When using refresh tokens to enable clients to get new access tokens one danger is that the longer-lived refresh token can be stolen and used to grant access to your application by an attacker.

When nine hikers were found dead under unknown circumstances on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl, many conspiracy theories sprouted up.

The memex device imagined a lattice of information that grows and can be built on top of incrementally.

A list of tasks to complete does not contain sufficient information to describe a multi-party process.

In a survey conducted by LinkedIn in July 2021, they found that 36% of people currently working remotely are still waiting to hear from their employers about whether or not they will be required to return to the office.

94% of China’s population lives to the east of the Hu Line.

Protecting the North China Plain is the highest priority in China’s policies both domestic and foreign.

Long Island had the largest population of Ku Klux Klan members in New York State during the 1920s.

When controlling for other factors (like age, weight, etc.) a paper found that there is no real difference between the metabolic rates of men and women.

Metabolism differs primarily in four distinct stages of life. From infancy to age 1 metabolism accelerates to 50% above the rate of an adult.

After trying out GitHub Codespaces for work, it’s clear that—while impressive—it is not a suitable replacement to developing locally.

We can come up with a valuation of remote work by looking at a few signals: what you would forgo, what do you gain, what others gain, and what others lose.

The reaction to the recent announcement that Apple would begin scanning iCloud photos for CSAM was not just because of privacy concerns, but because it legitimizes other service providers to do the same.

In a recent article in Business Insider, a leaked pay calculator and interviews found that some employees face pay cuts if they continue to work remotely.

In TypeScript, a Record type used with an enum for keys is exhaustively checked.

A study performed on Australian workers that looked at contributing factors to developing major depression symptoms found that low pyschosocial safety climate was associated with a threefold increase in risk of development major depression symptoms.

A survey found that 38% of remote workers regularly work from their beds.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major ocean current that could be close to collapse resulting in severe climate impact (extreme weather, ocean levels rising).

A survey by Breeze, an insurance company, found that 65% of people would take a 5% pay cut, 38% would take a 10% pay cut, 24% would take a 15% pay cut, 18% would take a 20% pay cut, and 15 % would take a 25% pay cut.

While not having to commute is equivalent pay raise, it’s not necessarily better for the environment.

While just 5% of the workforce in the US worked from home prior to the pandemic, 20% are expected to work from home permanently.

Much has been written about a great migration out of San Francisco.

Mark Twain had a deep appreciation of Lake Tahoe. “As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.

Macro forecasting is an area where it is easy to be as right as the consensus, but very hard to be more right.