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Creating a redis Module in 15 lines of code!

A quick guide to write a very very simple "ECHO" style module to redis and load it. It's not really useful of course, but the idea is to illustrate how little boilerplate it takes.

Step 1: open your favorite editor and write/paste the following code in a file called module.c

#include "redismodule.h"
/* ECHO <string> - Echo back a string sent from the client */
int EchoCommand(RedisModuleCtx *ctx, RedisModuleString **argv, int argc) {

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To run this, you can try:

curl -ks https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicerobot/2697848/raw/uninstall-node.sh | bash

I haven't tested this script doing it this way but i run a lot of my Gists like this so maybe this one'll work too.

Alternatively,

curl -ksO https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicerobot/2697848/raw/uninstall-node.sh

chmod +x ./uninstall-node.sh

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/*<?php
//*/public class PhpJava { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.printf("/*%s",
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
class PhpJava {
    function main() {
        echo(//\u000A\u002A\u002F
        "Hello World!");
}}
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
PhpJava::main();

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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

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OverEncrypt

This is a guide that I wrote to improve the default security of my website https://fortran.io , which has a certificate from LetsEncrypt. I'm choosing to improve HTTPS security and transparency without consideration for legacy browser support.

WARNING: if you mess up settings, lose your certificates, or decide to no longer maintain HTTPS certs, these steps can and will make your domain inaccessible.

I would recommend these steps only if you have a specific need for information security, privacy, and trust with your users, and/or maintain a separate secure.example.com domain which won't mess up your main site. If you've been thinking about hosting a site on Tor, then this might be a good option, too.

The best resources that I've found for explaining these steps are https://https.cio.gov , https://certificate-transparency.org , and https://twitter.com/konklone

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Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

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http://sha256timestamp.ws.symantec.com/sha256/timestamp
http://timestamp.globalsign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll
https://timestamp.geotrust.com/tsa
http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll 
http://timestamp.comodoca.com/rfc3161
http://timestamp.wosign.com
http://tsa.startssl.com/rfc3161
http://time.certum.pl
http://timestamp.digicert.com
https://freetsa.org

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# Softwares that I currently use:

• Productivity Related Software (VPN, 1Password, CleanMyMac, Alfred, BetterSnapTool, DisableMonitor, Unarchiver)
• Design Related Software (Sketch, Zeplin, Skyfonts, Wacom, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator)
• Terminal Software (iTerm2, Z-Shell, Oh My ZSH, Agnoster Fcamblor Theme, Z Script - Jump Around)
• Terminal Related Tools (xcode-tools, homebrew, git, nvm, rvm, ripgrep, ngrok, curl, eslint)
• Fonts (Source Code Pro for iTerm2 and Spacemacs, Fira Code Symbol for Spacemacs)
• Video Related Software (Adobe After Effects, Premiere, ScreenFlick, QuickTime)
• Browsers Extensions (1Password, Pocket, React DevTools, Redux DevTools) 
• Communication Related Software (Zoom.us, What'sapp, Slack, Mac Mail)

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Let's Destroy C

I have a pet project I work on, every now and then. CNoEvil.

The concept is simple enough.

What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C?

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