What’s worse, and even more clear to me five years later, is that

Srsajol
Nov 12, 2020

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We have one engineer working on this and it needs to be added by the end of next week. Do you even know how to implement these custom form controls across browsers? Just go add the new section and make it look like the rest of the page.”
The result can look something like this. If you try this yourself, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise if you aren’t expecting any principals to be highly privileged:

https://www.ncblg.org/vun/u-v-a1.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/u-v-a2.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/u-v-a3.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/e-v-q1.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/e-v-q2.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/e-v-q3.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/f-v-c1.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/f-v-c2.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/f-v-c3.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/f-v-c4.html
https://www.ncblg.org/vun/f-v-c5.html

It suddenly occurred to me at some point early in the day on Tuesday that if Joe Biden lost, we’d wake up the next morning — or whatever morning it would be when the election was finally called — and have to break the news to my…Yes, the page I was working on was visually awful. However, I do not have the capacity nor the responsibility to change every bad visual design I see or inherit. This is not the job.With all of this data in the graph, earlier in April of this year we thought that it’d be a great idea to evaluate IAM policies offline so that we could determine a given principal’s resulting accesses (for those familiar with Windows security, this calculation might remind you a bit of RSOP). We called this feature Resource Permission Relationships.

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