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The internet was on fire. 🔥 One small library affecting billions of systems. Log4Shell was the biggest security vulnerability of all time. Now, Log4J maintainer, Christian Grobmeier tells us what it felt like inside the flames 👉 github.blog/open-source/...

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Yvan Vivid
@yvan-vivid.bsky.social

Seriously, though, the phone call no dev wants to receive is one saying that an old script written by someone else in shitty Python failed to load critical data from a vendor into a mysql DB while you are two glasses of red wine into dinner at an Italian restaurant with your partner and friend.

Yvan Vivid
@yvan-vivid.bsky.social

And you subsequently open up your laptop in the restaurant, logging into the restaurant wifi, into the VPN and ssh into a server and find out that the vendor put a comma in an identifier in unquoted CSV files. As you fix this mess, people watch you and say "wow, that looks complicated"