Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 08/22/2022

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Microsoft Dev Box preview allows developers to create on-demand workstations

Just another step toward my ultimate dream of doing all my development on a Chromebook. The hard part, it seems, is running your app locally.

The four mistakes you make building permissions

Authentication and authorization are two very different things, and they shouldn’t be mixed. This article explains the difference and give you some way to separate all those concerns.

“Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more idiots

I am not at all sure how to take this. I’m guessing that, to some degree, we all are “google programmers.” Who among us is not a user of StackOverflow? For the record, I’m a fan of having folks write code in an interview. I’ve had good luck with the “homework assignment” approach.)