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nrktkt / photo_meta.md
Created March 22, 2026 20:40
  • Blue: SooC image is inadequate, raw needs edit
  • ☆: probably won't use
  • ☆☆: outtakes
  • ☆☆☆: send to client
  • ☆☆☆☆: selected by client
  • ☆☆☆☆☆: save for portfolio
  1. copy viable images from card to drive
  2. rate images on drive
  3. apply general edits to ☆☆☆ images
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nrktkt / master-rest.md
Last active December 21, 2021 11:50
Mastering REST

Master REST: Mastering HTTP REST With JSON and HAL

Intro

This guide will go over the process to create a REST API at the highest level of mastery. It is worth noting that while a REST API can work over any data exchange protocol (not just HTTP), and with any data serialization format (not just JSON), these are still the most common ways to implement REST. We will use the Richardson Maturity Model as a primary gauge of our success, although we will address patterns and design issues not considered there.

Prerequisite knowledge

  • General goals of REST
  • HTTP protocol
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nrktkt / beefy5L.md
Last active February 17, 2021 08:18
Beefy 5 Layer Architecture

Much like the gross, tasty burrito of the same name, this backend architecture has five layers.

  1. Surface
  2. Authentication
  3. Authorization
  4. Service
  5. Client

Layers

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nrktkt / tillerless.md
Last active February 17, 2021 01:12
Using Helm without Tiller

Intro

Assume we have some Helm chart we want to deploy, but we don't want to install Tiller on our Kubernetes cluster. This doc will cover how to deploy a helm chart without installing Tiller on the cluster, but will not go into the motivations or tradeoffs of doing so.

Prereqs

  1. Helm installed locally
  2. Helm initialized (helm init --client-only)
  3. kubectl working for your cluster
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nrktkt / analytics-cheat-sheet.sql
Last active October 21, 2020 02:17
cheat sheet with postgres queries for common analytics metrics
-- based off the metrics on the dashboard of the mixpanel music finder demo
create table events (
id bigserial primary key,
user_id varchar,
created_at timestamptz not null default now(),
name varchar not null,
properties jsonb not null default '{}'
);
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nrktkt / README.md
Last active September 25, 2020 20:26
Create a map of ELB traffic in GPX format.

Requires ammonite

Written to use the ipstack.com API, but can be easily modifed to work with any geolocation api by editing the geolocate function.

Usage

cat your-elb-log-file.log | ./elb-geo.sc --ipstackKey $YOUR_API_KEY > elb-map.gpx
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nrktkt / websocket-auth.md
Last active August 21, 2020 23:48
Securing websocket connections from browsers

Securing a websocket connection is a mess.

A good solution needs to

  1. work from the browser
  2. be hardened against CSRF
  3. be stateless
  4. work on IE 11 :(

To that end, the following should work:

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nrktkt / OrderedIterable.scala
Created April 11, 2020 23:19
A straightforward BST based Iterable immutable persistent data structure. Useful if the need for duplicates prevents use of scala.collection.immutable.SortedSet
import cats.Show
import scala.collection.immutable._
import scala.collection.AbstractIterator
import OrderedIterable.{Nill, Node}
sealed abstract class OrderedIterable[+A] extends Iterable[A] {
def apply(i: Int): A
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nrktkt / ExampleSpec.scala
Last active February 27, 2020 07:34
AWS unit tests with localstack and scalatest
import cloud.localstack.docker.annotation.LocalstackDockerProperties
import cloud.localstack.TestUtils
import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfterEach, FlatSpec}
import ...LocalstackSpec
@LocalstackDockerProperties(services = Array("s3"))
class ExampleSpec
extends FlatSpec
with BeforeAndAfterEach
with LocalStackSpec {
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nrktkt / README.md
Last active August 13, 2019 07:28
Dynamic diagram generation with c4 and plantUML