Opinion

Commentary on the week's engineering discussions: what held up, what did not, and why.

Opinion

What Git 3.0's SHA-256 Migration Gets Wrong About Real Attacks

GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon argues Git 3.0's switch to SHA-256 will cost the industry years of broken tooling to defend against an attack nobody has actually pulled off. Developers in the discussion pushed back hard, and not all of it held up.

· 7 min read

Opinion

What Government NixOS Migrations Get Right About Vendor Lock-In

Governments in the Netherlands, France and Germany are rebuilding their desktop stack on declarative Linux instead of Windows. Developers say the operating system was the easy swap, and point to where these projects will really stall.

· 6 min read

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