It’s hot, close the windows
Seriously, close the windows*. Unless your house is hotter than outside, all you are going to achieve is a hotter house.
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A collection of blog posts mostly about programming and the industry with a bunch of random blogs thrown in for good measure.
Latest posts
How to effectively generate secure passwords
Have I been pwned allows you to check whether your password has ever been in a leak, as per the site:
The duality of data: priceless and worthless at the same time
As a thought experiment imagine that you are the only user of google or facebook or your supermarket’s loyality card scheme, how much would your data be worth?
Using multiple accounts with az cli
Unlike aws cli, az cli does not have the concept of a profile, namely you can’t do
How to effectively use LLMs in a new domain
One of the problems with LLMs is hallucinations, where it confidently asserts something as true that isn’t. The problem is that if you are not a domain expert or at least knowledgable in the domain you might never know that this was a hallucination.
LinkedIn Jobs: Apply First or Last
If you ever put a job ad on LinkedIn or a similar platform, you’ve probably been inundated with applications, this is certainly what happened to us recently.
Don’t Fear GenAI, Fear the MBAgentsia
I can’t help but think that GenAI is Gen-Z’s outsourcing moment, no doubt that time will prove me horribly wrong but bear with me.
Underwhelming LLMs
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use an LLM.” Now they have two problems.
Inteviewing is a drunkard’s search
The drunkard’s search principle is a type of observational bias that occurs when people only search for something where it is easiest to look and I think this is exactly what happens with interviewing.
Azure SQL Databases User Management scripts
Every so often I have a need to add an Entra ID user directly to an Azure SQL database, which involves a hunt on google