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rdhatton The Poetics of CLI Command Names

Here's a primary source:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/verb-noun-vs-noun-...

rdhatton Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

You can submit feedback to Slack using "/feedback" command. The nice thing it appears they have real people give you real replies. I encourage people to use it.

I asked them for the option to turn it off. An excerpt from their response.

> ... we understand that this has caused a disruption in workflows for some of our more technical users. While we don't have any active plans to make this configurable at the moment, we are in the process of collecting user feedback so that we can find a way to make it work for everyone.

I'll be sending this as my follow-up.

rdhatton The Polar Star, the only U.S. ship capable of bludgeoning through heavy ice

Russians thought so to, that's why they have 9 of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker#Rus...

rdhatton Strong_password Rubygem hijacked

The .NET Framework 1.0 included "Code Access Security" which included mechanisms to authenticate code with "evidence" (as opposed to traditional 'roles') and the apply permissions similar to your example: DnsPermission, FileIOPermission, RegistryPermission, UIPermission, and so on.

Unfortunately, the architecture was too complex for most developers and fell to the wayside. It was finally removed from the 4.0 Framework after being deprecated for some time.

Sources:

https://www.itwriting.com/blog/2156-the-end-of-code-access-s...

https://www.codemag.com/Article/0405031/Managing-.NET-Code-A...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-access-security-and-bitfr...