“The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request under GDPR” article features an example worst-case scenario (or so) of a Subject Access Request (SAR) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
On one hand, the example letter is quite extreme. On the other – it’s quite realistic, especially given the (almost) template.
So, who’s ready for this? And who’s laughing now?
Found via the comments to this Slashdot thread, which is also worth a read.
homm/color-filters-reconstruction is a GitHub repository with a number of tools that help to automatically or semi-automatically deconstruct the color filters applied to a picture by such services as Instagram, Google Photos, and others.
Here’s how it works:
This method is based on three-dimensional lookup tables and their two-dimensional representation: hald images. The core idea is simple: a sample hald image with a uniform color distribution is processed using a target color filter with an unknown transformation algorithm. The processed hald image can then be used as a filter for a very accurate approximation of that target color transformation.
A resulting hald image could then be used in various software such as GraphicsMagick or Adobe Photoshop. You can implement those hald images in your iOS or macOS app with CocoaLUT. Also, hald images could be converted to the 3D LUT cube file format, which is common in a great number of video editing software.
StackOverflow, the greatest online resource for developers, has announced the availability of the StackOverflow for Teams. This is a spin off service which allows developer teams to run private instances of StackOverflow for knowledge and information sharing needed for non-public projects.
This sounds like a great tool to replace a variety of missing and outdated information in wiki’s, README files, and emails that every software project eventually gathers.
AWS Developer Blog ran this post a while back – “PHP application logging with Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Monolog“, in which they show how to use Monolog and Amazon CloudWatch together in any PHP application. It goes beyond a basic configuration of connecting the two, all the way into setting up log metrics, etc.
“Working With PHP Arrays in the Right Way” is a collection of tips and tricks on the array functions in PHP. PHP is weird, to say the least, when it comes to arrays, compared to many other programming languages, so articles like that are useful for pointers to better ways of doing things.
I think that even experienced PHP developers will find a bit or two that they either didn’t know or forgot about.