By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 26, 2005
Monday, 26 December 2005
- How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1,068 Days ★
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Gus Mueller’s tale of how he got Flying Meat Software off the ground and became a successful indie Mac developer is full of great advice:
Lesson #7 - It’s not good enough to write and sell something that people want, it has to be something they’ll spend money for as well.
- Schneier on Security: Internet Explorer Sucks ★
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Bruce Schneier, quoting a web browser security study from August:
MSIE was 98% unsafe. There were only 7 days in 2004 without an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole.
Firefox was 15% unsafe. There were 56 days with an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole. 30 of those days were a Mac hole that only affected Mac users. Windows Firefox was 7% unsafe.
Opera was 17% unsafe: 65 days. That number is accidentally a little better than it should be, as two of the upatched periods happened to overlap.
(Via Paul Thurrott.)