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ityonemo / test.md
Last active May 1, 2024 15:37
Zig in 30 minutes

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

@jbenet
jbenet / simple-git-branching-model.md
Last active April 9, 2024 03:31
a simple git branching model

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.

@tristanfisher
tristanfisher / Ansible-Vault how-to.md
Last active April 3, 2024 13:55
A short tutorial on how to use Vault in your Ansible workflow. Ansible-vault allows you to more safely store sensitive information in a source code repository or on disk.

Working with ansible-vault


I've been using a lot of Ansible lately and while almost everything has been great, finding a clean way to implement ansible-vault wasn't immediately apparent.

What I decided on was the following: put your secret information into a vars file, reference that vars file from your task, and encrypt the whole vars file using ansible-vault encrypt.

Let's use an example: You're writing an Ansible role and want to encrypt the spoiler for the movie Aliens.

@fnichol
fnichol / README.md
Created March 12, 2011 20:52
Download a cacert.pem for RailsInstaller

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

Installation

The Ruby Way! (Fun)

@pcreux
pcreux / Gemfile
Last active December 11, 2023 20:24
Fast Rails + Heroku Configuration
group :production do
gem 'unicorn'
# Enable gzip compression on heroku, but don't compress images.
gem 'heroku-deflater'
# Heroku injects it if it's not in there already
gem 'rails_12factor'
end
@ryenus
ryenus / ab_portrange_on_mac.md
Created July 14, 2019 17:45
Increase ephemeral port range on macOS

The default ephemeral port range on macOS/OSX is 49152-65535, which is only 16,383 ports:

$ sysctl -a | grep portrange
net.inet.ip.portrange.lowfirst: 1023
net.inet.ip.portrange.lowlast: 600
net.inet.ip.portrange.first: 49152
net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 65535
net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst: 49152
net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast: 65535
@typokign
typokign / zoomsucks.md
Last active September 8, 2023 05:06
Zoom Sucks

Zoom Sucks

  • Zoom abuses the installer flow on MacOS to bypass permissions dialogs (source)
  • Zoom sends identifying device info to Facebook, even when users don't have a Facebook account (source) (fixed)
  • A bug in Zoom sent identifying information (including email addresses and profile pictures) of thousands of users to strangers (source)
  • Zoom claims that meetings are end-to-end encrypted in their white paper and marketing materials, but meetings are only encrypted in transit, and are available in plaintext to Zoom servers and employees. (source)
  • zoomAutenticationTool can be used to escalat

Just some notes and references for myself.

  • In bash, you can access your C:\ drive via /mnt/c/
  • ~ = C:\Users\MLM\AppData\Local\lxss\home\mlm and is different from your Windows user directory C:\Users\MLM

How to google things

@nateberkopec
nateberkopec / gist:11dbcf0ee7f2c08450ea
Last active March 24, 2023 21:59
RubySpec is dead, long live RubySpec!

Last night, Brian Shirai unilaterally "ended" the RubySpec project, a sub-project of Rubinius (the alternative Ruby implementation which Brian was paid to work on full-time from 2007 to 2013). The blog post describing his reasons for "ending" the project led to a big discussion on Hacker News.

When a single, competing Ruby implementation tells that you its test suite is the One True Way, you should be skeptical. Charles Nutter, Ruby core committer and JRuby head honcho, spent a lot of time last night on Twitter talking to people about what this decision means. He's probably too busy and certainly too nice of a guy to write about what is a political issue in the Ruby community, so I'm going to do it on behalf of all the new or intermediate Rubyists out there that are confused by Brian's decision and what it me

@ordinaryzelig
ordinaryzelig / minitest_spec_expectations.md
Last active December 10, 2022 13:34
How to write MiniTest::Spec expectations

I'm a fan of MiniTest::Spec. It strikes a nice balance between the simplicity of TestUnit and the readable syntax of RSpec. When I first switched from RSpec to MiniTest::Spec, one thing I was worried I would miss was the ability to add matchers. (A note in terminology: "matchers" in MiniTest::Spec refer to something completely different than "matchers" in RSpec. I won't get into it, but from now on, let's use the proper term: "expectations").

Understanding MiniTest::Expectations

Let's take a look in the code (I'm specifically referring to the gem, not the standard library that's built into Ruby 1.9):

# minitest/spec.rb

module MiniTest::Expectations