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spicycode / tmux.conf
Created September 20, 2011 16:43
The best and greatest tmux.conf ever
# 0 is too far from ` ;)
set -g base-index 1
# Automatically set window title
set-window-option -g automatic-rename on
set-option -g set-titles on
#set -g default-terminal screen-256color
set -g status-keys vi
set -g history-limit 10000
@wacko
wacko / gist:5577187
Last active July 13, 2024 00:48
SSH between Mac OS X host and Virtual Box guest

On Mac OS (host):

Shutdown your VM and do:

VirtualBox > Settings > Network > Add (you will get vboxnet0)

On a terminal ifconfig will show you new interface vboxnet0

VM's Settings > System > check "Enable I/O APIC." VM's Settings > Network > Adapter 2 > host-only vboxnet0

@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active November 16, 2024 14:10
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
@rjeczalik
rjeczalik / building-static-nginx.txt
Created October 19, 2013 15:37
Notes on building nginx as a static binary.
# Building static nginx for teh lulz
#
# basic dependencies
sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev
# download nginx and openssl
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.5.6.tar.gz
tar xf nginx-1.5.6.tar.gz; cd nginx-1.5.6
@chanks
chanks / gist:7585810
Last active September 17, 2024 11:55
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

@jvns
jvns / interview-questions.md
Last active November 3, 2024 03:54
A list of questions you could ask while interviewing

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

@lovasoa
lovasoa / node-walk.es6
Last active October 31, 2024 03:17
Walk through a directory recursively in node.js.
// ES6 version using asynchronous iterators, compatible with node v10.0+
const fs = require("fs");
const path = require("path");
async function* walk(dir) {
for await (const d of await fs.promises.opendir(dir)) {
const entry = path.join(dir, d.name);
if (d.isDirectory()) yield* walk(entry);
else if (d.isFile()) yield entry;
@dongyuwei
dongyuwei / cron.sh
Created January 1, 2015 13:53
cron job for nginx server
#crontab -u root -e
# m h dom mon dow command
#*/1 * * * * /bin/sh /opt/code/cron.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
count=`ps -wef|grep sbin/nginx |grep -v grep |wc -l`
if [ "$count" -eq 1 ]; then
echo "The nginx process already run";
else
echo "Start the nginx process now:"
# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.