Disqus - Latest Comments for benatkin

Re: Implement the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code with PKCE Flow

Ben Atkin — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:30:42 -0000

History can be accessed with the history permission, whereas local storage can be accessed with content scripts. The content scripts can be for just one website, and if that is the website the malicious extension writer wants the token for, that's enough. I think it is easier to trick the user to access one website than to access the history. IMO the bigger issue is yet to be solved.

Re: First impressions: Docker for Mac with Kubernetes

Ben Atkin — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:23:22 -0000

Sweet! I was able to follow along after I made a couple changes:

Instead of running `kubectl apply -f ./yaml/namespaces.yml` I needed to run `kubectl apply -f ./namespaces.yml` – that is, without the ./yaml directory

I had to wait about a minute from when I ran ``kubectl apply -f ./yaml` again after running the above command before I could load the OpenFaaS Portal.

I had to wait another 30 seconds or so for Figlet to start up before I could run it. Until then I got an error.

All in all I'm pretty impressed! I went from not having played with Kubernetes in months to getting it working locally in a matter of minutes, and my MacBook Pro's fan isn't spinning.

Re: Developing RESTful APIs with Hapi

Ben Atkin — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 01:19:08 -0000

If you simply replace "In order to use Hapi" with "In order to follow this tutorial" it will be accurate on that point.

Thanks for writing this tutorial. I really like that Hapi is using async/await for everything in v17. Certainly makes writing dog APIs more fun!

Re: Ombulabs Blog - The Lean Software Boutique - Why Using Default_scope Is a Bad Idea

Ben Atkin — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:16:40 -0000

I agree when it comes to filtering records, but I think it might be the best way to specify a default sort order.

Re: Apache Solr vs ElasticSearch - the Feature Smackdown!

Ben Atkin — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:47:26 -0000

compose.io has ElasticSearch support

Re: Setup ASP.NET MVC 5 on MonoDevelop 4.2

Ben Atkin — Mon, 19 May 2014 22:53:39 -0000

Thank you very much for this post! It worked for me. The only difference is that the Web.config I got from the project template didn't contain "System.Web.WebPages.Razor" anywhere, so I didn't make that replacement.

Re: Going public

Ben Atkin — Wed, 07 May 2014 17:33:42 -0000

Nice blog! I appreciate that you mentioned doge in your second post! Keep them coming!

Re: Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your First Ruby Gem - Quick Left Boulder Colorado

Ben Atkin — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:38:38 -0000

Wow.

Re: The David Siegel Scam, How Frontier Airlines Scams Customers

Ben Atkin — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:13:12 -0000

It would be hard to make an argument that it isn't a scam. It has all of the markers of a scam. The fee is exorbitant, and they get people in a situation where it would be awkward and inconvenient to avoid paying the fee.

It doesn't make sense to me for an airline to run something that's clearly a scam. I think it will piss off the wrong people (including you) and it will cause damage in the long term.
I can't see why they don't just stick to more underhanded techniques to get extra revenue from customers.

Besides not making sense to me from the airline's perspective it just sounds ludicrous from the perspective of the travelers. Not all travelers have a hundred dollars to their name, and some of those who do have a hundred dollars won't be able to pay bills if they spend a hundred dollars. I can picture people who are stranded at the airport because they can't afford transportation out of it (which is expensive at DIA due to its remote location) and people using Western Union or Wire Transfers to get enough funds to fly.

Does David Siegel really want to be in the business of screwing over many of their customers just to encourage people to use their own website instead of a third-party booking service?

Re: GetGlue integrates with Tumblr and creates blog widgets

Ben Atkin — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:52:38 -0000

this is unacceptable

Re: Homeless man's A/B test of generosity based on faith

Ben Atkin — Thu, 02 May 2013 00:47:59 -0000

A colander would be more appropriate for Pastafarians.

Re: Node Wrapper and CLI

Ben Atkin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:01:33 -0000

IMO it's a useful convention to use an anonymous function if the last argument is a function and it isn't being used anywhere else. "function cb() {}" is a code smell.

Re: Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced (and almost chose BancBox)

Ben Atkin — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:31:18 -0000

Did you look at Beanstream?

Re: Qt GUI Toolkit Ported to JavaScript via Emscripten - Badass JavaScript

Ben Atkin — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:12:15 -0000

Read it again. It didn't say that Qt came from KDE.

Re: Embeddable Animated Gifs with controls. Just in time for Christmas.

Ben Atkin — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:37:56 -0000

Awesome, and even more so in retrospect. This does all that the Vine player does 99% of the time. I don't want it to loop and I rarely want to listen to the audio. Many are silent, anyways. :)

Re: Long Live the Kings

Ben Atkin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:08:39 -0000

That's a nice video. Got me looking through the vimeo staff picks and I found this one: http://vimeo.com/channels/s...

Re: Grand Canyon, the Google Street View version

Ben Atkin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:55:18 -0000

Is nothing sacred?

Re: Pirate Bay Branded “Malware Distributor” by Google

Ben Atkin — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:06:20 -0000

Yeah no, that isn't what happened in my case. I am very careful with my computer. What happened is that Google Chrome downloaded a file that can't harm my computer, because I'm on Mac OS X rather than Windows.

Re: Pirate Bay Branded “Malware Distributor” by Google

Ben Atkin — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:28:23 -0000

Guest123,

I'm on Mac OS X. Maybe that's why it didn't ask for permission.

Re: Pirate Bay Branded “Malware Distributor” by Google

Ben Atkin — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:13:30 -0000

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist. Advertising is random. It happened to me, I just visited thepiratebay.se without clicking on anything and I now have Your_file_download (1).exe in my downloads directory.

Re: Cat plays shell game, wins every time

Ben Atkin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:19:09 -0000

I still think someone's playing with the cat's butt, like in Trololo Cat.

Re: Foreman as process manager, Pow as DNS server

Ben Atkin — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:21:26 -0000

Pow is acting as a DNS server and an HTTP proxy, not just a DNS server. Other than that, great article! I'm not going to use this setup because I'd rather use nginx as an HTTP proxy in development but it got me wishing for a way to quickly change HTTP proxy and DNS settings.

Re: Doppio: A Java Virtual Machine, Compiler and Disassembler in JavaScript - Badass JavaScript

Ben Atkin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:26:28 -0000

The demo allows you to run Rhino. That isn't the point of Doppio but it shows how amazing it is.

Re: Rent-to-Own Laptops Secretly Photographed Users Having Sex, FTC Says

Ben Atkin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:50:04 -0000

It happens with food too. A lot of poor people have a house with a kitchen and don't realize they could get beans, rice, and potatoes for less than it costs for a fast food value menu. After years of eating unhealthy fast food they wind up sick.

Education could help with both problems. Some people who have what in the U. S. is considered to be a low income live just fine.

Re: How to install node.js on Linux

Ben Atkin — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:27:46 -0000

If all you want is to install node.js on Linux, you should probably just use a tarball, rather than clone from git.