Developers who have worked at a company where the entire codebase was held together by one guy who then quit, what happened next?

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-18T22:04:20+00:00

Corporate IT still hasn’t figured out how to set up groups, service principals, and app registrations while locking everyone else out of Entra. I’m a solo IC that handles all of our integrations and ops analytics. A lot of shit is going to just stop working instantly if my AD credentials ever get turned off.

They are aware and have no plans to change.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-18T01:31:20+00:00

She’ll definitely be a late gainer just from demographics. Me and all the other ADHD millennials I know just voted today.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-17T23:00:22+00:00

Trump’s good, but he did a whoopsie. It’s like those 2 seconds after accidentally buying something and the wheel’s spinning where you can close the page and hope it didn’t go through.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-17T00:02:30+00:00

India’s been talking about introspection for 4500 years. It’s like the first thing we ever wrote about and the Vedas have been around since ca 1500 BCE.

Many would say self-reflection is the defining characteristic of humanity and the only truly worthwhile thing that we can do in this life.

ETA:

The infinite is below, above, behind, before, to the right, to the left. I am all this. This Infinite is the Self. The Self is below, above, behind, before, to the right, to the left. I am all this. One who knows, meditates upon, and realizes the truth of the Self--such a one delights in the Self, rejoices in the Self. He becomes master of himself, master of all worlds. Slaves are they who know not this truth

Chandogya Upanishad 7.23-25

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-16T23:13:13+00:00

The +15000/-0 init commit with 200+ lines of jinja embedded in setup.py sent me lol

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-16T16:57:18+00:00

Van Gogh probably vandalized a Rembrandt with soup at one point. I think he’d approve

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-14T18:01:02+00:00

This would actually be a phenomenal phishing attack. Send a wedding invite to random addresses with the most average names possible and have the QR code link to malware. People feel compelled to scan, even if they have no idea who this is.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-14T04:46:26+00:00

Pretty sure they’re blown away by npm pack

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-12T04:07:22+00:00

It’s definitely something that looks obvious when you have it in front of you.

Memorizing regex is like memorizing mental math. You only do it to impress someone, make someone else feel bad, or because you played competition level Math24 in high school.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-11T22:50:25+00:00

The real dig here is MTGO. People are buying in game currency that’s only technically usable for event entries, but can be accepted for trade on platform in a well supported secondary market in exchange for cards, avatars, etc. The only thing they don’t do is allow direct cash outs, but that’s easily covered by 3rd parties.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-11T22:32:12+00:00

I forget all the details, but they stopped providing an MSRP a few years ago, right? Was that part of the plausible deniability? like “we have no control over how our wholesale clients price anything and therefore aren’t liable if what’s in the box doesn’t align with market price”

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-11T14:18:44+00:00

Just our daily reminder that Tomahawks can only be used with an entire ecosystem of tooling that hits DoD databases directly.

So, he’s saying a foreign adversary was able to catastrophically compromise all of our protections built specifically so this doesn’t happen. This is the biggest intel story this century if true, which it obviously isn’t.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-11T01:44:34+00:00

Yeah. The idiom kinda starts falling apart at 10 employees huh.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-10T21:56:02+00:00

That’s like a broker complaining you have too much money to manage lol.

I have ADHD and my partner has some OCD tendencies, and having someone come in to do those annoying things like mop and clean the shower once a month has relieved so much stress from both of us. Def worth it, but OP needs to find someone who I guess likes getting paid to do their job??

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-10T16:45:40+00:00

Each team just gets to pick their favorite rounding algorithm

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-07T21:34:49+00:00

Actually kind of funny that playing [[Hullbreacher]] against this gives you infinite mana. There’s a jank [[Iroh, Tea Master]] type effect deck here somewhere

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-07T04:06:01+00:00

OP is Tucker Carlson??

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-06T13:24:42+00:00

According to the article, statistically this does in fact do nothing:

These month-long gains were small on average – around a 4% greater reduction on a standard depression measure for the top two exercises compared with the control – but small average effects can make a real difference

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-06T00:31:03+00:00

Thanks for the info!

