#random (2018-11)
Non-work banter and water cooler conversation
A place for non-work-related flimflam, faffing, hodge-podge or jibber-jabber you’d prefer to keep out of more focused work-related channels.
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2018-11-01
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1JTtwbvmM7ymByxPYCByVYCwasjH49J3Vj One of the wallets of the “Password Hacker” is going really well, wonder if he a-b tests his phishing e-mails ..
Transactions sent and received from bitcoin address 1JTtwbvmM7ymByxPYCByVYCwasjH49J3Vj.
Wow, that’s some decent bank. I don’t know the backstory. Holding passworded accounts hostage?
Transactions sent and received from bitcoin address 1JTtwbvmM7ymByxPYCByVYCwasjH49J3Vj.
Check your spam folder, you probably see one or two of those e-mails. I guess the Person bought one of those massive hacked password databases (linkedin, dropbox etc) and just massed mailed everyone with the password in the subject, Telling that it will do something to the account unless so many worth of BTC are transferred.
My dad actually asked me if he should do something, then I found a few in my inbox with e-mails mentioning a few old passwords I had
Haha, interesting! I’ll have a look. Always fascinating how the intensity of these spam emails and calls happen in waves
2018-11-05
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one of the best humble book bundles i’ve seen yet!~ I bought a copy
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Designing Distributed Systems is a fantastic read
I have it in my collection, it generally sits on the shelf closest to my desk
2018-11-06
Today, we announced our latest product version, MemSQL 6.7. With this release, MemSQL is now free for everyone to use for databases with up to 128GB of RAM usage. Unlike what customers get from other database providers, the free tier of MemSQL is full featured and includes all enterprise capabilities, including high availability and security. What Can You Do with the Free Tier? You can do almost anything with MemSQL, using the free tier, that you can do if you have an Enterprise license, including capabilities and production use. The differences are that you can only configure the free tier …
During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build and run containerised, Kubernetes-based architectures: it has acquired Heptio, a startup out of Seattle that was co-founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, who were two of …
I am still trying to come to terms with the whole IBM scooping Red Hat
During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build and run containerised, Kubernetes-based architectures: it has acquired Heptio, a startup out of Seattle that was co-founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, who were two of …
Yea didn’t see that one coming
Why oh why do they have to impose these UGLY color schemes. OSX users will never adopt this on that account alone
(back story - i’ve been using evernote for 10+ years - i’ve hated more than loved it this whole time. currently, none of my notes are indexed. constantly get duplicate notes. core functionality of the app has been broken since day one.)
MS has many patents for the ribbon, and probably for the color schemes
Truth. I just started paying for freaking Evernote after evaluating OneNote, Google Keep, and the open-source alternatives to Evernote.
keep feels too basic. also with my luck, if I switched to it, Google would EOL it in december like it has Inbox.
Agreed, and same here, with no way to easily export data
Im stuck on OneNote, because basically everything else is worse
I was on Evernote, but once I had lots of data it started to be really bad, and the client got worse over time
The main reason for me to always miss evernote: https://evernote.com/products/webclipper
Clip, don’t bookmark. Web Clipper is a browser extension that lets you save any web page, article, or image into Evernote. Download now.
no webclipper is a good as that one
PS: I do like the OneNote purple
A cat(1) clone with wings. Contribute to sharkdp/bat development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018-11-07
Does anyone use Concourse-CI for there CI ?
I don’t. I want to though. But then I’m up in the air between trying Concourse or Drone. I do like the visuals: https://ci.concourse-ci.org/
But then at the end of the day.. I’ll just fall back to a hosted service whenever possible
“I prefer Codefresh”, says the guy who works for Codefresh.
If you’re thinking about Kubernetes or Helm we have some great options and a free-tier offering to get started.
@rms1000watt We currently use Drone.io and are looking into Concourse and to move that route so it’s very interesting that you brought up both those products
I like the look and feel of concourse and it’s much more explicit than Drone is but it requires some interesting configurations in order to just get hooked up with GitHub webhooks and Drone will configure fresh with GitHub out of the box
what makes you want to move off drone?
Lack of support, i’m trying to move our images off DockerHub onto ECR and their plugin for uploading ECR images is broken.. Don’t really want to dive into creating that plugin either, they are raising their prices and one day they changed our license key without telling us and nothing worked for 4 hours in a live production environment so just some things like that
I’ve reached out to Brad at Drone and their support channel 5x now over the duration of 1 month and haven’t got a response on updating the CC they have on file so it’s had it’s challenges
Drone is beneficial in the fact it’s easy setup, non-technical easy to read pipeline as well as their global secrets but requires the enterprise edition for that
At Codefresh, we auto-create your GitHub webhook when you select your repository from a list and can filter on events (commit, pull request, release), branches, modified files to determine which pipelines you’d like to run based on the webhook’s payload.
We can use either your auth or a configured service account to connect to GitHub.
In regards to ECR we support this both as a registry provider to push and pull from also we can use some native steps like https://github.com/codefresh-contrib/cfstep-paclair to invoke clair scans on your ECR stored Docker images.
Clair Scan Step. Contribute to codefresh-contrib/cfstep-paclair development by creating an account on GitHub.
@dustinvb Direct message me - i’m open for a demo and sales discussion, company is correctly looking into CI alternatives and Concourse is just something I stumbled into so i’m open for discussion
Hehe, @dustinvb is killing it!
Lol
hi People anyone has experience with using codebuild and terraform / docker ? Is it worth investigating or should I fall back to any decent 3rd party service.
