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davidradcliffeon RubyGems.org gem replacement security vulnerability and mitigation

If anyone finds compromised gems they should report them to the RubyGems.org security team immediately.

davidradcliffeon RubyGems.org gem replacement security vulnerability and mitigation

In this context "unsafe" only means not 100% verified.

davidradcliffeon RubyGems.org Redesign

We just pushed out changes to the guides!

davidradcliffeon EC2 Maintenance Update II

Correct

davidradcliffeon Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts

I've only used google voice for the incoming calls and voicemail features. Hopefully those don't get lost in the shuffle.

davidradcliffeon Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

Looks great! A few years back I built a hosted product similar to this. It was only focused on groups within a church. This looks like it has a whole lot more to it.

davidradcliffeon Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report

I got that too. I had to force-refresh the page to get my results. I guess I visited the page several months ago before they had results.

davidradcliffeon Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

A simple proxy through nginx should do the trick.

davidradcliffeon Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]

This includes all our compute fees too.

davidradcliffeon Launching HealthCare.gov (2013)

This is the static marketing content, not the exchange part.

davidradcliffeon Teaching Software Architecture with GitHub

What a great opportunity for these students. I wish my university had done something like this.

davidradcliffeon Uptime Robot

This has been around for a while, but seems to have had a facelift recently. Looks much better!

davidradcliffeon Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones

Looks like the website wasn't totally ready? The partner logos are all the same, and what does Square have to do with it?

davidradcliffeon Comments in JSON

Neat trick! Not sure I'd trust it, and might be confusing for anyone reading who didn't know this.

davidradcliffeon Ask HN: I'm quadriplegic – can you help me with my security?

Not really, because it could require a combo of physical attributes and information known by the subject.

davidradcliffeon Google Latitude will be retired

But what if I want it automated? :)

davidradcliffeon Google Latitude will be retired

Anyone know of a good alternative?

davidradcliffeon A List of Useful Backend Architectures

What's with "my-sql". Shouldn't it be "MySQL"?

davidradcliffeon DNSimple target of DDoS attack

We're working on adding some redundancy!

davidradcliffeon Security Notice: Linode Manager Password Reset

Not all customers. I didn't receive any notice.

davidradcliffeon Show HN: We manage your code duplication. We want your bugs to stay fixed

Looks like it only pulled in some of my repos, but many are missing from the list. Is there a way to refresh the list?

davidradcliffeon Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]

Very well done!

davidradcliffeon "How I Explained REST to My Wife" taken down because of gender-oriented nature

Sad. It wasn't even about gender!

davidradcliffeon Ask HN: What should I do?

Props for asking for advice! Good luck!

davidradcliffeon Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes

I'm also a registered user and didn't get the notification.

davidradcliffeon Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js

The script probably just needs to check if it is already running before starting.

davidradcliffeon Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters

Wow.

davidradcliffeon AWS OpsWorks - Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef

Surely that's only because of the chef cookbooks used. As long as your cookbooks are working this should work.

davidradcliffeon Introducing Boxen

Vagrant spins up the VM but then hands off to a provider (chef, puppet, etc.) for configuration.