Mark
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One day, I'll be good at producing quality software and will have intelligent things to say about it
Using git bisect to find when an issue was introduced:
research!rsc: Hash-Based Bisect Debugging in Compilers and Runtimes
I feel like Bubbles in the suburbs:
I learned a new word: 
Apophenia - Wikipedia
State of the British psyche update:
More good programming advice:
It's not about delivering lines of code and commits. It's about delivering value
Spent hours trying to get a self-signed cert working locally - then mkcert solved it in 5 mins 
GitHub
GitHub - FiloSottile/mkcert: A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like. - FiloSottile/mkcert
"We have found while Rust mitigates kernel vulnerabilities, it is beyond Rust's capability to fully eliminate them; what is more, if not handled properly, its safety assurance even costs the developers dearly in terms of both runtime overhead and development efforts."
An Empirical Study of Rust-for-Linux: The Success, Dissatisfaction, and Compromise | USENIX
Fun chart. Labour vote totals 2001-2024. Corbyn losing got more votes than Starmer winning 
Generate audio from text - lots of voice options
Piper Voice Samples
Netflix slides about company culture
Client Challenge
"If there is an escape that escape will be used" Christine Lagarde
Wouldn't surprise me if this is what the West's interest in Gaza is really all about:
"It has been speculated that one of the reasons behind Israel’s desire to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip and completely control the Palestinian enclave is to give itself the chance to better explore a dramatic economic opportunity [...] The idea is to cut a canal through the Israeli-controlled Negev Desert from the tip of the Gulf of Aqaba — the eastern arm of the Red Sea that juts into Israel’s southern tip and south-western Jordan — to the Eastern Mediterranean coast, thus creating an alternative to the Egyptian-controlled Suez Canal"
The Indian Express
A plan to join the Red Sea with Mediterranean — an alternative to the Suez Canal
Many decades ago, the Americans proposed to use nuclear weapons to blast a waterway through the Negev Desert. But the plan never progressed. This i...