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dhh / Gemfile
Created June 24, 2020 22:23
HEY's Gemfile
ruby '2.7.1'
gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'tzinfo-data', '>= 1.2016.7' # Don't rely on OSX/Linux timezone data
# Action Text
gem 'actiontext', github: 'basecamp/actiontext', ref: 'okra'
gem 'okra', github: 'basecamp/okra'
# Drivers
@PascalSenn
PascalSenn / auth-apollo-how-to.md
Last active May 15, 2025 11:30
Authentication Apollo Client - How To

The problem with authentication of web sockets is that you can only authenticate a http request once against a authentication scheme. After that the authentication is cached and will always yield the same result.

A web socket connection starts over HTTP. A HTTP request with the Upgrade header is send to the back end. This request is then "upgraded" into a web socket that runs over the web socket pipeline. The main issue with web sockets is that you cannot set additional headers with this initial HTTP header. Therefore the authentication will fail and the request will be unauthenticated. The HTTP context of the initial request will last as long as the web socket connection is running.

The trick we do is that we add a stub authentication scheme:

@paniq
paniq / perfect_spatial_hashing.txt
Last active June 21, 2024 14:56
Perfect Spatial Hashing
# forays into
Perfect Spatial Hashing (Lefebvre & Hoppe)
http://hhoppe.com/perfecthash.pdf
how it works:
There are two parts: a slow encoding step, and a fast decoding step.
Encoding
class Node {
constructor(state, node) {
if (arguments.length === 1) {
this.state = state;
this.parent;
this.childArray = [];
} else if (arguments.length === 2) {
this.state = new State(null, node.state);
if (node.parent !== (null || undefined)) {
this.parent = node.parent;
@koop
koop / ensure-cert-macos.sh
Created November 28, 2017 20:27
Ensures a certificate is in the macOS system keychain.
#!/bin/bash
# Usage
# $ ./install-cert-macos.sh "/path/to/cert"
CERT_PATH="$1"
# First, grab the SHA-1 from the provided SSL cert.
CERT_SHA1=$(openssl x509 -in "$CERT_PATH" -sha1 -noout -fingerprint | cut -d "=" -f2 | sed "s/://g")
# Next, grab the SHA-1s of any standard.dev certs in the keychain.
# Don't return an error code if nothing is found.
@mikelehen
mikelehen / generate-pushid.js
Created February 11, 2015 17:34
JavaScript code for generating Firebase Push IDs
/**
* Fancy ID generator that creates 20-character string identifiers with the following properties:
*
* 1. They're based on timestamp so that they sort *after* any existing ids.
* 2. They contain 72-bits of random data after the timestamp so that IDs won't collide with other clients' IDs.
* 3. They sort *lexicographically* (so the timestamp is converted to characters that will sort properly).
* 4. They're monotonically increasing. Even if you generate more than one in the same timestamp, the
* latter ones will sort after the former ones. We do this by using the previous random bits
* but "incrementing" them by 1 (only in the case of a timestamp collision).
*/
@EdCharbeneau
EdCharbeneau / Enable-Transformations.md
Last active September 19, 2025 10:44
How to enable transformations on build with Visual Studio

#Transform web.config on build

  1. Unload the project
  2. Edit .csproj
  3. Append figure 1 to the end of the file just before </Project>; v12.0 my change depending on your version of Visual Studio
  4. Save .csproj and reload
  5. Open configuration manager
  6. Add a new Configuration Name: Base. Copy settings from: Release
  7. Copy the contents of your web.config
  8. Right click Web.Config > Add Config Transformation