- Life hack: Look before you paste because people can hide content from rendering in the browser. Pasting content to a command line can do some unexpected things. (From cheeser.)
- From whaley, who’s been on fire lately: Recipe for a great programmer. Great reading.
- More from cheeser, who is also on fire: InfoQ’s reference to Chaperone – A Kafka Auditing Tool from the Uber Engineering Team. If you’ve ever struggled with how visible Kafka information can be – i.e., you’re a Kafka user – any promise of improvement is a blessing.
- Compilation of Java code on the fly shows a highly dangerous and insecure feature that people have known about – but as said, it can be a security nightmare. Use with lots of caution, or don’t use at all – but it’s there.