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  Dependency cooldowns are currently the best defense against supply chain attacks via compromised package publishers.

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  I guess our best defense right now is dependency cooldowns - giving new package releases a few days before upgrading to them, in the hope that supply chain attacks like this will be spotted by someone else.

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  A loosely plotted, anarchic novel requires a correspondingly loose, unplanned writing process to produce it.

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  You need a freewheeling process to create a freewheeling work.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Unplanned systems where individuals act opportunistically, exploiting gaps, can still function well, like water flowing around obstacles.

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  It’s not orderly. But neither is water flowing in a stream. It flows around obstacles. Everything is opportunistic, selfishly taking the effective path, exploiting available gaps. It’s natural.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  Dell S2725DS 27-Inch Monitor

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  I've been upgrading my home office setup, and these monitors have been part of that upgrade. So far I'm very happy with the picture and color quality of the monitors, and the pricing really wasn't too bad either. Here's the

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  Laravel Shift

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  I've only used Laravel Shift a few times, but each time I did it saved a lot of time upgrading my Laravel projects.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  Companies would often be better off moving a tenth to a fifth of their marketing budget into paying call centre staff properly.

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  probably 50% of the time, I would advise to a client, take 10 to 20% of your marketing budget and spend it on upgrading the call center. Pay the people too much. Get the best practitioners.

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