Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael A Hiltzik

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 27th, 2021The Books in the BoxWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for September 27th, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on September 27th included Tom Lyon, Dan Cross, Antranig Vartanian Simeon Miteff Matt Campbell, Jeremy Tanner, Joshua Clulow, Ian, Tim Burnham, and Nathaniel Reindl. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Not recommended :-(  Dave Hitz and Pat Walsh (2008) How to Castrate a Bull book Peter Thiel (2014) Zero to One book [@2:45](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=165) David Jacques Gerber (2015) The Inventor's Dilemma: The Remarkable Life of H. Joseph Gerber book [@7:21](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=441) Sidney Dekker (2011) Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems book [@13:08](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=788) Robert Buderi (1996) The Invention that Changed the World: The Story of Radar from War to Peace book MIT Rad Lab Series info Nuclear Magnetic Resonance wiki Richard Rhodes (1995) Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb book Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson (1997) Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age book Craig Canine (1995) Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture book David Fisher and Marshall Fisher (1996) Tube: The Invention of Television book Michael Hiltzik (2015) Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex book [@18:05](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1085) Ben Rich and Leo Janos (1994) Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed book Network Software Environment Lockheed SR-71 on display at the Sea, Air and Space Museum in NYC. [@26:52](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1612) Brian Dear (2017) The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture book [@30:15](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1815) Randall Stross (1993) Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing book [@32:21](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1941) Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brock (2010) Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor book [@33:06](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1986) Lamont Wood (2012) Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution book Charles Kenney (1992) Riding the Runaway Horse: The Rise and Decline of Wang Laboratories bookTom's tweet [@34:06](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2046) Bryan's Lost Box of Books! Edgar H. Schein et al (2003) DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation book [@36:56](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2216) Alan Payne (2021) Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust bookVideotape format war wiki Hackers (1995) movie. Watch the trailer ~2mins Steven Levy (1984) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution book [@42:32](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2552) Paul Halmos (1985) I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography book Paul Hoffman (1998) The Man Who Loved Only Numbers about Paul Erdős book 1981 text adventure game for the Apple II by Sierra On-Line, “Softporn Adventure” (wiki) [@49:16](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2956) Douglas Engelbart The Mother of All Demos wikiJohn Markoff (2005) What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry book Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon (1998) Where Wizards Stay Up Late book 1972 Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing documentary ~26mins (wiki) included big names like Corbató, Licklider and Bob Kahn. Gordon Moore (1965) Cramming more components onto integrated circuits paper and Moore's Law wiki [@52:37](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=3157) Physicists, mathematicians, number theory, proofs  Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem 1993 wiki Simon Singh (1997) Fermat's Last Theorem book Ronald Calinger (2015) Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment purports to be the first full-scale “comprehensive and authoritative” biography [@1:00:12](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=3612) Robert X. Cringely (1992) Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date book Jerry Kaplan (1996) Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure book Brian Kernighan (2019) UNIX: A History and a Memoir book [@1:03:03](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=3783) Douglas Coupland (1995) Microserfs book Douglas Coupland (1991) Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture book Fry's Electronics wiki [@1:06:49](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=4009) Michael A. Hiltzik (1999) Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age book Albert Cory (pen name for Bob Purvy) (2021) Inventing the Future bookXerox Star wiki [@1:11:20](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=4280) Corporate espionage, VMWare and Parallels, Cadence v. Avanti wiki, Cisco and Huawei (article) If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

02:40 - Justin Collins Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Brakeman @brakeman SurveyMonkey Brakeman Pro @brakemanpro 03:40 - Brakeman & Static Analysis 04:02 - Common Security Vulnerabilities (and Definitions) Cross-site Scripting SQL Injection     rails-sqli.org Mass Assignment Open Redirects 08:57 - The Inspiration for Brakeman 09:47 - Getting Brakeman Working (Process) 10:41 - Learning About Security The Rails Cheat Sheets The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) The OWASP Top Ten     13:01 - Security and The Rails Core Team Justin Collins: The World of Ruby on Rails Security @ RailsConf 2015 15:19 - Should Brakeman be integrated into Rails? 16:29 - Running Brakeman On Your CI Machine guard-brakeman 17:43 - Are there specific types of vulnerabilities that are hard to find with static analysis? 19:18 - Rails Engines 20:56 - When building an app, is security something you should focus on from the get-go? Where should you get started? The OWASP Top Ten 25:32 - Code Schools Teaching Security 26:17 - Translating Lessons Learned Into Brakeman 27:24 - Handling Security and Data Breaches Charlie Miller 32:28 - Crowdsourcing Security (Security in Open Source) Terri Oda: Bringing Security to Your Open Source Project 34:54 - The Technical Side of Brakeman and Static Analysis Tools Identifying a Dangerous Value 37:34 - Data Tracing, Limited Data Flow Analysis 40:52 - Future Brakeman Features 43:29 - Supporting and Contributing to Brakeman 48:23 - PhDs Picks "Why didn't you [just]..." and "Did you consider..." Parley Thread (Avdi) Object Thinking (Developer Reference) by David West (Avdi) Web Design - The First 100 Years (Avdi) Brighton Ruby Conference (Avdi) Email (Avdi) The Twitter Mute Button (Avdi) git - the simple guide (Saron) I Love My Campus (Saron) LoneStarRuby (Saron) React Rally (Jessica) Livecoding.tv (Jessica) Remembering the Apollo 11 Moon Landing With the Woman Who Made It Happen (Coraline) Showgoers (Coraline) AngularJS Kurs (Chuck) Hire Thom Parkin! (Chuck) RethinkDB (Justin) 
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik (Justin) The Search for General Tso (Justin)

