dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

ragingwind

Backend Architectures

Twitter

ror, scala, jetty, erlang, thrift, mongrel, comet server, my-sql, memchached, varnish, kestrel(mq), starling, gizzard, cassandra, hadoop, vertica, munin, nagios, awstats

• Introduce Gizzard of Twitter - 트위터의 새로운 분산 관리 라이브러리 Gizzard를 소개합니다.
• The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds
• Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster

virtualstaticvoid

# Modify this file accordingly for your specific requirement.
# http://www.thegeekstuff.com
# 1. Delete all existing rules
iptables -F

# 2. Set default chain policies
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP

hmartiro

ZeroMQ vs Redis

This document is research for the selection of a communication platform for robot-net.

Goal

The purpose of this component is to enable rapid, reliable, and elegant communication between the various nodes of the network, including controllers, sensors, and actuators (robot drivers). It will act as the core of robot-net to create a standardized infrastructure for robot control.

Requirements:

brandonb927

#!/bin/sh

###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###

# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

maxidorius

Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org

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This version of the document is no longer canonical. You can find the canonical version hosted at Gitlab and Github.

PART 2 IS OUT, INCLUDING THE DISCLOSURE OF A GLOBAL FEDERATION DATA LEAK, AND THE ANATOMY OF A GDPR DATA REQUEST HANDLED BY MATRIX.ORG. SEE THE REPOS ABOVE.

lawlesst

def invalid_xml_remove(c):
    #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1707890/fast-way-to-filter-illegal-xml-unicode-chars-in-python
    illegal_unichrs = [ (0x00, 0x08), (0x0B, 0x1F), (0x7F, 0x84), (0x86, 0x9F),
                    (0xD800, 0xDFFF), (0xFDD0, 0xFDDF), (0xFFFE, 0xFFFF),
                    (0x1FFFE, 0x1FFFF), (0x2FFFE, 0x2FFFF), (0x3FFFE, 0x3FFFF),
                    (0x4FFFE, 0x4FFFF), (0x5FFFE, 0x5FFFF), (0x6FFFE, 0x6FFFF),
                    (0x7FFFE, 0x7FFFF), (0x8FFFE, 0x8FFFF), (0x9FFFE, 0x9FFFF),
                    (0xAFFFE, 0xAFFFF), (0xBFFFE, 0xBFFFF), (0xCFFFE, 0xCFFFF),
                    (0xDFFFE, 0xDFFFF), (0xEFFFE, 0xEFFFF), (0xFFFFE, 0xFFFFF),

mathiasbynens

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=226801
url='https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/net/+/master/http/transport_security_state_static.json?format=TEXT';
curl -#s "${url}" | \
	base64 --decode | \
	sed '/^ *\/\// d' | \
	sed '/^\s*$/d' > hsts.json;

JoshuaEstes

Moved to https://github.com/JoshuaEstes/CheatSheets