Aaron Parecki

When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.

API security touches upon various different topics. I am discussing a couple of common #API #security pitfalls at the @OWASPLondon meetup tonight. Here's an extended slide deck, with a ton of useful information. https://buff.ly/2N7ySAz

Come say hi tonight, and share this info!

Phrases that make non-technical people think you’re an important developer:
✅ “I’m worried about the technical feasibility”
✅ “We need to refactor our technical debt”
✅ “This could have major performance implications”
✅ “Blockchain”

anyone else miss the pageantry of installers? when getting a new piece of software was a Big Deal?

1 like = 1 unfortunate admission

Remember that time the music industry tried to sell folks on CDs that had a DVD layer built in? @saltyasparagus1 does, and he wrote about it in today’s @readtedium. https://tedium.co/2019/09/19/dualdisc-compact-disc-history/

tfw you're about to write a massive Twitter thread and then realize it probably ought to be a blog post but you don't actually have the attention span to write a whole blog post, which is why you created your content on Twitter in the first place 😬