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lskillen

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About lskillen

I’m Lee, co-founder and CTO of Cloudsmith and a lifelong builder. My journey has taken me from bedroom coding in Belfast to running a platform that secures the software supply chain for the world.

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    Update from Google (paraphrased): "It's a known problem and we're working on it." No further details given.

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    Ask HN: Google Ads Hacked?

    Well, they've either been hacked, or it's a bad bug, or they're up to something unusual. Either way, they're admitting nothing. Our Ads account had all user roles demoted to "Read …

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    Comment #43709936

    Hi HN, author here, I co-founded Newzbin (where we created the NZB file format) from 2001 to 2010, and I’m now the co-founder and CTO of Cloudsmith (a Series B-funded startup in th…

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    Comment #19976651

    Cross-post from Indie Hackers: No, not like that! I'm talking about that visceral feeling of getting yourself out there, of being vulnerable and outside of your comfort zone, in pe…

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    Comment #19799376

    For context to others: Unless you've been following developments in Rust recently, you may or may not have realised that Rust 1.34 [1] introduced the ability to point Cargo (the Ru…

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    Comment #19798697

    Original link: https://blog.cloudsmith.io/2019/05/01/worlds-first-private-c... Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798413 Sorry. :-)

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    World's First Private Cargo Registry @ Cloudsmith (Rust 1.34)

    Unless you've been following developments in Rust recently, you may or may not have realised that Rust 1.34 [1] introduced the ability to point Cargo (the Rust package manager) at …

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    Comment #19767625

    It might be OK for the Docker Hub aspect at least, with a caveat later on; the GitHub aspect is unfortunate and I completely agree. Direct access to source is rather dangerous terr…

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    Comment #19764815

    As others have stated you could run your own registry or use an alternative service for private repositories, to minimise or eliminate the attack vector. By replicating the images …