A possible approach to NSA-proof Secure Email
Nobody likes the NSA , or anyone else , spying on their email activities. Many secure email systems have all shuttered , because they were compelled by courts to invalidate their security or feared...
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A few dumb email marketing tips and tricks
A few months ago I got an email from my friend’s startup. It looked something like this: I immediately saw a problem – the text to the right of the Subject line was the standard “crap” text that people...
View ArticleRemoving phantom/zombie shortcuts from an OSX sidebar.
Every so often a file accidentally gets dropped onto my OSX sidebar. Usually I can command-click and remove from sidebar via the contextual. If the file has been deleted, no contextual menu pops up. I...
View ArticleWARNING: Dreamhost’s One-Click Install for Trac still has a security flaw
I first noticed this two years ago (http://www.destructuring.net/2012/03/23/dreamhost-ux-security-flaw/) and contacted Dreamhost. It has yet to be fixed. If you create a “Private” subversion repository...
View ArticleThe Dangers of URL Shorteners
In preparation for the next release, I just did an audit of all the errors that Aptise/Cliquedin encountered while indexing content. Out of a few million URLs, there were 35k “well formed” urls that...
View ArticleOptimized Archiving of Historical Time-Series Data for Analytics
The (forthcoming) Aptise platform features a web-indexer that tabulates a lot of statistical data each day. While we don’t currently need this data, keeping it in the “live” database is not really a...
View ArticleSocialMediaStandards.org
A few months ago I updated SocialMediaStandards.org with details on standard image sizes and best-practices for Social Media Distribution. If you think I’ve missed anything, please let me know! Visit...
View Articledeleted dogpile forks
I previously maintained some forks of Mike Bayer’s excellent dogpile.cache package that enabled some aggressive caching techniques, additional logging functions, and fixes to unit tests on Redis....
View ArticleProtected: Improving the performance of a SqlAlchemy & Pyramid app
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View ArticleSmall gotcha under Python’s PYTHONOPTIMIZE feature
A long, long, long time ago I started using interpreter optimizations to help organize code. If a block of code is within a constant (or expression of constants) that evaluate to False, then the block...
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