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Our hero, a mathematician, is writing notes in LaTeX and needs to convert it to a format that her blog platform accepts. She’s used to using dollar sign delimiters for math mode, but her blog requires \( \) and \[ \]. Find-and-replace fails because it doesn’t know about which dollar sign is the start and which is the end. She knows there’s some computer stuff out there that could help, but she doesn’t have the damn time to sort through it a..
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Nathaniel Popper, writing for the New York Times, explains the extreme steps Jameson Lopp took to hide his personal information. An interesting piece, it reminded me of a great article Evan Ratlif wrote for Wired in 2009 titled Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear? . I also rediscovered the interview with Matt Sheppard that Evan mentioned at the end of his article, as well as his follow-up piece where he attempted to di....
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In our last blogpost NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit - Introduction we digged into the brand-new NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit and we did found out, that Docker 18.06.1-CE is already pre-installed on this great ARM board. Today, I want to share some more details on how you can easily install Docker Compose on the Jetson Nano. Install Docker Compose Sadly, there is no binary of Docker Compose available we could install di....
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Drew DeVault on the dangers of using a virtual private network, or VPN: “[VPN providers] can identify you much more precisely because you used your VPN login to access the service. Additionally, they can promise not to siphon off your data and write it down somewhere — tracking you, selling it to advertisers, handing it over to law enforcement — but they could and you’d be none the wiser.” Anyone thinking of using a VPN should read ..
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Let me introduce the brand new NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit , which is basically a quad-core 64bit ARM Cortex-A57 CPU with 128 GPU cores - suitable for all kinds of maker ideas: AI, Robotics, and of course for running Docker Containers… Unboxing Let’s unbox the board and do the initial configuration… When opening the box we’ll find the board itself and a short getting started flyer which heads us to the NVIDIA website htt....
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I like cooking my own meals for the same reason I code : I get exactly what I want, without anything I don’t, and I know every little detail about the “ingredients” that go into my projects. It takes some time, effort, and expertise, but the benefits far outweigh the minor drawbacks. Permalink.
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Matt Reyer talks about turning his web front-end into a much lighter client. I have done this for years with my own projects, cutting out external libraries and even non-essential Javascript and CSS until I had as minimal an application as possible. This is a growing trend . My desire to avoid unnecessary complexity and code dependence drove the development of First Crack , the blogging engine behind this site. In the same vein, check out..
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We’re excited to announce the launch of our public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd — the #1 crowdsourced security platform. This public program is open to Bugcrowd’s full crowd of top, trusted whitehat hackers, and we will award up to $1,500 per vulnerability identified on our website, API, and mobile apps.
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Introduction In my first post on Goroutine Leaks , I mentioned that concurrency is a useful tool but it comes with certain traps that don’t exist in synchronous programs. To continue with this theme, I will introduce a new trap called incomplete work. Incomplete work occurs when a program terminates before outstanding Goroutines (non-main goroutines) complete. Depending on the nature of the Goroutine that is being terminated forcefully, t..
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We’re excited to announce the launch of our public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd — the #1 crowdsourced security platform. This public program is open to Bugcrowd’s full crowd of top, trusted whitehat hackers, and we will award up to $1,500 per vulnerability identified on our website, API, and mobile apps.
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Do you have an overall goal for your life? Maybe it’s simply to enjoy life, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Personally, I have two goals in life. The first is to be a father. The second is to make a difference in the world for the better.
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Nicholas Weaver on the technical challenges to calling Huawei “safe”, and why that might not matter: “...the code that Huawei uses, like so much of the rest of the code running the world, is simply a nightmare: It is complex, written in an ‘unsafe’ manner, using ‘unsafe’ languages. The scale and complexity make it impossible to analyze the code to look for new bugs, let alone efforts at sabotage. ... [and] the dirty secret is that most ..
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I have an article in the works on a similar topic, but I wanted to take a minute to highlight this piece by one of my favorite new writers, Blair Reeves , before I reference it there. He makes some great points about the value of blogging, even if you have no intention of ever turning it into a revenue stream. Permalink.
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1500 words, 6 minutes. “For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number by the letter e” - Leonhard Euler, Mechanica. 1736. Illustration Pub. 1881. What if you could understand and explain any breach 10x faster? Security breaches are a staple of mainstream news. In the past, details only emerged through technical analysis, research papers, and the forensic review of press releases. Occasionally we’d be gifted with a customer l..
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If you haven’t heard of it, Depth First Learning is a wonderful resource for learning about machine learning.
