nickloewen

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

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Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

jdewit

sudo apt-get remove --purge vim vim-runtime vim-gnome vim-tiny vim-common vim-gui-common

sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome
 
sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-dev luajit libluajit-5.1 python-dev ruby-dev libperl-dev libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/vim

sudo rm /usr/bin/vim
 

morgant

#
# This is the simplest and cleanest way I've come up with for securely compressing (gzip, in this example) & encrypting data to disk with OpenSSL from a bash script without exposing the password to inspection of process or environment variable using `ps` and the likes. Naturally, `cat` is just used as an example so the data can come from anywhere. If the compressed data is to be sent via email instead of written to disk, don't use '-out' and use '-a' to base64 encode the compressed data.
# 
# References:
# http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#encrypt-simple
# http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29111/safe-way-to-pass-password-for-1-programs-in-bash#answer-29186
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6607675/shell-script-password-security-of-command-line-parameters/6607773#6607773
# https://gist.github.com/philfreo/2321650

cat "$file" | gzip -c | openssl enc -e -salt -aes-256-cbc -pass fd:3 -out "$file.gz.enc" 3<<<"$password"

noteed

Running Docker on two hosts, bridged with Open vSwitch

This Gist shows how to use Open vSwitch to bridge Docker containers on two hosts. It is based on this blog post http://goldmann.pl/blog/2014/01/21/connecting-docker-containers-on-multiple-hosts/.

A similar Gist using Tinc instead of Open vSwitch is available: https://gist.github.com/noteed/11031504.

Setup

hueniverse

Overview

We run multiple server processes in two data centers. Each process listens on two ports, one for HTTP and one for HTTPS. HTTPS is terminated by Apache prior to reaching node.js. HTTP goes directly from the client to node.js (through a master load balancer). We do not use clusters. We slice our physical servers into thin virtual machines running SmartOS, each with about 3GB of memory designed for a single node.js process.

Our node.js servers are hapi.js servers using the composer functionality and plugins architecture. We have three sets of plugins loaded: mobile web front end experience (single page app), legacy API reverse proxy, and monitoring.

We also serve original node.js services off another server zone which runs closed source plugins using hapi.

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OzzyCzech

#############################################################################
# current prompt
#############################################################################
# \d – Current date
# \t – Current time
# \h – Host name
# \# – Command number
# \u – User name
# \W – Current working directory (ie: Desktop/)
# \w – Current working directory, full path (ie: /Users/Admin/Desktop)

julionc

How to install PhantomJS on Ubuntu

Version: 1.9.8

Platform: x86_64

First, install or update to the latest system software.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath libssl-dev libxft-dev

zenorocha

// Future versions of Hyper may add additional config options,
// which will not automatically be merged into this file.
// See https://hyper.is#cfg for all currently supported options.

module.exports = {
  config: {
    // default font size in pixels for all tabs
    fontSize: 14,

    // font family with optional fallbacks

Daniel15

Google Drive File Picker Example

This is an example of how to use the Google Drive file picker and Google Drive API to retrieve files from Google Drive using pure JavaScript. At the time of writing (14th July 2013), Google have good examples for using these two APIs separately, but no documentation on using them together.

Note that this is just sample code, designed to be concise to demonstrate the API. In a production environment, you should include more error handling.

See a demo at http://stuff.dan.cx/js/filepicker/google/

silv3rm00n

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

	<!--
		Documented at
		http://linux.die.net/man/5/fonts-conf
			
		To check font mapping run the command at terminal
		$ fc-match 'helvetica Neue'