#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.

Archive: https://archive.sweetops.com/random/

2018-11-01

maarten avatar
maarten

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 ..

Bitcoin Address 1JTtwbvmM7ymByxPYCByVYCwasjH49J3Vj

Transactions sent and received from bitcoin address 1JTtwbvmM7ymByxPYCByVYCwasjH49J3Vj.

markmutti avatar
markmutti

Wow, that’s some decent bank. I don’t know the backstory. Holding passworded accounts hostage?

Bitcoin Address 1JTtwbvmM7ymByxPYCByVYCwasjH49J3Vj

Transactions sent and received from bitcoin address 1JTtwbvmM7ymByxPYCByVYCwasjH49J3Vj.

maarten avatar
maarten

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.

maarten avatar
maarten

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

markmutti avatar
markmutti

Haha, interesting! I’ll have a look. Always fascinating how the intensity of these spam emails and calls happen in waves

2018-11-05

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
12:35:58 AM
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Humble Book Bundle: DevOps by O'Reillyattachment image

Pay what you want for awesome ebooks and support charity!

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sarkis avatar

one of the best humble book bundles i’ve seen yet!~ I bought a copy

Humble Book Bundle: DevOps by O'Reillyattachment image

Pay what you want for awesome ebooks and support charity!

Max Moon avatar
Max Moon

Designing Distributed Systems is a fantastic read

Max Moon avatar
Max Moon

I have it in my collection, it generally sits on the shelf closest to my desk

2018-11-06

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
MemSQL: Now Free to Use - MemSQL Blogattachment image

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 …

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetesattachment image

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 …

OScar avatar

I am still trying to come to terms with the whole IBM scooping Red Hat

VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetesattachment image

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 …

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Yea didn’t see that one coming

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

But as others have said, at least it wasn’t Oracle

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Why oh why do they have to impose these UGLY color schemes. OSX users will never adopt this on that account alone

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
07:57:21 PM
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

(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.)

Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse) avatar
Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)

MS has many patents for the ribbon, and probably for the color schemes

markmutti avatar
markmutti

Truth. I just started paying for freaking Evernote after evaluating OneNote, Google Keep, and the open-source alternatives to Evernote.

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

keep feels too basic. also with my luck, if I switched to it, Google would EOL it in december like it has Inbox.

markmutti avatar
markmutti

Agreed, and same here, with no way to easily export data

pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo

Im stuck on OneNote, because basically everything else is worse

pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo

I was on Evernote, but once I had lots of data it started to be really bad, and the client got worse over time

pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo

The main reason for me to always miss evernote: https://evernote.com/products/webclipper

Save & Search Website Screenshots| Evernote Web Clipperattachment image

Clip, don’t bookmark. Web Clipper is a browser extension that lets you save any web page, article, or image into Evernote. Download now.

pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo

no webclipper is a good as that one

pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo

PS: I do like the OneNote purple

sarkis avatar
sharkdp/bat

A cat(1) clone with wings. Contribute to sharkdp/bat development by creating an account on GitHub.

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2018-11-07

Matthew avatar
Matthew

Does anyone use Concourse-CI for there CI ?

rms1000watt avatar
rms1000watt

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

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dustinvb avatar
dustinvb

“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.

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Matthew avatar
Matthew

@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

Matthew avatar
Matthew

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

rms1000watt avatar
rms1000watt

what makes you want to move off drone?

Matthew avatar
Matthew

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

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Matthew avatar
Matthew

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

Matthew avatar
Matthew

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

dustinvb avatar
dustinvb

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.

codefresh-contrib/cfstep-paclair

Clair Scan Step. Contribute to codefresh-contrib/cfstep-paclair development by creating an account on GitHub.

Matthew avatar
Matthew

@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

rms1000watt avatar
rms1000watt

Hehe, @dustinvb is killing it!

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Lol

Nikola Velkovski avatar
Nikola Velkovski

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

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

We have a bunch of terraform modules that do this

Nikola Velkovski avatar
Nikola Velkovski

oh nice let me see

Nikola Velkovski avatar
Nikola Velkovski

if I can find them on git

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
cloudposse/terraform-aws-ecs-codepipeline

Terraform Module for CI/CD with AWS Code Pipeline and Code Build for ECS https://cloudposse.com/ - cloudposse/terraform-aws-ecs-codepipeline

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
cloudposse/terraform-aws-codebuild

Terraform Module to easily leverage AWS CodeBuild for Continuous Integration - cloudposse/terraform-aws-codebuild

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

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

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Not many alternatives if you want e2e automation

Nikola Velkovski avatar
Nikola Velkovski

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.

loren avatar

we started doing this recently, we publish a tf module that sets it up, https://github.com/plus3it/terraform-aws-codecommit-flow-ci

plus3it/terraform-aws-codecommit-flow-ci

Implement an event-based CI workflow on a CodeCommit repository - plus3it/terraform-aws-codecommit-flow-ci

loren avatar

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

Nikola Velkovski avatar
Nikola Velkovski

Thanks @loren I will most definitelly check it out

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Oh gotcha… no we briefly explored that

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

There is prior art out there on GitHub of people doing terraform inside of codebuild

pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo

wouldnt that loop? terraform apply -> creates codebuild -> terraform apply -> ??

