April 2021
41 posts: 6 entries, 5 links, 3 quotes, 27 beats
April 21, 2021
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April 26, 2021
Weeknotes: Vaccinate The States, and how I learned that returning dozens of MB of JSON works just fine these days
On Friday VaccinateCA grew in scope, a lot: we launched a new website called Vaccinate The States. Patrick McKenzie wrote more about the project here—the short version is that we’re building the most comprehensive possible dataset of vaccine availability in the USA, using a combination of data collation, online research and continuing to make a huge number of phone calls.
[... 1,109 words]Over the past several months, everyone in the industry who provides any kind of free CPU resources has been dealing with a massive outbreak of abuse for cryptocurrency mining. The industry has been setting up informal working groups to pool knowledge of mitigations, communicate when our platforms are being leveraged against one another, and cumulatively wasting thousands of hours of engineering time implementing measures to deal with this abuse, and responding as attackers find new ways to circumvent them.
— Drew DeVault, SourceHut
April 28, 2021
A CSV export, JSON import workflow for bulk updating our data
I just added missing counties to around 1200 of our locations using a combination of tricks, and I thought they’d make a good blog post.
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