How to be fierce, kill heroes, and conquer imposter syndrome

It was Saturday 4:30AM. I was 30 hours into at the Hawaii Uber/@devleaguehawaii hackathon when React-Native doesn’t work. Someone had already asked why I needed to do hackathons. At the time, I said because they were awesome and you can’t hold me down. Now the caffeine was gone and I’m getting too old for this shit. […]

Dealing with memory bloat in Ruby

At Findery, we had an issue where image manipulation was failing when we ran out of memory (“Cannot allocate memory – convert”) on our web instances. In some cases, we couldn’t even run our Chef deploy in Opsworks because the servers were so out of memory. Every 2 or 3 days, we would see gradual […]

SQL Injection from the Fast Lane

File under “It’s not funny if you have to explain the joke” Typical speed camera traps have built-in OCR software that is used to recognize license plates. A clever hacker decided to see if he could defeat the system by using SQL Injection… The basic premise of this hack is that the hacker has created […]