marcan

#!/boot/bzImage

# Linux kernel userspace initialization code, translated to bash
# (Minus floppy disk handling, because seriously, it's 2017.)
# Not 100% accurate, but gives you a good idea of how kernel init works
# GPLv2, Copyright 2017 Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
# Based on Linux 4.10-rc2.

# Note: pretend chroot is a builtin and affects the current process
# Note: kernel actually uses major/minor device numbers instead of device name

mdo

Ikea Bekant standing desk with Gerton table top

shiroyasha

class Dog 
  attr_writer :name

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end 

  def bark
    puts "patrick"
  end

gmasse

This Gist is now part of https://github.com/gmasse/ovh-ipxe-customer-script

nfarrar

ESXi (Free) Management

Exploring management options for an ESXi server in a home/lab environment.

• It's so fucking rad that ESXi free doesn't provide a web interface. /sarcasm
• Having a dedicated Windows VM for ESXi management is suck.
• Running vSphere Client in Wine/Crossover requires hacks to install and doesn't work correctly.
• How much does it cost to get a license for a lab environment?
• Can we use the DCUI (Direct Console User Interface) without a license? (Answer: YES, via a directly console, over SSH, but we can only do very basic things)
• Can we use the CLI/SDK/API tools? (Answer: PARTIALLY, Without a license it's locked down to read-only)
• Can we SSH to the bare-metal host and use command line tools for manaagement? (Answer: YES, but we have to enable SSH)

P7h

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### Shell script to download Oracle JDK / JRE / Java binaries from Oracle website using terminal / command / shell prompt using wget.
### You can download all the binaries one-shot by just giving the BASE_URL.
### Script might be useful if you need Oracle JDK on Amazon EC2 env.
### Script is updated for every JDK release.

### Features:-
# 1. Resumes a broken / interrupted [previous] download, if any.
# 2. Renames the file to a proper name with including platform info.

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.

jed

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

tansengming

# How Clearance / Hoptoad does it
module Clearance
  class << self
    attr_accessor :configuration
  end

  def self.configure
    self.configuration ||= Configuration.new
    yield(configuration)
  end

bhenerey

In a perfect world, where things are done well, not just quickly, I would expect to find the following when joining the company:

Documentation

• Accurate / up-to-date systems architecture diagram

• Accurate / up-to-date network diagram

• Out-of-hours support plan

• Incident management plan