DesignPatternPirate

was just reading about microsandbox, tiny & fast VMs that act like containers, and thought this feature was genius. Since it is a VM it can fully control the network stack so the guest OS never sees your secret tokens or passwords docs.microsandbox.dev/getting-star...

was just reading about microsandbox, tiny & fast VMs that act like containers, and thought this feature was genius. Since it is a VM it can fully control the network stack so the guest OS never sees your secret tokens or passwords docs.microsandbox.dev/getting-star...

I don't care how much money the company makes (billions) or how many years it's been around (25+ years) but all companies inevitably have ancient stagnating parts of the product that no one has touched in years. This is Amazon's cancel order items page on a desktop web browser.

Notice the 25 year old button image (it's a pure image gif <img> tag, no alt text even) and the fact that the page has zero left & right margin/padding, shunting the text right up to the very edge of the page. I guarantee you no one at Amazon wants to touch this, and probably for good reason.

GitHub actions code injection attack via malicious crafted branch name. Interesting! The Pull Request wasn't even merged but must have done something when GitHub Actions ran on the request. Be careful with your automated testing systems running on untrusted user code!