Weekly Digest #161

Articles

One Game, By One Man, On Six Platforms: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Senior to Staff Engineer

Washing machine vs laundry room

The tale of two platform approaches: central platforms vs bespoke platforms. When to use what depends on repetitive work; diverse workload; risk tolerance

A strange sign of the times The story behind the founder of Have I Been Pwned

Tools

ripsecrets, A command-line tool to prevent committing secret keys into your source code

BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker

Off-topic

Popularized in England, These Wavy Walls Actually Use Fewer Bricks Than a Straight Wall

The most advanced Midjourney AI Styles Library on the web. 4000+ styles in V5, V4, V3, and niji + Midjourney Guide and weekly Style Tops

London Major Crimes 2022–2023