02:40 - Justin Collins Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Brakeman @brakeman SurveyMonkey Brakeman Pro @brakemanpro 03:40 - Brakeman & Static Analysis 04:02 - Common Security Vulnerabilities (and Definitions) Cross-site Scripting SQL Injection     rails-sqli.org Mass Assignment Open Redirects 08:57 - The Inspiration for Brakeman 09:47 - Getting Brakeman Working (Process) 10:41 - Learning About Security The Rails Cheat Sheets The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) The OWASP Top Ten     13:01 - Security and The Rails Core Team Justin Collins: The World of Ruby on Rails Security @ RailsConf 2015 15:19 - Should Brakeman be integrated into Rails? 16:29 - Running Brakeman On Your CI Machine guard-brakeman 17:43 - Are there specific types of vulnerabilities that are hard to find with static analysis? 19:18 - Rails Engines 20:56 - When building an app, is security something you should focus on from the get-go? Where should you get started? The OWASP Top Ten 25:32 - Code Schools Teaching Security 26:17 - Translating Lessons Learned Into Brakeman 27:24 - Handling Security and Data Breaches Charlie Miller 32:28 - Crowdsourcing Security (Security in Open Source) Terri Oda: Bringing Security to Your Open Source Project 34:54 - The Technical Side of Brakeman and Static Analysis Tools Identifying a Dangerous Value 37:34 - Data Tracing, Limited Data Flow Analysis 40:52 - Future Brakeman Features 43:29 - Supporting and Contributing to Brakeman 48:23 - PhDs Picks "Why didn't you [just]..." and "Did you consider..." Parley Thread (Avdi) Object Thinking (Developer Reference) by David West (Avdi) Web Design - The First 100 Years (Avdi) Brighton Ruby Conference (Avdi) Email (Avdi) The Twitter Mute Button (Avdi) git - the simple guide (Saron) I Love My Campus (Saron) LoneStarRuby (Saron) React Rally (Jessica) Livecoding.tv (Jessica) Remembering the Apollo 11 Moon Landing With the Woman Who Made It Happen (Coraline) Showgoers (Coraline) AngularJS Kurs (Chuck) Hire Thom Parkin! (Chuck) RethinkDB (Justin) 
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik (Justin) The Search for General Tso (Justin)

02:40 - Justin Collins Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Brakeman @brakeman SurveyMonkey Brakeman Pro @brakemanpro 03:40 - Brakeman & Static Analysis 04:02 - Common Security Vulnerabilities (and Definitions) Cross-site Scripting SQL Injection     rails-sqli.org Mass Assignment Open Redirects 08:57 - The Inspiration for Brakeman 09:47 - Getting Brakeman Working (Process) 10:41 - Learning About Security The Rails Cheat Sheets The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) The OWASP Top Ten     13:01 - Security and The Rails Core Team Justin Collins: The World of Ruby on Rails Security @ RailsConf 2015 15:19 - Should Brakeman be integrated into Rails? 16:29 - Running Brakeman On Your CI Machine guard-brakeman 17:43 - Are there specific types of vulnerabilities that are hard to find with static analysis? 19:18 - Rails Engines 20:56 - When building an app, is security something you should focus on from the get-go? Where should you get started? The OWASP Top Ten 25:32 - Code Schools Teaching Security 26:17 - Translating Lessons Learned Into Brakeman 27:24 - Handling Security and Data Breaches Charlie Miller 32:28 - Crowdsourcing Security (Security in Open Source) Terri Oda: Bringing Security to Your Open Source Project 34:54 - The Technical Side of Brakeman and Static Analysis Tools Identifying a Dangerous Value 37:34 - Data Tracing, Limited Data Flow Analysis 40:52 - Future Brakeman Features 43:29 - Supporting and Contributing to Brakeman 48:23 - PhDs Picks "Why didn't you [just]..." and "Did you consider..." Parley Thread (Avdi) Object Thinking (Developer Reference) by David West (Avdi) Web Design - The First 100 Years (Avdi) Brighton Ruby Conference (Avdi) Email (Avdi) The Twitter Mute Button (Avdi) git - the simple guide (Saron) I Love My Campus (Saron) LoneStarRuby (Saron) React Rally (Jessica) Livecoding.tv (Jessica) Remembering the Apollo 11 Moon Landing With the Woman Who Made It Happen (Coraline) Showgoers (Coraline) AngularJS Kurs (Chuck) Hire Thom Parkin! (Chuck) RethinkDB (Justin) 
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik (Justin) The Search for General Tso (Justin)