Rants, Rails, RandomnessTumblr (3.0; @dburkes)http://blog.dannyburkes.com/<p>Wait a minute- you mean Blippy doesn’t already have someone who “<a href="http://blog.blippy.com/2010/04/26/blippy-issues-resolutions-plan/">focus(es) solely on issues relating to information security</a>” A perfectly reasonable question might be: what <strong>are</strong> they focusing on?</p> <p>Unforgivable.</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/551456253http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/551456253Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:16:09 -0700<p>I’m happy to say that I have accepted a new position at <a href="http://pivotallabs.com">Pivotal Labs</a>.</p> <p>I’m looking forward to absorbing new knowledge like a sponge, from the <a href="http://pivotallabs.com/who">extraordinarily bright crew</a> over there, as well as getting my ping pong game back into shape- actual table shown below, in non-actual size.</p> <p><img height="300" width="400" alt="Pivot Pong Table" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.pivotallabs.com/145/original/pivot_pong.jpg"/></p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/504955003http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/504955003Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:04:29 -0700<p><a href="http://www.opera.com/mini/help/faq/#security"> Opera Mini decrypts SSL at their site, then forwards it on to your mobile handset</a>.  Excuse me?</p> <p>The only reason I can imagine that this isn’t the biggest security uproar in recent memory is that the Opera Mini market share isn’t big enough to have caught anyone’s attention yet.</p> <p>Did you get that, world?  If you use Opera Mini, they are decrypting your traffic in their own, private network, “adding value” to it by reformatting, then forwarding it on to you. It’s a purpose-built man-in-the-middle attack, for fuck’s sake.</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/420338794http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/420338794Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:55:17 -0800<p>Behold, I have released a new gem.  Meet <a href="http://github.com/dburkes/suid">SUID- the sorta unique ID</a>.</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/251273757http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/251273757Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:18 -0800<p>One of my favorite designers, <a href="http://hypsometry.com/">Chris Boone</a>, has released his own, hand-tuned cross-browser reset stylesheets to the world. Check out the <a href="http://blog.hypsometry.com/articles/reset-stylesheets-and-html5/">blog post</a>, or just go directly to <a href="http://github.com/cboone/hypsometric-css">his GitHub</a> for the files.</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/246979670http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/246979670Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:48:59 -0800<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32641476/ns/us_news-life/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32641476/ns/us_news-life/</a></p> <p>If society doesn’t spontaneously combust within the next 24 hours, I’ll take it that the “defense of marriage” crowd was just wrong, and get on with my life.</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/177190501http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/177190501Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:21:39 -0700<pre><code>Parsley:~/work/people_places_things(master)$ rake specs (in /Users/dburkes/work/people_places_things) ....................................................................... Finished in 0.0708490000000001 seconds 71 examples, 0 failures </code></pre> <p>Rake now has timing resolution down to 10E-16 seconds? Uh huh…</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/176338912http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/176338912Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:21:40 -0700<p>Continuing my food geek day, I lunched at <a href="http://littleskilletsf.com/">farmerbrown’s</a> today.  After 29 years in the South, I think I know me something about some fried chicken.  So, naturally, I went into this rather skeptically.</p> <p>What a pleasant surprise! The fried chicken was just that- a piece of chicken, battered, and fried.  No frou-frou dusting of single-origin free range asparagus zest.  No attempt to “better it up”.</p> <p>Just great, delicate flour-and-buttermilk dipped chicken.  Best I’ve had in ages, outside of my momma’s or a relative’s kitchen, that’s for sure.  And the grape soda added an extra touch of nostalgia that made the whole thing very satisfying.</p> <p>These days I find myself more drawn to <a href="http://www.kitchenettesf.com/">foods</a> outside my ancestral comfort zone, but, when the mood strikes, I’ll definitely check out farmer brown again.</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/136595802http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/136595802Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:54:37 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/ASBLI8PM8pkzuaousSrRSA7ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tried the new Sightglass coffee cart today (7th btwn. Folsom and Howard). Same cart as used to be at Four Barrel’s back door on Caledonia last year. In fact Justin, who pulled shots on Caledonia, is working the cart at Sightglass.  They are using beans sourced from <a href="http://vervecoffeeroasters.com/">Verve in Capitola</a>.</p> <p>Quality is high, although the beans seemed just slightly over-roasted for my taste (but not offensively so).</p> <p>Biggest drawback in my mind is that the place is too clean- they completely miss out on the hipster sleaze factor that made Four Barrel on Caledonia so charming.</p> <p>Although I do admit I saw a man taking a crap on the sidewalk only half a block a way, so, they are trying, at least.</p> <p>Worth a return trip, definitely.</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/136519482http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/136519482Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:11:21 -0700<p>With the death of Lingr and Rejaw, I was forced to relocate my blog, because it was hosted on one of Lingr’s servers.  So here I am again, world- lost as ever.</p>http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/115910484http://blog.dannyburkes.com/post/115910484Sun, 31 May 2009 14:33:00 -0700