Dealing with corrupted InnoDB data

MySQL Performance Blog

Data corruption! It can happen. Maybe because of a bug or storage problem that you didn’t expect, or MySQL crashes when a page checksum’s result is different from what it expected. Either way, corrupted data ...

19 January 2016

Launching an Apple TV App: What We’ve Learned So Far

Hacker News

Think the Apple TV belongs in the living room? Think again. Since 2007, when it launched alongside the first iPhone, this diminutive box has been creeping into meeting rooms and presentation facilities alike. A typical case of BYOD, it seems, folks…

18 January 2016

Golang script to send and receive events with a tiny simple API

Hacker News

It allows you to send and receive events with a tiny simple API (thread safe) go get github.com/GianlucaGuarini/go-observable o := observable.New() o.On("ready", func() { // I am ready! You can subscribe your observable also to multiple events for…

17 January 2016

Get SSL Expiration Alerts with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch

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Replacing SSL certificates is a task that happens just infrequently enough to forget it needs to be done, but often enough for you to feel like a total moron when it leads to downtime. Since it’s infrequent, most monitoring services don’t have alerts when…

17 January 2016

I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier

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How I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon GlacierUpdate: Amazon changed Glacier pricing on 21 December 2016, about 11 months after this was originally posted. The “gotcha” pricing described herein is no longer in effect, replaced by…

17 January 2016

Simulating Website Thumbnails Using Iframes

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An example of what we are building, this technique allows us to avoid using a more complex backend service to create thumbnail screenshots of our webpages. Avoiding the use of a back-end serviceOur team was building a website editor. This editor parsed a…

17 January 2016

Unused logo designs available for free

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Free & Open Sourced Logos At Fairpixels, we had unused logo designs piling up on our hard drives and decided to make them available to the world, for free. The logos below can be downloaded unlimited times and used by anyone. For personal & commercial…

16 January 2016

My Favorite Public Data Sources

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Where to get public data? In this article, I will share a few of my personal favorite public data sources. Combining public data in your own analytics projects can add powerful external context. GDELT might just be the most awesome big data, full text…

16 January 2016