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7ewis

863 karma · joined December 28, 2012

Senior Tech Manager @ Just Eat

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7ewis··on Apple acquires Dark Sky
So, what's the best minute level forecast Android app?

Plus, the best API alternative?

7ewis··on FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]
Ironically, the video is only available in the US.

Had to hop onto my VPN to view.

Edit: Ok, at least not viewable in the UK!

7ewis··on Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend
Was half expecting these people to be rogue actors trying to install some malware into prod.

Glad I was wrong!

7ewis··on India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World
Pretty easy to get cheaper deals too when you've been a customer for a few years.

I pay £5/m for unlimited data, 600mins, unlimited texts on Three. I know I've been super lucky with that deal in particular.

7ewis··on WireGuard is in net-next
Does this mean WireGuard will be moving to stable?

My VPN provider has said they won't support WireGuard until it hits 1.0

7ewis··on Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number
How do you receive phone calls etc.? Does it redirect to your phone like Google Voice for example?
7ewis··on I tried to hack my insomnia
What sort of podcasts/books?

Not properly tried this before, but I'd imagine if it was interesting I'd want to stay awake and listen to it or find out more information... if it's boring I'd just be annoyed by the noise. Maybe bore myself to sleep?

7ewis··on Ask HN: Are available domain names still important when naming a company?
I actually like the made up names like Google and Spotify. So I'm sure there are plenty of domains like that available still.

If not, I'm sure a combination of things could work, like Facebook or Netflix.

7ewis··on Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'
>run commands

In case you didn't want to click the link.

7ewis··on A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
They've been doing this for years.

Back when I first created a GitHub profile, I started getting emails to an email that I don't usually give out. This eventually led me to GitHub after some mentioned seeing my profile which led to me improving my Git knowledge and finding out how they did it.

7ewis··on DSVPN – VPN using TCP at port 80 and 443
But even then, my work network for example decrypts traffic or if it can't blocks it.
7ewis··on VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
They can’t block sites when going via a Wireguard VPN surely?

Where are you exiting?

7ewis··on Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook
Have the same MBP as you, and haven’t really had any issues.

I actually almost prefer the keyboard, I feel like having less travel means I have to press slightly less and can type marginally faster on my Mac keyboard than a normal one.

I’ve not had to replace anything, I’ve had a key that felt stuck once or twice, but after a good bash it fixed itself. But it is almost 3 years old now!

The Touch Bar is a bit useless I’ll admit, but using BetterTouchTool I’ve made it more useful. Shows me my company share price live, tube status and the time of my next train as well as shortcuts to my most used apps.

7ewis··on PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
Up next for me is great, always suggests videos of people I usually watch but haven't yet seen - or similar videos it thinks it might like.

Very rarely have any news outlet.

7ewis··on Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster
A BGP error could be completely out of their control and nothing to do with using a Pi at all.
7ewis··on Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May
Who manages the 'hub'?
7ewis··on Google Calendar Is Down
Yeah, paid customers. Not sure why I've been downvoted.

The engineers there obviously have info before the public status page gets updated.

7ewis··on Google Calendar Is Down
They provide updates to customers, but I'm under NDA with them.
7ewis··on Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
> at present
7ewis··on Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment
Wonder if they use the same tech to predict the outcome of football matches. I've seen them show it on the Premier League games.
7ewis··on How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
How did you manage to increase your bill 15x in Lambda?
7ewis··on Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole
What command did you run in mtr to see the routing locations?

Or just a normal report, then lookup the IP location?

7ewis··on Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole
468ms in the UK.

9ms on Cloudflare, 10ms on Google.

7ewis··on Glass Enterprise Edition 2
Yeah I agree, it's kind hard to explain - you can sort of ignore the display unless you look at it, but when you do look at it, it's big enough to see what you want to see.
7ewis··on Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uber’s App Performance
So is this essentially HTTP/3?
7ewis··on “Python's batteries are leaking”
Python was one of the first languages I learned.

Recently started using Go a little, and it does feel better but it just takes longer for me to write (probably because it's newer to me too). At work, people want things quickly. I'd love to be able to spend my time writing things properly in Go, but it's just not as quick and easy as Python is.

7ewis··on Guide to Deep Work
That's the one!

Just find it so hard to concentrate on it, almost wish I hadn't started it but don't want to give up on it now. Will have to try and get into a habit like you, good luck with it!

7ewis··on Guide to Deep Work
Over the last few months, I've found I just can't focus on anything. Unless I find it interesting on challenging.

Generally, at work this is ok as I enjoy what I do. However, I study for a degree part time, which is in 'Computing and IT' - the same field as my work, BUT it's so out of date, and the content is so boring I just can't do it, until last minute when I have to.

I genuinely think if I had studied this course, before working in tech I may have changed my mind. It's mind numbingly boring. Even if they just taught the content in a better way, something like A Cloud Guru where you have videos, guides to follow along etc. but all I get is books. It's awful.

(While we're on the topic of it, I should be studying... getting back to it now, promise!)

7ewis··on New, portable, open source password manager for Windows
I've been considering moving to Bitwarden or Enpass, as my 1Password subscription is ending.

Is there anything missing from Bitwarden that's in other paid apps?

7ewis··on Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories
I wrote a tool that scans all the new commits to our Org for passwords/secrets.

Webhook > AWS API Gateway > Lambda

The Lambda uses the new(ish) Layers feature so it can use Git. I then use the truffleHog[0] library to scan for entropy/regexes inside the commit.

If something is detected, it posts to an SNS topic, which is currently subscribed to by another Lambda that posts an alert to my team and the Security team's Slack channel.

It then calls the GitHub API to make the repo private to limit the exposure.

[0] - https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog

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