chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

soarez

How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

denji

Moved to git repository: https://github.com/denji/golang-tls

Generate private key (.key)

# Key considerations for algorithm "RSA" ≥ 2048-bit
openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048

# Key considerations for algorithm "ECDSA" ≥ secp384r1
# List ECDSA the supported curves (openssl ecparam -list_curves)

jmatsushita

###
### [2023-06-19] UPDATE: Just tried to use my instructions again on a fresh install and it failed in a number of places. 
###.   Not sure if I'll update this gist (though I realise it seems to still have some traffic), but here's a list of 
###.   things to watch out for:
###      - Check out the `nix-darwin` instructions, as they have changed.
###      - There's a home manager gotcha https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/4026
###

# I found some good resources but they seem to do a bit too much (maybe from a time when there were more bugs).
# So here's a minimal Gist which worked for me as an install on a new M1 Pro.

chrisgillis

package main

import (
    "fmt"
	  "log"
    "net"
    "net/mail"
	  "net/smtp"
    "crypto/tls"
)

stonith

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="generalize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <PersistAllDeviceInstalls>false</PersistAllDeviceInstalls>
            <DoNotCleanUpNonPresentDevices>false</DoNotCleanUpNonPresentDevices>
        </component>

nateware

#
# This config file is a combination of ideas from:
#   http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1073-nuts-bolts-haproxy
#   http://www.igvita.com/2008/05/13/load-balancing-qos-with-haproxy/
#   http://wiki.railsmachine.com/HAProxy
#   http://elwoodicious.com/2008/07/15/nginx-haproxy-thin-fastcgi-php5-load-balanced-rails-with-php-support/
#   http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/01/09/using-haproxy-with-multiple-backends-aka-content-switching/
#   http://wiki.railsmachine.com/HAProxy
#   http://gist.github.com/raw/25482/d39fb332edf977602c183194a1cf5e9a0b5264f9
#

jessejanderson

Blogs

• Understanding Elixir Macros, Part 1 by Saša Jurić (more: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6)

Books

• Metaprogramming Elixir by Chris McCord

Official Documentation

andrewlkho

GPG subkeys marked with the "authenticate" capability can be used for public key authentication with SSH. This is done using gpg-agent which, using the --enable-ssh-support option, can implement the agent protocol used by SSH.

Requirements

A working gpg2 setup is required. It may be possible to use gpg 1.4 but with gpg-agent compiled from gpg2. If you are using OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) then you may find the instructions [here][1] useful.