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Spam is bad! Kill it with fire! Image from openclipart.org . Due to the irritating nature of spam email, companies have started hardening their policies for how they handle emails that originate from various sources. A recent change that has hurt a lot of sites and mailing lists lately is that email providers have begun to make their DMARC policies very strict. Specifically, email providers are saying, "If the email says that it is....
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Spam is bad! Kill it with fire! Image from openclipart.org . Due to the irritating nature of spam email, companies have started hardening their policies for how they handle emails that originate from various sources. A recent change that has hurt a lot of sites and mailing lists lately is that email providers have begun to make their DMARC policies very strict. Specifically, email providers are saying, "If the email says that it is....
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Another week, (thankfully) another set of great podcasts for your listening pleasure. Be sure to pay special attention to this series’ latest addition, and — as always — enjoy. Permalink.
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Capture HTTP traffic with Fiddler on Devices with no Proxy option
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blog.gripdev.xyz
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12 years ago
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Hi, This is how I ended up writing a custom DNS server to redirect network traffic.. code is here . I recently got a smart TV and I wanted to see what it was up too, having heard all the stories of them leaking personal information left right and center. Fiddler is my go to tool for any HTTP inspection, so I went about look for a proxy setting in on the TV … there isn’t one.
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I spent a couple of weeks porting Gastropoda from PHP to Node.js after caving in to peer pressure and hearing “PHP sucks” from every side imaginable.
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Lightning talk introduce pair programming based on information gleaned from RailsConf 2014. Bulk of the credit for this presentation goes to Chuck Lauer Vose of New Relic and Joe Moore of Pivotal Labs.
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Lightning talk introduce pair programming based on information gleaned from RailsConf 2014. Bulk of the credit for this presentation goes to Chuck Lauer Vose of New Relic and Joe Moore of Pivotal Labs.
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An overview of Ruby, jRuby, Rails, Torquebox, and PostgreSQL that was presented as a 3 hour class to other programmers at The Ironyard in Greenville, SC in July of 2013. The Rails specific sections are mostly code samples that were explained during the session so the real focus of the slides is Ruby, "the rails way" / workflow / differentiators and PostgreSQL.
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An overview of Ruby, jRuby, Rails, Torquebox, and PostgreSQL that was presented as a 3 hour class to other programmers at The Ironyard in Greenville, SC in July of 2013. The Rails specific sections are mostly code samples that were explained during the session so the real focus of the slides is Ruby, "the rails way" / workflow / differentiators and PostgreSQL.
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Learn why traditional method swizzling breaks UIKit's touch forwarding and discover a better approach that preserves _cmd integrity.
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The problem with Google Glass is not that it is inherently creepy, but rather that it has the potential for many uses of dubious morality; and as our minds happened upon those possibilities in the wake of Glass’ unveiling, and we paused to ponder an appropriate reaction to these eventualities, it became socially acceptable to walk around smacking these expensive devices off the faces of those who deigned to wear them. Like a small child who..
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Working with web applications in NodeJS is great. Using the same language and libraries on the client and server simplified the thinking. And NodeJS has fast tests and restart for a super quick edit-verify cycle when you’re coding. I like to write tests to verify the server-side and client-side logic, but do you know that the whole solution really is working? You can of course test your service manually after deploying, but that becomes ted..
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A friend of mine had a photovoltaic system (consisting of 14 solar panels) installed on his rooftop last year. As I was looking for another raspberry pi project I convinced him I would setup a reliable monitoring solution that will lead him to an access to the data in real-time data. The current setup comes with an inverter by the company Kostal. The Kostal Piko 5.5 runs an internal web server showing statistics like current power, daily en..
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Here at SoundCloud, in order to provide counts and a time series of counts in real time, we created something called Stitch. Stitch was…
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Here at SoundCloud, in order to provide counts and a time series of counts in real time, we created something called Stitch. Stitch was…
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RDTSC doesn't actually measure the number of clock cycles elapsed
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www.forwardscattering.org
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12 years ago
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The RDTSC instruction on x86 CPUs is supposed to read a counter that is incremented (by one) every clock cycle. However, it doesn't actually do this. Instead, the counter increases at a fixed frequency, independent of the actual clock speed of your CPU, which varies based on load, temperature etc.. This does not seem to be documented anywhere. I found this out the hard way, after measuring the frequency of rdtsc myself, and notic....
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Since Apple began requiring that developers submitting applications to the Mac App Store sandbox their products, it has remained a somewhat controversial decision. Two years after the rule went in to effect, it continues to preclude a number of great apps from sharing in the spotlight Apple so generously — and to such great effect — sheds on its platform’s developers by featuring their creations on the store’s front page. Nevertheless, by a..
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Josh Gross and Matthew Ström are former freelancers that banded together to create Planetary, a studio empowering companies through better design.
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The drunken scribblings of a mad man. Possibly some kind of ancient cuneiform. A random page out of the Middle Earth phone directory. Whatever it was, it was the server password, not that it matters now: the little Post-It note reminder had long since thrown itself into the waste paper bin. Somewhere a landfill sat, knowing our password and chuckling away at our misfortune. It seems that our hero is in a bit of trouble, if only slightly sel..
