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Tinkerable Software

This is a post I wrote for Software Testing and Quality Engineering magazine (now https://www.stickyminds.com [StickyMinds.com]) and subsequently published on a long-defunct site of mine. Laurent Bossavit asked that I recreate the web version. It was originally published in 2001. Last night, I dreamt we'
11 Oct 2017 3 min read
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How I Avoid Committing Passwords to Github

TL;DR: My pre-commit-hooks [https://github.com/marick/pre-commit-hooks] repo might help you avoid checking in passwords or other secrets. Also: a suggestion that any secret string should contain NOCOMMIT. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I once committed AWS keys to a public Github repository. 24 hours later, ~USD2000 had been spent mining bitcoins.
06 Jul 2016 1 min read
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Enthusiasm

About the ancient Greeks: > Logic was the rage of the day; all over, at the marketplaces, in the streets, in private homes and in public buildings, at all times, sometimes all through the night, people engaged in dialectical disputations and flocked to hear the acknowledged masters of logical argument
04 Jul 2016 1 min read
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