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November 27, 2025

Optimise for visibility over predictability

“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.”
– Alan Alda

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October 20, 2025

PatSnap

I have started a new job back in Windows land, away from the MacOS Shangri-La of the last 10 years of my career.

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February 28, 2025

Complex authorization shibboleth

“Have you heard of Google Zanzibar?”

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September 2, 2024

Blitz Testing

Ever seen something named so evocatively that it actively destroys the intended meaning?

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October 20, 2023

GitHub ToLowercase Hack

“GitHub’s forgot password feature could be compromised because the system lowercased the provided email address…”

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August 1, 2021

asdf - Brutally utilitarian

I am a programmer. Too often I forget this.

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July 28, 2015

Secret Santa CSP Talk

“Christmas is a time for joy, good-will and over-engineering. For far too long, yuletide present-givers have struggled with non-optimal Secret Santa drawings.”

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July 21, 2015

Upcoming Sydney Alt.Net Talk

“Christmas is a time for joy, good-will and over-engineering. For far too long, yuletide present-givers have struggled with non-optimal Secret Santa drawings.”

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July 10, 2015

Marriage Equality and Databases

“Well, that started as a stream of consciousness about equal parts nuptial rights and Structured Query Language and finished up moving into graph theory, something I, for one, did not see coming.”

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June 15, 2015

WHICH PILL DO YOU CHOOSE?

“People’s minds are heartbreaking. Not because people are so bad, but because they’re so good.”

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