Eric Mann @ericmann@tekton.network

I publish open source tools for free. If you find my tools useful, please contribute to keeping them free: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16402577 :-)

Keeping track of the local job market so I can keep my team's compensation competitive is ... interesting.

Two companies, similar size, both advertising for a "Principal Software Engineer" vacancy. One's offering $170k. The other $57k.

This is what makes fair compensation difficult.

Finish grabbing everything I need at the store. Walk up to pay. Everything starts beeping. "We're sorry everyone. The entire system just went down. We can only accept cash at this time."

Is this the end times???

"Speaking of frameworks: PHP isn't just WordPress anymore."

Well said :-)

https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2019

"“End-to-end encryption” is a marketing device used by companies such as Facebook to lull consumers wary about cyber-surveillance into a false sense of security."

So many dangerous and flat out WRONG things about this statement...

Disgusting FUD weakening trust in #crypto yet again... https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-05-14/whatsapp-hack-shows-end-to-end-encryption-is-pointless

I have serious problems with services like Amazon keeping track of and blocking access from browsers using VPNs. There are reasons people use VPNs. They're a good thing. Amazon (and others) actively discouraging the practice is a bad precedent for us all.

A battle over checks and balacnes. I wonder how it will edn!

I don't say it as often in public as I should, but my team is amazing!

The release of WordPress 5.2 brings cryptographic release signing to core by default. As such, the 5.2.X branch will be the last branch I will sign with DGXPCO.

Once you upgrade to 5.2, please deactivate DGXPCO moving forward and use the core team's signatures to verify releases.

If you start a task, say yard work, and part way through you realize a tool is broken or inefficient... Stop.

Get the right tool and finish the job later.

If, instead of getting the right tool for a 15-minute job, you spend over two hours doing something manually, you lose any right to complain about the difficulty of the work. Five minutes to get the new tool saves you 2 hours of work. Your exhaustion and frustration is 100% your fault.

I have 0 sympathy for your stubbornness.

If your younger self could meet you today, would they be happy with what they see?

Final day of vacation was spent feeding baby alpacas. I was surprised at how much my daughter enjoyed it!

Late start to vacay day 2, but while yesterday consisted if sun and hiking, today is all skiing. I love Oregon!

Tried to talk my team into a group screening of Endgame. They weren't interested. One heavily pooh-poohed the idea.

Then, seeing the media attention the film got, he finally watched Infinity War last night.

Got a nice apology this morning :-)

But I still haven't seen Endgame... :-(

In the age of personalized news feeds, we need to do something about spoilers. My feed was filled with "OMG, _____ died!" articles about GoT before the episode even ended! Consequence of living on the West Coast, sure. But come on!

As my almost-2-yr-old was trying to go down the slide, two 12-yr-olds decided it was a perfect time to race each other _up_ the slide. I yelled at them to stop. Their parents just laughed.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Some of the engineering I do these days keeps bringing me back to reflect on quantum mechanics, entanglement, and temporal causality. I've got lots of cool ideas, but lack the rigorous academic foundation upon which to present them. So I stick to coding...

Every now and then I get a few free minutes to sit and think how my life would be different had I gotten into grad school for physics. Really makes me wonder where I'd be today ...

My goal is to help devs understand what's going on under the hood so they've got a better idea of what's happening when they use safe, standard tools like Libsodium.

Debating a three part crypto series:
1. Symmetric crypto with block ciphers
2. Asymmetric crypto
3. Stream ciphers

Will keep it relatively simple. Goal is to explain how the paradigms work, with roll-your-own implementation code, and SUPER STRONG WARNINGS TO NEVER DIY.

Thoughts?