sleepyfox

'Users hate change'

This week NN Group released a video by Jakob Nielsen in which he attempts to help designers deal with the problem of customers being resistant to their new site/product redesign. The argument goes thusly:

1. Humans naturally resist change
2. Your change is for the better
3. Customers should just get used to it and stop complaining

There's slightly more to it than that, he caveats his argument with requiring you to have of course followed their best practices on product design, and allows for a period of customers being able to elect to continue to use the old site, although he says this is obviously only a temporary solution as you don't want to support both.

nakov

const aes = require("aes-js");
const argon2 = require("argon2");
const crypto = require("crypto");
const cryptoJS = require("crypto-js");

// Encrypt using AES-256-CTR-Argon2-HMAC-SHA-256
async function aes256ctrEncrypt(plaintext, password) {
    let argon2salt = crypto.randomBytes(16); // 128-bit salt for argon2
    let argon2Settings = { type: argon2.argon2di, raw: true,
        timeCost: 8, memoryCost: 2 ** 15, parallelism: 2,

GeorgeLyon

Note This is a little out of date. Rust has made some progress on some points, however many points still apply.

Philosophy

Progressive disclosure

Swift shares Rust's enthusiasm for zero-cost abstractions, but also emphasizes progressive disclosure. Progressive disclosure requires that language features should be added in a way that doesn't complicate the rest of the language. This means that Swift aims to be simple for simple tasks, and only as complex as needed for complex tasks.

The compiler works for you

brianloveswords

gif-from-tweet

There are so many great GIFs out there and I want to have copies of them. Twitter makes that harder than it should be by converting them to MP4 and not providing access to the source material. To make it easier, I made a bash pipeline that takes a tweet URL and a filename, extracts the MP4 from that tweet and uses ffmpeg to convert back to GIF.

Dependencies

• ffmpeg
  • macOS: brew install ffmpeg
  • Ubuntu/Debian: apt install ffmpeg

kean

// The MIT License (MIT)
//
// Copyright (c) 2017 Alexander Grebenyuk (github.com/kean).

import Foundation
import RxSwift
import RxCocoa


extension ObservableType {

valvoline

//
//  String+HTML.swift
//  AttributedString
//
//  Created by Costantino Pistagna on 08/11/2017.
//  Copyright © 2017 sofapps.it All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit
import Foundation

bojand

Just documenting docs, articles, and discussion related to gRPC and load balancing.

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/load-balancing.md

Seems gRPC prefers thin client-side load balancing where a client gets a list of connected clients and a load balancing policy from a "load balancer" and then performs client-side load balancing based on the information. However, this could be useful for traditional load banaling approaches in clound deployments.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/grpc-io/8s7UHY_Q1po

gRPC "works" in AWS. That is, you can run gRPC services on EC2 nodes and have them connect to other nodes, and everything is fine. If you are using AWS for easy access to hardware then all is fine. What doesn't work is ELB (aka CLB), and ALBs. Neither of these support HTTP/2 (h2c) in a way that gRPC needs.

robertdale

// This can be imported via ./bin/gremlin.sh -i describe.groovy
// A variable 'graph' must be defined with a JanusGraph graph
// Run it as a plugin command ':schema'
// :schema describe
// 

import org.janusgraph.graphdb.database.management.MgmtLogType
import org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Groovysh
import org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.CommandSupport

raulriera

import Foundation

final class ConcealingTitleView: UIView {
	private let label = UILabel()
	private var contentOffset: CGFloat = 0 {
		didSet {
			label.frame.origin.y = titleVerticalPositionAdjusted(by: contentOffset)
		}
	}
	var text: String = "" {

mattlawer

import Foundation

func disable_gdb() {
    let PT_DENY_ATTACH: CInt = 31
    let handle = dlopen("/usr/lib/libc.dylib", RTLD_NOW)
    let sym = dlsym(handle, "ptrace")
    typealias PtraceAlias = @convention(c) (CInt, pid_t, CInt, CInt) -> CInt
    let ptrace = unsafeBitCast(sym, to: PtraceAlias.self)
    _ = ptrace(PT_DENY_ATTACH, 0, 0, 0)
    dlclose(handle)