#OpenToWork

I am back on the market after a short career break to retrospect & reset.

I’ve 19 years of experience - distributed systems, knowledge graphs, enterprise modernisations, developer productivity tools, open-source, functional programming & type systems.

I believe computing is an equal part craft & science, and technical excellence & team culture are inseparable.

Looking for - principal engineer/architect roles

Based in Kolkata, India, but have a decade of remote/hybrid work experience

https://kaushikc.org/resume.html

#getfedihired

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't share this story, it makes them look even more stupid if you do...

Secret médical : un secret de polichinelle

Une fuite de #données médicales en #France, concernant 11 à 15 millions de personnes. Dans certains cas, la base de données fait état du dossier médical du patient, de manière détaillée. On y retrouve des informations sensibles remplies par des professionnels de #santé https://www.franceinfo.fr/sante/enquete-francetv-une-fuite-massive-de-donnees-medicales-inquiete-en-france_7831823.html#xtor=RSS-3-[lestitres

#cybersecurite #data

How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?

Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from #Stockport, just south of #Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?

After @bevangelist told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.

But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

Passwords keep failing in production.
Not because developers are careless.
Because the model is broken.

This article shows how to build passwordless authentication in Java using WebAuthn + Apple Passkeys with Quarkus.

– No passwords
– No shared secrets
– Real backend integration
– PostgreSQL credential storage
– Role-based APIs

Hands-on, end to end.

https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/apple-passkeys-quarkus-webauthn-passwordless-java

#Java #Quarkus #WebAuthn #Passkeys #Security #FIDO2

If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116030136026775832

This is one of the worst takes from LLM enthusiasts.

Compilers are deterministic, extremely well tested, made out of incredibly detailed specifications debated for months and properly formalized.

LLMs are random content generators with a whole lot of automatically trained heuristics. They can produce literally anything. Not a single person who built them can predict what the output will be for a given input.

Comparing both is a display of ignorance and dishonesty.