Noise from the Basement

Book: Talking to Strangers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell

This book has a lot of stories that include a police stop gone wrong, pyramid scheme, Cuban spies, drinking, sexual assault, and torture. A bit hard to follow all the different stories and pick out a theme for the book. At least for me.

My biggest takeaway was finding the balance between trust and doubt. The book points out that most humans are wired to trust by default. We believe what others say and this trust can override nagging doubts.

I finally create the PR for Standard Ruby Linter Bug I’ve been working on the base several videos and months. I also fix the merge conflict noticed in the previous video.

Read about the bug I’m trying to fix here and the PR here.

Thanks to Test Double for creating Standard! It is a great linter for Ruby projects.

I’m happy to announce that v3.0.1 of the XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox has been released! This release updates XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox so it can be used in .NET 6.0 and higher projects (e.g. net6.0-ios12). You can find the latest release on NuGet here.

You can ignore the v3.0.0 release. The NuGet package incorrectly listed the minimum iOS version as 16.1 (e.g. net6.0-ios16.1) instead of 12.0 (e.g. net6.0-ios12).

Let me know if you spot an issue or have an improvement by opening an issue.

A rate limiting demonstration using NGINX and Fail2Ban based on a presentation that I gave at BSides Edmonton in 2022. Follow along with the GitHub repo here.

Be sure to admire the seamless editing due to a power outage issue towards the end of the video.

Thank you to BSides Edmonton for allowing me to present last year. I also had a great time as an attendee at the 2023 conference.

I attempted to create a pull request (PR) for the Standard Ruby Linter bug I’ve fixed but ran into a merge conflict. Didn’t create the PR but did figure out the solution to the merge conflict that will be fixed in the next video.

Read about the bug I’m trying to fix here. Other videos fixing the Standard Ruby Linter Todo Bug: