Say you are learning Swift. And like a good fanboi, the first thing you do is update to the latest and greatest because that’s like what you do when you are a nerd. But you live in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. You have bitchin’ FTTH from Unilink, but access outside of Kyrgyzstan is still limited by the…
Today I added this to the .htaccess files on my sites (nella.org and blog.nella.org) in order to make them HTTPS only: Header set Strict-Transport-Security “max-age=31536000” You should too!
Look what happened today: 2015/12/04 11:38:07 fetching https://nella.org 2015/12/04 11:38:08 {200 OK 200 HTTP/2.0 2 0 map[Server:[cloudflare-nginx] Date:[Fri, 04 Dec 2015 05:38:08 GMT] Content-Type:[text/html] Set-Cookie:[__cfduid=d3a3ea49ee46eb6a6803e2eb7f597e26e1449207488; expires=Sat, 03-Dec-16 05:38:08 GMT; path=/; domain=.nella.org; HttpOnly] Vary:[Accept-Encoding] Cf-Ray:[24f529d18893372c-ARN]] 0xc8203bbf60 -1 [] false map[] 0xc8200be000 0xc8206cc420} Thank you Go 1.6 and Cloudflare. You guys are bringing my website into the…
There will, eventually, be a giant wind farm above my house. I say eventually because though Switzerland is not immune from NIMBYism, our court system deals efficiently enough with oppositions so that if something is allowed by law (zoning laws, eco-protection laws, etc) then it does go through. The opposition (and there’s always opposition) does…
A few years ago, I read an academic paper on how to hack cars. Today news came out that what was previously demonstrated via direct access is also possible over the air. I thought it would be fun to look at the firmware update file that fixes this, to see what format it is in,…
Thanks, Dave, for speaking up for what’s right. I’m with you, buddy. I also find harassment offensive, and I pledge to do the same as you. We need to draw a line in the sand, and organize ourselves so that healthy, respectful teams are on one side of it, and trolls are on the other…
LOL: Swiss authorities… swiss! FIFA is so bad, they got arrested by the Swiss. See it here.
In my last post I offered to point out some things in Golang Challenge #2 submissions that struck me as “worthy of receiving a (polite) rebuke in code review”, otherwise known as WTFs. This is opt-in abuse. I don’t mind abusing my colleagues, when I know I can take them out for lunch later and…
I’ve just finished evaluating 40 of the 105 entries to the Golang Challenge #2. The organizer, Satish, asked me to write up my thoughts. The main similarity I noticed in the entries was not enough testing. The vast majority of the entries used the tests provided in with the challenge unmodified. Taking the given tests…
The Go Challenge for April is now live! As an evaluator, I’ve already solved it. It was fun, and just the right size. Go try it, you’ll have fun!