dhh

Basecamp was under network attack

The attack detailed below has stopped (for the time being) and almost all network access for almost all customers have been restored. We're keeping this post and the timeline intact for posterity. Unless the attack resumes, we'll post a complete postmortem within 48 hours (so before Wednesday, March 26 at 11:00am central time).

Criminals have laid siege to our networks using what's called a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) starting at 8:46 central time, March 24 2014. The goal is to make Basecamp, and the rest of our services, unavailable by flooding the network with bogus requests, so nothing legitimate can come through. This attack was launched together with a blackmail attempt that sought to have us pay to avoid this assault.

Note that this attack targets the network link between our servers and the internet. All the data is safe and sound, but nobody is able to get to it as long as the attack is being successfully executed. This is like a bunch of people

aras-p

// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

adharris

package main

import (
	"database/sql"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	_ "github.com/bmizerany/pq"
	"os"
	"regexp"
	"strings"

domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

areina

Manage your gmail account in emacs with mu4e

There're a lot of combinations to manage your email with emacs, but this works for me. I've a backup and I can manage my daily email.

The stack:

• emacs
• offlineimap
• mu
• mu4e

dnishimura

# Makefile for a go project
#
# Author: Jon Eisen
# 	site: joneisen.me
# 	
# Targets:
# 	all: Builds the code
# 	build: Builds the code
# 	fmt: Formats the source files
# 	clean: cleans the code

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

victorquinn

on alfred_script(q)
	set tmp to splitString(q, " ")
	set q to item 1 of tmp
	if length of tmp is 2 then
		set change to item 2 of tmp
	else
		set change to 10
	end if
	
	set current to output volume of (get volume settings)

gazoombo

# Solarized colorscheme/theme from 
source-file git/github/tmux-colors-solarized/tmuxcolors.conf

# Report that we can handle 256 colors
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

# Rebind prefix to avoid conflicts
#unbind C-b
#set -g prefix C-q
#bind C-q send-prefix

banksean

/*
  I've wrapped Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura's code in a namespace
  so it's better encapsulated. Now you can have multiple random number generators
  and they won't stomp all over eachother's state.
  
  If you want to use this as a substitute for Math.random(), use the random()
  method like so:
  
  var m = new MersenneTwister();