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(This is almost-verbatim a memo I recently sent to company leadership.) If we think the on-call rotation is working well and is an efficient use of personnel, I'd like to propose we fire all the middle-managers and replace the current management structure

dpifke (Dave Pifke) is now on Keybase, an open source app for encryption and cryptography.

Starting around 20 years ago, a popular way for shady startups to skirt employment laws was to hire an outsourced "co-employer" or "employer of record." Employees would receive their offer letter from-and perform services for-one company, but their payche

Nobody talks about murder hornets any more. Is that because they've gotten therapy and learned to suppress their murderous rage? (Sculpture by Alethea.)

Much of the experience of browsing the web is actively hostile towards users. Web pages are stuffed to the gills with obnoxious advertising. Spammers and scammers are constantly trying to trick us into revealing our passwords, or into infecting our comput

Thanks to a flood of robocall spam, I rarely answer the phone these days; if you want to get in touch, I recommend using email or SMS instead. But They Might Be Giants once recorded a voicemail greeting for me, so I'll just leave that here:

There's been renewed talk on the internet recently about killing off Pretty Good Privacy, aka PGP, once and for all. (If you're having Déjà-vu, I don't blame you.) I think this is well-intentioned, but because there's a huge, legacy ecosystem around "PGP,

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