DockerSlim promises a lot: docker-slim will optimize and secure your containers by understanding your application and what it needs using various analysis techniques. It will throw away what you don’t need reducing the attack surface for your container. What if you need some of those extra things to debug your container? You can use dedicated debugging side-car containers for that. Their minification examples are impressive…
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Certbot was first released in 2015, and since then it has helped more than two million website administrators enable HTTPS by automatically deploying Let’s Encrypt certificates. Let’s Encrypt is a free certificate authority that EFF helped launch in 2015, now run for the public’s benefit through the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). A lot of progress has been made since we first talked about Let’s Encrypt on The Changelog.
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Alberto Marchetti: What do you do when you have CronJobs running in your Kubernetes cluster and want to know when a job fails? Do you manually check the execution status? Painful. Or do you perhaps rely on roundabout Prometheus queries, adding unnecessary overhead? Not ideal… But worry not! Instead, let me suggest a way to immediately receive notifications when jobs fail to execute, using two nifty tools…
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Flan Scan is a lightweight network vulnerability scanner. With Flan Scan you can easily find open ports on your network, identify services and their version, and get a list of relevant CVEs affecting your network. This is a wrapper around Nmap which turns it into a full-fleged network scanner and makes it easy to deploy on Kubernetes.
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Supports C, C++, Java, and Python. Connects to pretty much every editor out there. Cross-platform, runs locally so you don’t have to trust your code to a 3rd party. I’d love to see more languages supported…
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I probably understood ~60% of the data htop exposes. After reading this extremely thorough post, I understand a lot more. The section on load average is pure gold.
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This is a map of known process signals with some information about each signal. Unlike os.constants.signals this includes: human-friendly descriptions default actions, including whether they can be prevented whether the signal is supported by the current OS Handy!
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This post by Lauren Reeder of Segment goes over the different layers to consider when working with a data lake. What’s a data lake, you ask? A data lake is a centralized repository that stores both structured and unstructured data and allows you to store massive amounts of data in a flexible, cost effective storage layer. Her article explains what tools are needed and provides code & SQL statements to get started. 🤟
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The Actions Marketplace is kickin’ in to high gear. Calibre’s new GitHub Action allows you to compress raster images with minimal setup automatically. Never ship unoptimised graphics again. I just installed this on our repo to see how it works. I’ll comment here when I have something to report!
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A HTTP based JSON storage. It lets you store, read & modify JSON data over HTTP APIs for FREE. Ideal for small projects, prototypes or hackathons where you don’t have to spin up your own data store. Please don’t store anything mission critical here, but like the quote above says this could be a nice option when you just need a place to temporarily dump some data you’re working with. Simply grab a BOX_ID from the homepage and then POST away: curl -X POST 'https://jsonbox.io/$BOX_ID' \ -H 'content-type: application/json' \ -d '{"name": "Schrute", "position": "Assistant (to the) Regional Manager"}'
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This in-beta feature should be stolen by all browser DevTools teams. Such a great idea!
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nve differentiates itself from nvm run because it: can be run programmatically is 10 times faster does not need a separate installation step for each Node version works on Windows does not require Bash is installed as a Node module Worth noting: this is not a full-on replacement for nvm or any other version manager. It only executes a single command with the specified Node version. But sometimes, that’s all you need. 😄
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Ignition offers you a beautiful, customizable error page. It also allows you to share your errors to Flare publicly. If configured with a valid Flare API key, it will send errors to a project in your Flare account.
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{ "How to use": "Paste your JSON here and press Ctrl+Enter to format!", "Help": "Check the console for errors if it fails to parse.", "Themes": "Toggle dark/light theme with Ctrl+B", "Share": "Print a shareable URL to the console with Ctrl+L", "Source": "View the source on GitHub at https://github.com/kritzware/json", "Info": "Press Ctrl+I at anytime for a reminder of these instructions" } Built with Nuxt.js.
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Victor Zhou uses a lot of SVGs on his blog. Do you? So now he optimizes their size as part of his build process. Do you? 62 SVGs minified, reducing the total size from 459322 bytes to 208897 bytes, a reduction of 54.5%! That’s a total of 250 KB, or 4 KB per SVG. Keep in mind that all of my SVGs were already saved in the Optimized SVG format - these savings were on top of already optimized SVGs. If you haven’t thought about minifying your SVGs before, chances are you’d see much more drastic results.
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xLayers is a web app which aims to bridge the gap between designers and developers. Its mission is to allow both the design and development worlds to collaborate and iterate fast. Upload your Sketch file and you will get the code generated for your favorite framework of choice (React, Vue, Angular, LitHtml, Stencil and even Xamarin Forms…and more to come).
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OctoSQL is a SQL query engine which allows you to write standard SQL queries on data stored in multiple SQL databases, NoSQL databases and files in various formats trying to push down as much of the work as possible to the source databases, not transferring unnecessary data. OctoSQL does that by creating an internal representation of your query and later translating parts of it into the query languages or APIs of the source databases. Whenever a datasource doesn’t support a given operation, OctoSQL will execute it in memory, so you don’t have to worry about the specifics of the underlying datasources. If you like writing SQL, you’ll probably like OctoSQL.
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A dev tool for microservice developers that run local applications and/or forward some others from Kubernetes or over SSH
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I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list. These are great questions to ask yourself when you’re dreaming up an open source project as well.
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This looks great for quickly seeing the structure of a JSON object without all the scrolling. Pretty cool that the output is valid JS so you can copy/paste it to other places as well.
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Enter a user/repo combo and let gh-card.dev generate a nice-lookin’ repo card in SVG and PNG formats.
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A simple, searchable website that tracks End of Life dates! File this under “things I didn’t know I wanted but now can’t live without”. Contribute by opening a PR on GitHub.
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Cloud lock-in isn’t an issue until it is — “any amount of backups are just more eggs in the same basket if everything is under one account.” Most of the popular one-click server providers (including DigitalOcean, as well as Linode, Vultr, and OVH) provide their own backup offerings for an additional monthly cost (usually proportional to your plan). But as Nicolas learned the hard way, any amount of backups are just more eggs in the same basket if everything is under one account with one credit card on one provider. Luckily, crafting a DIY automated backup system using a second redundant storage provider isn’t as daunting (nor as expensive) as it might sound. The following steps are how I backup my various VPSes to a totally separate cloud in the sky. Jake Jarvis writes on his personal blog how to backup various VPS’s to a totally separate cloud provider.
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The 2.0 release of Github Desktop shipped yesterday. Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s new… You can resolve merge conflicts more easily, co-author commits to share credit with others, and check out your GitHub pull requests. And with the 2.0 release, rebasing and stashing are now also supported on GitHub Desktop—the two most requested features.
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SwiftUI didn’t get as much air time as the new Mac Pro and its ridiculous (in multiple ways) 6K display, but looking back at Apple’s 2019 announcements, SwiftUI might end up being the most profound of them all. If you want to cut straight to some working code and an XCode project that uses the brand new UI framework, check out the linked repo.
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