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@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active May 28, 2026 05:18
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048
@ziadoz
ziadoz / install.sh
Last active May 18, 2026 22:13
Install Chrome, ChromeDriver and Selenium on Ubuntu 16.04
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# https://developers.supportbee.com/blog/setting-up-cucumber-to-run-with-Chrome-on-Linux/
# https://gist.github.com/curtismcmullan/7be1a8c1c841a9d8db2c
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10792403/how-do-i-get-chrome-working-with-selenium-using-php-webdriver
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26133486/how-to-specify-binary-path-for-remote-chromedriver-in-codeception
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40262682/how-to-run-selenium-3-x-with-chrome-driver-through-terminal
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/760085/how-do-you-install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-16-04
# Versions
CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION=`curl -sS https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE`
@basham
basham / css-units-best-practices.md
Last active May 18, 2026 16:33
CSS Units Best Practices

CSS units

Recommendations of unit types per media type:

Media Recommended Occasional use Infrequent use Not recommended
Screen em, rem, % px ch, ex, vw, vh, vmin, vmax cm, mm, in, pt, pc
Print em, rem, % cm, mm, in, pt, pc ch, ex px, vw, vh, vmin, vmax

Relative units

Relative units

@joyrexus
joyrexus / README.md
Last active May 2, 2026 22:40 — forked from liamcurry/gist:2597326
Vanilla JS equivalents of jQuery methods

Sans jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})
@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')
@ericelliott
ericelliott / essential-javascript-links.md
Last active April 30, 2026 08:09
Essential JavaScript Links
@alekseykulikov
alekseykulikov / index.md
Last active March 23, 2026 03:33
Principles we use to write CSS for modern browsers

Recently CSS has got a lot of negativity. But I would like to defend it and show, that with good naming convention CSS works pretty well.

My 3 developers team has just developed React.js application with 7668 lines of CSS (and just 2 !important). During one year of development we had 0 issues with CSS. No refactoring typos, no style leaks, no performance problems, possibly, it is the most stable part of our application.

Here are main principles we use to write CSS for modern (IE11+) browsers:

@kangax's ES6 quiz, explained

@kangax created a new interesting quiz, this time devoted to ES6 (aka ES2015). I found this quiz very interesting and quite hard (made myself 3 mistakes on first pass).

Here we go with the explanations:

Question 1:
(function(x, f = () => x) {
@koelling
koelling / gist:ef9b2b9d0be6d6dbab63
Last active September 30, 2025 20:06
CVE-2015-0235 (GHOST) test code
#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#define CANARY "in_the_coal_mine"
struct {
char buffer[1024];
@djonsson
djonsson / install_elasticsearch_osx.md
Last active June 12, 2025 07:13
OS X installation instructions for Elasticsearch + Kibana + Marvel

What is this?

Following this guide will set up a local Elasticsearch with Kibana and Marvel using Homebrew and Homebrew Cask

Prerequisites

If you already have Java installed on your system, skip steps Install Cask and Install Java

If you already have Java and Homebrew installed on your system, skip steps Prerequisites, start at Install Elasticsearch and Kibana after running $ brew update

Install Homebrew

  • $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"