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Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

TL;DR

You can take the same source code package that Ubuntu uses to build jq, compile it again, and realize 90% better performance.

Setting

I use jq for processing GeoJSON files and other open data offered in JSON format. Today I am working with a 500MB GeoJSON file that contains the Alameda County Assessor's parcel map. I want to run a query that prints the city for every parcel worth more than a threshold amount. The program is

I get asked pretty regularly what my opinion is on merge commits vs rebasing vs squashing. I've typed up this response so many times that I've decided to just put it in a gist so I can reference it whenever it comes up again.

I use merge, squash, rebase all situationally. I believe they all have their merits but their usage depends on the context. I think anyone who says any particular strategy is the right answer 100% of the time is wrong, but I think there is considerable acceptable leeway in when you use each. What follows is my personal and professional opinion:

OWASP to Trivy Checks Mapping

OWASP#1 Insecure Workload Configurations
- Trivy checks - KSV001, KSV014, KSV017
OWASP#2 Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
- Manual - Image Integrity
- Manual - SBOM
- Manual - Image Signing
Manual - Image Composition

Simple collection of Groovy scripts to help me maintain some Jenkins systems.

See also https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+Script+Console

Please comment & let me know if you have a fork / fixes you'd like to include.

Add ORCID badge to Zenodo publication

No longer required since Oct-2017. Now ORCID can be added directly under the Authors section of the metadata on the deposit web interface.

Create your personal access token

In order to access the API you need to create a personal token. To do that you need to:

Go to Home > Account > Applications and + New token in the Personal access tokens section.
Provide a name for the token to find it later

Markdown License badges

Collection of License badges for your Project's README file.
This list includes the most common open source and open data licenses.
Easily copy and paste the code under the badges into your Markdown files.

Notes

The badges do not fully replace the license informations for your projects, they are only emblems for the README, that the user can see the License at first glance.

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Simple collection of Groovy scripts to help me maintain some Jenkins systems.

See also https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+Script+Console

Please comment & let me know if you have a fork / fixes you'd like to include.

	require 'find'
	require 'archive/tar/minitar'

	module IdiomaticTar
	def create_tarball(filename:, directory:)
	base_dir = Pathname.new(directory).parent
	FileUtils.cd(base_dir) do
	Pathname.new(filename).open('wb') do \|tarball\|
	Zlib::GzipWriter.wrap(tarball) do \|gz\|
	Archive::Tar::Minitar::Output.open(gz) do \|tar\|

	#!/usr/bin/ruby

	# For an OO language, this is distinctly procedural. Should probably fix that.
	require 'json'

	details = Hash.new({})

	capture_params = [
	{ :name => "title", :message => "Enter project name." },
	{ :name => "url", :message => "Enter the URL of the project repository." },

	Download java from this link:
	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html
	Alternatively , wget as below:
	wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies - --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u51-b13/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz


	sudo mv jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz /usr/lib/jvm [create if /usr/lib/jvm not present, can be put in /usr/local also.]
	sudo tar zxvf jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz

	sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/javac 1