jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

sstephenson

Simple file/stream encryption using OpenSSL

Create and store a 512-byte random encryption key named secret:

$ mkkey secret

Encrypt the contents of file with the secret key and write it to file.enc:

$ encrypt secret < file > file.enc

jm

Remove me from this list and please don't contact me again by any means. That means don't e-mail me, don't call me, don't find me at conferences, don't send carrier pigeons to my house with small notes attached to their feet, don't even wave to me in the street if you see me. I'll snub you right there in public and that will be really awkward for you. I can't be held responsible if your friends don't talk to you anymore after that. And no, I don't care how great your position supposedly is, what technology it's using, where it's at, how many celebrities are invested, how close they are to closing funding, how much equity they're offering, how many times Paul Graham has high-fived the founders, how close they are to the Mission in San Francisco, how much the position is paying, how great the company is, who claims they know me that works there, how big their signing bonus is, or who I'll supposedly be working for/with. I'm not interested.

Just once more to be totally clear: don't contact me again. At al

funkatron

On my LAN, I have:

• Machine A: An OS X machine running VirtualBox 3.2
• Machine B: An OS X machine running VirtualBox 4

Here's what I did:

1. first, create the image on machine A by running the Palm Emulator application.
2. open VirtualBox 3.2 on machine A to make sure it set up correctly. Run it and watch it boot. If it works fine, shut it down.
3. On Machine B, close all VBox VMs that are currently running, and close the VirtualBox application if it is running.

fnichol

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

Installation

The Ruby Way! (Fun)

rlivsey

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'readline'
def prompt(prompt="> ")
  input = nil
  prompt += " " unless prompt =~ /\s$/
  loop do
    input = Readline.readline(prompt)
    break if input.length > 0
  end