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timvisee / falsehoods-programming-time-list.md
Last active May 3, 2026 10:11
Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

  • There are always 24 hours in a day.
  • February is always 28 days long.
  • Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).
@mapmeld
mapmeld / OverEncrypt.md
Last active July 25, 2023 18:55
OverEncrypt - paranoid HTTPS

OverEncrypt

This is a guide that I wrote to improve the default security of my website https://fortran.io , which has a certificate from LetsEncrypt. I'm choosing to improve HTTPS security and transparency without consideration for legacy browser support.

WARNING: if you mess up settings, lose your certificates, or decide to no longer maintain HTTPS certs, these steps can and will make your domain inaccessible.

I would recommend these steps only if you have a specific need for information security, privacy, and trust with your users, and/or maintain a separate secure.example.com domain which won't mess up your main site. If you've been thinking about hosting a site on Tor, then this might be a good option, too.

The best resources that I've found for explaining these steps are https://https.cio.gov , https://certificate-transparency.org , and https://twitter.com/konklone

@DrewML
DrewML / Theming-Slack-OSX.md
Last active January 29, 2026 12:35
Theming Slack for OSX

Theming Slack for OSX

So, you love Slack, but you hate applications with large white backgrounds? Why not use Dark Mode!

Unfortunately, Slack does not have a Dark Mode, although it's on their list of possibilities.

But, don't fret - there is a solution! Because the slack native desktop apps are just wrappers around a web app, we can inject our own CSS to customize the application to our liking.

How to (OSX Only)

@jvns
jvns / a_networking_puzzle.md
Last active September 11, 2017 21:36
A networking puzzle.

You are trying to make a lot of simulataneous network connections to localhost. You get up to about 2000 HTTP requests per second, when your CPU usage goes up to 100% on all cores.

perf top reports the following:

 31.01%  [kernel]                    [k] inet_csk_bind_conflict
 20.60%  [kernel]                    [k] inet_csk_get_port
  9.82%  [kernel]                    [k] _raw_spin_lock
  4.62%  perf                        [.] 0x0000000000038ba1
 3.90% [kernel] [k] _raw_read_unlock_bh
@bishboria
bishboria / springer-free-maths-books.md
Last active April 19, 2026 15:50
Springer made a bunch of books available for free, these were the direct links
@coderanger
coderanger / talk.md
Last active December 28, 2015 02:58
PyCon 2016 Submission

Behind Closed Doors: Managing Passwords in a Dangerous World

Description

A modern application has a lot of passwords and keys floating around. Encryptions keys, database passwords, and API credentials; often typed in to text files and forgotten. Fortunately a new wave of tools are emerging to help manage, update, and audit these secrets. Come learn how to avoid being the next TechCrunch headline.

Abstract

Secrets come in many forms, passwords, keys, tokens. All crucial for the operation of an application, but each dangerous in its own way. In the past, many of us have pasted those secrets in to a text file and moved on, but in a world of config automation and ephemeral microservices these patterns are leaving our data at greater risk than ever before.

@marick
marick / about_those_lava_lamps.md
Last active July 23, 2025 18:08
About Those Lava Lamps

Around 2006-2007, it was a bit of a fashion to hook lava lamps up to the build server. Normally, the green lava lamp would be on, but if the build failed, it would turn off and the red lava lamp would turn on.

By coincidence, I've actually met, about that time, (probably) the first person to hook up a lava lamp to a build server. It was Alberto Savoia, who'd founded a testing tools company (that did some very interesting things around generative testing that have basically never been noticed). Alberto had noticed that people did not react with any urgency when the build broke. They'd check in broken code and go off to something else, only reacting to the breakage they'd caused when some other programmer pulled the change and had problems.

@celoyd
celoyd / hi8-anim-howto.md
Last active August 1, 2022 15:37
A way to make Himawari-8 animations

Himawari-8 animation tutorial

Here’s how to make animations like this one. It requires intermediate Unix command-line knowledge, to install some tools and to debug if they don’t work. You’ll need these utilities:

  • curl (or you can translate to wget)
  • convert and montage, part of ImageMagick
  • ffmpeg, plus whatever codecs
  • parallel, for iteration that’s nicer than shell for loops or xargs
  • run everything in zsh for leading 0s in numerical ranges to work
@esteedqueen
esteedqueen / authenticable.rb
Last active December 7, 2022 08:52 — forked from Bomadeno/registrations_controller.rb
JSON API User Registration and Sessions with Devise
module Authenticable
# Devise methods overwrite
def current_user
@current_user ||= User.find_by(authentication_token: request.headers['Authorization'])
end
def authenticate_with_token!
render json: { errors: "Not authenticated" },
status: :unauthorized unless user_signed_in?
@haasn
haasn / about:config.md
Last active March 20, 2026 07:04
Firefox bullshit removal via about:config

Firefox bullshit removal

Updated: Just use qutebrowser (and disable javascript). The web is done for.