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mogproject / PyGitHub.md
Last active May 16, 2022 18:25
Accessing Issues on GitHub Enterprise using PyGitHub

How to Access Issues on GitHub Enterprise

Setup

1. Install PyGitHub

pip install PyGitHub

You may want to use pip3 instead of pip.

@tomtastic
tomtastic / smb.conf
Last active January 27, 2025 13:27
Samba 4.13.5 config for MacOS Monterey
#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
#
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which
# are not shown in this example
#
# Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as
@cesarandreu
cesarandreu / sensible-defaults.css
Created June 2, 2018 10:04
Sensible css defaults taken from css-layout
div, span {
box-sizing: border-box;
position: relative;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: stretch;
flex-shrink: 0;
align-content: flex-start;
@rygorous
rygorous / hb_stb_truetype.c
Last active June 1, 2025 05:13
HarfBuzz->stb_truetype
// ---- loading a font
static void load_font(void)
{
hb_blob_t *blob;
hb_face_t *face;
size_t filelen = 0;
void *filedata = stb_file("c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf", &filelen);
if (filedata == 0) stbpg_fatal("Couldn't load font");
@HaleTom
HaleTom / print256colours.sh
Last active November 6, 2025 21:56
Print a 256-colour test pattern in the terminal
#!/bin/bash
# Tom Hale, 2016. MIT Licence.
# Print out 256 colours, with each number printed in its corresponding colour
# See http://askubuntu.com/questions/821157/print-a-256-color-test-pattern-in-the-terminal/821163#821163
set -eu # Fail on errors or undeclared variables
printable_colours=256
@tony-gutierrez
tony-gutierrez / AWS_Single_LetsEncrypt.yaml
Last active November 14, 2025 22:06
AWS Elastic Beanstalk .ebextensions config for single instance free SSL using letsencrypt certbot and nginx. http://bluefletch.com/blog/domain-agnostic-letsencrypt-ssl-config-for-elastic-beanstalk-single-instances/
# Dont forget to set the env variable "certdomain", and either fill in your email below or use an env variable for that too.
# Also note that this config is using the LetsEncrypt staging server, remove the flag when ready!
Resources:
sslSecurityGroupIngress:
Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress
Properties:
GroupId: {"Fn::GetAtt" : ["AWSEBSecurityGroup", "GroupId"]}
IpProtocol: tcp
ToPort: 443
@rain1024
rain1024 / tut.md
Last active December 4, 2025 00:24
Install pdflatex ubuntu

PdfLatex is a tool that converts Latex sources into PDF. This is specifically very important for researchers, as they use it to publish their findings. It could be installed very easily using Linux terminal, though this seems an annoying task on Windows. Installation commands are given below.

  • Install the TexLive base
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base
  • Also install the recommended and extra fonts to avoid running into the error [1], when trying to use pdflatex on latex files with more fonts.
@chanks
chanks / gist:7585810
Last active July 22, 2025 01:00
Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second

Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second

RDBMS-based job queues have been criticized recently for being unable to handle heavy loads. And they deserve it, to some extent, because the queries used to safely lock a job have been pretty hairy. SELECT FOR UPDATE followed by an UPDATE works fine at first, but then you add more workers, and each is trying to SELECT FOR UPDATE the same row (and maybe throwing NOWAIT in there, then catching the errors and retrying), and things slow down.

On top of that, they have to actually update the row to mark it as locked, so the rest of your workers are sitting there waiting while one of them propagates its lock to disk (and the disks of however many servers you're replicating to). QueueClassic got some mileage out of the novel idea of randomly picking a row near the front of the queue to lock, but I can't still seem to get more than an an extra few hundred jobs per second out of it under heavy load.

So, many developers have started going straight t