2018-11-08
We have a bunch of terraform modules that do this
oh nice let me see
if I can find them on git
Terraform Module for CI/CD with AWS Code Pipeline and Code Build for ECS https://cloudposse.com/ - cloudposse/terraform-aws-ecs-codepipeline
Terraform Module to easily leverage AWS CodeBuild for Continuous Integration - cloudposse/terraform-aws-codebuild
So that said codebuild feels very primitive when compared to things like Codefresh. The nice thing though is you can automate the whole process e2e without leaving terraform
Not many alternatives if you want e2e automation
Thanks @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) what I am also wondering is if someone has been using codebuild for doing terraform plan/apply , something like atlantis.
we started doing this recently, we publish a tf module that sets it up, https://github.com/plus3it/terraform-aws-codecommit-flow-ci
Implement an event-based CI workflow on a CodeCommit repository - plus3it/terraform-aws-codecommit-flow-ci
as @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) mentioned, what is builtin to the AWS code* services feels very primitive compared to other CI services, so there’s a lot of configuration to get anywhere close to a similar capability
Thanks @loren I will most definitelly check it out
Oh gotcha… no we briefly explored that
There is prior art out there on GitHub of people doing terraform inside of codebuild
wouldnt that loop? terraform apply -> creates codebuild -> terraform apply -> ??
Oh haha, need to phase shift
There’s always got to be a bootstrap process
@pecigonzalo Try updating your Atlantis Fargate, with Atlantis
lol
So our strategy for that was going to be to deploy Atlantis with cloudformation on ecs fargate
So that way it’s out of phase with terraform
yeah it’s a bit of a terraformsception
Lol
@Nikola Velkovski I have a vague memory of bootstrapping puppet master with puppet..
Oh the horror.
2018-11-11
Ultimate rain simulator. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
2018-11-12
Anyone have a good way to auto-reply to Slack conversations for Oof when you’re mentioned via @name
or DM?
Zapier can do it
There might be apps in the marketplace, but haven’t looked for those
I found Oliv just didn’t pull up on any searches. Now to send to security to get a review.
Cool! I will check it out too
光 HikariCP・A solid, high-performance, JDBC connection pool at last. - brettwooldridge/HikariCP
2018-11-13
Anchoring a 100 foot half tonne plastic raft in the middle of a surf break is no easy feat. At four am we were up, towing out what’s now known as
That looks awesome
Anchoring a 100 foot half tonne plastic raft in the middle of a surf break is no easy feat. At four am we were up, towing out what’s now known as
2018-11-14
Free Pizza - free pizza for your meetups, hackathons, in-office lunchtime presentations
2018-11-16
New settings will prevent accidental S3 bucket leaks –if customers take the time to apply them.
2018-11-18
Filter and sort by GitHub stars, funding, commits, contributors, hq location, and tweets. Updated: 2018-11-18 0058Z
@Igor Rodionov check this out
Filter and sort by GitHub stars, funding, commits, contributors, hq location, and tweets. Updated: 2018-11-18 0058Z
I want this layout for our own technology stack
Jesus christ this is a good link
2018-11-19
nice
2018-11-20
It’s a major outage — and it couldn’t come at a worse time.
2018-11-21
I guess we need to start hitting the tf
tld
At least I got my vanity domain https://rms1000watt.com/
Modules.tf is my, main.tf - Paul Hinze :)
2018-11-22
I now own aws.tf
plan to start a terraform blog called terraform.aws.tf
how much is a subdomain from you jan ?
@jonboulle you think you can get Blinkist to buy Airship.tf ?
@maarten for cloud posse?
Remembers Windows 95? Maybe they’ll find the ghost of Clippy on the International Space Station, too.
thats pretty cool
Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm
2018-11-23
Best Black Friday email I got.
(Subject line)
2018-11-25
Washington DC has made GitHub the authoritative digital source for DC laws.
2018-11-26
hah, i think i was reading that article about the same time yesterday, very cool stuff
This is a daily occurrence on GOV.UK
(kinda)
Fully managed private Git Repositories with integrations for continuous integration, delivery & deployment. Git source control service that helps you release faster
Personally, I loved it when there was one and only real hosting solution: GitHub
One place to assume a project was hosted
Soon we’re gonna need Expedia for source code
I love being able to collaborate seemlessly across projects which isn’t possible in the same way when things are spread about
Today I realized that NGINX is on mercurial
Feels like I was transported back to 1999
I am sure the command line tool is incrementally better than git, but this UI…
bitbucket does only a slightly better job putting a UI on mercurial or git repos - than the built-in hg webservice
I am grateful there is only one Facebook and that Friendster, MySpace, Path, etc are no more. The craze of signing up for social networks is temporarily over
Now we are entering an era where it’s happening to VCS: BitBucket, GitLab, CodeCommit, GitHub, CloudSource, etc
The latest Tweets from Shit HN Says (@shit_hn_says). reality? what’s that? does it use node.js?
I agree 100%
2018-11-27
It is painful when tooling used to integrate with VCS doesn’t support some of these. E.g. the Jenkins gitlab plugin was bug ridden for ages and had lots of missing features compared to the GitHub plugin.
people don’t realize how important those integrations are, they just see the source code, not the whole pipeline
But is $10 cheaper a month!
haha - yea, cost is so often the driver - even if just $10
2018-11-28
iPhones get an affordable carrier alternative.
2018-11-29
DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather Jr. were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose payments they received for promoting investments in initial coin offerings.
2018-11-30
hahahaha
https://kubedex.com/kubernetes-network-plugins/
check the spreadsheet from the article as well: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qCOlor16Wp5mHd6MQxB5gUEQILnijyDLIExEpqmee2k/edit#gid=0
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