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I love today's Google Pacman 👻

"Your judgement and experience is are more important than ever. AI can be wrong." - Vibe Coding, Gene Kim & Steve Yegge

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Finally, a real breadboard! 😂

There won't be any quotes being shared today, things have been quite hectic lately, but all for good causes. I hope to resume those posts sometime this week.

"Sticky notes, equal clutter, unless used very specifically." - Annmarie Brogan & Marie Limpert, Beyond Tidy: Declutter Your Mind and Discover the Magic of Organized Living

"Aspirations are wonderful, aspirational clutter is not." - Annmarie Brogan & Marie Limpert, Beyond Tidy: Declutter Your Mind and Discover the Magic of Organized Living

"Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking: 'I must go and spend a shit-load of money on a psychologist to check whether or not my thinking is factual and evident based.'" - Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking

"I observe this in my clinic when I ask a client: - So, how's it all going? Do you feel as though you overcome your worrisome over-thinking? They reply: - Yep! I only worry about important things these days! - Oh dear..." - Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking

"I hate to tell you this, but worry is exactly the same, it is a superstitious behaviour that then becomes a habit." - Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking

Hahaha, I love this! We all contribute to a better World the way we can, never lose hope, @scott.hanselman.com ! 🤍

"...when the verb 'to google' first appeared in the 2006 editions of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, the Silicon Valley giant instantly launched an intensive campaign to restrict the usage of its name." - D. Hofstadter & E. Sander, Surfaces and Essences

"...and that's how we communicate all the time, with a minimum of effort, and a maximum of very simple analogies." - Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences

"[...] one of his biggest concerns in cybersecurity, however, is not merely the advancing threats in the cyberspace, but how we are going to find the people to respond to them..." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

"...states rely on private industry to take on their share of responsibilities in securing this World." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

"...as the rules spread, and non-signatories can't help but engage in the process, countries start to internalise the logic of cooperation, that is, they begin to act like rules are there even if there are no formal rules agreed upon." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

"...the lines of when and how a cyber attack becomes an act of war, and who can and should be held responsible for it, remain fuzzy." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

"Resilience in cybersecurity starts with the primary goal of preserving the functions of the organisation, as a result, the actions that are needed to be resilient vary." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

Hahaha! #cybersecurity

"Thread assessments in cyberspace may be even more difficult, the very nature of vulnerabilities in cyberspace makes assessing them extremely difficult." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

"A threat assessment is the process of weighing the risks that any entity faces, be it a nation, a business, or even an individual." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

"As in other areas of cybersecurity, we have to be aware of our own habits and use of the Internet, and how such bad actors may take advantage." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

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My experience, so far with Google Gemini, hasn't been great... I feel I get better responses somewhere else. What do you use for general questions, tech and occasitonally coding? #llm #ai

"...aspects of security are not just technical issues, they are organisational, legal, economic, and social as well, [...] when we think of security, we need to recognise its limits [...] always involves some sort of trade-off." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

(1/3) I think it's time to make a change about this. "Cybersecurity is one of those areas that has been left to only the most technically inclined to worry [...]" - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

(2/3) "Anything related to the digital world or 0s and 1s was an issue just for computer scientists and the IT helpdesk. Whenever they spoke, most of us would just keep quiet, nod our heads, and put on what author Mark Bowden calls 'the glaze'." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersec & Cyberwar

(3/3) "The glaze is the face you put on when you only call something 'stuff'." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

"As late as 2001 the director of the FBI did not have a computer in his office. While the Secretary of US Defense had his secretary to print out his emails to him, write his response in pen, and then had the assistant type them back in." - P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

"Software that was testable, was modular, was loosely coupled, exhibited high cohesion, had a good separation of concerns, and implemented information hiding, these also happened to be [...] widely regarded as markers of quality in software." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

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"[...] testing drove the development process and, even more importantly, the design of the software itself. Software using TDD looked different from software that was written without. [...] this pushed designs in particular directions." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

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"TDD applies a pressure to create code that is objectively, higher quality, this is irrespective of the talent or experience of the software developer..." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

"TDD remains a controversial idea in many quarters, but the data is pretty good, this approach can dramatically reduce the bug count in a system, and it has a positive impact on the quality of the design of a system" - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

"We write code to express ideas as clearly and simply as we can, at least that's how it should work. We should never choose brevity at the cost of obscurity." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

Watching... Hackers - Wizards of the Electronic Age www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1...

"Making our code readable is, to my mind, both a professional duty of care, and one of the most important guiding principles in managing complexity, so I prefer to optimize to reduce thinking rather than to reduce typing." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

"Code is a communication tool, we should use it to communicate, sure it needs to be machine-readable and executable too, but that is not really its primary goal [...] The primary goal of code is to communicate ideas to humans." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

Nostalgia...

Pick your flavor. 😎

"Context matters. I asked a friend whose code I admire, if he had any recommendations to demonstrate the importance of cohesion, and he recommended the Sesame Street YouTube video `One of these things is not like another`" - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes youtu.be/rsRjQDrDnY8?...

"Another important tool that helps us creating better systems, is separation of concerns [...] One class, one thing. One method or function, one thing." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

"The programming language that you choose doesn't really matter. The framework that you employ doesn't really matter. [...] in essence, the choice of one tech over another, has less impact on the outcome than how that technology is applied." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

"One of the problems in ML, is that the people doing it often don't come from a software background, as a result, many of the techniques that have become normal for software development, even basic ones like version control, are not the norm." - David Farley, Modern Software Engineering #quotes

"`I love you` - says one lover to the other. `I love you too` - the other replies. And both wonder what exactly the other means by that." - Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By