As soon as I got my first Android-powered smartphone around nine years ago, I immediately researched how to create apps for it. And within no more than three days, I created an app that made my school’s substitution plans accessible on mobile devices. A couple years passed, the app improved, and soon school staff picked up on it and wanted me to build a similar web-based application to cover all devices. It’s now been nearly five years since I stopped maintaining it and today I want to take a look at the web app once more and assess it from what I’ve learned since then about web development and cybersecurity.
Read more.Recently I had the pleasure of helping with a research project based around machine learning that was in the final stages of development. To test the implementation, I was asked to transfer roughly 30,000 training and test images to a storage server. The server is running a MinIO instance which, for the uninitiated, is basically an open source equivalent to Amazon S3 providing a high availability, high performance object storage. I had already worked with MinIO before and I was comfortable using it, but I was provided with a helper script written by someone in the research group that’d take care of uploading a large amount of images from a directory. Thinking that I didn’t need to spend time coming up with my own solution, I quickly got to work and expected to spend maybe half an hour figuring out how the script works and uploading all images.
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