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Books

Here you may find all the books I have read this year:

Blog

Here you may find an assortment of reads and listens.
Topics are usually related to startups, technology, security, and books.

Creative Writing by Brandon Sanderson

I've been writing lately, so thought I'd share these.

09/06/2024
Legendary Comedian Bill Burr on Fearless with Tim Ferriss.

A valuable lesson to create, release, and iterate.

02/05/2024
MITRE Corporation Breached By Nation-State Hackers

Both MITRE and Cisco hit by Chinese state-backed actors.

29/04/2024
You Are Your Own Enemy

Brief reminder to myself.

29/04/2024
The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

Two of the most common security lies: VPNs and Incognito (Privacy) mode.

21/04/2024
A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea's Internet

This article about P4x, plus Wired's XZ backdoor research are great reads.

21/04/2024
GitHub Comments Abused To Push Malware Via Microsoft Repo URLs

One of the craziest lures I have seen, easy to fall for.

20/04/2024
Reflex: A Pure Python Web Framework

No more JavaScript/TypeScript for Python web developers?

03/04/2024
Mojo Goes Open Source!

Seems like AI and Open Source are getting along.

03/04/2024
You Don’t Need More How-To Advice — You Need a Beautiful and Painful Reckoning

"... the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable."

22/03/2024
The Memory Footprint Of Your Python Application

Useful for Python developers, memory allocation is important.

20/03/2024
School Is Not Enough

"If a system lacks imagination (as they often do), it is best to supply our own."

19/03/2024
Introducing Devin, The First AI Software Engineer

IMO, this changes nothing for software engineers. What do you think?

12/03/2024
The Product-Minded Software Engineer

An interesting approach from Gergely Orosz (and others before him).

20/02/2024
Lockbit Shut Down!

Operation Cronos to (temporarily) take down the LockBit ransomware scheme.

20/02/2024
Great Starting Points For Contributing To Open Source

In case you want to get started contributing to Open Source with Python.

11/02/2024
Sisyphus And The Impossible Dream

Not tech related but Casey's content is worth sharing.

10/02/2024
Good And Bad Procrastination

One of my favourites from Paul - I don't agree with everything but PG's essays are worth reading.

08/02/2024
CLI Guidelines

Interesting site on building CLIs (huge part of my work!).

06/02/2024
Higher Ed Crisis: Ask Us Anything!

Third and final round: Higher Ed Q&A podcast with Ben & Marc.

04/02/2024
Spurious Correlations

Interesting site detailing why "correlation does not imply causation".

27/01/2024
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities

Continuation on the previous discussion (see below) by Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz.

27/01/2024
EmpleaTech 2024 Madrid - CyberSecurity Presentation

Shameless plug: I will be doing a short presentation to MSc in CyberSecurity candidates at EmpleaTech Madrid. Feel free to sign up.

17/01/2024
Crisis In Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen give their take on higher education.

17/01/2024
Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo From Hell

Research article done by Brian Krebs on Spamdot cybercriminals.

10/01/2024
AirBnB CEO Brian Chesky On The Diary Of A CEO

Good podcast which includes some fantastic lessons for everyone.

08/01/2024
On Me

I often read. I seldom write.

08/01/2024
Even Mandiant Can Be Compromised.

Mandiant's X (formerly Twitter) account got hacked for multiple hours.

04/01/2024
"The most sophisticated attack chain [Kaspersky has] ever observed to date"

For cybersecurity nerds, here is an interesting article about an attack on iPhone.

28/12/2023