Month: May 2017

AWS IAM Policies in a Nutshell

J Cole Morrison wrote an excellent guide into AWS IAM policies. It’s super useful for anyone who have tried implementing IAM policies and failed (or even barely succeeded).

What is an AWS IAM Policy?

A set of rules that, under the correct conditions, define what actions the policy principal or holder can take to specified AWS resources.

That still sounds a bit stiff. How about:

Who can do what to which resources. When do we care?

There we go. Let’s break down the simple statement even more…

Compared to all the AWS documentation one has to dive through, this one is a giant time saver!

Linux utils that you might not know

Linux utils that you might not know covers a few Linux command line utilities that aren’t very famous:

  • column, for “columnating” lists, which is very useful for display of table-like data (think CSV, for example);
  • cal, for displaying calendars;
  • factor, for calculating factors;
  • numfmt, for formatting numbers and converting them to/from human-readable formats;
  • shred, for overwriting the content of a deleted file, making it much more difficult to recover.

WordPress : Supercharge your ecommerce

Supercharge your ecommerce is a collection of reviews of some of the best ecommerce plugins for WordPress.  It covers a variety of options from the most famous like WooCommerce to some less known ones.  Here’s a list of of what’s reviewed:

 

 

Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence

The Guardian is covering a 100+ internal training manuals, spreadsheets, and flowcharts that they’ve seen that Facebook has for training their editorial / censorship staff.

There’s plenty to learn from and think about.  Once again, it’s shown how complex modern communications and discussions are, and how tricky it is to separate violent and abusive content from careless comments.  Here’s a thought provoking example: