sublimino
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Comment · 1 year ago
ControlPlane was able to hire (not acqui-) a few of the FluxCD maintainers and other WeaveWorks staff to continue supporting the project — we did what we could, agree this is better for Styra folk than the uncertainty of closing up shop.
Comment · 7 years ago
> bpkg is a lightweight bash package manager. It takes care of fetching the shell scripts, installing them appropriately, setting the execution permission and more.
> You can install shell scripts globally (on /usr/local/bin) or use them on a per-project basis (on ./deps/), as a lazy-man "copy and paste".
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Also bash-lib is using bats (Bash Automated Testing System) for verification, which is un-maintained and has been forked should anybody be interested https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
Comment · 7 years ago
Markov Chains can be quite amusing when applied to a corpus of similar texts, and often stunningly human-like. I maintain a list of humourous applications: https://github.com/sublimino/awesome-funny-markov
Some favourites:
- Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails - https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter
- Calvin and Markov - Calvin and Hobbes strips reimagined http://joshmillard.com/markov/calvin/
- Generate your future tweets based on the DNA of your existing messages - http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/
- Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines - https://www.headlinesmasher.com/best/all
- The most confusing subreddit (often on the front page) - https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator
The original Markov-generated content prank: "I Spent an Interesting Evening Recently with a Grain of Salt" https://web.archive.org/web/20011101013348/http://www.sincit...
And of course (un-amusingly!) - Google's PageRank algorithm is built on Markov Chains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Damping_factor
n.b. there used to be parodies of Hacker News, but both are down: https://news.ycombniator.com/ and https://lou.wtf/phaker-news
Comment · 8 years ago
Perhaps counterintuitively (in British English at least) the noun news is uncountable (e.g. referring to a mass rather than something that can be counted), and is singular in grammatical construction (so cannot be pluralised).
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/unc...
Comment · 8 years ago
Apparently the restore is now complete:
https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/255#issuecomment-3557...
Comment · 8 years ago
To combat the sedentary effects of sitting at a desk >8h/day and get the blood flowing. I find the physical effort mentally reinvigorating.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you're enough floors up: descending in an elevator then immediately ascending by the stairs works wonders for the sedentary body, and the mind. I also do this sometimes when hacking through lunch to trick my mind's context, then reverse the journey to start the afternoon.
Comment · 9 years ago
Exactly - continuous deployment is about moving some/most testing to production, not eliminating it altogether.
Acceptance testing the system once deployed is the cornerstone of organisational acceptance of the CD doctrine - errors will always happen, it's just that they can now be fixed much faster in production.
Using an acceptance test suite as a deployment safety harness should dramatically increase the quality of tests, and hopefully the application too.
Comment · 9 years ago
Open source alternatives for Git repos (ideally run in the pipeline):
https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog - "Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings, digging deep into commit history"
https://github.com/ezekg/git-hound - "Hound is a Git plugin that helps prevent sensitive data from being committed into a repository by sniffing potential commits against PCRE regular expressions"
https://github.com/michenriksen/gitrob - "The tool will iterate over all public organization and member repositories and match filenames against a range of patterns for files that typically contain sensitive or dangerous information"
https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets - "Prevents you from committing passwords and other sensitive information to a git repository"
Comment · 10 years ago
Of note is that an immutable/noexec filesystem doesn't prevent code being downloaded to an environment var/typed out and run - tools like https://github.com/SafeBreach-Labs/pwndsh just pipe source to an interpreter (in that case BASH, which generally isn't installed in smaller base images).
Reducing the attack surface is important, but if a running container is compromised it's imperative a post-mortem is performed immediately - and the issue remediated - to prevent re-exploitation.
Comment · 10 years ago
Paul Saffo is a potential source:
> Since the mid-1980s, my mantra for this process is “strong opinions, weakly held.” Allow your intuition to guide you to a conclusion, no matter how imperfect — this is the “strong opinion” part. Then –and this is the “weakly held” part– prove yourself wrong. Engage in creative doubt. Look for information that doesn’t fit, or indicators that pointing in an entirely different direction. Eventually your intuition will kick in and a new hypothesis will emerge out of the rubble, ready to be ruthlessly torn apart once again. You will be surprised by how quickly the sequence of faulty forecasts will deliver you to a useful result.
http://www.saffo.com/02008/07/26/strong-opinions-weakly-held...
Comment · 10 years ago
I use coach.me - the automation is via their undocumented mobile APIs https://github.com/jmaddi/liftapp-client (Lift is coach.me's previous branding)
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