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Hello software developers,

Please check your code to ensure you're not making one of the following mistakes related to cryptography.

I. General Mistakes

Writing your own home-grown cryptography primitives (For example: Mifare Classic)
- Exception: For the sake of learning, but don't deploy it in production.
Using a fast hash function (e.g. MD5, SHA256) for storing passwords. Use bcrypt instead.
Not using a cryptographically secure random number generator

This is the follow up to a post I wrote recently called From Require.js to Webpack - Party 1 (the why) which was published in my personal blog.

In that post I talked about 3 main reasons for moving from require.js to webpack:

Common JS support
NPM support
a healthy loader/plugin ecosystem.

Here I'll instead talk about some of the technical challenges that we faced during the migration. Despite the clear benefits in developer experience (DX) the setup was fairly difficult and I'd like to cover some of the challanges we faced to make the transition a bit easier.

Setting up a WordPress site on AWS

This tutorial walks through setting up AWS infrastructure for WordPress, starting at creating an AWS account. We'll manually provision a single EC2 instance (i.e an AWS virtual machine) to run WordPress using Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL.

This tutorial assumes you're relatively comfortable on the command line and editing system configuration files. It is intended for folks who want a high-level of control and understanding of their infrastructure. It will take about half an hour if you don't Google away at some point.

If you experience any difficulties or have any feedback, leave a comment. 🐬

Coming soon: I'll write another tutorial on a high availability setup for WordPress on AWS, including load-balancing multiple application servers in an auto-scaling group and utilizing RDS.

Example: Moving up to a few commits to another branch

Branch A has commits (X,Y) that also need to be in Branch B. The cherry-pick operations should be done in the same chronological order that the commits appear in Branch A.

cherry-pick does support a range of commits, but if you have merge commits in that range, it gets really complicated

git checkout branch-B
git cherry-pick X
git cherry-pick Y

	# This task will notify Sentry via their API[1] that you have deployed
	# a new release. It uses the release timestamp as the `version`
	# (like 20151113182847) and the git ref as the optional `ref` value.
	#
	# This task requires several environment variables be set (or just
	# hardcode the values in here if you like living on the edge):
	#
	# ENV['SENTRY_API_ENDPOINT'] : API endpoint, https://app.getsentry.com
	# ENV['SENTRY_ORG'] : the organization for this app
	# ENV['SENTRY_PROJECT'] : the project for this app

	# sync everything excluding things in .gitignore
	# delete anything on target not in source
	# include dotfiles and symlinks, also use compression
	rsync -azP --delete --filter=":- .gitignore" . my-target-host:/my/target/directory

	# npm publish with goodies
	# prerequisites:
	# `npm install -g trash conventional-recommended-bump conventional-changelog conventional-github-releaser conventional-commits-detector json`
	# `np` with optional argument `patch`/`minor`/`major`/`<version>`
	# defaults to conventional-recommended-bump
	# and optional argument preset `angular`/ `jquery` ...
	# defaults to conventional-commits-detector
	np() {
	travis status --no-interactive &&
	trash node_modules &>/dev/null;

	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="gif.js"></script>
	<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/0.3.11/p5.min.js"></script>
	<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/0.3.11/addons/p5.dom.js"></script>
	<script src="sketch.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
	<p>First, allow camera access.<p><p>Then click once to start recording, and another time finish recording and make a gif.</p>
	</body>

	NOTE: This document is OLD - and most of the tips here are probably outdated, since newer versions of Javascript have been
	released over the years - with newer optimizations and more emphasis on optimizing newly supported syntax.


	// Array literal (= []) is faster than Array constructor (new Array())
	// http://jsperf.com/new-array-vs-literal/15
	var array = [];

	// Object literal (={}) is faster than Object constructor (new Object())
	// http://jsperf.com/new-array-vs-literal/26