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justintv / .bashrc
Created August 17, 2009 00:53
Display git branch in bash prompt
# If you work with git, you've probably had that nagging sensation of not knowing what branch you are on. Worry no longer!
export PS1="\\w:\$(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep '^*' | colrm 1 2)\$ "
# This will change your prompt to display not only your working directory but also your current git branch, if you have one. Pretty nifty!
# ~/code/web:beta_directory$ git checkout master
# Switched to branch "master"
# ~/code/web:master$ git checkout beta_directory
# Switched to branch "beta_directory"
@bitoiu
bitoiu / self-signed-wildcard-cert-for-ghes.md
Last active July 19, 2024 13:45
Self-Signed Wildcard certificate with SAN using openssl / SSL

Copy the default template of openssl.cnf to a writable location.

cp /System/Library/OpenSSL/openssl.cnf src

Uncomment the req_extensions = v3_req

req_extensions = v3_req # The extensions to add to a certificate request

Add subjectAltName to v3_req section

@steinwaywhw
steinwaywhw / One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo.md
Last active July 26, 2024 14:30
One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo
  • Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
  • Use grep to find the line containing file URL
  • Use cut and tr to extract the URL
  • Use wget to download it
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
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ob1-sc / lastpass-cli-how-to.md
Last active April 14, 2022 15:33
How to setup and use LastPass cli to retrieve secrets when scripting

Prerequisties

  1. An active LastPass account
  2. LastPass cli installed, see here

Create a password entry in LastPass with the following details:

  • name: my-super-secret
  • username: my-super-secret-username
  • password: my-super-secret-password
@kislayverma
kislayverma / steve-yegge-google-platform-rant.md
Created December 26, 2019 07:11
A copy (for posterity) of Steve Yegge's internal memo in Google about what platforms are and how Amazon learnt to build them

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything,

@ob1-sc
ob1-sc / git-crypt.md
Last active June 3, 2022 15:38
Setup git-crypt

install

sudo apt install git-crypt

init your git repo

cd <root of git repo>
git-crypt init
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vinhjaxt / Windows server officials ISO file.md
Created May 14, 2022 19:15
Windows server officials ISO file