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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 on Twitter: “Who called it a Kubernetes penetration test and not a clusterfuck”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/05
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Every conversation about dependencies since 2020 uses the same XKCD 2347 based image, which is a problem on multiple levels
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/01
The below picture is a modification of [Wayback/Archive] 2347: Dependency – explain xkcd
Title text: Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we’ll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.
It actually emphasises the problem both that [Wayback/Archive] xkcd 2347: Dependency is way too optimistic, and that everyone uses that to point out dependency issues or worse as a thought-terminating cliché .
The second problem amplifies itself by increasing the popularity of the comic, and the attracts people to use it even if they hardly know about dependencies.
In turn it diminishes the meaning of it, kind of making it more optimistic by basically amplifying the message “there is just one really fragile project our design/infrastructure depends on” (the infamous “A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”).
The sad reality is that this single fragile project is just not true. Modern development and infrastructure systems usually are underpinned by package managers installing the complex graphs of dependencies of which dozens, heck thousands are maintained for “free” by, more often than not, a single worn out maintainer per dependency.
It’s just that over the last few decades usually only one such package at a time posed a serious problem. But with dependencies on very small building blocks, the amount of blocks is rising as is their usage. Just two examples out of the Node JS world (mind you, each development and infrastructure stack lives in comparable worlds):
- [Wayback/Archive] NPM – “is-even”, 160k weekly downloads | Hacker News
- [Wayback/Archive] Expert grabs expired domain for NPM package to make a point • The Register
Mind you, these links are 2021 and 2022, so the numbers have increased.
Many think such problems are limited to programming errors, but over the last decade these have become the tip of the iceberg. The real problems now are that maintainers are fading away as they have for instance been worn out for too long, or simply are aging. So what we have seen over the last decade is the rise of supply chain attacks.
One such example was the XZ utils backdoor which was, by sheer luck because one guy tried to investigate why connecting over ssh had become much slower than before, barely detected in time. It had a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest possible score.
So be prepared that the below picture will have “your business structure” on the top, and towards the bottom a bunch of small fragile pillars with the text “many projects, each maintained by a worn out person on the verge of collapse”.
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Programming Quotes: “No code is faster than no code…” – Mastodon
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/31
Important code optimisation thought: [Wayback/Archive] Programming Quotes: “No code is faster than no code. — merb motto” – Mastodon
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CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip
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Reminder to self: write a Bookmarklet that shortens YouTube URLs to the youtu.be ones
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02
When sharing YouTube videos via the mobile apps, they are shortened using the youtu.be domain.
So this is a reminder to write a Bookmarklet based URL-shortener myself for this and extend it so it also understands the various YouTube URL parameters (like start time).
The transformation is documented:
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GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE (and some words on a 64-bit Delphi product)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/26
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE
Hopefully this can be applied to Delphi projects as well. If not then in Delphi you can manually call this in an post-build task.
Addition late 20240626
[Wayback/Archive] Kirill Osenkov: “@wiert I also found that you can…” – Mastodon
@wiert I also found that you can target AnyCPU 32-bit preferred and it will give you the same address space. So that tool is only for x86.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Meik Tranel on X: “Please for the love of all that is holy. Do not build #dotnet tools to serve a non interactive task that is supposed to be run during a build – use an #MSBuild task package. Also #JS/#NPM devs should not be allowed to write tooling. Thanks for coming to my ted talk…”.
The Delphi bit inspired a few months ago by: [Wayback/Archive] Andreas on X: “Will there ever be a 64bit Delphi IDE or at least a LargeAddressAware version. Our Projekt crashes the IDE between 14-18 compilations because it runs out of memory. Maybe I have to patch the IDE myself by moving all .NET and Compiler memory allocations above the 2 GB address.”
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Delphi has had a more type safe FreeAndNil or a while now, but in order to do so it lies to you
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/26
During my year+ of cancer treatments, Embarcadero did a tiny thing that makes [Wayback/Archive]FreeAndNil safer to use. In order to do so, the method now lies to you by taking a const [ref] parameter which technically it is not allowed to change, but the internal hackery allows it to. Dalija Prasnikar explained it in 2020: [Wayback/Archive] Magic behind FreeAndNil.
The new signature is this:
procedure FreeAndNil(const [ref] Obj: TObject); inline;
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Lots of interesting programming learning games links via b0rk on Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/25
Every once in a while, b0rk (Julia Evans, of [Wayback/Archive] wizard zines fame) asks interesting questions like below that results in lot of cool links.
I have blogged assemblies of them before (see for instance Lots of interesting git links via b0rk on Twitter) and this one is no different:
[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “what are some helpful programming learning games? thinking of things like mystery.knightlab.com for SQL, and flexboxfroggy.com, and ohmygit.org especially interested in games that have helped you learn something”
- [Wayback/Archive] The SQL Murder Mystery
- [Wayback/Archive] Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox
- [Wayback/Archive] Oh My Git!
The response was overwhelmingly good (I tried to indicate when games are not free or not playable from a web browser). I summarised it below.
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delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/06
From a long time go and a project that got cancelled, but maybe in the future I will need a similar thing again: back in the days not all raw key codes were readily documented or converted correctly from winuser.h to other environments (0x45 is the keyboard raw scan code value for VK_NUMLOCK of the Num Lock key).
[Wayback/Archive] delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] David Heffernan and [Wayback/Archive] kludg):
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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/22
Forgot that this site has been there for like 6 years now: [Wayback/Archive] User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] How I experience the web today
Via among others:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 