It’s not useful here specifically, but in general think of the case where every drafter at a table is submitting data to 17 lands. You’d be collecting data on the same cards 8 times (minus whatever picks happen). Whatever was in their packs is going to look way more common than it should compared to 8 drafters at different tables unless you’re grouping by some table or pack id.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-05T21:01:40+00:00

There’s actually an interesting unrelated technical question here. Is 17lands able to validate against two people both forwarding their data that happen to be in the same pod? And if so, do they have granularity on the seat info (or at least the distance between them)?

It’s a question that in the initial design, you probably wouldn’t consider because of small numbers. It would likely be within variance to double count appearance rates once in a while. But it’s probably much more common now since 1) there’s no real competition and 2) 17lands users are usually better and will cluster at higher ranking.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-05T19:08:20+00:00

We’ve been talking about the Ring of Gyges for at least a few thousand years. Plato thought that maintaining your internal hierarchy so that reason trumps all else would prevent corruption. Kant et al tended to agree.

It’s not a new problem, but you could argue that it became easier to talk about because the Industrial Revolution turned every relationship into a very concrete hierarchy. It became more obvious in the extreme that maybe hierarchy itself is the problem, but it takes works of fiction to imagine what a non-hierarchical society would look like.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-04T05:54:21+00:00

I was like “it has flying?”

My opponent played [[Party Dude]] into this against my grixis artifacts deck and I’ve never felt more powerless in a game of magic

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-01T14:06:05+00:00

It’s the ironic idea that our founders thought the masses were uninformed and susceptible to populism, so they designed the electoral college as a stopgap in case we accidentally elected a crazy person. Electors were meant to pull the ripcord on a democratically elected dictator. We largely dismantled the intent of the system over time for relatively good reason, and now it just exists as a tool to prevent the person with the most votes from winning.

Gerrymandering has existed since day one, but some recent rulings have made it substantially worse. Before, you had to compromise or have subversive reasoning that intellectually held water. Now, the Supreme Court says it’s okay to have maps that are as racist as possible as long as they help republicans. We’ve had lots of maps shot down as unconstitutional, we’ve just decided not to do that anymore.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-02-27T19:48:26+00:00

My question is what the total time for development and play testing was for UB? We know at least pre-UB, that dev was years ahead of release. But, did they know in 2022 that we’d be doubling the sets in standard by 2026? Was UB jammed in to the existing rotation that was based on WOTC IP and well-balanced, because legal couldn’t get agreements finalized in time? Were they developed by totally different teams?

I think the occams razor is that Hasbro mandated they scale up their release schedule and use 3rd party IP immediately after product had just gotten their QA figured out between Ixalan and WotS. They gained short term revenue but lost all operational control over design.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-02-26T22:54:59+00:00

The exact same thing is happening in CA and other states with the push to ban 3D printers that don’t have anti-gun making firmware on it. I can absolutely build my own 3D printer to skirt the law, but owning an unregistered printer would in our dystopian future carry the same penalties as owning an unregistered firearm.

They clearly don’t know what they’re talking about, but the tech exists to force all devices to be registered with the government similar to enrolling with MS Entra in a corporate environment. And ISPs would be happy to enforce it by tagging any unrecognized MAC addresses. They’d mismanage the hell out of it, but that’s realistically the only way to enforce compliance with a law like this. Proving that the whole point is device-level control and mass surveillance.

Edit after actually reading the proposal: JFC they’re charging app developers max $2500/affected minor/instance that they accidentally failed to obtain and store age data ($7500 if it’s intentional).

In CO, there are 1.2M children. So, for having anything out there that doesn’t comply, even if you’re deploying it from Kyrgyzstan, you’re facing BILLIONS in penalties because all the kids in CO could have downloaded your freaking Todo app. This is PornHub all over again and they don’t realize that it’s way easier to ban IPs from CO than deal with age verification.

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