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@tdd
tdd / gitconfig.ini
Last active March 14, 2026 19:01
Nice, useful global Git configuration
# Put this in your ~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git/config
# Windows users: "~" is your profile's home directory, e.g. C:\Users\<YourName>
[user]
name = Your Full Name
email = your@email.tld
[color]
# Enable colors in color-supporting terminals
ui = auto
[alias]
# List available aliases
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active March 10, 2026 03:48
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active March 5, 2026 10:16
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.
@jed
jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 24, 2026 02:07
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

@niksmac
niksmac / zmv-examples.md
Created March 7, 2017 05:58
ZMV-Examples (require autoload zmv)

rename a section of a filename, i. e. example.1.{txt,conf,db} or 12345.1.{wav,ogg,mp3} and

change the 1 to a 2 in the filename while preserving the rest of it.

$ zmv -n '(.)(<->)(.[^.]#)' '$1$(($2+1))$3' # would rename x.0001.y to x.2.y. $ zmv -n '(.0#)(<->)(.[^.]#)' '$1$(($2+1))$3'

Rename files to lower case

$ zmv '*' '${(L)f}'

serially all files (foo.foo > 1.foo, fnord.foo > 2.foo, ..)

$ autoload zmv

@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active February 7, 2026 19:32 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@branneman
branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active February 3, 2026 09:31
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

@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')
@telent
telent / gist:9742059
Last active January 9, 2026 12:09
12 factor app configuration vs leaking environment variables
App configuration in environment variables: for and against
For (some of these as per the 12 factor principles)
1) they are are easy to change between deploys without changing any code
2) unlike config files, there is little chance of them being checked
into the code repo accidentally
3) unlike custom config files, or other config mechanisms such as Java
@jessedearing
jessedearing / gist:2351836
Created April 10, 2012 14:44 — forked from twoism-dev/gist:1183437
Create self-signed SSL certificate for Nginx
#!/bin/bash
echo "Generating an SSL private key to sign your certificate..."
openssl genrsa -des3 -out myssl.key 1024
echo "Generating a Certificate Signing Request..."
openssl req -new -key myssl.key -out myssl.csr
echo "Removing passphrase from key (for nginx)..."
cp myssl.key myssl.key.org
openssl rsa -in myssl.key.org -out myssl.key