Sep 17, 2022Should I become a people manager? The difficulty of identifying management potentialI’ve been thinking recently of the age-old question: what makes a person a candidate for a good manager? How do recognize people who have potential? You might be unsure if you’d make a great manager yourself — so you’ve never even considered that as a viable career path. You’d be…Management8 min readManagement8 min read
Mar 9, 2018Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” WorldCharity Majors, a woman I follow on twitter and have a ton of respect for, got a lot of flack for this blog post. She framed it ‘problematic advice,’ and I sympathize with that. Despite being in the tech industry for a long time, I’ve also often avoided saying too…5 min read5 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Mar 30, 2017When it comes to debugging, believe no one.Debugging is a skill you must employ when writing software and yet requires a uniquely different type of mindset. Software engineering (for most code) is largely process oriented, debugging is often non-linear and looks like it’s intuition oriented. But there is process. My #1 Rule in debugging is: Believe No…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Feb 14, 2016My Experience With Linux of the 90s, or why I have Linux Desktop PTSDI have Linux on my phone right now (I’ve finally switched from Apple -> Android). My terror of malware aside, it’s a delightful experience. I see people using Linux on their desktops/laptops, and it JUST WORKS. This continues to amaze me. In the 90s, back when I started using Linux…Linux5 min readLinux5 min read
Apr 4, 2015After all this time, we still can’t cryptoEarlier today, someone posted a blog about their experiences auditing an NQ Vault, an Android app that claimed to be “a safe place to store your private data.” The result was not pretty. TLDR: basically it turns out the encryption the app was using was, how shall we say, less…Security3 min readSecurity3 min read
Oct 27, 2014Hackers or Engineers?who to hire for your startup, and why — I’m going to to talk about two archetypes I’ve observed over my career as a developer, the Hacker (the programmer kind, not the software breaking kind) and the Engineer. How to Spot a Hacker Hackers get shit done, and fast. It may not be the most elegant or scalable solution, but it comes to life…4 min read4 min read
Jun 18, 2014Docker breakout exploit analysis a summary and line by line overview — Recently, an interesting Docker exploit was posted (http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/shocker.c) that demonstrates an information leak where a Docker container can access some privileged filesystem data where it shouldn’t. …6 min read6 min read
Jun 1, 2014Startups, Security, and Noble VisionI sent an email out to @all at Threat Stack, and I thought it would be worth cleaning up to post here… “Noble Vision” I heard a CEO mention this concept during a Tech Stars talk then ran into it again reading some awesome articles on Harvard Business Review (e.g…2 min read2 min read
Mar 14, 2014On the other side of a boothThis article was inspired as a reaction to this WAPO article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/27/heres-what-its-like-to-be-a-booth-babe-at-cybersecuritys-biggest-conference/?tid=pm_business_pop You think it’s frustrating to be a booth babe? You know nothing, Washington Post. I spent some time this past week managing my startup’s RSA Conference booth. We’re not a huge company (yet!) …2 min read2 min read
Feb 22, 2014free startup ideas for technical cofounders#1: solve micropayments for content — This is likely the first in a series of thoughts I have for startup ideas. I am, in many cases, not a subject-matter-expert, and am talking out of my ass. Is the idea valuable? Maybe. But it’s all about the execution. You know what is annoying? Watching ads or being stuck behind an annoying paywall that was me to give out yet another credit card number and fill out another sign up form for yet another website.3 min read3 min read
