Hardening Container Images
Shows container hardening as reducing attack surface, constraining runtime powers, and making vulnerabilities traceable.
grepular.comvia LobstersSeptember 2026
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2026-09-08 · 7 pieces
Reading issue 2.
A selection to read and return to.
Hatchet
Explains how Postgres reliability depends on schema choices, indexes, migrations, pooling, planner behavior, and autovacuum.
hatchet.run
How to name things
Argues that naming is semantic compression, exposing whether a system's concepts are clear or confused.
kolemannix.com
A New Way of Thinking About Cancer, Life, the Power of Genes, and DNA, from Philip Ball, Author of How Life Works
Rejects the DNA blueprint model and treats life as distributed agency, fuzzy regulation, and meaning-making organization.
Nautilusvia nautil.us
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
Explains why full rewrites often leave teams maintaining both the decaying old system and an incomplete replacement.
Simon WillisonSeptember 2026
What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers
Challenges the inevitability of autocracy by linking governance forms to how societies channel resources.
NautilusSeptember 2026
Continental divide
Traces how a highway imagined for hemispheric free movement instead exposed the politics that harden borders.
AeonSeptember 2026