Month: October 2018
The return of the bike thief: spoiler, the lock held, but my hands were cold
Came out last night and… some nibble marks on the lock, and my gloves are gone from the glove compartment. So it was a very thumb-numbing ride in this am @ 2 degrees! But… the lock held, which is the important part. Rot in hell thief. I stopped carrying the ‘massive chain’ since it was…
One letter ~= 700K. The taxpayers of DC are sad
This is a common tale. A scammer gets a bit of inside information. Perhaps the name of a supplier. In the case of this Alberta University, $12M was siphoned (details here). In the case at hand, the city government of Washington DC wired $700K to a fake supplier. An email comes in, it looks right.…
The case of the nosy neighbour: Azure is poking me!
We’ve all been there. Working to a deadline trying to get our e-commerce site going to make sure cats don’t get cold feet for the winter. And because its a microservices cloud jwt polyglot kubernetes istio [insert jargon here] world, well, its not as easy to debug. So many moving pieces. Remember when I said…
Cat eating pigeon related packet loss in SMS? Banking in the 21st century
So I had the honour and privilege of doing an international wire transfer today to Hungary. After some decoding of Hungarian addresses, accents, etc., I managed to fill that in to the web interface provided by my Canadian bank (you know, the web page where the ‘wireframe’ given to the ‘designer’ was a faxed copy…
The quest for minimalism
Earlier I wrote about the ‘elastic-prune‘ a simple cron-job that lived in Kubernetes to clean up an Elasticsearch database. When I wrote it, I decided to give ‘distroless‘ a whirl. Why distroless? Some will say its because of size, they are searching for the last byte of free space (and thus speed of launching). But,…
