Here are some resources I found useful on the topics of teaching, writing and presenting. David R. MacIver. Warning: This blog has secret mind control powers. September 2013. Steve Losh. Teach, Don’t Tell. September 2013. Jacob Kaplan-Moss. Writing great documentation. November 2009. (Part 1: What to write; Part 2 …| dr knz @ work
Say you have invented “the next big thing”, e.g. the next C, the next operating system, the next processor, and hope your thing will shine, masses will come to it and you will be forever famous. You will invest money, time, the best engineering expertise you can get, to …| dr knz @ work
Upon our arrival in New Orleans on November 5th, 2018, my friend Nathan explained to me, with a mix of apparent excitement and apprehension: “our internal Jepsen test suite found a real consistency bug.” I replied: “This is great! This confirms yet again that good testing is actually useful! Have …| dr knz @ work
I like to think about computer security as the science of how things can go wrong with computers. There is so much that can go wrong! In so many different ways! To avoid becoming overwhelmed, computer engineers need a systematic way to think about security, talk about it with each …| dr knz @ work
This article explains how I stopped a software vendor and at least one of its customers from hemorraging $50K+ yearly due to unnecessary costs. ❦❦❦ A recommended best practice in Enterprise security is the “three R’s”: Repair, Repave and Rotate [1] [2] [3]. Repair means applying security patches as soon …| dr knz @ work
