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tommdon Become Shell Literate

I love shellcheck. There's no great reason not to have any new shellcheck errors commented on each pull request. It's almost always right and how much you as the developer cares is the big question.

tommdon Become Shell Literate

And for goodness sakes, use ShellCheck! It can be easy (i.e. there are CI services that will run shellcheck automatically on your PRs and comment bugs).

tommdon Semgrep for Cloud Security

What are your thoughts on the overlap between these tools? I have a CI SaaS with checkov by default. It performs really well and requires no configuration, which was exciting. Tfsec would be easy to add but I'm not sure how duplicative it is of checkov. Anyone here have opinions?

tommdon Semgrep for Cloud Security

It's so neat to see semgrep branching out to support more languages including IaaS. At [muse](https://github.com/marketplace/muse-dev) we went a different path of making a platform to run multiple tools. By default the tools include semgrep and, regarding the IaaS space, checkov.

tommdon DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System

That's a huge leap from "arbitrary candidates can't give a satisfactory answer during an interview" to "I don't trust it can be done."

Do you apply the same test to cryptographic algorithms?

tommdon Applying Satisfiability to the Analysis of Cryptography

I think you skimmed a little too fast. The links are chalked full of slides, implementations, and executable examples.

tommdon The story of .io

For obvious reasons, I wanted a `.md` domain but those are expensive... also for obvious reasons. This is a rather unfortunate and common result of our DNS system.

tommdon Cryptol: DSL for specifying cryptographic algorithms

Some recent happenings in Cryptol land include:

  * Dylan recently released a literate Cryptol version of the CFRG's ChaCha20/Poly1305 document.  Very cool to see more Cryptol code like this.
  * Merged the fork of SBV with upstream.
  * ABC is now a supported prover.
  * Support for parallel (first to finish) proving using ':set prover=any'.
  * The type checker has been revamped for v2.3, so we should see simpler constraints "soon".

tommdon Mirage v2.0: a recap of the new features

While correct, I always find the declaration of Mirage (and HaLVM for that matter) as an OS to be unhelpful. It is a cross compiler for OCaml (resp. Haskell) to the Xen ABI along with libraries for interacting with Xen primitives (inter-domain communication, etc).