Noise from the Basement

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:

I am excited to announce that I’ll be attending BSides Edmonton this year! I’m looking forward to increasing my cyber security knowledge from the talks, CTF, and fellow attendees.

Specially I’m looking to learn the latest best practices for protecting my clients websites and their underlying servers. Is this something you can help me with? If so let me know and we can chat either at the conference or some other time.

I’m also happy to chat about software development, DevOps, legacy code, board games, Warhammer 40K lore, amount other things. I’m also happy to pair on some CTF problems.

Getting to the end of fixing the Standard Ruby Linter ToDo bug. In this video I refactor and remove duplicate code from a system tests that are similar. It goes well for the most part. The only hiccup is the trying to figure a way to run setup code once for all the tests in the file.

The system test is finally working!! I go over, again, why it’s important to make sure your tests fail. Now that the test is working I start refactoring it to remove duplicate code.

Spent longer then I would have thought trying to get a before setup method to work in MiniTest. During my investigation I think I got the JetBrains AI to suggest a fix for a MiniTest PR that was rejected which was interesting to see.