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21 June 2021: Updated to resolve bug where wrong private key was passed to client_certs. This was exposed by service change. There is a good guide to generating the necessary certificates and manually editing the openvpn config you can download from the portal in the official docs. Being a sucker for punishment I wondered if I could automate the process (mainly because I always forget the openssl commands) and secondly it was to be ru..
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Welcome to the Snyk Monthly Vulnerability Profile. In this series, Snyk looks back on the vulnerabilities discovered by or reported to our Security Research Team. This month we’re looking at one of a series of Zip Slip vulnerabilities Snyk’s Security Research Team identified in Golang packages.
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layout: post title: So That One Time You Played with Docker for hte So that one time, at band camp – wait; wrong movie, this is a technical blog post about Docker … I recently helped a friend doing some federal work in the medical field get a better understanding of Docker and how Docker can mess about with open source licensing. We got up a "open source" stack of tooling using a bunch of heavy weight tools: Mongo Memcached A big Py....
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I am in the process of wrapping up a year long engagement where I: Built a high performance data pipeline Capable of processing all of Twitter in real time / near real time Applied multiple tools to the data at different stages of the pipeline Applied one or more Machine Learning models at different stages of the pipeline Operated on AWS using SQS as the queueing structure This blog post talks about one of the key things I learned in te....
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This one is a short one but a good one. I've been using SQS (disclaimer – I love SQS) lately for a large scale data pipeline. We are processing literally billions of small JSON blobs and in our cost modeling, we initially came up with an estimate that made SQS something that we couldn't use because of the number of JSON blobs. And then one of our people, thank you Don Neufeld, came up with the idea of batching up the JSON blobs and hav....
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It was a rich month in July Google-Adsense wise, but slow in the sense that I didn’t write many posts.
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It’s July, the seventh month, meaning the first six months of the year are over. In other words, the year is already more than halfway over.
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Editors Note: Originally posted on medium by me At least, the way things are going here in the USA. Our roads, as we currently handle them, are unsustainable. As city and states are financially stretched in different and difficult ways, the incredible cost of road maintenance and construction is getting harder and harder for policy makers and government workers to manage. At the rate we are going there will be significantly fewer roads, mor..
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The problem Link to heading While going through my backlog of various bookmarks, I came upon one CCC presentation titled ‘How Facebook tracks you on Android’ that sees researchers from the organization ‘Privacy International’ go through their findings on the ways Facebook tracks users on Android, outside of any use of their own applications and without any permissions from users. They do this through the implementation of the Facebook SDK i..
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The problem Link to heading While going through my backlog of various bookmarks, I came upon one CCC presentation titled ‘How Facebook tracks you on Android’ that sees researchers from the organization ‘Privacy International’ go through their findings on the ways Facebook tracks users on Android, outside of any use of their own applications and without any permissions from users. They do this through the implementation of the Facebook SDK i..
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searchmysite.net: Building a simple search for non-commercial websites
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michael-lewis.com
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5 years ago
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Note: this post is now on blog.searchmysite.net at https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/searchmysite.net-building-a-simple-search-for-non-commercial-websites/ . Introduction Link to heading I’ve written previously about what went wrong with the internet and how to fix it , and one of the ideas I mentioned was a new model for search. Given “talk is cheap, show me the code”, I decided to implement it. Okay, it wasn’t quite tha..
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searchmysite.net: Building a simple search for non-commercial websites
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michael-lewis.com
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5 years ago
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eng
Note: this post is now on blog.searchmysite.net at https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/searchmysite.net-building-a-simple-search-for-non-commercial-websites/ . Introduction Link to heading I’ve written previously about what went wrong with the internet and how to fix it , and one of the ideas I mentioned was a new model for search. Given “talk is cheap, show me the code”, I decided to implement it. Okay, it wasn’t quite tha..
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This week on the show we have Armin Ronacher to talk about the first 10 years of Flask. Armin talks about the origins of Flask and the components that make up the framework. He talks about what goes into documenting a framework or API. He also talks about the community working on the ongoing development of Flask.
