I love this piece by Steve Klabnik on how to care for an open source community. He writes: ...without someone actively paying attention, it’s only a matter of time before things get unseemly. If you’re looking to help out an open source project, it’s not a glamorous job, but all it takes is a little bit of work, and...

How a long sequence of dots allowed a regex to reach its internal stack limit. Premise Wikipedia’s production error logs were reporting an increase in app crashes from the search results page. The internal Logstash error report looked as follows: [RuntimeException] Cannot consume query at offset 0 (need to go to...