I Beat Lymphoma, Then Patched a PHP Vulnerability From My Hospital Bed
A Health Update
Craig Hockenberry recounts a brutal year of lymphoma treatment — lumbar punctures, spinal headaches, Bendamustine and Rituximab infusions, a 50-pound weight loss, pneumonia, and atrial fibrillation — and the slow recovery that followed. Mid-chemo, he noticed a newly announced PHP vulnerability on Tapestry and spent the night locking down his servers over hospital WiFi. He's now finishing treatment and looking forward to swimming in the Pacific again.
If you noticed that the Iconfactory sites were kinda broken last week, now you know why. It's because I was kinda broken last week.
- incanus77
Best of luck to Craig. If you don't know who he is, he's the reason we call(ed) Twitter posts 'tweets' [1] and also wrote perhaps the first pre-SDK iPhone app from the outside [2].
- jongjong
When my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer earlier this year, she was essentially prepared to die. She didn't even cry once. Her father had died from the same cancer at around the same age as her (early 40s), in the most horrific way imaginable. Her father used to work for the Soviet military in charge of a team of people who worked on propaganda so he was a strong believer in communism and he was devastated by the collapse of the USSR; his entire world had fallen apart. But then bowel cancer finished him off. My wife was in her teens at the time and she said he was extremely angry and not himself for years until he died. The chemo made him extremely sick, destroyed his body, and he had to have a colostomy bag. Years later, after my wife met me, we experienced a lot of hardship together; just one episode of bad luck after another... Like, almost every aspect of our lives which we didn't control. So by the time she got her cancer diagnosis, it's as though she was expecting it.
It turns out that she has a relatively rare genetic condition which increases the probability of bowel cancer by about 10x... These cancers are known to respond very poorly to standard chemo (and likely explains her father's horrible death decades earlier). This is where our luck finally turned though. We got lucky, possibly for the first time since we've been together. Her cancer turned out to be a kind which is highly responsive to immunotherapy. The most recent trial for the relevant class o […]
- WalterBright
> Anyone who exercises regularly knows that there are always plenty of reasons to avoid it: you didn’t sleep well, you have an important project to finish, or you’re sore from a previous workout.
Ahnold Schwarzenegger remarked that the improvements come when your really don't want to exercise, but do it anyway.