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How to setup a practically free CDN using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare

⚠️ Note 2023-01-21
Some things have changed since I originally wrote this in 2016. I have updated a few minor details, and the advice is still broadly the same, but there are some new Cloudflare features you can (and should) take advantage of. In particular, pay attention to Trevor Stevens' comment here from 22 January 2022, and Matt Stenson's useful caching advice. In addition, Backblaze, with whom Cloudflare are a Bandwidth Alliance partner, have published their own guide detailing how to use Cloudflare's Web Workers to cache content from B2 private buckets. That is worth reading,

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

Ctrl-Key: ^[
Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
Hexadecimal: \x1B
Decimal: 27

Zalgolf / Re:Zalgo

js Zalgo Scrambled Text + slightly code-golf

original code and description by @aTakaakiSeki

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[].concat(...[...document.all].map(e => [...e.childNodes])).filter(n => n.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE).map(n => n.textContent = n.textContent.replace(/([a-zA-Z])/g, (_, c) => c + [...Array(Math.floor(Math.random()*30))].map(() => String.fromCharCode(0x300 + Math.floor(Math.random()*79))).join('')))

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.

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

	"use strict";

	function _classCallCheck(instance, Constructor) { if (!(instance instanceof Constructor)) { throw new TypeError("Cannot call a class as a function"); } }

	var RevDate = function RevDate(dateparse) {
	_classCallCheck(this, RevDate);

	var moment = new Date();
	if (typeof dateparse !== 'undefined') {
	moment = new Date(dateparse);

	# Oona Räisänen 2013
	# http://windytan.com

	# ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub \| perl emoji.pl

	@emoji = qw( 🌀 🌂 🌅 🌈 🌙 🌞 🌟 🌠 🌰 🌱 🌲 🌳 🌴 🌵 🌷 🌸
	🌹 🌺 🌻 🌼 🌽 🌾 🌿 🍀 🍁 🍂 🍃 🍄 🍅 🍆 🍇 🍈
	🍉 🍊 🍋 🍌 🍍 🍎 🍏 🍐 🍑 🍒 🍓 🍔 🍕 🍖 🍗 🍘
	🍜 🍝 🍞 🍟 🍠 🍡 🍢 🍣 🍤 🍥 🍦 🍧 🍨 🍩 🍪 🍫
	🍬 🍭 🍮 🍯 🍰 🍱 🍲 🍳 🍴 🍵 🍶 🍷 🍸 🍹 🍺 🍻

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	####################################
	# iTunes Command Line Control v1.0
	# written by David Schlosnagle
	# created 2001.11.08
	# edit 2010.06.01 rahul kumar
	####################################

	showHelp () {

	#!/bin/bash

	gdb -p "$1" -batch -ex 'set {short}$rip = 0x050f' -ex 'set $rax=231' -ex 'set $rdi=0' -ex 'cont'