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@cyberdelia
cyberdelia / fabfile.py
Created April 3, 2010 14:05
Fabric deploy script with : south migrations, rollback and maintenance page.
from fabric.api import env, run, sudo, local, put
def production():
"""Defines production environment"""
env.user = "deploy"
env.hosts = ['example.com',]
env.base_dir = "/var/www"
env.app_name = "app"
env.domain_name = "app.example.com"
env.domain_path = "%(base_dir)s/%(domain_name)s" % { 'base_dir':env.base_dir, 'domain_name':env.domain_name }
@fcalderan
fcalderan / inception-javascript.js
Created November 2, 2010 09:42
inception explained as a 4 nested javascript closures
/*
* Fabrizio Calderan, twitter @fcalderan, 2010.11.02
* I had an idea: could Inception movie be explained by a few javascript closures
* and variable resolution scope (just for fun)?
*
* Activate javascript console =)
*/
<script>
console.group("inception movie");
@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@paulmillr
paulmillr / active.md
Last active January 10, 2025 16:52
Most active GitHub users (by contributions). https://paulmillr.com

Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)

The list would not be updated for now. Don't write comments.

The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Wed, 21 Sep 2022 till Thu, 21 Sep 2023.

Because of GitHub search limitations, only 1000 first users according to amount of followers are included. If you are not in the list you don't have enough followers. See raw data and source code. Algorithm in pseudocode:

githubUsers
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active January 14, 2025 10:51
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@hellerbarde
hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

@andreyvit
andreyvit / tmux.md
Created June 13, 2012 03:41
tmux cheatsheet

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active January 15, 2025 06:55
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@bnoordhuis
bnoordhuis / http-and-https-proxy.js
Created February 8, 2013 16:31
A node.js proxy that accepts HTTP and HTTPS traffic on the same port.
var fs = require('fs');
var net = require('net');
var http = require('http');
var https = require('https');
var httpAddress = '/path/to/http.sock';
var httpsAddress = '/path/to/https.sock';
fs.unlinkSync(httpAddress);
fs.unlinkSync(httpsAddress);
@branneman
branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active October 18, 2024 20:29
Better local require() paths for Node.js

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions