emidoots

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

ruanbekker

My Elasticsearch cheatsheet with example usage via rest api (still a work-in-progress)

Shortlinks:

• Cluster Health
  • Index Level
  • Shard Level
• Nodes Overview
• Indices Overview
• Cluster Maintenance

tsrivishnu

Git: How can I ignore a file that is already committed to the repo?

You have a repo and quite some developers have cloned the repo and working on it. Now you want to add a file to gitignore which is already checked-in or tracked by Git.(The file is already commited into the repo)

Below are the steps on how to ignore this file (lets say the filename is config.py):

• Add it to .gitignore:

$ echo "config.py" >> .gitignore

PowerKiKi

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# print usage
DOMAIN=$1
if [ -z "$1" ]; then 

    echo "USAGE: $0 domain.lan"
    echo ""
    echo "This will generate a non-secure self-signed wildcard certificate for given domain."
    echo "This should only be used in a development environment."

stephen-puiszis

# Elasticsearch Cheatsheet - an overview of commonly used Elasticsearch API commands

# cat paths
/_cat/allocation
/_cat/shards
/_cat/shards/{index}
/_cat/master
/_cat/nodes
/_cat/indices
/_cat/indices/{index}

Kartones

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)

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.

stephenhardy

-- Remove the history from 
rm -rf .git

-- recreate the repos from the current content only
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"

-- push to the github remote repos ensuring you overwrite history
git remote add origin git@github.com:<YOUR ACCOUNT>/<YOUR REPOS>.git

joshhartman

<?php
// Define a 32-byte (64 character) hexadecimal encryption key
// Note: The same encryption key used to encrypt the data must be used to decrypt the data
define('ENCRYPTION_KEY', 'd0a7e7997b6d5fcd55f4b5c32611b87cd923e88837b63bf2941ef819dc8ca282');

// Encrypt Function
function mc_encrypt($encrypt, $key){
    $encrypt = serialize($encrypt);
    $iv = mcrypt_create_iv(mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC), MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM);
    $key = pack('H*', $key);

STRd6

// Created by STRd6
// MIT License
// jquery.paste_image_reader.js
(function($) {
  var defaults;
  $.event.fix = (function(originalFix) {
    return function(event) {
      event = originalFix.apply(this, arguments);
      if (event.type.indexOf('copy') === 0 || event.type.indexOf('paste') === 0) {
        event.clipboardData = event.originalEvent.clipboardData;