What was your win this week?

It's weekly retro time!

Looking back, what was something you're proud of?

All wins count -- big or small!

Examples of 'wins' include:

• Getting to all your meetings on time
• Starting a new project
• Fixing a tricky bug
• Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄 🎉

Comments

[Jess Lee]

Congratulations!!!

[Eric Bishard]

congratulations! Please write a blog here about your journey!

[Andy Zhao (he/him)]

Congrats!

[Dave Orleans]

That is awesome !

[Jess Lee]

This week, I....managed to exercise every day! And got some awesome feedback from @peter :

You are almost always our “enough is enough, let’s just do this now” forcing function. In a great way.

[John Bull]

Awesome! Don't you love how exercise clears the mind and holistically benefits? I think I am now addicted to walks a couple times a day.

[Jesse Gabriel]

This week, I manage not to overwhelm myself and stretch myself too thin by saying 'no' at work.

[Tyler V. (he/him)]

Nice! This is one of the skills that I wish I was a bit better at.

[Jess Lee]

That is so important!

[Andy Zhao (he/him)]

This week, I thought of a fun side project! Going to try to do it this weekend... stay tuned! ;)

[Sung M. Kim]

I hope you wrote it down before you forget 😈😉

[Anna Rankin]

This week, I... learned how to set up SSL, disable TLS 1.0, and update our DNS settings without taking down production!!!

[Denis Rasulev]

Gratz!! I am browsing basically the same waters (mostly SSL now), so any resources / links could be of a great help :) Once again - sincere congratulations :)

[Anna Rankin]

I should note that I've essentially done this with training wheels since we're on Heroku 😂 Here are the resources I used to set this up:

• Setting up the SSL endpoint addon on Heroku
• DNSimple docs
• Lots of traceroute to make sure my new DNS settings were in place
• openssl for confirming that we don't support TLS 1.0 was very useful. openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 -tls1 -servername google.com in particular

General docs that have helped me as I voyage into networking:

• High Performance Browser Networking (TLS section)
• Basically anything by Julia Evans (Networking tools comics here)

[Goutham Kolluru]

Can you please run down the steps you've followed to achieve this.

[Anna Rankin]

Sure! I'm using Heroku for this though, so a lot of the "hard stuff" was abstracted away. My basic process was like so:

1. Follow instructions here to provision the endpoint: SSL Endpoint | Heroku Dev Center
2. Download the existing key and certificate files from provider
3. Add certificate to the correct application following instructions in link above
4. TEST SSL ENDPOINT!!! Make sure it's available before moving on or you might get cert errors on production 🚨
5. Once live, update CNAME record to point to the herokussl endpoint
6. Use traceroute to check that domain resolves to the new SSL endpoint
7. If all is well, remove any old/unused certificates using the heroku certs:remove command from the CLI
8. Open a support ticket to disable TLS 1.0 support for the affected application
9. Confirm that TLS 1.0 is disabled using either openssl or SSL Labs (takes much longer but is interesting)

[Ahmed Shatat]

Hi Anna
I'm struggling with the same issue,
I meant to ask, what certificate providers did you use?
and does setting ssl-endpoint means that you have to renew it manually when the certificate expires?
and does this means that if our websites forces browser to use a secure connection that would be a down time if the certificate expires

I am new to this and I've read tons of articles which made me more confused

[Rattanak Chea]

I built a snowman for the first time.

[Jess Lee]

love it!

[Gabe Ragland]

A+

[Ali Spittel]

This week, I.... made it through! Had a tough week with personal stuff on top of the stuff I normally do, and was stressed.

[Jash Gala]

This week, I wrote an entire library with best practices and CI/CD in spite of high pressure from management and with a tight approaching deadline. Feels good at the end of the day to have done the right thing...

[Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴]

Congrats!

[Hari Padmanaban]

This week, I managed to re-engineer a SQL job that was running for more than 6 hours and make it run in 10 minutes!

[kip]

We need a POST about it

[Hari Padmanaban]

Sure I would do that.

[Tyler V. (he/him)]

Nice! That's some serious time saved!! 🔥

[Jim Medlock]

This week, I replaced promise...then...catch with async/await in an app and took the time to throw relevant errors. It has made the code much easier to read. Next step is to add try/catch blocks to refine error handling.

I also ran 3 days this week (wish it would get warm! Hurry up Spring!)