AustinG08

the world runs on brownie points now, prepare accordingly

as a former developer at a marketing agency, that ain't happening

Thanks! Great little read, thinking about trying out something similar.

Any chance you have a write up on this?

Agreed, or if you're not in the mood just fast forward a wee bit

Well thank you. I'm a big fan of your newsletter as well :)

My answer to this problem has been the plugin Wordfence. It's primary feature is a WAF whose rules update continuously and intercepts every request. Having worked at several agencies I've seen and inherited many hacked sites. I have never had a site be infected with a clean install using Wordfence. knocks on wood

Fair enough. I primarily use it for GraphQL queries. Each of my queries exist in a file queryName.jsx. Those files consist of the following code:

  import gql from 'graphql-tag';
  
  export default gql`
    query Blah($var: VarType!) {
      blah(var: $var) {
        id
        etc
      }
    }
  `;

It's a nice feature when used appropriately. Article says at the bottom in bold: "It’s a nice-to-know feature, good for impressing others, but my suggestion is to use this only if it’s the clearest way to express your concepts."

Using AWS CodePipeline (Github -> AWS CodeBuild -> AWS CodeDeploy). It works nicely with all of our AWS resources. Looking to migrate to Kubernetes.

I am a huge Grateful Dead fan (I don't call myself a dead head because I was 9 when Jerry died, I never saw them play.) But I always loved John Perry Barlow's songs. My old band used to cover The Music Never Stopped and Cassidy, and my all time favorite dead song is Throwing Stones.

I didn't even know he was a big influencer in tech until I saw him appear on the Colbert Report representing the EFF.

My JPB story is short and relatively meaningless, but back when I first signed up for twitter I just followed a bunch of famous people and would every now and then attempt to engage them. The only one that ever replied back to me was John Perry Barlow, and it made my week. I had interfaced with true greatness. Rest in peace, John!

Love it. Might want to update the meta tags to remove the mention of the "preact-boilerplate." That's some prime real estate for describing your site when sharing it socially.

It is honestly worth your while to pay off your mortgage as soon as humanly possible.

siteground shared hosting - you get capped at X number of executions per 2 hour / 24 hour period / month. If reached, they shut you down until your quota refreshes at the end of the month or if you contact them to get your account reinstated. On the plus side, their tech support is helpful and hands on. Op should probably upgrade their hosting plan.

I didn't see the original article, but he was tossed a softball. The issues quoted in his response are so cliché.

React is great, and judging by the growing ecosystem, many people agree. If you don't like it because it requires you to learn a workflow you are unfamiliar with, don't use it.

What CSS really needs is a canonical standard, and a tool for generating CSS compatible styles for ALL browsers down to IE8. Until then, I'm more than happy to skip these new layout techniques.

I recognize that 3d model from when I was learning blender. It's carl from the walking dead, from a tutorial by Sebastian Lague. His channel is full of Blender, Unity, and general Game development tutorials. All very detailed and helpful: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmtyQOKKmrMVaKuRXz02jbQ

Big fan of the song Robin Williams by CeeLo Green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfesrob8hW4

I find the responses to my comment pretty great. I find the comment that "the game is not for me" particularly amusing. This game is right up my alley. I knew I would get downvoted for posting what I posted, but I feel it should be said. Contrary to what the other guy says, I feel it's a valid contribution in itself. I get that the background is the game. I get that it is a brilliant game. I get that it is a cult classic. I don't care if nobody cares. It is a fucking terrible background to read text on.

No offense but trying to read a list with that background burns the eyes

I've been learning Blender in my free time for the past few months, this tutorial was a most excellent starting point: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

My goal is to make characters for games, and I have been watching this video series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0eTHFZ2XPkM... - I recommend the 5 Blender Character Animation videos. Tremendously helpful.

In my opinion the key is, like learning most things, a little bit every day.

Ok, I think I see what you're after. But take for instance a pirate ship. They're off looting and plundering. They lose half their crew to cholera. The crew wants to go home, but they won't have any money, thus they won't be able to eat. Is that "pure" Piracy, or is it just a demoralizing tragedy? In most societies, you gotta work to eat. I don't think it's necessarily a function of capitalism.

Well capitalism is defined as: "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

I don't see how this tragic event is a pure form of anything except tragedy.

In this example? I don't know, maybe this is what capitalism looks like in Nepal, but I've never been so I have no idea. All I know is my paycheck isn't drenched in blood, sweat, and tears, which to be clear, I am very grateful for.

wut? seems more like an extreme form to me.

I wonder if "Deep Learning" could be applied to something like interstellar travel to figure out how exactly it could be done.

Exactly. It already is a general purpose CMS just by having the Page post type as well as the Post post type. I think it arguably is a great CMS for it's custom post type capabilities. I love me some WordPress.

Aside from some of the other mentions, this could be pretty neat for someone who manages many WordPress sites, or any other CMS' for that matter.

After reading that entire thread, it seems to be that IBM/Strongloop wants to maintain ownership of the project without contributing the resources. They expect dougwilson to continue running the project but he doesn't want to unless it is under the expressjs organization or something like that.

Apparently IBM threw a few guys into discovery on the project a few weeks ago and they may actively get involved, but it is yet to be seen. Maybe IBM just wants to own it and doesn't care what happens to the project one way or the next. I have no way of knowing what IBM's intentions are, and I think that's the concern of the maintainer, dougwilson.

I've been building an app using Express over the past 9 months and this gives me pause. It seems like IBM wants to have its cake and eat it too. Should be interesting to see how it all plays out, but is building an app on Express a liability? I have been contemplating switching to hapi, maybe this is a good time to explore that option.