Hammy Goonan

Latest — Sep 28, 2022

Optus data breach not a 'hack'

Please stop calling it a 'hack'. Optus left an API endpoint with the data of millions of current and former customers exposed to the public internet with no authentication required. Then to make matters worse, they used sequential IDs so that anyone that found that API endpoint could just incrementally

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What are your salary expectations?

No. What's your salary range? I don't want to waste anyone's time applying for a job that doesn't meet my salary expectations, so why not help us both out. If I was a little less generous of spirit, I'd have to assume you're not advertising it is so you can

Valé James Lovelock

I'm saddened by the news of the passing of James Lovelock. I remember first reading about the Gaia Hypotheses when I was doing my Masters degree. It spoke it me and really solidified a lot of my thinking about the environment and our place in it. There's something very viseral

Connecting to host database from a Docker container

Generally speaking, in a production environment, you don't want things like Nginx and your database running in Docker containers. You want those services running on the host and your application(s) in a container. The tricky part here is that localhost in a container is the container's network, not the

When the Currawongs come down from the mountains

I love birds, always have. Not a hardcore twicher or anything, just facinated by them and pay attention. Enough to feel quite moved when I see a Wedge-tailed Eagle. Enough for them to give me a sense of place. I lived overseas between 2010 and 2016. I went to Princes

Towards Continuous Integration

I've been using Ansible for deployment automation for a little while now and it's working really well for me. It doesn't take long for a Django website behind a load balancer to take a while to complicate which is where it's really helpful. To deploy you'll often need to pull

Hosting a static website in an S3 bucket with SSL gotchas

I recently deployed a static website to AWS using S3, CloudFront, Route 53 and the AWS Certificate manager. There we a few 'gotchas' in there so I thought I'd outline by process here for others: Certificate Manager Firstly, I created a free AWS SSL Certificate. It's pretty straight forward, just

Django 2 and Python 3

I just saw this tweet which I actually found a little discouraging. As of March 2017, only 12% of PyPI downloads were initiated by Python3. As an avid user of Python3 this anti-Python3 attitude continues to baffle me. Hell, even Flask now recommends using Python3. It's been quite a while

A simple Python3 Lambda function on AWS with an API Gateway

As will be apparent from my previous post I've been playing around with AWS's Lambda service. I'm loving these 'serverless' offerings - they make simple sites just so cheap and easy to host and you don't have to be worried about an entire back-end system just because of one annoying

Getting Lambda to run Python3 scripts with dependencies

I'm currently rebuilding my Dad's website with the intent of adding an order form so he can sell his wine (it's not live yet though). I've taken the opportunity to try and get my head around VueJS which is currently holding up very well and I now have fantasies of