Thomas Khalil KernelPanicAUS

Sends Cloudwatch Event notifications to Slack

What is this?

AWS have released a new featue called CloudWatch Events, which lets you configure events fired by cloudwatch and direct them to SNS, Lambda functions, etc. Here's the blog post

Motivational image:

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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

OverEncrypt

This is a guide that I wrote to improve the default security of my website https://fortran.io , which has a certificate from LetsEncrypt. I'm choosing to improve HTTPS security and transparency without consideration for legacy browser support.

WARNING: if you mess up settings, lose your certificates, or decide to no longer maintain HTTPS certs, these steps can and will make your domain inaccessible.

I would recommend these steps only if you have a specific need for information security, privacy, and trust with your users, and/or maintain a separate secure.example.com domain which won't mess up your main site. If you've been thinking about hosting a site on Tor, then this might be a good option, too.

The best resources that I've found for explaining these steps are https://https.cio.gov , https://certificate-transparency.org , and https://twitter.com/konklone

GPG and git on macOS

Setup

No need for homebrew or anything like that. Works with https://www.git-tower.com and the command line.

Install https://gpgtools.org -- I'd suggest to do a customized install and deselect GPGMail.
Create or import a key -- see below for https://keybase.io
Run gpg --list-secret-keys and look for sec, use the key ID for the next step
Configure git to use GPG -- replace the key with the one from gpg --list-secret-keys

To use this bot:

Download ads_bot.py and requirements.txt.
Type pip install -r requirements.txt to install the requirements.
Fill out the required information in the Python file.
Ideally, create a (free) Slack account and set up a web hook to receive notifications from the bot.
Run the script :)
Relax and be ready to answer incoming calls :D

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/opsworks"
	)

	{
	"token":"xxxxxxxxxx",
	"subdomain":"subdomain",
	"username":"Eventbot",
	"text":"<!everyone> here is an important link: <https://modest.com/\|modest.com>",
	"channel":"#general",
	"icon": ":ghost:"

	}

	################################################
	# Dockerfile to run Groovy containers
	# Based on Java 8 image
	################################################

	FROM java:8u40-jdk

	MAINTAINER Cédric Champeau

	# Install GVM

	#!/bin/sh

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

	# Set the colours you can use
	black='\033[0;30m'
	white='\033[0;37m'
	red='\033[0;31m'