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octocat / .gitignore
Created February 27, 2014 19:38
Some common .gitignore configurations
# Compiled source #
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*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so
# Packages #

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@PurpleBooth
PurpleBooth / README-Template.md
Last active February 14, 2026 19:32
A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active February 14, 2026 17:22
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@lukas-h
lukas-h / license-badges.md
Last active February 13, 2026 20:25
Markdown License Badges for your Project

Markdown License badges

Collection of License badges for your Project's README file.
This list includes the most common open source and open data licenses.
Easily copy and paste the code under the badges into your Markdown files.

Notes

  • The badges do not fully replace the license informations for your projects, they are only emblems for the README, that the user can see the License at first glance.

Translations: (No guarantee that the translations are up-to-date)

@dupuy
dupuy / README.rst
Last active February 10, 2026 05:27
Common markup for Markdown and reStructuredText

Markdown and reStructuredText

GitHub supports several lightweight markup languages for documentation; the most popular ones (generally, not just at GitHub) are Markdown and reStructuredText. Markdown is sometimes considered easier to use, and is often preferred when the purpose is simply to generate HTML. On the other hand, reStructuredText is more extensible and powerful, with native support (not just embedded HTML) for tables, as well as things like automatic generation of tables of contents.

@oseme-techguy
oseme-techguy / Correct_GnuPG_Permission.sh
Last active February 10, 2026 00:10
This fixes the " gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/path/to/user/.gnupg' " error while using Gnupg .
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# To fix the " gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/path/to/user/.gnupg' " error
# Make sure that the .gnupg directory and its contents is accessibile by your user.
chown -R $(whoami) ~/.gnupg/
# Also correct the permissions and access rights on the directory
chmod 600 ~/.gnupg/*
chmod 700 ~/.gnupg
@gboudreau
gboudreau / AuthyToOtherAuthenticator.md
Last active February 9, 2026 22:29 — forked from Ingramz/AuthyToOtherAuthenticator.md
Export TOTP tokens from Authy

Exporting your 2FA tokens from Authy to transfer them into another 2FA application

IMPORTANT - Update regarding deprecation of Authy desktop apps

Past August 2024, Authy stopped supported the desktop version of their apps:
See Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August for details.

And indeed, after a while, Authy changed something in their backend which now prevents the old desktop app from logging in. If you are already logged in, then you are in luck, and you can follow the instructions below to export your tokens.

If you are not logged in anymore, but can find a backup of the necessary files, then restore those files, and re-install Authy 2.2.3 following the instructions below, and it should work as expected.

@CMCDragonkai
CMCDragonkai / regular_expression_engine_comparison.md
Last active February 5, 2026 05:59
Regular Expression Engine Comparison Chart

Regular Expression Engine Comparison Chart

Many different applications claim to support regular expressions. But what does that even mean?

Well there are lots of different regular expression engines, and they all have different feature sets and different time-space efficiencies.

The information here is just copied from: http://regular-expressions.mobi/refflavors.html

@Su-Shee
Su-Shee / gist:5d1a417fa9de19c15477
Last active February 2, 2026 14:13
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About "Women In Tech"

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About "Women In Tech"

  • We have absolutely no idea what we're doing in tech. Please explain the utmost basic things to us.

  • We only do web design. Our whole reason of being in tech is to make things pretty. Consider us the doilies of the industry.

  • We're not laughing about your joke, so we clearly need you explain it to us. In great detail.

  • We're only in tech to find a husband, boyfriend or generally to get laid.