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I recently took a Python and Ruby (but mostly Python) Machine Learning data pipeline live and, almost immediately, hit a pretty significant problem. The issue was this line of code: model_input = tokenizer . encode_plus ( text_to_classify , add_special_tokens = True , return_tensors = 'pt' ). to ( device_to_use ) This, which worked, at least for a while, perfectly on my development box. And then I deployed....
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Some computing problems fall into the category of evergreen – no matter what you do, they will always, always, always occur – they are evergreen just like a pine tree. Today's version of this is storage. I've been running an EC2 node which has a SystemD service (no flames; I actually like SystemD although I do regard it as a betrayal of Unix's heritage but …) which processes some data via a Ruby application which is run through Docker. ....
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DeveloperBridge: SoundCloud’s Program for Training People from Diverse Backgrounds to Become Engineers
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developers.soundcloud.com
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5 years ago
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eng
DeveloperBridge is a year-long, full-time, paid traineeship program where participants learn from and work with engineering teams at…
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In 2016, I was working to build a platform to help NGOs raise donations. The platform was supposed to be built using React. The beautiful designs were in place. I was excited to build some new features as well as to try out the new architecture using Redux on a larger scale. Yes, this was the time when Redux was fairly new. React still had PropTypes package attached to its core. The lifecycle method componentWillReceiveProps used to dom....
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DeveloperBridge: SoundCloud’s Program for Training People from Diverse Backgrounds to Become Engineers
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developers.soundcloud.com
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5 years ago
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eng
DeveloperBridge is a year-long, full-time, paid traineeship program where participants learn from and work with engineering teams at…
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In this article, we will take a look at some top tips for handling remote working fatigue, and how we at Snyk have decided what works best for us.
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The travel and tourism sectors are suffering because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and governments are scrambling to offer subsidies to affected businesses. But, there is little talk on how companies are transferring their costs to citizens, with government approval. In … Continue reading →
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Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped by an attempt to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe, a two-level Tic Tac Toe variant which is (unlike Tic Tac Toe) nontrivial and contains some interesting stra..
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Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped by an attempt to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe, a two-level Tic Tac Toe variant which is (unlike Tic Tac Toe) nontrivial and contains some interesting stra..
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These are my hastily taken and edited notes on the first ALIFE 2020 conference keynote, presented by Mike Levin. Robot Cancer - why don’t (today’s) robots get cancer? By Michael Levin, director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology.
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Sometimes it can seem convenient to use the built-in _pageName field that Cargo provides; however, _pageName is a metadata field, and you should take care to use it only as such.
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Sometimes it can seem convenient to use the built-in _pageName field that Cargo provides; however, _pageName is a metadata field, and you should take care to use it only as such.
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Terraform, Docker, Ubuntu 20.04, Go 1.14 and MemLock: Down the rabbit hole
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blog.gripdev.xyz
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5 years ago
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eng
I recently upgrade my machine and and installed the latest Ubuntu 20.04 as part of that. Very smugly I fired it up the new install and, as I use devcontainers, looked forward to not installing lots of devtools as the Dockerfile in each project had all the tooling needed for VSCode to spin up and get going. Sadly it wasn’t that smooth. After spinning up a project which uses terraform I found an odd message when running terraform plan ....
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Below are some rough notes from a tutorial session called Soft alife with SPLAT and Ulam by David Ackley. These notes are very hastily taken and I am editing them between sessions mostly for my own benefit, so expect to see typos and maybe even mis-wordings.
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I write this mostly so I can move on. The NBN has been a source of constant frustration and anger for me. While I will never forgive those who caused the current shambles I can perhaps redirect my anger elsewhere will keeping it in the back of my mind. So here is my brief time-line of NBN. I moved to area that was due to get NBN FTTP in ~2014. The fact that it was due to get such a connection influenced the decision. With the change in ..
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An essay that bids farewell to x87, a computing architecture too long for this world: The Floppy Disk of Floating Point
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How to: add Twitter and Instagram Embeds on an Eleventy website using Sanity
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phacks.dev
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5 years ago
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eng
At Orbit, we recently rebuilt our website from the ground up using a Jamstack approach and more specifically using Eleventy as our Static Site Generator and Sanity as our CMS.
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Hypermedia Controls in REST provide links and actions with each response pointing to related resources. This concept is a powerful tool that…
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