So…what’s going on at HackerOne lately? It might be time for a wellness check. If you are new to the bug bounty space (1-3 years), you might not have any idea what I’m talking about. But as a properly washed-up bug bounty hunter who lived through the golden era of HackerOne, I think it’s time … Devamını oku

Making data from transactional databases available to analytical databases is an essential part of any modern data architecture. It is also a perpetual battle against fragile tooling, high costs and complex operations. When we started building a Postgres service at Snowflake, solving this problem naturally became our number one priority. This post is a deep … Devamını oku

George Waters, “The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes”, inAnthropological Papers (Mostly on Parsee Subjects), ed. Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (Bombay: British India Press), 1911. Addressing the Bombay Anthropological Society on the night of November 30, 1892, its then-president — George Waters, a British surgeon and lieutenant colonel — discussed a rather … Devamını oku

I’ve seen people around me and in the general public turn ideologically crazy at a higher rate than I expected to in my adult life. I lost one friend to a cult. Others became so brittle that they can barely interact with normal people without freaking out over tiny disagreements. Others have just become very … Devamını oku

In the third week of June 2026, two announcements landed on Karangahape Road within hours of each other.Flying Out, the record store that had anchored the strip for 11 years, said it was done. ThenNeck of the Woods, the basement venue that launched a decade of Auckland electronic careers, posted that after 11 years of … Devamını oku

Research and practical hardening for Microsoft’sGlobal Device Identifier (GDID), a server-assigned installation identifier that Windows can acquire even when the interactive user has only a local account. The repository documents the wider GDID lifecycle. The shippeddegdid.ps1has a narrower operational objective: On a supported Windows target, remove real server-issued GDID state from the known local stores … Devamını oku

Maybe I’m just too cynical but it’s really starting to feel like more or less all of this new “AI”/agent software is vapourware. I’ve been trying to take this whole “agentic development” thing seriously and there is just so much friction in this ecosystem it’s absolutely insane. It’s very clear that all this stuff is … Devamını oku

Many engineers I know use generative AI for many functions, like building PoCs, internal tools or dashboards, or even learning new stuff. I personally find the style used by LLMs to explain things difficult to follow. It’s just too simplistic and depending on the number of emojis used, a bit annoying too. While I was … Devamını oku

I’m reading a book calledThe Coaching Habitso I can coach my team better and specifically make my 1:1s with them more productive. While reading, I came across a quote by Peter Block who defines an adult-to-adult relationship as one in which you are able to ask for what you want, knowing that the answer may … Devamını oku