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Basic Security Setup for a Brand New Linode

Why

When you start a clean Linode, it isn't secured in the following aspects:

• Allows root SSH login
• Uses password authentication on SSH
• Doesn't have a firewall

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Cheatsheet: pyenv, virtualenvwrapper, and pip

Installation (for Mac OS)

Install pyenv with brew

brew update
brew install pyenv

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const assert = require('assert');

const _ = require('lodash');

const ensureJSONEncodable = (obj, path = null, visited = null) => {
  if (obj === null || _.isBoolean(obj) || _.isNumber(obj) || _.isString(obj)) {
    return;
  }

  path = path || [];

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import os
from io import BytesIO

import boto3

BUCKET = 'bucket-name'


def gen_int():
    a = 0

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Secure Django Admin with SSL Client Certificate in Nginx

If you need a good way to secure your Django admin site (e.g., http://example.com/admin/), this is it.

Reference: https://gist.github.com/mtigas/952344

1. Creating self-signed certificates

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How I Created HTTP Prompt and Got 5000+ Stars on GitHub

Two months ago, I published an open source project, which went viral by gaining 1200+ stars in the first 24 hours. As of this writing, it has attracted 5000+ stars. The project is called HTTP Prompt:

https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt

Here I want to share its development story.

It all began with Vertica. Not long ago, I used Vertica every day for my work. Vertica is a powerful database, but the official client (vsql) is not powerful at all. The GUI alternative, DbVisualizer, is bad as well.

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"""
A minimal web server that runs shell commands, powered by Tornado and its
Subprocess module. It does non-blocking IO and streams the response.

To start the server:

    $ python tornado_subprocess.py

To send a shell command using httpie:

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httplogger() {
    while true; do
        echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\nok" | nc -vl 8989
        test $? -gt 128 && break
        echo
        echo '----------------------------------------'
    done
    echo
}

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sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
# sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3
# sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-9.3

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#!/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/.pyenv/versions/3.6.2/envs/alfred/bin/python

import functools
import json
import os
from datetime import datetime
from threading import Thread


import requests