (plus some others) for this talk https://www.infoq.com/presentations/languages-cloud-native/

Actually there are some longer unedited versions I might release.

justincormack··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
My iPhone 12 is fine, so its not that Apple has done nothing, but there must still be issues with getting this to all devices?
justincormack··on Security Disclosure
Plugging a keyboard into your Railway instance every time you start on app is not going to give you a great SaaS experience.
justincormack··on Security Disclosure
Well, OIDC Federation exists, but its still not widely available, and also requires a trustworthy party.
justincormack··on Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
Some of them seem to do some cert pinning
justincormack··on eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
There are 30k websites using certs chained to that root
justincormack··on eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
The Go and Rustls upgrades specifically block the intermediate certs because neither of these use the system revocation lists, I believe. Once you upgrade to a trust store without the root cert for the CA this will also solve the issue. Not sure about other ecosystems.
justincormack··on Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache
The Apache foundation does not fund projects, nor do other foundations.
justincormack··on Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
No they don't, legal citation needed if you are going to claim this.
justincormack··on Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
Hares were also introduced.
justincormack··on Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
For some kinds of forecasting it doesn't need to be exactly accurate - eg say you are forecasting traffic for how to scale a load balancer, it can be a bit off it will just cost you a little and you can adjust after - a lot of feedback systems dont need full accuracy. You wouldnt use this to forecast whether to buy shares. It basically replaces various traditional curve fitting tools. If you need a really good forecast yes you are going to build a domain model. At least this is my understanding...
justincormack··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
AI models is much of what they build. A lot of software around that to support it.
justincormack··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
Thats not an AI GPU its a consumer product.
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