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codeaken | 2 years ago | on: A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?

I have been following RA for years now. There is a small public company (OMX:SYNACT) I found that are in its Phase 2b with a medication that looks very promising. They completed their Phase 2a with statistical significance in a couple of key indicators. It looks like to be on par with JAK inhibitors but with a cleaner safety profile and no need for injections.

Unlike the JAK inhibitors that suppresses the immune system, their pill instead resolves the inflammation by activating receptor 1 and 3 in the melanocortin system. Phase 2b completes this summer and I am personally super excited to see the results.

codeaken | 7 years ago | on: HashiCorp has raised $100 million in Series D funding

I'd love a tool that lets you keep a history of "cloud migrations", where you write both the "up" and the "down".

We did a dirty solution for this with Ansible. We have a base playbook (with roles and all that jazz) that sets up a server and then we can write patches which are separate playbooks.

After the patch has run we simply store the patchlevel in a file on the server so that we dont "double-apply" any patches on the next patch-run.

codeaken | 7 years ago | on: Linux 4.19

I don't think it was, at least not that black and white. If the community really was that split the project would not have survived for 20 years. Surely we would have seen a fork where the involved factions split off.

I think this is a very vocal minority in play here. From my understanding these changes did not come from any of the core contributors but rather from activists. The used divide and rule; if you don't sign off on our political documents you are with "them" and we will let everyone know what a horrible human being you are.

codeaken | 7 years ago | on: Linux 4.19

I feel really worried about the Kernel project now that they have let Identity Politics breach their walls. These kind of things have a tendency to split a community rather than unite it.

The kernel project is surely one of the most successful software projects ever. Having survived for 20 years, why change a winning formula?

I have always considered Linus un-political and more interested in getting sh*t done and getting it right above anything else, so why he would sign-off on this is a mystery to me.

codeaken | 8 years ago | on: Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017

Very good points!

Btw, what is missing in the invoices?

For us to be able to move from S3 we would also need to be able to create multiple API keys where we can set what buckets they have access to.

codeaken | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a WordPress site is using

We can only identify user fronting plugins that make themselves known through signatures or js/image/css imports. We do this in an automated fashion by exploiting the predictable folder structure of WordPress. So no maintenance needed here.

There are some very popular plugins (Yoast SEO, Jetpack, W3 Total Cache) that don't import additional files. For these we have hardcoded patterns (under a 100). We do not have anything in place for checking if these patterns break.

We could automate creating a WordPress installation, installing the plugin we want to check, trigger a wp detective scan and then checking the results. But I am note sure it is worth the engineering effort.

codeaken | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a WordPress site is using

We actually don't have a signature database, not needed.

WordPress have a predictable path structure and we use that to extract theme and plugin slugs (textual ids). For some plugins that don't import JS or StyleSheets we look for other signatures.

Once we have the slugs, we do a lookup in the official WordPress theme/plugin repository and get all the info we need (plugin descriptions, icon, author etc)

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