Updates from the @aadl IT team. Learn first about features, fixes and behind the scenes. Also occasional links to things that interest us.
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.“ - John Gall elibrary.mel.org/record=b142…
We are looking for someone who loves automation and fixing data. Ansible, Linux, and lots of scripting. Drupal & Docker experience is also preferred. Applications are open until April 21: aadl.org/aboutus/employment
The BLACKHOLE engine allows your application to write to the table but never stores or returns data.
👨🔬 Cool MySQL hack:
🧐 If your staging env has a table that ideally doesn't have data in it (esp production data)
🕳 You can make it a BLACKHOLE table
😅 I used this to make sure a table with a list of emails to send never contains any rows. Because, you know....
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HTTP/2 : The Sequel is Always Worse : More HTTP request smuggling attacks : i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesd… (Slides)
WhitePaper : i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesd… credits @albinowax
Our ISP is having regional issues and there is no current ETA on when our site will be accessible again.
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Minimal safe bash script template (fail fast, clean up, nice messaging) betterdev.blog/minimal-safe-…
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Windows 3.0 turns 30 today. It introduced Program Manager, Solitaire, VGA support, virtual memory, and a new "3D" look (which basically means shadows on the buttons)
This 1990 version of Windows received ample third-party software support and became quite popular
"In the era of HTTP, you could have set up a web server in 2000 and it could still be running today, working perfectly well (even if it didn't support the very latest shiny thing). This doesn't work for HTTPS, not today and not in the future." utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/…
Making fonts look like the 90s web in modern browsers is harder than it looks vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts…
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HTML Tip ⚡️ The download attribute on an anchor tag pops up a Save dialog to download the resource, instead of navigating to it. e.g.
<a download href="cat.jpg">
Download cat pic
</a>
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Besides these piles of drivers, there's also driver CDs galore. That collection is located here: archive.org/details/cdinstal… - there's many more scattered around the archive and when I can I'll keep consolidating them into these collections. Keep the machines running and the history!
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I will let out a bit of a secret.
I have been running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero for ~5 years.
About 7 times faster System/370.
Millions of lines of COBOL JCLs running flawless on a battery.
Tested an entire bank’s mainframe COBOL on it.
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases by @rakyll medium.com/p/things-i-wished…
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Everything's closed! We're all hunkered down! WHAT A BUMMER! We're proud to offer you several new THINGS TO DO, in a diversion called THE BUMMER GAME!
Each day at Noon we'll release 3 new BUMMER GAME Badges—PUZZLES you can solve online for POINTS: aadl.org/node/569276
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Two ways to get OverDrive audiobooks & ebooks from the AADL!
On your desktop/laptop in 3 EASY STEPS!
💳 Find an OverDrive item you want to borrow in our collection, or visit mlc.overdrive.com/
📱Sign in through AADL with your card number
🎧 Browse and stream or download
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⏲️ As of today, we have about eighteen years to go until the Y2038 problem occurs.
But the Y2038 problem will be giving us headaches long, long before 2038 arrives.
I'd like to tell you a story about this.
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Sharing SQLite databases across containers is surprisingly brilliant.
medium.com/@rbranson/sharing…
