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slimsag / ramblings.md
Last active December 13, 2023 08:02
Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

@butuzov
butuzov / mp3 to m4b.md
Created August 10, 2018 06:07
Convert mp3's to m4b using `ffmpeg`

Let's imagine we have a lot of mp3 files ( forexample one of the pluralsite courses converted to mp3 ).

URL=https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/run-effective-meetings
PASS=pass
USER=user
OUTPUT="%(playlist_index)s. %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
youtube-dl --username $USER --password $PASS -o $OUTPUT --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 $URL
@terabyte
terabyte / amazon.md
Created December 6, 2017 02:27
Amazon's Build System

Prologue

I wrote this answer on stackexchange, here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/12597919/

It was wrongly deleted for containing "proprietary information" years later. I think that's bullshit so I am posting it here. Come at me.

The Question

Amazon is a SOA system with 100s of services (or so says Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels). How do they handle build and release?

@tydavis
tydavis / getGoTools.sh
Last active July 24, 2018 17:27
Setup Go tools
#!/bin/sh
go get -u github.com/dougm/goflymake
go get -u github.com/acroca/go-symbols
go get -u github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter
go get -u github.com/cweill/gotests/...
go get -u github.com/davidrjenni/reftools/cmd/fillstruct
go get -u github.com/derekparker/delve/cmd/dlv
go get -u github.com/dominikh/go-tools/cmd/keyify
go get -u github.com/fatih/gomodifytags
@shareefhiasat
shareefhiasat / import-rds-certs.sh
Last active March 6, 2023 19:21 — forked from steini/import-rds-certs.sh
import RDS certificates to java keystore on alpine / osx
#!/usr/bin/env sh
#i tried it and working like charm just have to note make the file .sh chmod +x and you may need sudo to run with permission but be carefull with sudo
#be sure the $JAVA_HOME is configure correctly or make it static as commentedline 7 below
OLDDIR="$PWD"
if [ -z "$CACERTS_FILE" ]; then
# you should have java home configure to point for example /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/jre/lib/security/cacerts
CACERTS_FILE=$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts
fi
@hughbiquitous
hughbiquitous / .gitignore
Created October 24, 2016 17:20
.gitignore for Java/IntelliJ/gradle
# From https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Gradle.gitignore
.gradle
/build/
# Ignore Gradle GUI config
gradle-app.setting
# Avoid ignoring Gradle wrapper jar file (.jar files are usually ignored)
!gradle-wrapper.jar
@brandond
brandond / vpc-flowlog
Last active September 18, 2023 03:41
logstash-grok-pattern-vpc-flow-log
# VPC Flow Log fields
# version account-id interface-id srcaddr dstaddr srcport dstport protocol packets bytes start end action log-status
# http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/flow-logs.html#flow-log-records
VPCFLOWLOG %{NUMBER:version:int} %{NUMBER:account-id} %{NOTSPACE:interface-id} %{NOTSPACE:srcaddr} %{NOTSPACE:dstaddr} %{NOTSPACE:srcport:int} %{NOTSPACE:dstport:int} %{NOTSPACE:protocol:int} %{NOTSPACE:packets:int} %{NOTSPACE:bytes:int} %{NUMBER:start:int} %{NUMBER:end:int} %{NOTSPACE:action} %{NOTSPACE:log-status}
@jim3ma
jim3ma / starttls_smtp_example.go
Last active March 28, 2024 20:04 — forked from chrisgillis/ssl_smtp_example.go
Golang StartTLS SMTP Example
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"net"
"net/mail"
"net/smtp"
"crypto/tls"
)

Turning Off Github Issues

My friend Michael Jackson turned off github issues on one of his smaller projects. It got me thinking...

Maintainers getting burned out is a problem. Not just for the users of a project but the mental health of the maintainer. It's a big deal for both parties. Consumers want great tools, maintainers want to create them, but maintainers don't want to be L1 tech support, that's why they

@joepie91
joepie91 / vpn.md
Last active May 9, 2024 17:09
Don't use VPN services.

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.