Reading Log ForMarch 24, 2023 (#23)
You know all those supposedly "good" password rules? Well, they tend not to be so good.
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.
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
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
- The Athletic: Luck
Everything Else
- How blogs shaped the web Chase McCoy