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Day 25 Merry Christmas!
#AdventofCode

Nobody wants to admit it, but the majority of software engineering is...

Dealing with legacy code.
A big ball of mud.
Spaghetti code.

But even as software engineers, we forget that we're REALLY good at working with constraints.

Every new green-field project will have:
- Some goals

Someone asked a series of questions about what managers know and keep secret...

Here are their questions and my answers that you might find interesting:

Q: Is there some cool trick to influence?

When we were first implementing passkeys, we ran a usability test with folks of differing abilities. When a man with vision challenges did an authentication with a passkey for the first time, he started crying because it was so easy.

In the chaos of the undesigned, with understanding of possibility under an architect, you should be able to find optimization through vision. My job is Security Engineer, but my job is not Security. It's producing a better solution that is secure. Which is better because it simply is better.