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glenscott1 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

I installed the Pi-hole ad blocker (https://pi-hole.net/) on a Raspberry Pi Zero, and have it as my DNS server on my home network. It has improved general browsing speed tremendously.

glenscott1 | 6 years ago | on: Write HTML Like It's 1999

> The author is arguing for semantic markup, but prior to HTML5 the concept barely existed

Not really. The concept existed and was well known in many developer circles (e.g. List Apart Issue 268 from 2008 http://alistapart.com/issue/268/).

glenscott1 | 7 years ago | on: Surgeon Atul Gawande selected as CEO of new health care company from Amazon

I can thoroughly recommend reading Atul Gawande's "Checklist Manifesto". The premise, on the face of it, is mundane, but the stories that back up the claims are thoroughly enjoyable to read. http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/

glenscott1 | 8 years ago | on: Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant

If you work with other developers and store your Vagrantfile in source control, then you can allow per-developer settings using the method shown here: https://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/allow-per-developer-vagrant...

glenscott1 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

fixed :)

glenscott1 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

I built https://freelancedevleads.com/ with the aim of promoting it to developers looking for freelance work and also creating revenue by offering paid posts. Holds little interest for me right now, and I haven't touched it for months. Happy to listen to offers - email in profile.

glenscott1 | 8 years ago | on: Defending a website with Zip bombs

What are good strategies for protecting your website against ZIP bomb file uploads?

glenscott1 | 9 years ago | on: Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs

This is a great tip. To make it compatible with most modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and MS), you'll need to use the following checks:

        if (typeof window.document.hidden !== 'undefined') {
            hidden = 'hidden';
        }
        else if (typeof window.document.msHidden !== 'undefined') {
            hidden = 'msHidden';
        }
        else if (typeof window.document.webkitHidden !== 'undefined') {
            hidden = 'webkitHidden';
        }

        doVisualUpdates = !window.document[hidden];

reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi...

glenscott1 | 9 years ago | on: The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

The Flickr mobile app is a great example of where things went wrong for Yahoo. They both were too slow to spot a trend and poor at executing once they had. Ironically, from 2008 onwards, there was a module on the Flickr homepage showing the most popular cameras people were using. iPhone topped this chart somewhere around 2009 and yet they still didn't take that seriously enough to invest heavily in the iOS app development.

glenscott1 | 10 years ago | on: How Many Times Has Your Personal Information Been Exposed to Hackers?

This is a good tool for determining whether your account has been compromised by hackers:

https://haveibeenpwned.com

glenscott1 | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK or remote

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies. I am an ex-Yahoo engineer, I am reliable, and I get stuff done.

I can build you a MVP quickly, or give you advice on scaling your application to thousands of users. I am also very comfortable working with large legacy code bases.

More backend focused (PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby) than front-end, but have good experience of working with standards- compliant HTML, CSS, JS as well as JQuery and D3.

[email protected]

glenscott1 | 11 years ago | on: HTTP API Design Guide

Most of these points seem well-thought out, but the pagination system using Content-Range headers seems a little bit quirky.

GitHub are using Link headers which seems more in keeping with the typical web approach of pagination:

https://developer.github.com/v3/#pagination

Does anyone have any real world experience with either of these approaches?

glenscott1 | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in UK)

Looking to get assurances about the security of your site or application? I will perform a thorough code and security audit for you and highlight any issues related to a) security b) code quality and c) robustness.

As part of the service, I will compile a report detailing each issue, the impact it may have on your business, and how to fix it.

I can then work with your developers to fix the issues, or optionally, fix the issues myself.

If you are interested please get in touch. I can also show you an example anonymised report that I recently compiled for a custom e-commerce solution to give you a sense of what my audit covers.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Glen Scott <[email protected]>

glenscott1 | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in UK)

Looking to get assurances about the security of your site or application? I will perform a thorough code and security audit for you and highlight any issues related to a) security b) code quality and c) robustness.

As part of the service, I will compile a report detailing each issue, the impact it may have on your business, and how to fix it.

I can then work with your developers to fix the issues, or optionally, fix the issues myself.

If you are interested please get in touch. I can also show you an example anonymised report that I recently compiled for a custom e-commerce solution to give you a sense of what my audit covers.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Glen Scott <[email protected]>

glenscott1 | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in UK)

Looking to get assurances on the security of your site or application? I will perform a thorough code and security audit for you and highlight any issues related to a) security b) code quality and c) robustness.

As part of the service, I will compile a report detailing each issue, the impact it may have on your business, and how to fix it.

I can then work with your developers to fix the issues, or optionally, fix the issues myself.

If you are interested please get in touch. I can also show you an example anonymised report that I recently compiled for a custom e-commerce solution to give you a sense of what my audit covers.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Glen Scott <[email protected]>

glenscott1 | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK or remote

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies. I am an ex-Yahoo engineer, I am reliable, and I get stuff done.

I can build you a MVP quickly, or give you advice on scaling your application to thousands of users. I am also very comfortable working with large legacy code bases.

More backend focused (PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby) than front-end, but have good experience of working with standards- compliant HTML, CSS, JS as well as JQuery and D3.

[email protected]

glenscott1 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK or remote

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies. I am an ex-Yahoo engineer, I am reliable, and I get stuff done.

I can build you a MVP quickly, or give you advice on scaling your application to thousands of users. I am also very comfortable working with large legacy code bases.

More backend focused (PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby) than front-end, but have good experience of working with standards-compliant HTML, CSS, JS as well as JQuery and D3.

[email protected]

glenscott1 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK and remote

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies. I am an ex-Yahoo engineer, I am reliable, and I get stuff done.

I can build you a MVP quickly, or give you advice on scaling your application to thousands of users. I am also very comfortable working with large legacy code bases.

More backend focused (PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby) than front-end, but have good experience of working with standards-compliant HTML, CSS, JS as well as JQuery and D3.

[email protected]

glenscott1 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK and remote

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies. I am an ex-Yahoo engineer, I am reliable, and I get stuff done.

I can build you a MVP quickly, or give you advice on scaling your application to thousand+ users.

More backend focused (PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby) than front-end, but have good experience of working with standards-compliant HTML, CSS, JS as well as JQuery and D3.

I am particularly skilled at working with large legacy code bases.

[email protected]

glenscott1 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Looking for freelance work, where to begin?

I just wanted to highlight a couple of things that might help you:

* Your portfolio can include personal "pet" projects as well as client work. So build something that you enjoy working on, and limit yourself to, say, 3 days. Link to it, get the code up on GitHub.

* Recommendations from your previous employers can still be beneficial to you. Having a testimonial from someone is going to increase the confidence of anyone looking to work with you.

* Go to local networking events. This is a great way to put yourself out there and start talking to people about what you do.

* Related to the above -- practice your elevator pitch. Instead of technology specific stuff -- "I am a Ruby programmer" yawn try being more specific about what you do "I build mobile applications for small businesses" -- this is more likely to pique somebody's interest when you are at a networking event.

* Keep scouring jobs boards. It takes time, but there are a lot of decent jobs out there. If you want to save a bit of time, sign up to lead generation service -- there are a few out there. (I run one at https://freelancedevleads.com if you are interested).

* Enjoy it! Going freelance is an amazing thing, so remember to take a step back every now and again and appreciate what's going on!

Good luck with everything, and please do give me a shout if you need any help (e-mail in my profile).