Inklings: 2013-02

Create a local PyPI mirror

🕑 2013-02-07T11:43:41+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Young Wonder: To You

🕑 2013-02-11T03:56:37+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

War is peace

🕑 2013-02-14T11:45:29+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Concerns the recent YAML parser security issues in Rails. This I thought was worth quoting:

BTW, this whole circus reminded me of Allen Short’s excellent lightning talk from PyCon 2010: Big Brother’s Design Rules (skip to 17:30). To summarize Allen’s pithy maxims:

War is Peace: assume you are at war, all input is an attack, and then you can be at peace.

Slavery is Freedom: the more you constrain your code’s behavior, the more freedom you have to act. The smaller your interface, the smaller your attack surface.

Ignorance is Strength: the less your code knows about, the fewer things it can break. This is the principle of least authority.

Colour swatch creator

🕑 2013-02-18T16:45:45+00:00; via twitter.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Pretty nice! X-axis is hue, Y-axis is value/lightness, and scrolling give you saturation. The default saturation is good for pastels.