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David Xia

@davidxia_
I write code and sometimes prose.
New York City
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  • @davidxia_
    David Xia
    @davidxia_
    May 29
    I work with people in different time zones and also computers in UTC. I wish I turned these Google Calendar settings on sooner. calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r…
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    David Xia
    @davidxia_
    May 20
    The Github breach was due to a single employee using a poisoned VSCode extension. Compromising employees is often the easiest way into systems. If you want to work on cybersecurity at the forefront of the AI infra space, Modal has 3 open security roles! jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal?utm_sour…
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    GitHub
    @github
    May 20
    1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories. Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version,
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    David Xia
    @davidxia_
    May 13
    Did GitHub start packing their Actions runners more tightly or give us worse hardware? For some reason the flake rate for integration tests in my team's monorepo that had certain assumptions about timing has increased along with other weird flakiness failure modes.
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    David Xia
    @davidxia_
    May 8
    AWS outages are awful. health.aws.amazon.com/health/status "thermal event"
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    David Xia
    @davidxia_
    Apr 30
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