Book reviews for December 2016
Night School (Jack Reacher, #21) by Lee Child
4/5
I much prefer flashback Reacher to modern day midwest town trauma Reacher. This is one of the best.
Time-lapse panning over the San Francisco bay area from the Gardner Lookout at the east peak of Mount Tamalpais.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Tam Pan #timelapse #4k #video 4k time-lapse from Mount Tamalpais in Marin County looking over the San Francisco bay area. )
4/5
I much prefer flashback Reacher to modern day midwest town trauma Reacher. This is one of the best.
Photo of The Helen Madere Memorial Rio Vista Bridge spanning The Sacramento River.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Rio Vista Bridge #photo #bridge Photo of The Helen Madere Memorial Rio Vista Bridge spanning The Sacramento River in California. )
A picture of a pitcher at the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Pitcher Plant #photo #pitcher Photo of a Pitcher Plant at the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. )
Could be anything... (seen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, do please leave a comment if you know what it is.)
(Published to the Fediverse as: Unidentified Butterfly #photo #butterfly What is clearly a zebra longwing butterfly at the Conservatory of Flowers in the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. )
A sunset timelapse rendered as ASCII art. Music from JukeDeck.
(Published to the Fediverse as: ASCII Sunset #timelapse #video #4k Sunset over the Pacific, a timelapse rendered as 4K ASCII art. )
I haven't checked Klout for a long time - while I was away they've decided I'm a expert in Indian politics. Explains a lot...
(Published to the Fediverse as: Expert #etc #klout Klout for some reason thinks that I am an expert in Indian Politics. )
By default compression doesn't work in CloudFront for a website backed by an Amaxon S3 bucket.
The first step is pretty obvious - switch on compression in CloudFront:
To get to this setting open you distribution, go to the Behaviors tab and edit your behavior(s). Scroll down to the bottom and toggle Compress Objects Automatically to On. Save and drum your fingers while the distribution updates.
The less obvious piece is that CloudFront will only compress files between 1,000 and 10,000,000 bytes (as of writing this post) and it detects the filesize from the Content-Length header. What the documentation doesn't mention is that S3 does not send the Content-Length header by default and so no compression is applied.
Go to S3 and open the properties for your bucket (not for individual files). Expand Permissions and then click Edit CORS Configuration. You need to add Content-Length as an allowed header like this:
(Published to the Fediverse as: Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront #code #software #s3 #cloudfront #aws How to configure Amazon CloudFront to apply gzip compression for websites hosted using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) )
3/5
The overall message is good - focus on making your users actually awesome rather than you looking awesome with some concrete strategies to find out what that is and how to get there. A central theme is removing barriers to effective usage. The product here is a book. It was hell to read on my phone. Now if the graphics were large and central to the message and couldn't be done other than in some weird non-standard way I might forgive this. But all I needed to on every page was zoom in to get rid of the needless massive borders. That's all it took. Hundreds of times. So I'd recommend this if you still like paper books or are some sort of tablet toting throwback but on phone? No.
El Capitan shrouded in winter fog at Yosemite National Park.
(Published to the Fediverse as: El Capitan #photo #yosemite Photo of El Capitan shrouded in mysterious winter fog at Yosemite National Park. )
Download a Sharepoint File with GraphServiceClient (Microsoft Graph API)
Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
Monitor page index status with Google Sheets, Apps Script and the Google Search Console API
International Date Line Longitude, Latitude Coordinates
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
Sending email via GMail in C#/.NET using SmtpClient
Is it safe to open securedoc.html (Cisco Registered Envelope)?