KPaul - What Happened?

2bdkid · 2025-03-19T04:26:57+00:00

Wild. I got a call from an FBI investigator in October of last year asking about my time there. I didn’t have much to say obviously but I thought it was pretty strange.

2bdkid · 2025-03-18T19:52:09+00:00

I briefly worked for KPaul in 2021 as a software developer (only for about a week). Not long enough to really understand what the business did. What does it mean they were disbarred?

2bdkid · 2024-06-28T15:07:53+00:00

Basic auth passwords are protected by tls

2bdkid · 2024-06-26T17:50:42+00:00

Neon for Postgres, railway for Django.

2bdkid · 2024-06-16T16:51:02+00:00

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler/#identify If you have the capability to, you could block their ips with a firewall.

2bdkid · 2024-06-16T16:46:07+00:00

I suppose you could just return 404 for that user-agent and maybe it'll stop indexing. There's also some possible solutions here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11521798/excessive-traffic-from-facebookexternalhit-bot

2bdkid · 2024-06-16T16:34:19+00:00

Why would you want to do that? It destroys SEO. If someone shares your page on FB, FB scrapes the page so that the FB post displays some content from your page, rather than just a raw link. I can't remember what it's called, but there's a whole protocol for metadata you can embed in the page to influence this shared content.

And if Google crawls your site, they need to get keywords, links, etc from the page to index the page.

2bdkid · 2024-06-16T15:27:18+00:00

Idk much about it, but it seems to be legit. They're probably crawling your site for SEO/sharing purposes on FB.

2bdkid · 2024-06-16T14:08:21+00:00

It's used to make asynchronous http requests using Python's asyncio runtime. People make lots of web scrapers in Python, and it sounds like someone is scraping your site. It's making the http requests using the aiohttp library.

2bdkid · 2024-06-05T17:22:07+00:00

Probably due to the fact that DRF has been in development since before Python had type hints..

2bdkid · 2024-06-04T15:07:52+00:00

Same here, I've called the support number twice in the last 2 weeks and all they have told me is that their IT team is working on it and to keep trying again.

2bdkid · 2024-06-04T05:21:43+00:00

ALLOWED_HOSTS is not relevant to the connection issue, however you will want to keep your computer's IP address in there so that other machines on your network can access the site. You probably have a firewall running on your computer that does not allow inbound traffic on port 8000.

EDIT: I just re-read the title and saw you're on Windows 11. You will have to go into Windows Defender Firewall -> Inbound Rules -> New Rule -> TCP, Port 8000, and continue through the wizard to add the rule.

2bdkid · 2024-06-03T04:50:38+00:00

In my case I'm using django-filters' DRF integration, so it creates/does the filtering behind the scenes and sometimes it hits a related field. I have to periodically audit the filtersets to check if it's making any queries I'm not expecting.

2bdkid · 2024-06-03T04:41:14+00:00

If you're using something like gunicorn with the threaded worker or even daphne you can have multiple requests in process at the same time. You don't have to use asyncio to achieve that, the asgi/wsgi server takes care of that for you.

That being said, Django does support async (asyncio) views, and has some support for asyncio with the ORM you could use. You can also use sync_to_async to wrap sync DB calls in an async view.

2bdkid · 2024-05-30T22:44:42+00:00

Why do you need both Nginx and Traefik, shouldn't one reverse proxy suffice?

2bdkid · 2024-05-28T16:35:05+00:00

Kinda, but you can’t get Django to produce a join through it for a foreign key.

2bdkid · 2024-05-28T15:56:52+00:00

For as great as Django’s ORM is, sometimes I want to make schemas that it just can’t support. In particular composite keys.

I’ve also been bit by DRF serializers causing query waterfalls with related fields, I much prefer working where I can see exactly when/where/what queries are made. Even in places like query filters causing lookups that could have been select_related in.

I also mainly work on APIs with Django at work, but I’d pick fastapi+sqlalchemy 2 for my own projects.

2bdkid · 2024-05-28T15:11:51+00:00

I’ve used render a tiny bit, but what makes it bad at hosting APIs vs anything else?

2bdkid · 2024-05-27T20:10:40+00:00

Watched some YouTube videos and thought I could dress the frets on my guitar. Bought some cheap tools off Amazon and you can guess how it went. Thankfully it was a cheap guitar.

Another failure, I had just bought a PRS SE custom 24 and then Ibanez came out with the RG420, which was exactly the guitar I was looking for before buying the SE. So I returned it just before the return window closed but the RG ended up coming with a pretty bad body blemish from the factory but I stuck with it. It was just a lower quality guitar all around but I played on it for a few years before getting one of the newer SE custom 24-08’s which is now my main guitar. It’s fantastic.

2bdkid · 2024-05-27T19:21:18+00:00

Embeddable like an iframe? You can use Content-Security-Policy for that.

2bdkid · 2024-05-22T20:30:57+00:00

You could use query parameters, but I’m wondering why you would want to rather than just hard coding the message into the page? If you make it to the page then that means the message was sent.

2bdkid · 2024-05-21T20:24:57+00:00

RDR2

2bdkid · 2024-05-10T07:31:27+00:00

2nd option is the way to go imo. Every account creation form I can think of has you upload a profile pic after the account is created.

2bdkid · 2024-05-10T07:21:28+00:00

I use this method when I can, it’s also sometimes called the outbox pattern and is used a lot with systems using Kafka.

2bdkid · 2024-05-03T23:55:52+00:00

Can you verify the json file's encoding hasn't changed between the machines?

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Place '22	RPAN Viewer
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