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Tyler Finethy

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Engineering Manager at Datadog | MSc CS | Former Posit/RStudio

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Always curious how sketchy emails come from the real domain. This one’s from PayPal.com, here's how:

1. Sign up for PayPal Developer
2. Click "Invite Your Friends!"
3. Set your Name to "PayPal USDT. You have successfully ..."

That shows up as "You have an invite from [x]"

Sanitize user input 😱

18.08.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Building a Live Debugger," coming soon

27.06.2025 19:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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save 5 minutes coding to spend 2 extra hours fixing it

08.04.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I built an mcp for building mcps for building mcps and now my computer is sentient

i hope you all said please and thank you to chatgpt

21.03.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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design empty containers to stay upright with a spoon inside

20.02.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

someone suggested this SQL trick to bypass the lack of trailing comma support 🀯

SELECT a
, b
, c
FROM ...

12.02.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape And I will do it again unless someone stops me.

This is what I call hard hitting journalism

11.02.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

deepseek sounds like a spacecraft - when will it reach mars?

27.01.2025 20:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every time my heart wants to use WASM, my brain tells me to suck it up and use JavaScript 😒

25.01.2025 20:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

egg prices continuing to go up is all part of the plan πŸ™ƒ

22.01.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER ISSUES URGENT CALL FOR O+ AND O- DONORS New York Blood Center (NYBC) has issued an urgent call for type O+ and O- blood donations. This dangerous shortage is impacting local hospitals, and is also a disturbing national trend, with type O sh...

I know it’s cold out but NY has issued an urgent call for type O+ and O- blood donations β€” you don’t need all that blood do you?

www.nybc.org/new-york-blo...

21.01.2025 12:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

another day another build failure

17.01.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Elon watched the hunger games and said wow the capital seems like a cool fun place

16.01.2025 10:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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First week at Datadog, couldn’t be more excited

14.01.2025 13:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking for a responsible NY politician, requirements: don’t spend $800 million on a billionaire’s stadium, don’t hire your family, and don’t pay McKinsey millions to explain how trash cans work. It’s a pretty low bar.

12.01.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is anyone else’s only known fact about Greenland that it’s the β€œicy” one, while Iceland is the β€œgreen” one?

08.01.2025 06:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Park City ski patrol deserve a living wageβ€”and while we’re at it so does everyone else just scraping by

05.01.2025 22:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Microtransactions should automatically make a game 18+

01.01.2025 23:35 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users | Hacker News

Passkeys improve the login experience, but many implementations don’t invalidate them after a password change, leaving a backdoor. This happened to me.

Whenever one authentication method is updated, all existing sessions and alternative methods should be invalidated.

20.12.2024 15:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What is it about #WiFi7 that makes me want to upgrade my router before I even own a device that supports it? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

12.12.2024 14:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The solution β€œwe named our temp files etilqs so people stopped blaming us when apps filled up their disk drives” describes challenges in software perfectly

github.com/sqlite/sqlit...

09.12.2024 12:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Set up a recovery key for your Apple Account - Apple Support A recovery key is an optional security feature that helps improve the security of your Apple Account. If you lose access to your account, you can use your recovery key to reset your password and regai...

After experiencing phone theft and subsequent fraud, here’s three hard-learned lessons:

1. Set up an iCloud Recovery Key, now.
2. Avoid SMS-based 2FA, use an authenticator app secured by a second password.
3. Remove bank accounts from services you don’t use, like PayPal.

Stay safe!

08.12.2024 18:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of spongebob standing in front of a window with the words " oh " written on it ALT: a cartoon of spongebob standing in front of a window with the words " oh " written on it

it’s probably easier to break into a bank than have Apple release a device activation lock πŸ₯²

07.12.2024 19:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bring back keyboards with personality and spunk

27.11.2024 19:04 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

change my mind: updating nodejs dependencies is a form of torture

26.11.2024 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, what if schools rebranded english classes to the dark arts? Get kids excited to read the forbidden manuscripts.

25.11.2024 18:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

uv out here making python3 look like python4 with it’s inlining of requirements and portability

23.11.2024 15:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Musicians aren’t using AI to generate album covers, right? Are they delusonal? Delusonial?

21.11.2024 15:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hyrum's Law in Golang / Abenezer Belachew Occurrence of Hyrum's law in Golang

Is there a law stating that most posts are also xkcd comics

abenezerbelachew.com/blog/hyrum-l...
xkcd.com/1172/

21.11.2024 14:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI keeps getting better, but I think I debunked this one

20.11.2024 23:26 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1