Evan Hahn @EvanHahn@bigshoulders.city

👋 #introductions

I'm a software developer living in a haunted mansion in Chicago. I'm originally from Silicon Valley, a fact that I am both proud and ashamed of.

My pronouns are he/him/his; my website is evanhahn.com; my musical taste is embarrassing.

Just learned #SQLite allows empty table names:

CREATE TABLE '' (foo TEXT);
INSERT INTO '' (foo) VALUES ('test');
SELECT * FROM '';
-- test

More broadly, you can name a SQLite table almost anything, even things like "DROP TABLE users;".

My employer, #Signal, just announced our new President.

Official blog post: https://signal.org/blog/announcing-signal-president/

NYTimes coverage: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/technology/signal-the-encrypted-messaging-app-appoints-a-president.html

Washington Post coverage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/06/signal-meredith-whittaker/

"The Humiliating History of the TSA" https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland

#airports #flying #TSA

"Tech tool offers police 'mass surveillance on a budget'" https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-california-arkansas-d395409ef5a8c6c3f6cdab5b1d0e27ef

#surveillance #police #cops #privacy

"Re-implementing JavaScript's == in JavaScript" https://evanhahn.com/re-implementing-javascript-double-equals-in-javascript/

#JavaScript #useless

"Use Node built-ins to test small projects" https://evanhahn.com/use-node-builtins-to-test-small-projects/

#JavaScript #Node #dependencies

"The Internet Is Broken. How Do We Fix It?" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/technology/what-would-an-egalitarian-internet-actually-look-like.html

#internet #decentralization #capitalism

"...in 2020, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death" for people between 1 and 19 in the US. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761

#guns #GunViolence #USA

"In this post I argue that integration-vs-unit is a confused, and harmful, distinction. I provide a more useful two-dimensional mental model instead." https://matklad.github.io/2022/07/04/unit-and-integration-tests.html

#programming #testing

"COVID vaccines saved 20M lives in 1st year, scientists say" https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-england-54d29ae3af5c700f15d704c14ee224b5

#COVID #COVID19 #vaccines #GoodNews

"Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Owes Me a Million Dollars" https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-owes-me-a-million-dollars

#Telegram #Signal #bets

"We see very strong results from the urine." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/climate/peecycling-farming-urine-fertilizer.html

#fertilizer #ClimateChange #peecycling

"'Batteries-Included' vs 'Bloated'" https://textslashplain.com/2022/06/16/batteries-included-vs-bloated/

#programming #software #UX #extensions #extensibility

#NeonWhite is a very fun video game