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Happy April 1st! This post is part of April Cools Club: an April 1st effort to publish genuine essays on unexpected topics. Please enjoy these true stories, and rest assured that the tech content will be back soon!

The mouse started moving. Not the one on the desk, the pointer on the screen! First to the left, then down to the bottom corner.

*Click!* The Windows Start menu came up.

"cmd" wrote a silent hand on an invisible keyboard. It downloaded a file from a random-looking URL, then executed it.

*Pop* went both the computer and the illusion of security.

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Happy April 1st! This post is part of April Cools Club: an April 1st effort to publish genuine essays on unexpected topics. Please enjoy this true story, and rest assured that the tech content will be back soon! That's what my dad said when I asked what was wrong with our home internet connection. "… read more

Happy April 1st! This post is part of April Cools Club: an effort to publish genuine posts on topics our usual audience would find unexpected. The tech content will be back soon!

Over the many years I spent heavily involved in intern and full-time recruiting at $PREVIOUS_JOB, multiple people have commented something to the effect of: "How come Predrag always gets the best people?"

This post is a series of vignettes showing three of the less-obvious ideas that gave us an edge,…

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Happy April 1st! A group of folks and I decided to do something different this year: instead of publishing fake things, we’re publishing real posts on very different topics than our readers usually expect from our blogs. The tech content will be back soon! Check out the other April Cools posts here.… read more