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getaaron / irs-get-human.md
Created April 1, 2024 23:01
Get a person at the IRS
  • Call 1-800-829-1040
  • Press 1 for English (or other language as desired)
  • Press 2 for personal tax
  • Press 1 for form / tax history
  • Press 3 for other
  • Press 2 for other
  • Ignore 2 SSN prompts till you get secret other menu
  • Press 2 for personal tax
  • Press 3 for other
  • Wait for agent!
@samsch
samsch / stop-using-jwts.md
Last active April 23, 2024 05:47
Stop using JWTs

Stop using JWTs!

TLDR: JWTs should not be used for keeping your user logged in. They are not designed for this purpose, they are not secure, and there is a much better tool which is designed for it: regular cookie sessions.

If you've got a bit of time to watch a presentation on it, I highly recommend this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYeekwv3vC4 (Note that other topics are largely skimmed over, such as CSRF protection. You should learn about other topics from other sources. Also note that "valid" usecases for JWTs at the end of the video can also be easily handled by other, better, and more secure tools. Specifically, PASETO.)

A related topic: Don't use localStorage (or sessionStorage) for authentication credentials, including JWT tokens: https://www.rdegges.com/2018/please-stop-using-local-storage/

The reason to avoid JWTs comes down to a couple different points:

  • The JWT specification is specifically designed only for very short-live tokens (~5 minute or less). Sessions
@npearce
npearce / install-docker.md
Last active April 19, 2024 12:35
Amazon Linux 2 - install docker & docker-compose using 'sudo amazon-linux-extras' command

UPDATE (March 2020, thanks @ic): I don't know the exact AMI version but yum install docker now works on the latest Amazon Linux 2. The instructions below may still be relevant depending on the vintage AMI you are using.

Amazon changed the install in Linux 2. One no-longer using 'yum' See: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/release-notes/

Docker CE Install

sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker
sudo service docker start
@maxivak
maxivak / readme.md
Last active April 11, 2023 15:08
Restore repo from Gitlab bundle file

Gitlab exports repositories to tar archive which contains .bundle files.

We have repo.bundle file and we want to restore files from it.

  • create bare repo from bundle file
git clone --mirror myrepo.bundle my.git
@zcaceres
zcaceres / Nested-Routers-Express.md
Last active April 4, 2024 09:44
Child Routers in Express

Nested Routers in Express.js

Express makes it easy to nest routes in your routers. But I always had trouble accessing the request object's .params when you had a long URI with multiple parameters and nested routes.

Let's say you're building routes for a website www.music.com. Music is organized into albums with multiple tracks. Users can click to see a track list. Then they can select a single track and see a sub-page about that specific track.

At our application level, we could first have a Router to handle any requests to our albums.

const express = require('express');
@raydog
raydog / bullshit.js
Last active October 19, 2023 22:27
Bullshit as a Service
var E_PREFIX_RATE = 0.25;
// All of our word lists:
var _word_lists = {
verb : [
"implement", "utilize", "integrate", "streamline", "optimize", "evolve", "transform", "embrace",
"enable", "orchestrate", "leverage", "reinvent", "aggregate", "architect", "enhance", "incentivize",
"morph", "empower", "envisioneer", "monetize", "harness", "facilitate", "seize", "disintermediate",
@tieleman
tieleman / blur_worker.js
Last active January 11, 2017 23:10
A web worker to blur image data from a canvas. Pass it a message with a data object supplying ImageData, a radius and quality (number of passes). Returns a message with the resulting blurred ImageData.
/*
* BoxBlurFilter
* Visit http://createjs.com/ for documentation, updates and examples.
*
* Adapted by Hiro to function as a standalone web worker. Pass it a
* message with a data object supplying ImageData, a radius and quality
* (number of passes). Returns a message with the resulting
* blurred ImageData.
*
*
@tedmiston
tedmiston / nodejs-tcp-example.js
Last active February 19, 2024 21:55
Node.js TCP client and server example
/*
In the node.js intro tutorial (http://nodejs.org/), they show a basic tcp
server, but for some reason omit a client connecting to it. I added an
example at the bottom.
Save the following server in example.js:
*/
var net = require('net');