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thefsbon Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

Almost any salaried position in a big enterprise involves very little real work. It's mostly email, meetings and power point.

thefsbon Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

Switched to SES.

thefsbon A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

I switched to FF after Prism was publicized. It's good. Go for it.

thefsbon AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for journalism

Hi Matt, have you read Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" yet? It has an interesting perspective on what drives the trend to minimize pay for writers.

thefsbon Review of _Bullshit Jobs_

Here are the first 3 paragraphs of the section on Duct-tapers from Chapter 2.

https://monosnap.com/file/L41lTePrEn3wAJxD4sMZxeIYacxDqK

This was striking for me because I immediately thought that all the stuff I've authored for salt, ansible, grunt, etc. is duct tape. And I hated doing that work. I always did.

It's necessary and necessarily complex but a lot of the complexity is because fitting all this stuff together is going to be a mess no matter what. We can argue about better and worse approaches to managing the complexities (micro-services, whatever) but it's still complex and I resent that.

thefsbon Custodians of PHP vote to keep a crypto lib abandoned in 2003 in PHP 7

cweagans is right. PHP is deeply unfashionable, ridiculous even to some programmers using other langauges. But quietly, somewhere out of sight, it has been enjoying something of a renaissance in recent years. Generally I'm pleased with changes in the culture, tools, standards and even in the language. But just can't get behind this decision to keep mcrypt.

thefsbon Custodians of PHP vote to keep a crypto lib abandoned in 2003 in PHP 7

It appears those with a vote regard adoption of PHP 7 as the higher priority and therefore compat with existing code using mcrypt must be ensured. http://news.php.net/php.internals/82191

thefsbon Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think

This is hilarious: "Web 2.0 took over, yielding big buttons, less text, more images, and happier users."

thefsbon Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

yii

thefsbon I quit Twitter for a month and it changed my thinking about mostly everything.

isn't this basically what Jaron Lanier was getting at in You Are Not a Gadget?

thefsbon The definitive guide to forms based website authentication

it's mostly good. NIST abolished their algo for pasword entropy estimation some time ago. i do not much like any password strength tests, most of which rate any number of terrible passwords as strong. as such i think they give a false sense of security. maybe consider cracklib.

as DenisM said, always use SSL for all traffic if security matters and don't trust SO for security advice.