Random thoughts of a lazy developer
A little while back our company decided it was time to move our self managed MySQL database into AWS’s managed Relational Database Service (RDS). Surprisingly, I found there to be no single repository of instructions on how to perform what would seem to be a common use case. Below is the result of many many hours of research and testing.
The correct way to indicate you have modified a quote is to surround the changes with [square brackets]. If you are changing an entire [word] or [group of words] then you but the brackets around that. If you are just changing the case of a letter, for example if you want to work a quote into a larger sentence, then surround [j]ust that letter with the bracket.
Computer systems are relatively simple to secure when used by a small group of people. Things begin to get complicated when we want to allow multiple people across multiple organizations and geographic locations to interact with the system. Read More…
In recent years we have seen an explosion of interest in blockchain technology. It would be prudent to take a moment to contemplate the fundamental concepts that are being disrupted. Read More…
When you install git on your computer there is a .gitconfig file that gets set in your home directory. I needed an efficient way of switching between git profiles. Read More…
Here is a script that generates sha512 hashes in an infinite loop. It will cause the computer’s fan to start spinning really fast. Read More…
I came across some text online that contained several non-standard html special characters. I was curious to see the character codes of those letters. Read More…
I have found it annoying to have my static web app sitting in the web root (i.e. port 80) and the rest server on another port. In order to have everything pointing back to port 80 we can set up a reverse proxy Read More…
A friend of mine has an e-commerce website that displays a promotional blurb at the top of each page. He asked if it would be possible to have multiple promos and switch between them at regular intervals. Here is my vanilla js implementation. Let me know what you think. Read More…
Here is a NodeJS script to track tickers available on Binance and tweet an alert whenever a new ticker is added. Read More…