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Dale Myers
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Dale Myers's personal blog at myers.io covers programming, security and productivity. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The Joel Test for 2017”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments cite Dale Myers's posts as sources on lockfiles, password manager security (LastPass, 1Password), and developer culture tests. The comments use them for reference rather than judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dale Myers’ blog
Most-linked posts?
- The Joel Test for 20174 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-05
- 1Password Leaks Your Data3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-17
- /2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-24
What Hacker News says?
One of the 1Password ones ( https://team-sik.org/sik-2016-040/ ) about leaking URLs is marked as fixed, however, that's a little misleading. It's fixed if you use their newer vault format, which has limitations, and is not selected by default when you create a new vault. I wrote this about it a while back: https://myers.io/2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/
Comment linking /2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/
on “Vulnerabilities in Password-Manager Apps”Submitted 1Password Leaks Your Data as a story · 291 points
HN discussionThe main reason I use Poetry is for its lockfile support. I've written about why lockfiles are good here: https://myers.io/2019/01/13/what-is-the-purpose-of-a-lock-fi...
Comment linking /2019/01/13/what-is-the-purpose-of-a-lock-file-for-package-managers/
on “Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver”Submitted The Joel Test for 2017 as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI don't think that's a fair criticism of Lastpass for having "security issues" for the following reasons: 1. In the blog post you linked, no user passwords were at risk. They were being abundantly cautious, which makes sense since they hold everyone's passwords. 2. In the talk you linked, this is a inherent problem with storing keys on your local filesystem and not a problem with Lastpass. 1password is also "vulnera…
Comment linking /2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/
on “Phishing attack against Lastpass”Submitted 1Password Leaks Your Data as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI felt the same way up until a year ago. I'm in my 40s, been developing for over 20 years professionally and was programming in assembly since the late 80s in middle school and felt the same way. I kind of stumbled into a job as a lead. I was looking for a job, thought I was applying for just another senior developer job and I started asking my version of the Joel Test * to my now manager. I realized after a lot of…
Comment linking /2017/04/04/the-joel-test-for-2017/
on “Tips for moving into management [audio]”Submitted Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About PNGs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOf all the updates to the Joel test I've read, this is by far the most... Nebulous. Maybe even asinine because even if you were to ask this in an interview, the interviewer could reply to half it these with a bland "yes" and there's really no way to confirm or deny during the interview since it's all based on opinion. In the best scenario, the affirmative answers were straight up lies and then you know immediately t…
Comment linking /2017/04/04/the-joel-test-for-2017/
on “A Developer Culture Test”Submitted The Need for a Password Security Group as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere was a brief report of metadata being stored in the plain: https://myers.io/2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/ There's a rebuttal from AgileBits: https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/10/19/when-a-leak-isnt-a-lea...
Comment linking /2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/
on “Ask HN: Best offline password manager”Submitted The Joel Test for 2017 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does your digital life cost? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs and the Adversarial Loop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The tools that power the development of Outlook for iOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is the Purpose of a Lock File for Package Managers? as a story · 1 points
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