Anthony Ferrara

@ircmaxell

Technologist, leader, and purveyor of rants. Engineering @ FB. All opinions my own. 's other half

New Jersey, USA
blog.ircmaxell.com
Joined October 2008
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    5 hours ago

    Jacob Kaplan-Moss says: stop using passwords. Use Login with Google/Facebook/etc., or login by email. “Google’s security team is better than yours.” Amen.

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    Oct 30

    Banning political advertising is a great way for Twitter to absolve itself of accountability for political content on its platform. Now, they can just throw their hands up and say, "We can't be responsible for what people choose to share and amplify, so it's not our problem."

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    Oct 28

    The Law of Leaky Abstractions by In order to work effectively at one level of abstraction you need to understand the level below. Because abstractions leak.

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    Oct 23

    It's just about time for our first panel of the conference, this one on the Future of PHP! Grab your dessert and sit back to see what & have to say, with moderator

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    Oct 23

    On PHP: Past and Future:

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  6. Oct 22

    Just started my journey down to and it looks like it's going to be a rainy Drive. See you all soon!

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    Oct 21
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    Being full stack doesn’t mean you know every single thing about every technology you could possibly use to create software for the web. It means you can create and deploy a web application by yourself. Rails + jQuery + Heroku is “full stack” by my definition.

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    Oct 21

    Just published 15,000+ words on security keys. 🔐📱💻 With SIM attacks at their highest, now is a great time to take a closer look at your online security. Removing SMS from your two-factor auth is a start, but authenticator apps have downsides too...

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    Oct 21

    Do you want to attend and it is from an underrepresented group? Hit me up, I have 2 tickets. DMs are open. /cc

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    Oct 19

    If your taxes go up by $400, but your health insurance bill goes from $2,400 annually to zero, how much “more” money did you spend that year on healthcare? They’re counting on you to vote against your own interest, so the insurance industry can keep taking your money.

    Elizabeth Warren has avoided acknowledging that middle-class taxes would need to go up to pay for a single-payer health care system. Polls show that Democrats are willing to pay more, but whether the broader electorate agrees is unclear.
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    Oct 12

    "Software Projects rarely fail because of bad code alone" from 's Keynote. So true. It's missing communication and undefined requirements.

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    Oct 11

    why are we not alking about this?..A black woman is the fastest person in the world! and she became it right after having a baby.. WHAT CANT WE DO?!👏🏾✨

    Allyson Felix just broke Usain Bolt’s gold-medal record only 10 months after giving birth
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  13. Oct 2

    I know an incredible Product and UX/UI Designer who's on the market looking for roles in the NYC area. DM me, and I'll be happy to get you in contact.

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  14. Oct 1

    I have questions... And Google Translate either isn't doing a good job here, or those questions are even more significant...

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    Oct 1

    Bullying is telling women of color Congresswomen to “go back.” Bullying is calling those same Congresswomen “savages” and “pro-terrorist.” What bullying is *not*: carrying out our constitutional duty to hold this administration accountable.

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vows to block House efforts to "bully" State Department officials into testifying on the Ukraine controversy
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    Sep 29

    She is back into the hospital. She was shaking a lot, we first thought was pain, vet thinks is White Dog Shaker Syndrome. The symptoms seems to match. Tomorrow we need to also find a neurologist for her.

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    Sep 28

    This is why microservices can make sense for large companies with many, separate, and isolated teams. And why it just about never makes any sense for small companies where teams can grasp the entire application.

    "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." - Melvin Conway
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    Sep 29

    Agile is not a way to go fast. It is a way to know where you are going. Agile is does not increase productivity. Agile increases manageability. Agile does not guarantee you’ll get there on time. Agile destroys the hope that you might, when you won’t.

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    Sep 28

    Calling a Black POTUS married 25 yrs to 1 wife with 2 children, no mistresses, affairs or scandals, ‘the antichrist’ but a white POTUS married thrice, 5 kids by 3 women, mistresses, affairs & scandals, ‘God‘s anointed,’ proves your religion is white supremacy.

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    Sep 25

    Nobody is considered a hero for averting a disaster, you only become a hero if the disaster happens. The firefighter is a hero, the fire protection inspector is an annoying useless person who enforces pointless norms that cost you, berates you and eventually fines you.

    People comparing fear over Y2K to fear about climate change as if it's proof that we don't need to do anything because if Y2K didn't happen, neither will climate destruction.... You do realize how much work was done to make sure Y2K crises didn't occur, right?
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