Martin Jackson actionjack

GitHub User's Creed

This is my GitHub token. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My GitHub token is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

Without me, my GitHub token is useless. Without my GitHub token, I am useless. I must code my GitHub token true. I must code cleaner than my enemy who is trying to out code me. I must out code him before he out codes me. I will ...

My GitHub token and I know that what counts in war is not the commits we make, the frequency of our rebases, nor the pull requests we make. We know that it is the merges that count. We will merge ...

How to Add a Watermark to Video

FFMPEG filters provide a powerful way to programmatically enhance or alter videos, and itâ€™s fairly simple to add a watermark to a video using the overlay filter. The easiest way to install ffmpeg is to download a pre-built binary for your specific platform. Then you donâ€™t have to worry about including and installing all the right dependencies and codecs you will be using.

Once you have ffmpeg installed, adding a watermark is as easy as passing your existing source through an overlay filter like so:

ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -i watermark.png -filter_complex "overlay=10:10" test1.mp4

Basically, weâ€™re passing in the original video, and an overlay image as inputs, then passing it through the filter, and saving the output as test1.mp4.

As outlined here, there are a couple of situations where you need to authenticate with GitHub by using an Acces Token:-

If you have Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) enabled.
You are accessing an organisations protected content using SAML Single-Sign On (SSO).

Create an Access Token

In your GitHub account, go to Settings / Developer settings / Personal access tokens and select Generate New Token. Make a note of the token somewhere safe since this is the only chance you get to see it.

Add the token to your local OSX Key Chain

Better SSH Authorized Keys Management

A seemingly common problem that people encounter is how to handle all of your users authorized_keys file.

People struggle over management, ensuring that users only have specific keys in the authorized_keys file or even a method for expiring keys. A centralized key management system could help provide all of this functionality with a little scripting.

One piece of functionality overlooked in OpenSSH is the AuthorizedKeysCommand configuration keyword. This configuration allows you to specify a command that will run during login to retrieve a users public key file from a remote source and perform validation just as if the authorized_keys file was local.

Here is an example directory structure for a set of users with SSH public keys that can be shared out via a web server:

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

Includes HTTP-Header information in the output

	#!/bin/bash

	module=$1

	for resource in `terraform show -module-depth=1 \| grep module.${module} \| tr -d ':' \| sed -e 's/module.${module}.//'`; do
	terraform taint -module ${module} ${resource}
	done


	get_latest_release() {
	curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/$1/releases/latest" \| # Get latest release from GitHub api
	grep '"tag_name":' \| # Get tag line
	sed -E 's/."([^"]+)"./\1/' # Pluck JSON value
	}

	# Usage
	# $ get_latest_release "creationix/nvm"
	# v0.31.4

	http {
	log_format filt '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$_request" '
	'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
	'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

	server {

	location /login {
	# `set` is provided by the Rewrite module
	set $filter "password\|secret";

	#!/bin/sh

	# Generate self signed root CA cert
	openssl req -nodes -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout ca.key -out ca.crt -subj "/C=AU/ST=NSW/L=Sydney/O=MongoDB/OU=root/CN=`hostname -f`/emailAddress=kevinadi@mongodb.com"


	# Generate server cert to be signed
	openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout server.key -out server.csr -subj "/C=AU/ST=NSW/L=Sydney/O=MongoDB/OU=server/CN=`hostname -f`/emailAddress=kevinadi@mongodb.com"

	# Sign the server cert