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@mapmeld
mapmeld / OverEncrypt.md
Last active July 25, 2023 18:55
OverEncrypt - paranoid HTTPS

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

@Jaza
Jaza / Private-pypi-howto
Last active July 2, 2023 16:24
Guide for how to create a (minimal) private PyPI repo, just using Apache with directory autoindex, and pip with an extra index URL.
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@jaywink
jaywink / firefox-developer-edition.desktop
Last active July 13, 2025 06:51
Firefox Developer Edition (or any edition), separate Unity launcher icon (Ubuntu 14.04)
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Firefox Developer Edition
Icon=/home/user/Apps/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png
Path=/home/user/Apps/firefox
Exec=/home/user/Apps/firefox/firefox --class="firefox-developer" -P dev-edition-default %u
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=firefox-developer
@kelvinn
kelvinn / cmd.sh
Created July 24, 2014 02:55
Example of using Apache Bench (ab) to POST JSON to an API
# post_loc.txt contains the json you want to post
# -p means to POST it
# -H adds an Auth header (could be Basic or Token)
# -T sets the Content-Type
# -c is concurrent clients
# -n is the number of requests to run in the test
ab -p post_loc.txt -T application/json -H 'Authorization: Token abcd1234' -c 10 -n 2000 http://example.com/api/v1/locations/
@esfand
esfand / typescript_angular.adoc
Last active September 30, 2022 12:37
AngularJS with TypeScript
{
"directory": "components"
}
@nolim1t
nolim1t / socket.c
Created June 10, 2009 03:14
HTTP Request in C using low level write to socket functionality
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>