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pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Oh haha, need to phase shift

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

There’s always got to be a bootstrap process

maarten avatar
maarten

@pecigonzalo Try updating your Atlantis Fargate, with Atlantis

pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo
08:32:47 AM
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maarten avatar
maarten

lol

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

So our strategy for that was going to be to deploy Atlantis with cloudformation on ecs fargate

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

So that way it’s out of phase with terraform

Nikola Velkovski avatar
Nikola Velkovski

yeah it’s a bit of a terraformsception

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Lol

maarten avatar
maarten

@Nikola Velkovski I have a vague memory of bootstrapping puppet master with puppet..

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Nikola Velkovski avatar
Nikola Velkovski

Oh the horror.

2018-11-11

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Rainbow Huntattachment image

Ultimate rain simulator. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

2018-11-12

dustinvb avatar
dustinvb

Anyone have a good way to auto-reply to Slack conversations for Oof when you’re mentioned via @name or DM?

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Zapier can do it

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

There might be apps in the marketplace, but haven’t looked for those

dustinvb avatar
dustinvb

I found Oliv just didn’t pull up on any searches. Now to send to security to get a review.

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Cool! I will check it out too

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
brettwooldridge/HikariCP

光 HikariCP・A solid, high-performance, JDBC connection pool at last. - brettwooldridge/HikariCP

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2018-11-13

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Watch: The Dock

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

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Nikola Velkovski avatar
Nikola Velkovski

That looks awesome

Watch: The Dock

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

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Nikola Velkovski
FreePizza.io

Free Pizza - free pizza for your meetups, hackathons, in-office lunchtime presentations

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2018-11-16

2018-11-18

tolstikov avatar
tolstikov
CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

Filter and sort by GitHub stars, funding, commits, contributors, hq location, and tweets. Updated: 2018-11-18 0058Z

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@Igor Rodionov check this out

CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

Filter and sort by GitHub stars, funding, commits, contributors, hq location, and tweets. Updated: 2018-11-18 0058Z

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I want this layout for our own technology stack

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rms1000watt

Jesus christ this is a good link

2018-11-19

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
03:21:22 AM
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

nice

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
03:24:26 AM

2018-11-21

rms1000watt avatar
rms1000watt

I guess we need to start hitting the tf tld

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rms1000watt

At least I got my vanity domain https://rms1000watt.com/

antonbabenko avatar
antonbabenko

Modules.tf is my, main.tf - Paul Hinze :)

2018-11-22

Jan avatar

I now own aws.tf

Jan avatar

plan to start a terraform blog called terraform.aws.tf

maarten avatar
maarten

how much is a subdomain from you jan ?

maarten avatar
maarten

maarten avatar
maarten

@jonboulle you think you can get Blinkist to buy Airship.tf ?

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jonboulle

maarten avatar
maarten

cool tnx

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Jan avatar

@maarten for cloud posse?

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
ISS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in spaceattachment image

Remembers Windows 95? Maybe they’ll find the ghost of Clippy on the International Space Station, too.

Jan avatar

thats pretty cool

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?attachment image

Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm

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2018-11-23

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
11:23:03 PM
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Best Black Friday email I got.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

(Subject line)

2018-11-25

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
How I changed the law with a GitHub pull requestattachment image

Washington DC has made GitHub the authoritative digital source for DC laws.

bowtie1

2018-11-26

loren avatar

hah, i think i was reading that article about the same time yesterday, very cool stuff

joshmyers avatar
joshmyers

This is a daily occurrence on GOV.UK

joshmyers avatar
joshmyers

(kinda)

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Cloud Source Repositories - Private Git Repos to Store & Manage Code  |  Source Repositories  |  Google Cloud

Fully managed private Git Repositories with integrations for continuous integration, delivery & deployment. Git source control service that helps you release faster

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Personally, I loved it when there was one and only real hosting solution: GitHub

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

One place to assume a project was hosted

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Soon we’re gonna need Expedia for source code

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I love being able to collaborate seemlessly across projects which isn’t possible in the same way when things are spread about

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Today I realized that NGINX is on mercurial

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Feels like I was transported back to 1999

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I am sure the command line tool is incrementally better than git, but this UI…

tamsky avatar

bitbucket does only a slightly better job putting a UI on mercurial or git repos - than the built-in hg webservice

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

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

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Now we are entering an era where it’s happening to VCS: BitBucket, GitLab, CodeCommit, GitHub, CloudSource, etc

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Shit HN Says (@shit_hn_says) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Shit HN Says (@shit_hn_says). reality? what’s that? does it use node.js?

pecigonzalo avatar
pecigonzalo

I agree 100%

2018-11-27

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joshmyers

Just be grateful it wasn’t hosted on sourceforge

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joshmyers

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.

loren avatar

people don’t realize how important those integrations are, they just see the source code, not the whole pipeline

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joshmyers avatar
joshmyers

But is $10 cheaper a month!

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

haha - yea, cost is so often the driver - even if just $10

2018-11-28

2018-11-29

OScar avatar
OScar
02:23:11 AM
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
DJ Khaled, Floyd Mayweather Jr. charged with cryptocurrency fraud — CNN

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

Jan avatar

hahahaha

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tolstikov
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Come and read Kubernetes Network Plugins on Kubedex.com. The number one site to Discover, Compare and Share Kubernetes Applications.

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