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If you haven’t heard of it, Depth First Learning is a wonderful resource for learning about machine learning.
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I send way too many emails in a day. My inbox is very intermingled with my to do list and often represents some form of it. More relevant though is that email is a primary means of how I accomplish work. Being a PM I work cross functionally with other teams (from marketing, to engineering, to sales, to BD, to other product teams) and of course customers. Having to work so cross functionality I’ve found a lot of hacks I use to be able to bet....
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I send way too many emails in a day. My inbox is very intermingled with my to do list and often represents some form of it. More relevant though is that email is a primary means of how I accomplish work. Being a PM I work cross functionally with other teams (from marketing, to engineering, to sales, to BD, to other product teams) and of course customers. Having to work so cross functionality I’ve found a lot of hacks I use to be able to bet....
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Sometimes, particularly when using LUA OpenResty, in may be necessary to url unencode/unescape a string, so that reserved characters are converted back to their literal representations. This is particularly useful as the value if ngx.var.arg_ variables are not automatically url unencoded This snippet creates a function to do hex decode each character of a string Read more…
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I liked this article for its breakdown of East versus West Coast off-road routes, and even more so because Mercedes Lilienthal also gives her eastern seaboard readers some actual destinations to check out. I can tackle the Georgia Traverse in a weekend, and a few of the other trails she mentioned over a long weekend. I look forward to heading out there soon. Permalink.
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When I'm not using an automatic code formatter (ie. clang-format, gofmt, etc.), I often find myself using Emacs region marking commands like mark-defun , er/expand-region , and mark-whole-buffer prior to pressing
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Developer Empowerment - Move fast, don't break things (for long), be productive
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boyter.org
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7 years ago
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Recently my job/career path has had me looking “under the hood” at clients development practices. The idea being to see where their strengths and weaknesses are and then make actionable suggestions. Generally every client wants the same outcome. They want to know how to improve software quality and deliver features faster. When doing this I focus on the development side, but honestly a lot of this applies to DevOp’s as well. In most..
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Gibsons “San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide” is worth reading, his take is that San Francisco has become too successful… inevitable to decline into some expensive backwater due to “the rent is too damn high”. He paints a compelling vision of the ills of appalling levels of income inequality, the monoculture of white-male-American tech-workers, and the metastasis of the city into the “hinterlands of Antioch and Vallejo”: the resulting 3....
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I’m a data-minded guy. Being that it’s Easter time (technically Lent right now, Easter season begins on Easter) I was wondering… How frequently does Easter occur for each date?
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After three years of silence, a new jQuery prototype pollution vulnerability emerges once again
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snyk.io
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7 years ago
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On March 26th, 2019, almost three years after the last jQuery security vulnerability was disclosed, we recently learned about a new security vulnerability affecting the same popular jQuery frontend library.
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I came up with a list of questions I would ask my cloud provider if I was buying a product. They are as follows: 1. What problem is this solving? I would ask this to make sure I even need this product. So many people tend to buy into the hype for “shiny”, they miss if they even needed the thing in the first place. 2. How did you implement this? What is your threat model? So much of the cloud is built on popsicle sticks and glue. Doe....
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Back in 2013, I posted a bunch of articles about Soylent. I liked the idea then, and I like it now, and so I wanted to take a minute to give you an update after I gave it a try. Permalink.
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Out of the box keepass recognizes the URI ssh:// and will open it with putty. However it is limited, you can't change ports from the default port 22 nor can you save a convenient list of port forwards. Thankfully this is something you can change. Things you will need: Keepass Putty Keeagent Alternativly you can do an easy install with the windows package manager chocolatey choco install putty.install keepass.install ....
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Out of the box keepass recognizes the URI ssh:// and will open it with putty. However it is limited, you can't change ports from the default port 22 nor can you save a convenient list of port forwards. Thankfully this is something you can change. Things you will need: Keepass Putty Keeagent Alternativly you can do an easy install with the windows package manager chocolatey choco install putty.install keepass.install ....
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Empowerment technologischer BürgerInnen oder doch nur Buzz-Word? “It is time to actually become citizens within technological society” - (Frankenfeld 1992, 477). So kommentiert Frankenfeld das unterforschte Konzept der Technological Citizenship. Was bedarf es um an unserer heutigen hochtechnisierten Gesellschaft teilzunehmen? Aktueller denn je, wird hier untersucht, ob Technological Citizenship Bürgerinnen und Bürger in einer Demok..
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