AI jobs scam, book lengths, WASM and Git line endings

Today’s links are about an AI job application scam, why non-fiction books are too long, whether WASM will replace containers and how line endings cause problems in Git.

I’m a security expert and I almost fell for this IT job scam

Following up on the use of AI in the interview process, a security researcher discusses multiple attempts by candidates to use AI with relative success until they tried to change their appearance on a video call.

Non-Fiction Has Bad Incentives

I’ve often felt that a lot of non-fiction books could be compressed to a few pages or a single chapter. This article identifies a misalignment between the writer and the reader. I have wondered if there is a market for short non-fiction, maybe limited to 50 pages or similar. The Oxford University Press “Very Short Introductions” series is the closest I have seen.

WASM will replace containers

I am not so buoyant as the author about WASM replacing containers, at least in the short tem, but I can see the potential benefits it might bring. DevOps and containers have definitely grown significantly in complexity. I also like the way they highlight that CloudFlare Workers communicate with no need for external communication.

The hell of Git line endings and the (not so) simple fix - Born SQL

The “joy” of different line endings and Git. As I mostly use Windows I often see a warning when pushing code about line endings.

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