umbula

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umbula··on Bitbucket Is Offline

Looks like Duolingo is also having problems. Coincidence?

umbula··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

We're an engineering safety inspection and testing group. MS Azure stack and MS Dynamics. 50% hands-on dev - 50% dev team leading.

Apply here: https://careers.besgroup.com/jobs/vacancy/applications-devel...

umbula··on The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"

What sort of LLM/Copilot advice file could you write to encapsulate all the good advice here? Would "approach this problem using the ideas from Michael Feather's book Working Effectively With Legacy Code" work?

umbula··on CrowdStrike hires outside security outfits to review Falcon code

Test driven development would have prevented this. Missed passing the 21st of 21 parameters when testing.

Red. Green. Refactor!

umbula··on Microsoft Internet Connection Test

Should be http rather than https?

umbula··on Small World: a Marauder's Map for the people you follow on Twitter

Asking for access to my email address. Is it worth it?

umbula··on Gut Microbiota Regulate Pancreatic Growth, Exocrine Function and Gut Hormones

...in mice.

umbula··on [dead]

...and it's gone.

umbula··on Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

Live action "Where's Wally?". Turn camera off. Hide. Turn camera on. Works better with two plus people in the same location.

umbula··on Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

Deeper analysis from Brian Krebs: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/facebook-security-bug-af...