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@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active June 3, 2025 15:43
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@petrbel
petrbel / .travis.yml
Last active October 26, 2019 10:29 — forked from iedemam/gist:9830045
Travis-CI submodules
# Use https (public access) instead of git for git-submodules. This modifies only Travis-CI behavior!
# disable the default submodule logic
git:
submodules: false
# use sed to replace the SSH URL with the public URL, then init and update submodules
before_install:
- sed -i 's/[email protected]:/https:\/\/github.com\//' .gitmodules
- git submodule update --init --recursive
@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active June 8, 2025 06:19
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

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

Basic Steps

  1. 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?
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <errno.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/types.h>