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dkoch | 12 years ago | on: Must-have Django packages

I've found django-allauth a bit friendlier than django-social-auth, and it covers registration of local accounts in one package.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: GTFO of my menu bar

I never would have noticed that the Dropbox icon was the only colorful icon up there if I hadn't read this article. Oh well.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

It seems to have dependencies on core Foundation Javascript. I don't think it can be used stand-alone.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: Facebook Perl source code from 2005

At least they had "use strict" turned on. Not sure why they weren't using DBI and placeholders to prevent SQL injection attacks in 2005.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: I know none of my passwords

A copy of the 1Password master password stored on the Yubikey could also be stored offline (safe deposit box).

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: The Hacker News Generation (Afraid of Hard Work)

I'm the parent of two toddlers and I can see how it happens. It's not quite as serious as leaving them in a hot car, but I've been in a rush and so distracted by work or life that I've put them in the car and driven away without remembering to fully buckle them into their carseats.

Realizing that you've potentially endangered them is an awful feeling, and a stark reminder to slow down and remember what's important in life.

Luckily they've gotten precocious enough to yell at me "Daddy I'm not buckled" so it doesn't happen any more.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: MySQL is to SQL like MongoDB to NoSQL

MySQL has strict mode flags that can turn those silent "best guess" inserts into errors.

Triggers have existed since 5.0.2 in MySQL.

The query planner has been greatly improved with MySQL 5.6 and the MariaDB fork.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: Syrian Electronic Army hacks Washington Post Web site

So many media sites have a ton of javascript widgets: ad networks serving third-party ads serving third-party tracking scripts, recommendation tools, analytics, etc. It really increases the attack surface.

How do publishers know that the scripts that go on their pages are safe?

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: Github is having a major service outage

I wonder how many people who use Github as part of their deployment work flow are impacted by outages like this. I know git is distributed, but I can imagine people with scripts that default to pulling from a github.com origin having to scramble to reconfigure.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2012)

If you've got a Costco membership, their extra virgin Toscano is a great tasting oil (if you like that peppery back-of-the-throat taste) and a bargain, about $15/liter in a glass bottle.

I'm not sure if it's available at all locations, seems to come and go seasonally at mine.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: Brief thoughts on Docker

And-- Vagrant has expanded a bit and now can build out a few different types of VMs, including VMWare images and AMIs for Amazon EC2.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: Switching from Gmail to FastMail

I've had the same Fastmail account since 2003 -- they were one of the first webmail providers to have strong IMAP support back in the day. It's always been reliable for me with very few outages through the years.

dkoch | 12 years ago | on: A personal statistics dashboard and API

Looks very slick! I suggest swapping the colors in the sleep quality circle so the aqua color represents the 72% of the circle, matching the color of the text label inside the circle.
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