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Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles

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Paweł Pokrywka's lightning talk at wroclove.rb 2019. Opens with the confession that he loves receiving spam, then reports a 12-year experiment: for every site he registered on he used a unique hard-to-guess email, and when spam arrived on that address he knew the site had leaked. Of ~800 sites registered, 15 leaked — roughly every 50th registration gave data to criminals. Named leakers include LinkedIn, an 'Indian DNS', and a vendor of SSL certificates. Frames this with the observation that 40% of freelancers in a recent study stored passwords in plaintext, and some 'fixed' this with base64. Second half pivots to 'naming people' — specifically the title 'senior developer'. Asks whether seniority means technical expertise (senior Ruby/Rails/React/ClojureScript developer), computer-science principles, domain knowledge or soft skills; whether a senior Ruby developer is still senior after moving to Python, web → gamedev, etc.; who gets to name a senior (peers? HR? oneself?); what a 'local senior' means in a mediocre company; and warns that titles can be used in lieu of raises and reveal more about company and personal goals than about skill. Ends by announcing that code from his wroclove.rb 2017 performance-prediction talk, previously owned by his university employer, is now on GitHub as a Ruby gem based on Petri Nets, with a second gem for the Petri Nets model itself.

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talk Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles
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Opens with Pokrywka's 12-year per-site-alias email experiment.
talk Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles
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Second half critiques the meaning of the 'senior developer' title.
talk Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles
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Announces the release of the Petri-Nets-based performance-prediction Ruby gem.
talk Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles
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LinkedIn company
LinkedIn is named as one of the 15 confirmed leakers in the experiment.
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Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles talk
Delivered this lightning talk at wroclove.rb 2019.
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Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles talk
Actionable recommendation derived from the talk's email-alias experiment.
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Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles talk
Warning extrapolated from the 1-in-50 leak rate.
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Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles talk
Extracted lesson from the senior-developer-title critique.
talk Lightning Talk on Email Leaks and Senior Developer Titles
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Given at wroclove.rb 2019.

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