I needed a list of free proxies, obviously the more the better. Though I didn’t take this as far as I could have, I automated it quickly enough to get a quick and dirty list. Ruby always makes things better. First, I downloaded a list from https://geonode.com/free-proxy-list in JSON format. Next, I whipped up this […]
1. Install with: meteor npm install –save toastr 2. In your .js/.ts/.coffee file, add: import toastr from ‘/node_modules/toastr/build/toastr.min.js’; 3. In your .scss file, add: @import “{}/node_modules/toastr/toastr.scss”; 4. Now to make a toast in a method, just add something like: toastr.success(“BoomboomShakkalakkah!”);
I was looking at the “Choose your Adventure” type games on the Play Store, and wondered how it would be to do something like that in Corona. A couple of strategies that present themselves as obvious, might be: one, using composer where each choice goes to a different scene. That would end up being a […]
Golang is not only fun to code, but incredibly easy too. I like to think of the way it handles pointer’s as, “pointer’s Lite“. But, none of that for this post. I enjoy writing code in different languages. I wanted something quick that would just list the header titles in a CSV file. The meat […]
Two of the nice new features of PHP 7 is Type Declarations and Return Type Declarations, both coercive and strict. Obviously having typing is a benefit for both debugging and clearer code. Considering the “FizzBuzz” [1] problem, these new features can work to our advantage both in function inputs, and function outputs. Added to […]
Deploying a basic Meteor project is super simple, and does not require any special deployer like mup or mupx/meteor-up, etc. [1]. The following is a simple recipe to get things started off: On your deployment server, install the following: a) Node.js + NPM. You might need to mind the versions. Lately, I’m doing a lot […]
Changing the “owner” of a git repo for purposes of doing naked pulls
I left things with a function that would analyze the “auth.log“, finding Invalid login attempts to our server. The natural next step is to find out where these attempts are coming from. Bear in mind, seldom will an IP be a unique, 1 to 1 correspondence to an actor. Most often, they are behind an […]
The location of log files might generally be found in the /var/logs/ directory. This can be a treasure box of information for a variety of uses. One interesting use is to gain a list of suspects of who might be trying to hack our server. In this post, I’m going to deal specifically with the […]
I had occasion to need to check a MongoDB collection for duplicate fields, and thought a basic script for this might prove instructive for some who may have the same need. The file itself can be viewed and downloaded –here–. I’ll explain the basics of the script top to bottom, chunk by chunk: #!/usr/bin/perl use […]
Hacking and the Web 