{"id":2180,"date":"2023-03-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:45:06","slug":"five-for-friday-march-24-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-march-24-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; March 24, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is Friday again. I spent the last week in Montreal where I walked a lot, and ate at far too many restaurants to list (but one free link is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umamiramenizakaya.ca\/\">vegan ramen at Umami<\/a> &#8211; absolutely amazing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual here are a few (more than four, less than six) interesting things I found this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>While I&#8217;m not totally against the US banning Tik Tok, I&#8217;m not convinced the lawmakers pushing the bill know exactly <em>why<\/em> they want to ban Tik Tok &#8211; or if they know how to do it either. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/03\/22\/1165375400\/tiktok-ban-app-us-china-bytedance-biden-security\">NPR somewhat agrees<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Super interesting discussion on how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk\/blog\/exploiting-acropalypse.html\">aCropalypse vulnerability was found<\/a>. I would love to be a part of the retrospective for this one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charity Majors had a great post recently on <a href=\"https:\/\/charity.wtf\/2023\/03\/09\/architects-anti-patterns-and-organizational-fuckery\/\">Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery<\/a> &#8211; (title take from this quote from Charity&#8217;s experience: &#8220;What I\u00a0have observed is that\u00a0<strong>the architect role tends to be the locus of a whole mess of antipatterns and organizational fuckery<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> I&#8217;ve mentioned Abe Books on this post probably more than once, but it&#8217;s been one-upped. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookfinder.com\/\">Bookfinder<\/a> searches Abe Books, plus a bunch of other sites to help find the cheapest new or used copy of just about any book.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I love a good incident write-up. This one from Reddit on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/RedditEng\/comments\/11xx5o0\/you_broke_reddit_the_piday_outage\/\">Pi-Day Outage<\/a> is excellent &#8211; like <em>really<\/em> excellent. Seriously, you should read it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all I have for this week. Next week looks to be a busy one for me, but I&#8217;ll see what I can find to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Friday again. I spent the last week in Montreal where I walked a lot, and ate at far too many restaurants to list (but one free link is the vegan ramen at Umami &#8211; absolutely amazing). 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