Our infra is all on us-east-1.
Our EC2s seems to be working fine. But RDS is down for us.
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Our EC2s seems to be working fine. But RDS is down for us.
I remember that I was obsessed with Mugen. I would spend hours downloading chars/stages/screen packs and making my own games combinations. Eventually I started messing around with the source code of the chars/stages etc and started to learn on my own. I never really learned how to build chars properly, but I was good with the screen packs and stages.
Something that I find amusing is that some of the screen packs that I ripped from NeoGeo games and adapted for Mugen 20+ years ago are still available and I guess some people still use them :-)
Two cool works I did was ripping the Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 [1] and KOF'96 [2] screen pack. I even found some videos on YouTube. One of those videos the person who uploaded the demo even gave me the credits after all these years. The second one there was no mention but I know for sure this is my version because of the quirks/bugs :-) I never knew how to properly align the numbers with the texts on the combo/hits sprite messages that are shown during combat haha
Some people make the case that it's easier to write single quotes (well, depending on the keyboard format anyway). For keyboards in the US standard you have to hold the Shift key to write a double quote. But the good thing about Black is that you can still write your code using single quote and when you run the command line utility it will fix/normalize the code to use double quotes.
Nowadays I got so used to it that I even write my Python code using double quotes. And looking at Python code using single quotes looks weird/unpleasant for me.
At work we have a marketplace engine and a digital wallet/financial app built entirely with Django (100k+ loc) and we don't have a single raw SQL query, everything is done with the Django ORM.
Something that I found weird is that they mentioned on the email I received:
> Please note that since all of your referral credits were issued more than 12 months ago, they will all expire starting next week.
Either the wording is odd or it's just my interpretation, but from what I understood they are implying that all my credits are older than 12 months
But the thing is I have several credits issued this year:
May 06, 2021 April 07, 2021 March 08, 2021 February 02, 2021 January 08, 2021
Or they consume the credits from newer to older.
to be honest jekyll still serves the purpose really well (especially for the reader)
the site is still sitting on an inexpensive entry-level cloud server, it's relatively fast, serves 300k+ page views every month and it give me some passive income
i'm pretty sure that if one uses the framework properly it can still hold on very well
i think what left me with a mixed feeling about static site generators is that it is constantly holding you back whenever you think about growing your website. i ended up building a django api that runs on the same vpc as the blog itself, and i used it to expand some features, like reading from google analytics the total page views for a given blog post, or consuming the disqus api to list the latest comments on the home page. this kind of thing.
managing the posts in static files is quite challenging as the number of posts grows. at some point you will want to change some info, or add a certain metadata and you will need to write a script to walk the _posts dir and edit the files (maybe there's a better way of doing that :P)
After a year or so I migrated to a 5 USD droplet on Digital Ocean (back then GH Pages didn't offer https for custom domains) and integrated with Github webhooks to automate the deployment when pushing new markdown to the main branch.
Over the time it indeed started to degrade. The build time takes almost a minute, but after building the website is just a bunch of static html pages.
Nowadays it is annoying to write new posts because I like to write locally and refresh to browser to check if it's looking good or not. So I would say it degraded for me but for the reader it's still as fast as it was when there was just a couple of posts.
I thought about migrating the blog to something else, but because I used some custom markdown extensions for code highlight and other things, it would be painful to migrate all the blog posts. So I've been postponing it since 2019.
"By using the Apple Software, you agree that Apple may download and install automatic updates onto your computer and your peripheral devices. You can turn off automatic updates altogether at any time by changing the automatic updates settings found within System Preferences."
PayPal is a great option for services that support it. At least you can cancel whenever you want.
One of the banks I work with let you create a virtual credit card number associated with your physical credit card. You can remove it and create a new one at any time, without having to request a new physical card. So I try to use it strategically nowadays. In the worst case, I just cancel the virtual card.
What I usually do is request a password reset and delete the account or just remove my email address from the account. But in the Netflix case, the "update payment" button on the email log you to the account without asking for the password or anything. For the most part, people sign up to junk services/games or is just creating a throwaway account. But this was looking like a legit mistake. This person was actually using the Netflix account and had the payment info there and everything. I tried to just change the email address to something else but it required to confirm the password to change the email. I could just request a new password and change the email, but I was trying to be careful here because I didn't want to screw this person. I started to investigate a little bit more. Maybe this person had the account connected to Facebook, so it would be okay to change the password and remove my email and the account owner would still be able to log in. But it wasn't the case. I checked the watch history, just Peppa Pig and movies for kids. The name in the account was a female name. Probably a mom that created a Netflix account for her child. At this point, I was feeling super guilt to remove my email address and lock this person out of the account. All I could think of was a monday morning, the password not working, the kid crying out loud, the mom trying to figure it out. Anyway, I was just trying to not cause someone trouble.
So I thought about trying to find this person on Facebook or something. She had a not very common name so it shouldn't be hard. The payment method on Netflix was direct debit, so I had her bank account number. From the bank account number, I got the number of the bank's agency, and a quick google I discovered in which city her bank's agency was located, so it made the Facebook search very precise. There I was looking at her Facebook page. The profile picture it was a happy family of three: mom, dad, and the little child. Browsing a little bit her public feed I learned that her kid had my name (Vitor) and that explained why the account name had her name and the email address was a different name (her kid). So, either she created an email address for a 1-2 years old and mistyped it, or she just typed whatever email and created the account. The second option seemed more plausible. In any case, she seemed pretty much clueless and I thought about how to approach this and explain to her what was going on. So, I started to write a message... but it sort of started to sound weird/creepy, like how I got her contacts, and I was worried that she was going to think I was trying to scam her or something, so I gave up and said whatever. I still receive her (I mean, her kid's) movies recommendations.
i mean, im not so sure if a relational database would be the best option
actually as i used django framework (which is database agnostic), on my development env i use sqlite3 and on production im using postgresql
so you can pretty much use any database that django supports.
in fact, for a large scale usage postgresql would not be enough... but for using inside a company intranet, with a few users i think it is alright for now
like sharing an interesting link, a new library, sharing nice solutions, writing an article about how to use some new stuff on primefaces for example and so on
it is meant to be used on the company network, setting ALLOWED_SIGNUP_DOMAIN = ['@example.com']
the idea is to make our developer team to interact more