Thank you to Tanzeem Khan for his video on how to create a local network for VirtualBox . I’m not sure why this info is hard to find online, but his video is the first I saw that’s accurate and straightforward.
Association for Computing Machinery Releases New Code of Ethics
In this Scientific American article, Cherri M. Pancake, current president of the Association for Computing Machinery, discusses the release of a new ACM code of ethics.
I’ve worked in computer science for more than 20 years and seen firsthand that our profession badly needs an up to date and well defined code of ethics. I’m looking forward to seeing what individuals and companies do to adopt and improve this code.
Why you need https for your whole website
This is a good primer on why you need https for your whole website. This bank batted away a security expert’s friendly attempt to help them and ended up looking like idiots. Not a good look for a bank. Twitter’s CISO sent out a PSA tweet telling companies it’s worth their time to look into any security issues Troy Hunt contacts them about.
Joel Spolsky on Things You Should Never Do
It’s worth reading this April 2000 post from Joel Spolsky on the programmer impulse to discard the current app to build a better one, and potential consequences of allowing this impulse to dominate. It’s as relevant today as when he wrote it.
Using Unofficial bash Strict Mode
Aaron Maxwell has a blog post titled “Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)” He claims a few simple script settings will make your bash scripts “more robust, reliable and maintainable” and I think he’s right.
Quoting Aaron:
Let’s start with the punchline. Your bash scripts will be more robust, reliable and maintainable if you start them like this:
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
IFS=$’\n\t’
There’s some good discussion on this technique at the ENHANCING THE (UNOFFICIAL) BASH STRICT MODE post if you want to read more on it.