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rileytg··on CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
this tool is extremely useful to have in infosec CTFs!
rileytg··on Teaching how to code is broken
let’s not forget michael hartl’s tutorial https://www.railstutorial.org/

I personally know at least 7 devs who started their careers with this; some are at faangs now.

rileytg··on Nikon F-Mount
this site has a TON of information on lenses and cameras. If you cant get answers here, i'd bet there's links to where you can find them. He probably would reply to a request for more info...

https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/fe2.htm

rileytg··on AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next
call it whatever u like, looks like a fantastic product to me! i hope they can sustain this...
rileytg··on Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?
I may not have much experience in broadband but i’ve spent most of my career in municipal/county software. My email is in my profile if you want to reach out, I’d like to help any way i can.
rileytg··on Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
1. I use cmd + arrow or alt + arrow ALL the time. to the point where i fumbled around on non macs.
rileytg··on Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS
shocking there is not test that caught this
rileytg··on Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, written in C
afaik one of the reasons it is considered a feature is memory safety. i agree a better selling point would be to say "written in a memory safe language".
rileytg··on Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
or if you have a small team that must manage hundreds of these lamps…

i started by simple wrapper around docker 8 or so years ago. over the years we’ve moved to k8s b/c it provided essentially the same api we had home grown. this reduced the LoC and moved the complexity of something like dynamic reverse proxy via nginx downstream into kubernetes ingress abstraction backed by nginx-ingress-controller.

rileytg··on JavaScript Is Weird
We have this on our interview test. It was the one almost everyone got wrong except for a couple people who ended up being really detail oriented and had deep knowledge (as opposed to broad).

We consider >70% passing.

rileytg··on Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
ah ya of course you can’t put an ipod on apples app store!

looks like you could maybe use the Vibrate API for some andriod browsers…

rileytg··on New GitHub Issues Beta
A few years back they started moving to a new UI that is visually a bit better but functionally I find slower to get to what i need. I also find the load times to be extremely frustrating, not sure if that’s related to new UI.

compare this experience to trello or github issues and you’ll see the other end of the spectrum. obviously jira does way more enterprise related features than those two.

rileytg··on Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
anybody notice ngrok when singing in? wonder what that’s about…
rileytg··on New GitHub Issues Beta
I use Jira with 300+ users for both software and non software projects. I don't love it for either but I don't hate it enough to move. Any tool that offered 1:1 feature parity and a full migration, would only need something as simple as slightly cheaper or faster for me to move. IMO the administration is a pain even for simple things.

I've also been on Jira for at least 4 years now and the development is just sad... New UI stuff wasn't "better" just different. Pages are still slow if not slower. Reporting is abysmal; we use the API to pull pretty much all data into a database and report from that. The one tool our team's universally loved was canned– a browser extension that allowed you to screenshot and open ticket with things like browser info and URL already in the ticket. We even tried to modify the extension to put metadata from within our application (didn't work and product was sunset anyway).

My outlook is that developers will move towards something like Jetbrain's issue product or maybe even GitHub issues someday. Support teams will move towards a more dedicated support style system like zendesk or a custom solution around twilio. And for non dev projects, I hope better tools come up... Microsoft project seems to still be a leader in my industry, and also seems to be universally hated amongst my teams.

rileytg··on Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
I would pay for the app just to get the haptic feedback!
rileytg··on Sorry everybody, I failed with you
This applies well for things like a java package where the itchy generally have the skills to scratch. I think of these things as having numerous benefits, namely saves your company/team time; most of the time, in this case I think boo-hoo if the person working tirelessly for no compensation stops doing that... Pay them or do it yourself. (I am currently doing-it-myself with an abandoned java package my team relies on.)

However, this logic fails for situations where the itchy often aren't capable of scratching. For example, a wordpress plugin. In this case, I think it's a grey area. Maybe users should have to pay since they can't write it themselves. But that attitude would still fail for situations where a library is widely used and security patches would be for the "greater good".

rileytg··on Wildtype: Sushi-grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells
Unfortunately there is no enforcement of that. People often consider "sushi grade" what you've described but there isn't any official rating like there is for wines or beef.

Source: ex-commercial fishmonger

rileytg··on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
wrong emoji... this is it http://.kz
rileytg··on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
It's a time thing also "Sweetie, I don't want to go to your parents for dinner b/c I'm building <insert silly fun project here>"
rileytg··on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
way ahead of you... OP was right, it was a pain to use that registrar.
rileytg··on “Appointment” as professor at Harvard was an elaborate phishing attack
Unless harvard’s email severs were breached, this seems like a case of user error... Harvard.edu has SPF headers which should be enough to detect fake emails right away. If i’m not mistaken you’d have a really tough time spoofing those emails.
rileytg··on Show HN: StaticBackend – A web and mobile back end without lock-in
How is there no lock-in?
rileytg··on Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
when i was a working chef, i used this NON-STOP. it is actually the first real “tech” i’ve ever brought into a (real working) kitchen that provided real value instead of gimmick
rileytg··on How I learned to charge my customers
billing weekly for things like this i’ve found works nicely. they basically get everything you got for a week. still requires some level of trust, and understanding of the work by the client.
rileytg··on How I learned to charge my customers
you nailed it, it’s about trust. i’ve had a couple clients for 9 years, all hourly, and never had an issue. i’ve had 20 or so clients that this didn’t work and one of us fired the other, most of the time amicably.
rileytg··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
dnsimple has been a fantastic provider for me for at least 5 years. it’s just... simple.
rileytg··on Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow
the ramsey eggs are comical to me as a chef, someone who’s watched this actual masterclass, and someone who’s made an attempt to learn many famous chefs scrambled egg styles. (alton browns add mayo trick, worth a try!)

decadent ingredients with absurdly terse instructions, and when he yells at the kid, i died!

rileytg··on Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
This is not true for everyone. I track my ride share spending and it’s significantly lower than owning a car. I spend less that $200 a month on average (2019 avg was $196).

I’m in a unique position to do this, because i put myself in that position. i moved near my work and live in an urban area.

even if it cost $400 a month, i would still do it this way. i read when i’m in the car, i wouldn’t trade that for staring at the road.

rileytg··on Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
The “ad” itself wouldn’t be so frustrating if it actually worked! For the last year or so, clicking open in reddit opens the app store even though i have the app. i also prefer the apollo client, so either way this ad should be something i can remove.
rileytg··on Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash
I had a similar situation happen to me. Someone was catfishing (dogfishing?) using my dog; they have him listed for sale...

I phished the seller into giving me their Zelle email which was a full name and presumably tied to a legit bank account with a legit person associated with it.

I reported them, will all the facts I'd collected to the AG office in the state I believed them to be in (OH- b/c they offered shipping to anywhere + local delivery in Cleveland). I reached out to other dog owners that I could identify and urged them to also file reports.

I passed along this information to a friend who works in cyber crimes law enforcement (specifically in crimes against children). He verified the information I provided to the best of his ability and passed to his peers in another agency.

Months later, nothing except an automated thanks from the AG office and the site is still up.

The main issue I'm told is I don't have any victims who actually tried to purchase and never receive a puppy.

https://www.qualitygreatdanepuppies.com/available-puppies

"Johnny" is my dog. That photo is in front of my old apartment.

I do not condone this approach of striking back, but I am frustrated that even when I identify the culprit of a scam, theres nothing I can do.

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