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nicholasbering-ca's Issues

Add Content Security Policy

Related to #27.

If I can add some simple security headers via something like Lambda@Edge, I may also be able to add a Content Security Policy.

Handling file content in Terraform

Quick article idea: handling stuff that comes from files.

Example: Templating values into AWS S3 Bucket Policies.

SSH Public Keys

AGC Dual-Y Charts

The Google team has removed their examples for Dual-Y charts with the old chart classes. Might be a good topic to cover. See Image Overlay CodePen for example use.

http://codepen.io/nbering/pen/yNZxKr

Improve Site Footer

Add some more social badges to the site footer like the current github and twitter links.

Suggested badges:

• Stack Overflow
• CodePen
• Linked-In
• HackHands/Pluralsight Mentors ¹

1: Get this address changed.

OpenPGP Message Format

This topic is pretty huge. I'm not sure when to call my study of it done, but it might help me call it finished if I write a blog post about it. Maybe a series, if I don't want to stop.

So far, I've managed to write a parser that reads the packet headers, identifies their type, and reads the body length field. It can recurse over the message and read the all the packet headers. This might be a good time to step back and write a post about the basic structure of the message.

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

The standard filesystem layout for unix and unix-like systems.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

Outline

• What is it?
  • Standard file structure used across unix variants.
• History (1-2 paragraphs)
  • Who created it?
  • Who maintains FHS?
  • Who uses FHS?
  • When was it created?
• Overview of the hierarchy
• Why a filesystem standard?
  • Software compatibility
  • Network partition management
  • Locally-managed software
  • Backup/Restore?
• What if my software doesn't fit the FHS model?
  • Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love /opt.

Share image ideas

Maybe a list of directories as if someone had run cd /; ls on a linux machine?

Add HSTS headers

On the current deployment platform, this might be achieved with Lambda@Edge.

Add some style to the menu bar.

Don't go too crazy, but customize the site header menu a little. Add some colour and the code leaf logo. Make it special, but don't waste too much time.

To Do:

• Pick a typeface for the menu bar. Probably sans-serif.
• Pick some colours.
• Pick a style. Leaning toward wider bar.

Add Tweet Button

Add Tweet button to posts.

https://dev.twitter.com/web/overview

Pull Disqus from site layout

I don't really like Disqus anymore, and it never really got that many constructive comments anyway.

Push-To-Deploy

Write an article on setting up push-to-deploy systems for git. There's a lot of these out there, but it's relatively simple to explain and there's probably quite a few people looking for this information.

Sources:
http://krisjordan.com/essays/setting-up-push-to-deploy-with-git
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server
https://github.com/EHER/ansible-git/blob/master/tasks/main.yml
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13240/etc-sudoers-specify-env-keep-for-one-command-only

Fix SVG Logo

For some reason, chrome doesn't render the graphical portion of this SVG file anymore. Safari doesn't render it at all.

Map Projections

• What are map projections?
• How does one convert (x,y) coordinates for a local area to (lat,long)?
• Why do we have map projections?
• What software can we use to work with them?
• Who would benefit from know about map projections?
• Where can I find more information about this topic?

Roda routing tree framework

http://roda.jeremyevans.net/

Migrate site from Github-Pages.

Move site to static file hosting or own web server.

• support TLS with valid certificate
• enable use of jekyll plugins not included with gh-pages gem

Brainstorming for deployment:

• s3?
• vm?
• heroku?
• push-to-deploy with bare repo on server?
• github deploy webhooks?
• sandbox version (built with drafts)?

Resources Page isn't working.

Did Jekyll break the collections API?

Personal Homebrew Tap

This article idea is a do-and-write type project. I'd like to make a Homebrew repo to distribute applications. Some target application ideas:

• node-based command line applications
• terraform plugins
• electron-based GUI applications (brew cask)
• persistent services (configure launchd service with brew service)

Useful primary sources:

• Homebrew Tap Docs
• Typescript Formula - uses nodejs
• brew help create
• Forumla Cookbook

Header image for index page.

I really like the "github circuitboard illustration" background from the GitHub API documentation:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180401030248/https://developer.github.com/

I'd like to borrow that basic concept of a front-and-center logo with some faded icons in the background representing things that I like or work with.

Pull Google Analytics from site

In light of the current public opinion and my own ethical stance on traffic analytics, I'll be removing Google Analytics from the site.

I don't really need it all that much as I don't sell ads, and I just write about what I want to anyway, regardless of the attention the article is likely to receive.

Ansible Pattern: Role Presets

A useful pattern for calculating the value of a variable, if not defined outside the role. Makes sense when the ultimate value is calculated in some way, but the calculate value should not override a setting defined by the playbook's user.

A good implementation of the pattern can be found in geerlingguy/ansible-role-mysql.

The gist of the pattern:

• No value set in default/main.yml for my_variable, leaving undefined if user does not define it.
• A private-namespaced (__my_variable) is set in vars/main.yml
• A set_fact task sets my_variable to the value of __my_variable, but only then my_variable is undefined.

Remove Facebook and Google Plus share links from post layout

Google Plus is shutting down, if it hasn't been already, and I'm not really happy with the way the Facebook share link library supports their tracking schemes. I doubt anyone ever really used them anyway, so I'll pull them from the site layout.

Chrome DevTools Disable Caching

Just had a quick reminder for myself that chrome can get set to disable caching, but it only works when DevTools is open. Maybe write a quick article on that?

Design an error page.

S3 Websites support a custom error page. Design an error page to match the rest of the site.

Boolean refactoring with De Morgan's Theorem

Sort of an intro CS topic... but you never know... might help someone.