Reading Log - March 24, 2023 (#23)
You know all those supposedly "good" password rules? Well, they tend not to be so good.
In Depth
Christopher Mims: Annoying Password Rules Actually Make Us Less Secure
So many of the rules that sites and companies use annoy the living bejeezus out of me. There’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to have a long password with special characters in it…and please let me use a password manager.
Link Blast
👨🏼💻 Software Development & Design
The Search Element Scott O'Hara
Lighthouse meet GitHub Actions John Reilly
On trust in software development Mark Seemann
The 2023 guide to React debugging Anna Monus
Clean Code in TypeScript Kyle Le
6 CSS snippets every front-end developer should know in 2023 Adam Argyle
A first look at Blazor and .NET 8 Damien Bowden
🖥 Technology & the Internet
Maybe Zoom Parties Weren't So Bad Clive Thompson
FCC Staffers Routinely Held Stock In Telecom Giants They Regulated Karl Bode
Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought bitestring.com
Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over Carl Miller
Appeals Court Says Nope To Florida Governor's 'Stop Woke' Law, Denies Request To Lift Injunction Against It Tim Cushing
Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI Mark Surman
🎮 Gaming
Introducing Counter-Strike 2 counter-strike.net
📈 Business & Finance
Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake Te—Ping Chen
Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead Mike Masnick
🔬 Science
Relativity Space has a successful failure with the debut of Terran 1 Eric Berger
🎧 Podcasts
The Meb Faber Show #337: Professor Richard Thaler
The Jordan Harbinger Show #698: Sam Harris | Rationally Confronting the Irrational
Planet Money #1624: Inside a Bank Run
Longform Podcast #496: Michael Pollan
Hardcore History #68: Human Resources
🎒 Everything Else
How blogs shaped the web Chase McCoy