Reading List
- Et tu, Signal?
Stephen Diehl
Many technologists viscerally felt yesterday’s announcement as a punch to the gut when we heard that the Signal messaging app was bundling an embedded cryptocurrency. This news really cut to heart of what many technologists have felt before when we as loyal users have been exploited and betrayed by corporations, but this time it felt much deeper because it introduced a conflict of interest from our fellow technologists that we truly believed were advancing a cause many of us also believed in.
- Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong
Nope, you don’t know how to validate an email address. Even if you think you’d get the domain part right, fuggeddabout the local part. Seriously.