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Full SSL requests still terminate at CloudFlare, and would still be vulnerable. It's just that CloudFlare's connection to your origin is also encrypted.

Flowdock was great until CA bought it. Now it's pretty much on life support. No support (it's all 'community' now, whatever that means), buggy as heck, no updates in years, the Twi…

Full access is bad enough, but the really dodgy thing going on is that you never get asked to approve or deny that access for Pokemon Go when doing the OAuth flow. You just log in,…

Halt and Catch Fire is great, definitely recommend.

Damn this is good. I'll be buying.

It's spelled authorisation everywhere else.

Australia, but not New Zealand? C'mon.

Checked my install of 2.9.0 from auto-update, it's clean (none of the suspect files are in Contents/Resources). According to a post on the Transmission forums, when a person was (p…

So much this. If you include regular exercise you're way more motivated not to over-eat, you simply don't want to spoil the hard work you did since it's so easy to consume 500 cal …

Great writeup, hilarious outcome! Nice work.

I'm a PHP developer (reasonably experienced, in my opinion anyway). The only practical downside of PHP is the standard library is a bit iffy, because breaking BC that much is a big…

Our CloudFront distribution is down. Route53 seems fine, but it could just be caching. Looks like we're in good company though.

I haven't noticed a particular decline in Rails jobs locally here in New Zealand. In fact, a company has been looking for a Rails dev for over a year and can't find anyone. I work …

It's a great idea. Only suggestion would be to make it easier to add cities and places and let the community report bad places, instead of what seems to be a review-first approach.…

Please, please come to NZ. We are stuck in an awful monopoly of Payment Express and overpriced merchant accounts.

Public API, please!