Latest / August 28, 2026
3 posts from engineering leaders published August 28, 2026, by Simon Willison and Avdi Grimm and Jeff Geerling.
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing…
Shopping for an anonymous VPN service is so weird because all the marketing and all the reviews are like DO YOU WANT TO DO CRIMES? DO YOU WANT TO DO DOUBLE SECRET CRIMES? DO YOU WANT YOUR PACKETS TO COME FROM THE MOON? DO YOU WANT TO DO MOON CRIMES WHILE WE PROJECT A PLAUSIBLE…
I'm traveling to Chicago for VCF Midwest next month. I'll be demoing NTP time history on vintage Macs, with my own GPS-derived NTP service hosted on an Xserve G5, synced via NTP or a strange AppleTalk timing extension from the 1990s . So I built a little 'portable homelab'…