Links: Technical

[sonia]

Bunch of technical links that I might want to find again later.

Always paste without formatting on macOS by Scott Swezey.

When copying and pasting on a Mac, most applications will retain the formatting of whatever you copied. If that bugs you as much as it bugs me, try this trick to switch up the default to pasting unformatted text. Or more accurately, having the pasted text ignore its own formatting and match the text where it's pasted.

Difftastic by Wilfred Hughes. "a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details by Molly White. For anyone who who has a Substack newsletter and no longer wants to be hosted on a pro-Nazi platform.

Rails security quick wins by Stephen Margheim. Useful to know how to test and improve a rails server's security.

A REPLY TO THE CRITICISMS OF THE KNIGHT & LEVESON EXPERIMENT by John C. Knight and Nancy G Leveson. Some people believe that if you write N versions of a program and let them "vote" on the right answer to a problem, you're more likely to get correct results than with one program. This assumes that any errors in the programs will be independent of one another. Knight and Leveson published a paper proving that this assumption did not hold. This is a followup paper.

Comments

[silveradept]

Interesting things, all of them. I especially like the peevish tone of Knight and Leveson going "you know, if you had actually read our paper and understood it, you wouldn't be showing your butt in public like this."

[sonia]

Excellent summary of that paper!