Low Tech Security Wins Again

Content Glenn F. Henriksen henriksen When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public. 6:45 AM 2022-10-15 from Stavanger, Norway Twitter for Android 11.6K Retweets 480 Quote Tweets 68.6K Likes

Content Glenn F. Henriksen henriksen When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public. ProgrammerHumor.

Content 10:57 TeliaDK N ACE All 77 Tweet Unristne unen a liked Kelly Vaughn kvlly Casual reminder that program- ming on a plane increases your badass level by 14 9:57 PM 20 Sep 19 Twitter for Android 7 Retweets 217 Likes 9 17 moke (I D mokedev - 57m V Replying to kvlly You don't even have to deploy because it's already on the cloud BUDAN ISSS GIF 36 Tweet vour replv

Content Junior developers when they need to implement a custom IdentityServer template using Kubernetes in AWS instead of sorting a list of integers

The modern developer's nightmare spelled out in logos - RETARD : R eact, E xpress, T ailwind, A WS, R edis, D eno. Someone at marketing definitely got fired for not checking the acronym before approving this stack. Imagine the CTO's face during the presentation: "Our revolutionary RETARD stack will disrupt the industry!" *awkward silence* *single cough from the back row* The irony is that individually, these are actually decent technologies. Together? Career suicide in your next standup meeting.

The corporate ladder climb speedrun any%. Dude took a perfectly functional Java service that ran flawlessly for 5 years and nuked it with an unnecessary microservices rewrite in Go—just to pad the resume with "scope" and "complexity" for that sweet L5 to L6 promotion at Amazon. The result? A system that's slower, costs 2x more, and has memory leaks that wake people up at 2 AM. But hey, the 20-page design doc was strategic enough to fool management. The real galaxy brain move though? Getting promoted, then immediately transferring to a "chill Core Infra team" before the whole thing implodes. Now some poor new grad inherits a ticking time bomb for $550k TC while our protagonist is sipping coffee, off-call, watching the chaos unfold from a safe distance. Truly a masterclass in corporate self-preservation and passing the buck. Fun fact: This is basically the tech industry version of "I'm not stuck in here with you, you're stuck in here with me"—except the villain escapes before the final act.