pizza enthusiast | your bff @railsgirlsatl | product security engineer | pronoun.is/she/her

Joined May 2011
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Looking tough and killin' it at #rubyconf_au @KyFaSt
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The thrilling conclusion to my previous post. Learn from our mistakes (literally!) when migrating existing data to a new encryption standard. This guide details our migration strategy, key rotation mechanism and how you can build them out in your application!
3 Nov 2022
Last week we wrote about how we configure ActiveRecord::Encryption. 🔒 Now, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get to work--this tutorial walks through our design decisions and shows how you can upgrade existing columns to use ActiveRecord::Encryption. github.blog/2022-11-03-how-g…
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My first blog post at GitHub! We have been hard at work upgrading our encryption strategy to ActiveRecord::Encryption. Keep an eye out because next week we will detail how we migrated previously encrypted data to the new standard and how you can too!
26 Oct 2022
Did you know that GitHub doesn’t just encrypt data at rest but also encrypts specific database columns? Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the #Rails column encryption standard. github.blog/2022-10-26-why-a…
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If *you* think you'd enjoy this type of work too, please consider applying to work on our team: boards.greenhouse.io/github/… (US remote) boards.greenhouse.io/github/… (Canada remote) boards.greenhouse.io/github/… (EU remote). We are focusing on production-izing emerging security standards!
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the only new friends I’ve made at defcon so far
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I kept forgetting it’s April fools day and assumed everything just sucks extra because *gestures broadly at everything
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Hey, if anyone knows of a Black tech writer who wants to freelance, please tell them to dm me! This is paying $! Must have a resume and/or a link to previous work! Also, a #retweet would help!
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kylie ⚡️tradley retweeted
Last night we had about 30 refugees and immigrants come in to apply for the #refcode coding class--one person flew in from Philadelphia just to apply! The number of students that we can accept depends on how many in-person TAs we have, and we need more volunteers! Know anyone?
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kylie ⚡️tradley retweeted
And we are LIVE! Check out our latest episode of Culture & Code on renderatl.com or on Spotify! In this episode, we're chatting with Raven Covington about things you should know about the switch, figuring out your management philosophy, and much more! Tune in today!
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HAHAHA I do NOT deserve this judgment
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kylie ⚡️tradley retweeted
19 Jan 2022
Halfway there! Check us out on 2/26/22 at 3:00 PM EST: bit.ly/3FlgwSO Tell us what you think about our invention, the BuzzBand! buzzband.org @LemelsonMIT @TheGirlsofSteel #LMITmidgrant #InvenTeams #ohmygos #BuzzBand #getbusybuzzing
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a repulsive thought: what if slack showed other people when you had a draft in channel or DM?
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I've long thought I could be like a good anti-product manager. I can always think of the most discomforting experiences.
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if twitter really wanted to get into cryptography they would let us use the cryptographic primitive commitments to let you guess who subtweets are about. You would hash your guess and then if it's right you find out.
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I do not feel reassured when an email contains a link for a “step by step” video. If it can’t be explained with only text, I’m probably not smart enough to know it. That type of knowledge is simply above me.
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I wish wild cats were cuddly sweethearts you can snuggle
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Probably my greatest wish. I know it’s selfish because some people are allergic to cats but this would be amazing for me
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do you ever receive an email and you’re just like “I cannot read this and I refuse to learn”?
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where was this excitement and drama when microsoft acquired me last year
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bullet journaling has turned out to be a lo-fi scrapbook of the more boring things I do
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can’t wait for my kids to sift through these and bask in my genius thoughts such as “find out what {indistinguishable} means??”
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