solarkennedy's comments

On: AWS data center latencies, visualized

[solarkennedy]

I did a graphviz visualization of cross-az latency for all azs here https://xkyle.com/Measuring-AWS-Region-and-AZ-Latency/ (gosh, 4 years old now)

On: Computing Performance on the Horizon

[solarkennedy]

Titus (Netflix's container orchestrator that I work on) does this via: https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/titus-isolate

On: Two Factor Auth List of Websites

[solarkennedy]

I wrote a program to extract the seeds out of the sqlite and back into QR codes for easy transfer. You are right it wasn't that hard: https://github.com/solarkennedy/tfa_auth_dump

[xorcist → solarkennedy]

Do you need to root your phone in order to extract the sqlite database?

[scrollaway → solarkennedy]

Neat!

On: Show HN: Display images in the terminal

[solarkennedy]

I have a comparison of these tools going here: http://www.xkyle.com/a-comparison-of-image-to-ascii-conversi...

I can add this to the list, but it looks like it does not take advantage of the half-block trick to double the effective vertical resolution. (like other tools like img2xterm)

[tacone → solarkennedy]

If you need monochromatic images (ie for logos or charts) a pretty cool trick is using braille. With a little bit of hacking, the xkcd example of this repo https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille/ works pretty well :)

I'll be using this for my email signature.

[ini → solarkennedy]

Thanks for this! I was not aware of existing tools nor techniques to approach this problem.

I just tried to process the bender.original.png, and the result is not very good (img2xterm and util-say do a fantastic job with the same input). I will look into the half-block trick, and see if termbox-go supports something along those lines.

On: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Publi...

[solarkennedy]

I'm writing a puppet module to make it easy to declare shared folders. I'm almost done: https://github.com/solarkennedy/puppet-btsync

The config file is versatile enough to allow you to turn off the relay servers / dht / upnp, etc and simply declare static peers, which is cool.

On: How Balanced Automates Testing and Continuously De...

[solarkennedy]

Here is some bash kinda:

curl -s http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payments-operation... | html2text | grep -P '[^.*]=$' | head -n 1 | base64 -d | sed 's/../0x& /g' | xxd -r -c 100 | rev

[mahmoudimus → solarkennedy]

You should apply. I'm looking for people like you :)

[64bittechie → mahmoudimus]

iwanttomakeadifference@balancedpayments.com

I really wouldn't hire someone who wants to use grep to parse out html[1] :P

Then again, I would not like to work for a place where engineers don't understand this ;)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/366152