What I'm Reading: September 1

Tech

• A hack to store a file in DNS records

  • If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid

• A quirk of the Solaris getpass leads to a nasty bug but a funny story in hindsight

• An AI that can transform bug reports and feature requests into actual code and pull requests

• Sharing TCP sockets across processes with SCM_RIGHTS

Career

• How do you manage people that are "incompetent but nice"?

• The path to CTO

Etc

• The Pulse of Fintech report

• Intangible assets now make up 90% of assets on balance sheets

  • Could help explain the growth of wealth inequality, as employees who can work with these assets are highly valued

  • Could also explain the relative decrease in investment in physical assets

  • And could lead to rising market power for firms with a lot of these assets (patents, innovations / technology, etc)

• How single-family zoning laws contribute to the housing supply shortage

• Fighting counterfeit cheese with microchips

• People aren't posting as much on social media

  • Using group chats, DMs, and messaging instead

• The AI investing frenzy for overvalued companies with dubious business models