I remember reading this when I was the sole Infrastructure Engineer for Reverb.com. I knew we were being attacked and I knew we had issues but I didn't have any idea where to start. This article sparked my interested in Cyber Security and helped me find a bug in the website that allowed me to set the CEO's credit card as a primary card on my account in production. That was an amazing day.
Thanks to the author of the article for inspiring me to dig in the rails codebase and find vulnerable patterns that I could exploit. Thankfully I was able to pivot into a cyber security focused career and I credit this article for starting me down that path.
Rails has a few things going for it that other languages and frameworks don't but it still lets you shoot yourself in the foot if you're not careful. I ended up writing a blog article about preventing XSS in rails as a direct inspiration from the OPs article:
https://product.reverb.com/stay-safe-while-using-html-safe-i...
Just because this article is old doesn't mean it's not useful. Thanks for posting!
This exact scene played out in my mind as I was reading the article. Couldn't believe what I was reading and here I was wondering if the show would age well..
Not many people would believe that you can be a better parent after consuming cannabis. I'm a much better parent after consuming cannabis. I listen more, play harder and can let go of the parental thoughts that silently occupy my brain when I'm sober and playing with my kids. Cannabis really helps me let go of parental world and enter theirs for just a little while..
I agree. I felt that way when my friends started doing dabs and telling me how amazing it was. It kind of scared me to be honest. I've switched from smoking to making my own cannabis tinctures and have been using that for years. I've found that a minimal dose of cannabis in the morning really helps me dial the knob on my radio just right. They're really easy to make and so much more efficient than smoking.