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It has been quite a while since I posted one of these — more than a month, in fact: the last came out at the beginning of May . Today, I finally have cause to bring this series back. Finally — far too long has passed during which I had no cause to sit down and revel in the simple beauty of nature and its rustic inhabitants. Permalink.
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ShipIt - 24-hour hackathon for Millennium+ Platform Dev
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engineering.cerner.com
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12 years ago
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eng
At the end of March, some of our teams held their first 24-hour hackathon, titled ShipIt: Millennium+ Services FedEx Day. We had 41 participants, in 15 teams working on 15 unique projects. The idea was inspired by several teams spending a few hours every so often to work on different projects. After reading about Atlassian’s hack days, we decided to hold one. The event was initially announced early in February, to give teams time to work th..
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I really liked this book, especially the setting and the timeframe. It had good character development with Lina having flashbacks…
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Hat-tip to Hayes Brown for tweeting this link, apparently Amazon does, indeed, sell everything — including, it seems, radioactive uranium ore. This surprisingly unsurprising development is not the best part though, but rather the “Customer Questions and Answers” section as well as the top reviews; in a word, hilarious. Permalink.
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Finally, after an uncomfortable few weeks of just one or two entries here, I have amassed a respectable roster highlighting the past week’s best podcasts. Enjoy! Permalink.
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The other day, as I drove home from work and practiced my dictation to the tune of Siri’s inept transcription abilities, I deftly tapped iMessages’ “Send as Text Message” tooltip for what — given the number of text messages I send each month — must quite literally fall somewhere in the neighborhood of the millionth time. I tapped this button two or three times until, finally, my phone realized I wanted every outgoing message sent without th..
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Small update. This week was bug fixes and more improvements to the level editor (more on that here) . In other news, we were grateful to get some coverage from Monday Night Indie ! Unfortunately the stream highlighted some pretty major issues with the tutorial, so... Brand new level design! That's it for this week. Thanks for reading.
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Probability to win the FIFA World Cup 2014 visualized over time
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yieldthought.com
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12 years ago
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eng
Probability to win the FIFA World Cup 2014 visualized over time : I kept wanting to check this on my iPad so went ahead and hacked together a cron job and static Google AppEngine site for it. It’s the daily probability that any given team will win the world cup, visualized over time. Enjoy!
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From the day after Apple’s WWDC Keynote, Joe Steele took a refreshingly even-handed look at Swift, giving both the opinions of its proponents and opponents equal time, attention, and weight. And as if this were not enough, he included a number of astute observations and his causes for both concern and enthusiasm as well. If you, like me, have trouble staying abreast of tech news and thus have yet to read much about Swift, this is a great st..
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One of my favorite ways to develop software is to do it together with others. Pair programming has always been a motivating and fun activity for me, but some pairings work better than others. When our team was formed we decided to pair program and rotate partners every day. I had lots of fun programming with Milina, Asanka, Manoj and Chamath, but my favorite session was the one I had with Sankalpa.
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Introduction Dave Cheney published a post called Ice Cream Makers and Data Races . The post showed an example of an interesting data race that can occur when using an interface typed variable to make a method call. If you have not read the post yet please do. Once you read the post you will discover that the problem lies with the fact that an interface value is implemented internally using a two word header and that the Go memory model ....
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Once upon a time it used to be difficult to create integration tests in Ember.js. Fortunately, the framework has come a long way and it’s now really easy to get integration testing working in your application. This screencast shows how to set it up with ember-cli: There is some boilerplate code required that you’ll need at the top of your integration test files if you want to do it yourself. Here it is:
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In reply to shahar. Oh, Hi, Shahar! Always a surprise to meet familiar faces across the internet...
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I really have very little to say on the recent debate surrounding the future viability of podcast networks. To me, it seems a lot like the age-old flame wars comparing Macs and PCs, and the more recent and equally bombastic arguments over iOS versus Android: everyone has their own personal preference, and we must all accept that. Taken a step further, everyone has their own personal preference, we need to accept that, and no one will ever c..
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Master SDN hacker Flavio sent me some tunes. They were sitting on my desktop in a folder: $ ls ~/Desktop/ uncopyrighted_tunes_from_flavio/ I wanted to listen them while hacking, but what was the easiest way…? I wanted to use the nautilus file browser to select which folder to play, and the totem music/video player to do the playing. Drop a file named totem into: ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ with the content..
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Master SDN hacker Flavio sent me some tunes. They were sitting on my desktop in a folder: $ ls ~/Desktop/ uncopyrighted_tunes_from_flavio/ I wanted to listen them while hacking, but what was the easiest way…? I wanted to use the nautilus file browser to select which folder to play, and the totem music/video player to do the playing. Drop a file named totem into: ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ with the content..
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I absolutely loved the ending of this series. It was just so good, but in my opinion the ending was a bit cliche, yet the author…
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