joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

malarkey

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erichurst

# MySQL.  Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended.
#
# Install the MySQL driver:
#   gem install mysql2
#
# And be sure to use new-style password hashing:
#   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
development:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8

fdmanana

1. Introduction to the replicator database

A database where you PUT/POST documents to trigger replications and you DELETE to cancel ongoing replications. These documents have exactly the same content as the JSON objects we used to POST to /_replicate/ (fields "source", "target", "create_target", "continuous", "doc_ids", "filter", "query_params".

Replication documents can have a user defined "_id". Design documents (and _local documents) added to the replicator database are ignored.

The default name of this database is _replicator. The name can be changed in the .ini configuration, section [replicator], parameter db.

2. Basics

charity

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: ./init.sh once to initialize remote storage for this environment.
# Subsequent tf actions in this environment don't require re-initialization, 
# unless you have completely cleared your .terraform cache.
#
# terraform plan  -var-file=./production.tfvars 
# terraform apply -var-file=./production.tfvars 

tf_env="production"

benfoxall

Using default OSX apache httpd to serve ~/Sites/foo at http://foo.local

By configuring dns and using virtual hosts - you can automatically serve folders in your ~/Sites directory under a local domain.

point *.local to localhost

Wildcard DNS is a better option that editing your /etc/hosts file for every site, there are a few ways to do this.

set up a local dns

http://mikeferrier.com/2011/04/04/setting-up-wildcard-dns-on-localhost-domains-on-osx/

LosEcher

[Version]
major = 1
minor = 1

[Common]
black_dir_prefix = "@tmp", "@eaDir", ".SynologyWorkingDirectory", "#recycle", "desktop.ini", ".ds_store", "Icon\r", "thumbs.db", "$Recycle.Bin", "@sharebin", "System Volume Information", "Program Files", "Program Files (x86)", "ProgramData", "#snapshot"
max_length = 0
max_path = 0

[File]

Jonty

The UK Houses of Parliament netblocks are publicly listed:

https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=194.60.0.0%20-%20194.60.63.255 https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=82.111.122.128%20-%2082.111.122.135 https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=82.111.119.192%20-%2082.111.119.199 https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=82.111.126.144%20-%2082.111.126.159 https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=RIPE&type=inetnum&key=212.161.99.0%20-%20212.161.99.7

They were unwilling to reveal the UK parliament web proxies in an FOI request, so here's the list of every IP address that has made a Wikipedia edit from the UK parliament netblocks. Guess the proxies.

booleanbetrayal

'use strict';

module.exports = function(grunt) {

    // load all grunt tasks
    require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks);


    // configurable paths
    var paths = {