* Pod Save America - "Four former aides to President Obama — Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor — are joined by journalists, politicians, comedians, and activists for a freewheeling conversation about politics, the press and the challenges posed by the Trump presidency."
* 99% Invisible - "Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture." - Roman Mars' voice and production is amazing, and I find the subject matter fascinating.
* Planet Money - "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, "Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy." Now imagine that's actually a fun evening." - Often interesting looks at economic aspects of society.
* The Adventure Zone - "Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me have recruited their dad Clint for a campaign of high adventure." - They're playing D&D with their dad. It hooked me.
The Maker Channel Action doesn't support authenticated requests, at least anything beyond something you could send in the URL or body of the message. We do this to prevent people from using it to spoof requests to public authenticated services that might view such behavior as slightly "shady". The Maker Channel is really meant for prototyping and experimenting and so we've limited the capabilities to keep the uses in that realm. Hope that helps!
That's somewhat of a bummer, as it also forces all legitimate users to leave their endpoints acessible for everyone who knows the URL.
Have you thought about at least adding support for authentication where the credentials are generated by IFTTT? (Similar to the "secret" that you use for the trigger) This would allow makers to protect their endpoints while still disallowing spoofed requests.
Since Crocodoc (YC W10) joined Box last year, we’ve been expanding our efforts to make documents a seamless part of the web. Our service has converted hundreds of millions of PDFs, PowerPoints, and other documents into beautiful HTML5, and powers core document viewing and annotation functionality for companies like LinkedIn, Zendesk, and UberConference. Composed of Crocodoc and Box engineers, the Box View team is run with the energy and drive of a close-knit start-up, however we have the support and infrastructure of a larger organization. Our stack is built in Python, Django, Celery, Javascript, Jquery and Node, and we support the open source community and contribute back to it. We're nimble and push code almost every day, but because our product reaches tens of millions of users, everything must be bulletproof.
In our free time, the team enjoys playing board games, bughouse chess, and Don't Starve. We brew beer, hike Yosemite, and ski Tahoe.
Job Description:
Since you'll be joining a small technical team, you'll take the lead on core projects from the get-go and often work independently. We can use extra hands in the entire stack, so we'd rather find the right fit for the team than pigeonhole candidates into specific roles. We expect our team members to be driven, self-starting, and effective.
Skills and Qualifications:
We don't like traditional job posting requisitions, so our requirements are short.
1. Know what you know
2. Know what you don't know
3. Ask questions and be willing to learn #2
