ef4

#!/bin/bash

# Adapted from Erik Johnson's script at 
# http://terminalmage.net/2011/11/17/setting-a-usb-headset-as-the-default-pulseaudio-device/
#
# Updated by Edward Faulkner <ef@alum.mit.edu> to move existing
# streams and eliminate the extra fork script.

# You'll need to change these to point at your headset device.
OUTPUT="alsa_output.usb-Generic_FREETALK_Everyman_0000000001-00-Everyman.analog-stereo"

frsyuki

My thoughts on MessagePack

Hi. My name is Sadayuki "Sada" Furuhashi. I am the author of the MessagePack serialization format as well as its implementation in C/C++/Ruby.

Recently, MessagePack made it to the front page of Hacker News with this blog entry by Olaf, the creator of the Facebook game ZeroPilot. In the comment thread, there were several criticisms for the blog post as well as MessagePack itself, and I thought this was a good opportunity for me to address the questions and share my thoughts.

My high-level response to the comments

To the best of my understanding, roughly speaking, the criticisms fell into the following two categories.

tobert

#!/bin/bash

# snapshot the previous volume before updating
# otherwise there will be a CoW for each child, which could get slow quickly
btrfs subvolume snapshot /btrfs/base/precise-amd64-2013-04-01 /btrfs/base/precise-amd64-2013-04-31

# differential copy --inplace avoids the tempfile/mv so large files can remain shared
rsync -avx --inplace --delete server.domain.com::precise-amd64 /btrfs/base/precise-amd64-2013-04-31

# now make a snapshot for an app

Integralist

The BBC has a server-side image service which provides developers with multiple sized versions of any image they request. It works in a similar fashion to http://placehold.it/ but it also handles the image ratios returned (where as placehold.it doesn't).

The original BBC News process (and my re-working of the script) follows roughly these steps...

• Create new instance of ImageEnhancer
• Change any divs within the page (which have a class of delayed-image-load) into a transparent GIF using a Base64 encoded string.
  • We set the width & height HTML attributes of the image to the required size
  • We know what size the image needs to be because each div has custom data-attr set server-side to the size of the image
  • We then set a class of image-replace onto each newly created transparent image
• We use a 250ms setTimeout to unblock the UI thread and which calls a function resizeImages which enhances the image-replace images so their source is now set to a URL whe

hannes-brt

#! /usr/bin/env python

"""
The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Hannes Bretschneider

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

garethr

import unittest
import urllib

#URL_TO_TEST = 'https://example.com/'
URL_TO_TEST = 'https://securityheaders.com/'

class TestSecurityHeaders(unittest.TestCase):
    """
    Tests for security headers based on the recommendations
    from https://securityheaders.com/

Ea87

Gradle tab completion script for Bash

A tab completion script that works for Bash. Relies on the BSD md5 command on Mac and md5sum on Linux, so as long as you have one of those two commands, this should work.

Usage

$ gradle [TAB]

maxvt

Currently, there is an explosion of tools that aim to manage secrets for automated, cloud native infrastructure management. Daniel Somerfield did some work classifying the various approaches, but (as far as I know) no one has made a recent effort to summarize the various tools.

This is an attempt to give a quick overview of what can be found out there. The list is alphabetical. There will be tools that are missing, and some of the facts might be wrong--I welcome your corrections. For the purpose, I can be reached via @maxvt on Twitter, or just leave me a comment here.

There is a companion feature matrix of various tools. Comments are welcome in the same manner.

jessfraz

Self isolating binaries

This is a play proposal for a new wrapper around go build that would build your binary but wrap it in code that would prepare isolation around your binary on run.

A concept of this is in https://github.com/jfrazelle/binctr, in that it takes a docker image and embeds the contents into a final binary so you have a self-contained binary.

The binctr example is unnessesarily heavy for go binaries because all you need is a completely static binary.