Heartbleed aftershocks continue. The big tech companies announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative, actual money, finally, for OpenSSL and other load-bearing volunteers. It took the whole internet bleeding to fund two maintainers. The intern asked “why didn’t they fund it before?” and I didn’t have a good answer. Keep asking that question forever, intern.
Also this month: Brendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript, resigned as Mozilla’s CEO after eleven days. My relationship with JavaScript remains complicated in unrelated ways.
EPL title race is heading to the wire, and David Moyes just got sacked by Man United after only ten months. The sports world is in a governance crisis too. Ryan Giggs taking over as player-manager is going to be a case study in leadership either way.
Work note: the intern shipped their first feature. I reviewed the PR and caught myself writing “why didn’t you just—” and deleted it. Rewrote it as a question. My tech lead does this for me; turns out passing it on feels better than receiving it.
TIL: SSH agent forwarding, and why our ops guy calls it “carrying your house keys through a bad neighborhood.” Post-Heartbleed, everything security is getting a second look, including my dotfiles.