{"id":2374,"date":"2024-08-09T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2024-08-09T21:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:03:50","slug":"five-for-friday-august-9-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-august-9-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five For Friday &#8211; August 9, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back again &#8211; here&#8217;s what I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I am deep in the heat-hell of Las Vegas this weekend, where apparently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2024\/08\/08\/las-vegas-police-issues-cyber-advisory-with-cybersecurity-hacker-conventions-town\/\">Las Vegas police issues cyber advisory with cybersecurity, hacker conventions in town<\/a> &#8211; be careful out there&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking (tangentially) of security, remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/darko.io\/posts\/but-auth-is-hard\">aUtH iS HaRd<\/a>. Do better.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I had a lot of head nods in this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2024\/07\/its-time-to-do-away-with-dry-promotions\">It\u2019s Time to Do Away with \u201cDry Promotion<\/a> from HBR<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I miss &#8220;simple&#8221; C programming. It&#8217;s easy(ish), it&#8217;s straight-forward, and it makes sense. Except, of course, when it doesn&#8217;t. <a href=\"https:\/\/herbsutter.com\/2024\/08\/07\/reader-qa-what-does-it-mean-to-initialize-an-int\/\">What does it mean to initialize an\u00a0int?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I just re-read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11721966-good-strategy-bad-strategy\">Good Strategy, Bad Strategy<\/a> by Richard Rumelt. It says that &#8220;good&#8221; strategy addresses the most critical challenges facing an organization, while bad strategy often involves vague goals, fluffy language, and a failure to confront the core problems. Yah &#8211; that feels right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Short and brief today &#8211; see you in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back again &#8211; here&#8217;s what I have. Short and brief today &#8211; see you in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}