Josh Kaufman worldlywisdom

After reading Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long and listening the corresponding The Changelog episode, I dwelt on the idea and believe that open source maintainers...

... should never be ashamed if they don't have time for a project.
... should be honest with themselves and open with their users so that everybody can be on the same page
... are people and they have at one time or another responsibilities or hardships that they need to attend to which reasonably take them away from a project
... may also reasonbly decide that they don't like the direction of a project or that they would like to explore other things and may leave a project permanently.

Along this line of thinking I've created a set of descriptions for different levels at which a project might be maintained. A maintainer can use these to announce to their users the current ability that they have to dedicate to a pr

Adding an audit log to your Rails app

If you have any sort of administrative interface on your web site, you can easily imagine an intruder gaining access and mucking about. How do you know the extent of the damage? Adding an audit log to your app is one quick solution. An audit log should record a few things:

controller entry points with parameter values
permanent information about the user, like user_id
transient information about the user, like IP and user_agent

Using the Rails framework, this is as simple as adding a before_action to your admin controllers. Here’s a basic version that I’m using in production.

HTML

Here is some code on how to embed Base64 in HTML:

JPEG

<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,BASE64_STRING"/>

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Title: Project Title Author: First Last Email: Email@Example.com Address: 1234 Street, City, State 12345 Phone: (XXX)XXX-XXXX Affiliation: www.LaCroixDesign.net Copyright: 2015 Company Name Keywords: Proposal, Web Design Date: March 13, 2015

	# config/initializers/redis.rb
	require 'redis'

	# Disables the `flushdb` and `flushall` commands.
	class Redis
	module DangerousCommands
	def flushdb
	raise 'This is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! If you really want to EMPTY THE ENTIRE DATABASE, do it from `redis-cli`.'
	# You could call `super` here if you want to allow access in some circumstances.
	end

	if ENV['REDIS_ACCESS_MODE'] == 'readonly'
	class Redis
	class Client
	WRITE_COMMANDS = ::Rails.cache.data.command.map { \|a\| a[0] if a[2].include?('write') }.compact.to_set.freeze

	def process(commands)
	if commands.flatten.any? { \|c\| WRITE_COMMANDS.include?(c.to_s) }
	raise NotImplementedError, "REDIS_ACCESS_MODE is set to 'readonly', disallowing writes"
	end

	namespace :db do

	require 'sequel'
	Sequel.extension(:migration)
	MIGRATIONS_PATH = 'db/migrations'

	def db_conn_env
	ENV["BOOKSHELF_DATABASE_URL"]
	end

	/*
	This document has been created with Marked.app <http://markedapp.com>, Copyright 2011 Brett Terpstra
	Please leave this notice in place, along with any additional credits below.
	---------------------------------------------------------------
	Title: LaCroix Design Co. Proposal
	Author: James LaCroix — www.LaCroixDesign.net
	Description: Styles for outputting proposals to PDF using Marked.
	*/

	body {

	require 'http'
	require 'json'
	require 'peach'
	require 'gabbler'
	require 'pry'

	USERNAME = "patio11"

	unless File.exists?("comments.txt")
	def get_json(url)

	Solarized
	#FDF6E3,#EEE8D5,#93A1A1,#FDF6E3,#EEE8D5,#657B83,#2AA198,#DC322F

	Solarized Dark
	#073642,#002B36,#B58900,#FDF6E3,#CB4B16,#FDF6E3,#2AA198,#DC322F