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TLDs from donuts inc are a huge risk

I love donuts inc TLDs. they’re fun, easy to remember, and can give your business a memorable domain name. But unfortunately a combination of donuts inc doing no due…

Rate limits with credits

Grow anything beyond a handful of users and you’ll want rate limits. Sounds complex, right? It turns out it’s not.

Fixing nginx links that have the wrong hostname or port

Is your nginx incorrectly redirecting to http://localhost:{some-port}? Read on for why it does this and how to fix it.

Using nginx to host websockets and http on the same domain:port

The problem

Often websockets and http for a service are handled in different apps. There are very good reasons for this. Python’s flask for example is brilliant because of it’s…

writing a slack command bot

I recently wrote a slack bot that responds to action commands (like /echo yolo ) but I ran into some trouble…