CatOps Digest 2025-03-09
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Charity
Thank y’all so much for your help closing the fundraiser for the night vision device! I usually post fundraisers that we participated in, but since this one is closed, I’ll just leave a link to the Comeback Alive foundation, so you can choose a cause on your own.
Time Sensitive
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Computer Science the Fun Way by No Starch Press: as of today, you still have about two weeks to get this bundle.
You can subscribe to the Telegram channel to get links to these bundles as I find them
Digest
Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server side - piping the cUrl output into Bash is still a popular way of installing things, despite it being an absolute horror in terms of the security practices. This article is about that.
Terraform Patterns, Observed - a Part 5 of a series of articles about Terraform. This one is about logic in Terraform.
Weekly.tf - a weekly newsletter about Terraform that I highly recommend.
What's Next in Measuring Dev Productivity? - some ideas on how to measure the productivity as well as DevEx.
How to teach yourself hard things - Julia Evans on how to learn new things.
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy - a talk by Julia Evans on how to better digest complex technical things when learning.
How Do Websockets Work - questions that you always wanted to ask, but were too afraid to :D
Slicing Up—and Iterating on—SLOs - an article by Honeycomb on how to define your SLOs and iterate on them.
Some ways DNS can break - an article by Julia Evans on how DNS can break. Not all the things are still actual, but almost all of them are.
That’s all for today! It’s time for me to go outside and enjoy the first warm weekend in Berlin!
