Christopher Rubio Márquez NekoTashi

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.

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

Docker Cli Tips and Tricks

My favorite command line options and best practices

Bash/zsh completion
use Tab to populate command line, narrows down options as you go, fills in container names, ID's, images, volumes. Huge time saver.

	\n
	============= HOST: ==========\n
	\n
	local_ip: %{local_ip}\n
	local_port: %{local_port}\n
	remote_ip: %{remote_ip}\n
	remote_port: %{remote_port}\n
	\n
	======= CONNECTION: ==========\n
	\n

	/**
	* ================== angular-ios9-uiwebview.patch.js v1.1.1 ==================
	*
	* This patch works around iOS9 UIWebView regression that causes infinite digest
	* errors in Angular.
	*
	* The patch can be applied to Angular 1.2.0 – 1.4.5. Newer versions of Angular
	* have the workaround baked in.
	*
	* To apply this patch load/bundle this file with your application and add a

	1. Dump the data only sql to file
	$ pg_dump --data-only --inserts YOUR_DB_NAME > dump.sql
	2. scp to local

	3. Remove the SET statements at the top
	such as:
	SET statement_timeout = 0;
	SET client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';

	4. Remove the setval sequence queries

	from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject
	from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser

	from rest_framework.request import Request
	from rest_framework_jwt.authentication import JSONWebTokenAuthentication


	def get_user_jwt(request):
	"""
	Replacement for django session auth get_user & auth.get_user for

	class SampleFilter(filters.FilterSet):
	start_date = django_filters.DateFilter(name="date", lookup_type='gte')
	end_date = django_filters.DateFilter(name="date", lookup_type='lte')
	# How to filter by a foreign key that uses slug as a lookup
	foo = django_filters.ModelMultipleChoiceFilter(
	queryset=MyModel.objects.all(),
	to_field_name='slug',
	conjoined=True,
	)
	class Meta:

	---

	hosts: all
	tasks:
	- name: add github ssh key
	copy: >
	src=files/id_rsa.github
	dest=/root/.ssh/id_rsa.github
	owner=root
	group=root

	{
	"version": "0.2.0",
	"configurations": [
	{
	"name": "Django",
	"type": "python",
	"request": "launch",
	"stopOnEntry": false,
	"pythonPath": "${workspaceRoot}/venv/bin/python3.4",
	"program": "${workspaceRoot}/manage.py",