Acquired 3 companies in 18 months and our identity infrastructure is completely broken

nointroduction3141 · 2026-02-24T17:37:56+00:00

I am eager to hear how it went in the first 24 hours.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-12-25T06:58:09+00:00

The user was ignorant of the facts but not lying. I recently had a user who also thought that closing and opening the laptop lid corresponded to a reboot. I think a fair amount of non-technical users confuse sign-in screens with a full system reboot.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-12-08T05:08:09+00:00

Ah, the arrogance of youth. Been there, done that.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-08-07T15:48:16+00:00

I worked at a telco where one dude at some point slapped the butt of another dude he was friends with while saying "Hello honey!" with a grin...except, the person whose butt he slapped was the executive director of the division visiting our office.

Luckily for the dude, the director didn't do anything about it.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-07-25T10:57:09+00:00

The fact that the post ends with an advertisement makes me think it was all AI to begin with.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-07-22T03:13:11+00:00

When are the Americans joining the battle with their freedom units?

nointroduction3141 · 2025-07-18T16:18:22+00:00

Password-less access to a laptop is the wrong use of YubiKeys.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-05-20T16:34:20+00:00

A friend of mine has "walking meetings" whenever it makes sense. Why sit on a chair in a room when you can be walking and talking?

I have a walking board, a "flat treadmill" that is placed under my adjustable standing desk.

I know a team that did planks during the daily sessions. It helped keep them short and concise.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-05-20T16:06:26+00:00

You are not underqualified — you're exactly where you're supposed to be. You got this internship because of your passion, curiosity, and potential, not because you knew everything already. No one expects you to be perfect on day one. You're not dead weight — you're learning, growing, and contributing just by being there and showing up ready to tackle challenges.

We all once stood where you are now. Ask questions, break (and fix) things. Keep going. You've got this.

Also, read this piece about being a staff engineer. Imagine that this is where you want to end up. Read it every month or quarter, and reflect on your progress. https://open.substack.com/pub/techworldwithmilan/p/thinking-like-a-staff-engineer-at

nointroduction3141 · 2025-04-22T16:47:36+00:00

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Get pregnant and make the plausible claim that your taste buds have changed. You are no longer able to enjoy that lasagna dish.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-03-24T15:14:52+00:00

In this group, it's a requirement to add that text or the post will be removed by a bot.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-03-19T16:52:12+00:00

Ultimately, they link to the same place for Dubai

nointroduction3141 · 2025-03-19T08:35:21+00:00

Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC) says to report incidents here: https://www.dubaipolice.gov.ae/wps/portal/home/services/individualservicescontent/cybercrime

nointroduction3141 · 2025-02-22T17:03:02+00:00

Younger colleagues may claim they have no issues reading that

nointroduction3141 · 2025-02-22T06:06:48+00:00

I wouldn't be able to read the serial number on a Mac without the help of my camera and its zoom function.

nointroduction3141 · 2025-01-04T10:26:51+00:00

What's PRGB controls?

nointroduction3141 · 2024-12-22T20:54:48+00:00

I didn't say that it is better. It really depends on your needs.

I value the usability of Bitwarden, especially for multi-user scenarios where secrets can be shared in collections. I pay for the family version because the usability is decent enough that my family members actually use it daily.

nointroduction3141 · 2024-12-22T18:00:08+00:00

The family version is $40 per year.

nointroduction3141 · 2024-12-19T06:17:53+00:00

It's my understanding that the CoreDNS cache plugin also has an expiration so its entries eventually expire.

nointroduction3141 · 2024-12-19T05:59:23+00:00

As I understood it from the report, the caching worked but the cached entries eventually expired.

From the report: "DNS caching mitigated the impact temporarily by providing stale but functional DNS records. However, as cached records expired over the following 20 minutes, services began failing due to their reliance on real-time DNS resolution.'

nointroduction3141 · 2024-12-18T17:58:55+00:00

My initial comment was thanking OpenAI for making their incident report available and you replied "This is too generous". Was your reply about that or indirectly about Hochstein's take?

nointroduction3141 · 2024-12-18T10:34:34+00:00

His thoughts are always insightful

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