That’s actually really interesting. If you are actively looking that prevents anyone in the company from knowing you are looking, even if they did a reference check. That might be because of some previous lawsuits around terminating someone while getting a reference check before actually getting a new job/leaving.

That’s not really accurate any longer.

Mostly depends on how you layout your tables & files. If you shard the databases then multiple machines can act as writers for their shard. You can also split read requests from write requests and have read only machines scale up/down as much as you’d like. You can use multiple files in a query (there is a limit there).

So for example you can split the user table based on the first letter of the username and then depending on the rest of the database either a database file per user or per customer (organization). Of course more of everything is manual but it’s not as hard as you’d expect if you build for it.

https://rivet.dev/blog/2025-02-16-sqlite-on-the-server-is-mi...

If you need sqlite over the network you can look at https://turso.tech/ it’s a almost drop in replacement for sqlite (https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/blob/main/COMPAT.md)

I highly recommend people look through apple's accessibility features every major release they seem to quietly release some real gems.

They hid a whole app for sleep/chill/productivity/wellbeing sounds in there as well!

Try talking more about the meta of coding itself. Get into the developers head by _talking_ to them and understanding how they would approach and attack different problems. You can show them code and ask them what they would do differently / how they would go about implementing X-Y-Z. Just because you can write foobar doesn't mean you understand how to apply algorithms or w/e specific problems [your] team has. It's _far_ better to understand how they would solve a problem over their syntax anyway.

Uh. I don't know if I like the sound of that...

Isn't that the exact same argument against Lockdown mode? The point isn't that the number of users is small it's that it can significantly help that small set of users, something that Apple clearly does care about.

Never is a strong word. I have definitely visited robots.txt of various websites for a variety of random reasons.

  - remembering the format
  - seeing what they might have tried to "hide"
  - using it like a site's directory
  - testing if the website is working if their main dashboard/index is offline

As someone who has a passport card, I can confirm it definitely has an RFID chip in it. Ironically they come in a protective sleeve.