Anthropic accidentally released their Claude source code. There are humans checking out this code and upset about how the terrible nature. I’m 27 years into working in IT. I’ve seen open source programming code and proprietary programming. Sometimes it’s thoughtful, well documented, and clear what’s intended. Most of the time, I’m amazing the junk actually…
The incident management system has a nice feature where when changes happen on a ticket, it puts something in a notification pull down where I can easily go to see what’s new. My only problem is the listing basically says “Follow Update – CMP-INC1…” for everything. There’s no way to tell what it’s an update…
Maggie Smith of The Slowdown podcast on the Make Me Smart podcast called writing like a message in bottle. It’s putting thoughts out into the world without really knowing who will read it. Without knowing who or how it will affect others. I’ve had this blog since 2000. That’s over a quarter century of messages. Thousands…
I have a Google saved search on certain work related keywords that populate RSS feeds I then read in Inoreader. One called “Student finance chief outlines Georgia Match, Promise Scholarship and HOPE administration” caught my eye because I work on some Georgia Match stuff. This article reads like a beat reporter attended the session and…
This sat in my drafts for a couple years. ===== I had a flippant reply to this tweet. And then I spiraled thinking about it. By the end of ice ages, humanity hunted large mammals like mammoths to extinction. We also eliminated giant sloths, sabertooth tigers, among others. Hunting these creatures required cooperation, coordination, planning,…
Your friendly reminder to minimize the WordPress plugins you deploy to what you actually need. BleepingComputer has an article: A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrative permissions. ACF Extended, currently active on 100,000 websites, is a specialized plugin…
I tend to overcommunicate to my supervisors and teammates. I’d rather they get something they already knew from me, than they get blindsided. That’s played well with several of my bosses and shadow bosses. They often tell me, “thanks, I already know about it.” For my side, that brings relief instead of discouragement. When they…
It’s amusing to me that I helped some colleagues get OpenJDK installed. They were trying to do the for all users install and hitting up against the requirement that they don’t have administrator access to install software on their computers. So, I noticed the for me only option and got them to try it. I…