Stack Overflow goes down, code review doesn’t have to suck, and more stuff you can’t miss

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Scott Hanselman writes about a new “developer mode” toggle added in the next update for Windows 10. While right now it just seems to turn on a bunch of other disparate settings all at once, I think it is just one more step in the direction of making it more intimidating than ever to experiment and learn how to go from a ‘user’ to a creator on your desktop. What do you think?

Stack Exchange wrote a fascinating postmortem about a 34-minute outage this week that was due to a combination of regular expressions and a line with 20,000 spaces.

John Dvorak writes about WordStar, a word processor that you probably haven’t heard of, but is used by one extremely important author to this day. This article explains what it was and what happened to it.

TIFF strikes again, with more vulnerabilities in the image format that could result in trivial attacks on basically every Apple product. If you haven’t patched yet, it’s time, as nearly every current Apple platform and device is vulnerable.

This post from the early days of the Linux Kernel Mailing List from Linus Torvalds expresses his views on contributing to Open Source software. Every little bit helps, even if someone’s first contributions seem miniscule.

On LinkedIn

Outpace software engineer Jake McCrary explains how to do code review right with an interesting approach involving groups in addition to individuals.

LinkedIn member Ariel Silahian shares what’s unique about coding for low latency in an article discussing his experience with high-frequency trading.

As a bonus, this piece by Marta Vieira da Silva, a Brazilian soccer star, explains how her grit and determination lead her to succeed. There’s a lot of parallels between her story and that of the best software engineers I know.

Verizon announced their intent to purchase the 'core Internet assets' of Yahoo! for almost $5 billion. What does this mean for Yahoo, or the industry as a whole? Write about it, and include the hashtag #VerizonBuysYahoo so we can see and promote your post!

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