Building Emacs 25 on macOS High Sierra
macOS High Sierra is out and it’s time once again to build Emacs. Nothing has really changed since my 2017 Sierra update, but let’s put it all together… Before you start, you need a few dependencies:
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Building Ruby 1.9.3 with RVM on macOS High Sierra
If you try to build Ruby 1.9.3 using rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p551, it will barf with compiler errors. The workaround, found here, is to use:
Building Emacs 25 on macOS Sierra 2017 Update
A quick update to Building Emacs on macOS Sierra. I recently had to rebuild Emacs due to brew updating the version of libjpeg. My walk-through almost works, however the Emacs build now depends on a newer version of makeinfo (part of the ...
How I Start Rails Projects v2
An update to my somewhat popular How I Start Rails Projects post. As before, I start with:
Sleepless Mac
Ever put your Mac to sleep only to come back find it’s still awake? This happens because something is telling the power management subsystem it can’t sleep yet. These are called “power assertions” and you can view them by running:
Creating an S3 Website Redirect from the CLI
A quick one today — creating S3 Static Website Hosting redirects with the AWS CLI. Clients often want to have www.example.com redirect to example.com or vice versa. Why? Because SEO. I suspect “SEO” is smart enough recognize one site wit...
JWT Based “Sessions”
OK, you’re in a situation when you can’t use cookies, specifically you’re in an iframe and Safari will only accept a cookie in an iframe if the browser has already visited the site outside of the iframe. Without cookies, there are no ses...
When you can't use cookies
So, I’ve looked at the utility and security of cookies and I’ve at looked the utility and security of sessions. It you’ve been following along, then you know that sessions are great, they provide a secure way to verify who you are talkin...
Capistrano SSH
A quickie this time. I use Capistrano to deploy my Rails apps. There was a gem for Capistrano 2 that added an ssh command as in:
Rails in Session
Last time I took a reasonably deep dive in cookies. Cookies can keep state information and setting for visitors to a site. However, by default they aren’t secure, being sent in the clear and easily modified. You can turn on security opti...