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
Mozilla Firefox supports a feature that allows to define SVG images inside an OTF font to represent characters. This is useful if we for example want to work with colorful characters, Emoji, animated characters and so on. Firefox is currently the only relevant browser supporting this technology.
The general technology and its advantages are described here:
| // ==UserScript== | |
| // @name Auto expand t.co links on Tweetdeck website | |
| // @namespace https://github.com/lgp171188 | |
| // @include https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/* | |
| // @version 1 | |
| // @grant none | |
| // ==/UserScript== | |
| function expandTwitterShortlinks() { | |
| var twitter_shortlinks = document.getElementsByClassName('url-ext'); | |
| for (var i = 0; i < twitter_shortlinks.length; i++) { |
| #!/usr/bin/sudo sh | |
| ## ruby_revealer.sh -- decrypt obfuscated GHE .rb files. 2.0.0 to 2.3.1+. | |
| ## From `strings ruby_concealer.so`: | |
| ## | |
| ## > This obfuscation is intended to discourage GitHub Enterprise customers | |
| ## > from making modifications to the VM. | |
| ## | |
| ## Well, good, as long as its not intended to discourage *me* from doing this! |
1Password 5.3 for OSX, 5.2 for iOS, and 4.1.0.538 for Windows support OTP. I've been using Authy for a while now, but the fact is, I haven't really been using 2FA for some time. As mentioned by 1Password in a recent blog post, having the OTP generator and password on the same device is very much not 2FA. It's just an expiring OTP, which can help, but let's not kid ourselves too much.
With that out of the way. One of the things that was interesting to me was moving my OTP out of Authy and into 1Password. I like the control I get with 1Password, but I didn't want to have to reset all my OTP right away, that would suck. So, I got to dissecting the Authy Chrome App to see what I could do.
Run the Authy Chrome app and make sure it's unlocked.
Now, enable Developer mode in Chrome. We'll need this to inspect the background application that stores al
$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Checking if box 'ubuntu/trusty64' is up to date...
==> default: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.
This is a guide on how to email securely.
There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.