lbriner

Automatic parsing of email messages is hard in places where the protocol has not kept up with the richness of email-based communications and one area that is particularly hard is separating replies from the main body of…

I run a system that sends bulk email on behalf of customers. If I send an email to a non-existent address (old address book, mistyped email) then I usually get a bounce message in a machine-readable format that makes it…

We are constantly bothered by buying departments doing what they think is "due diligence" by asking a tonne of abstract open-ended questions about security with no context, like, "How do you manage security keys?" "What…

I am based in the UK and find it hard to find good developers/designers/product people. Although we advertise on our web site, unless people are looking quite specifically, they are unlikely to find the adverts (unlike…

I often hear people talking about the amazing or awesome/rockstar/ninja/leet etc. Developers they have worked with, especially at FANG-type companies where money is not an issue. However, in an industry that really…

I am not sure if I should be trying to do this but currently, our Task tickets are set to Done as soon as the commit(s) are merged. Backlog Items (PBIs) are manually set to "Ready" once all the tasks are done and when…

Call me cynical but I see AI as the next hyped technology even though I am unaware that anything has changed in the last few years and that it seems to be nothing other than pattern matching or machine learning, which…