Dan Brubaker Horst danhorst

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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.

Option 1: Command-line download extension as zip and extract

extension_id=jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin   # change this ID
curl -L -o "$extension_id.zip" "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&os=mac&arch=x86-64&nacl_arch=x86-64&prod=chromecrx&prodchannel=stable&prodversion=44.0.2403.130&x=id%3D$extension_id%26uc" 
unzip -d "$extension_id-source" "$extension_id.zip"

Thx to crxviewer for the magic download URL.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require "rubygems"
	require "twitter"
	require "json"
	require "faraday"

	# things you must configure
	TWITTER_USER = "your_username"

	# get these from dev.twitter.com

	{
	"AWSEBDockerrunVersion": "1",
	"Image": {
	"Name": "<AWS_ACCOUNT_ID>.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/<NAME>:<TAG>",
	"Update": "true"
	},
	"Ports": [
	{
	"ContainerPort": "443"
	}

	<html>
	<!-- See also: http://kempe.net/blog/2014/06/14/leaflet-pan-zoom-image.html -->
	<head>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.leafletjs.com/leaflet-0.7.3/leaflet.css"></script>
	<style>
	#image-map {
	width: 100%;
	height: 300px;
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
	margin-bottom: 10px;

	brew install apple-gcc42 openssl libyaml libffi
	xcode-select --install
	export CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.2
	export CFLAGS='-g -O2'
	export RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl`
	export CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl`
	rbenv install 1.8.7-p375

	# This is just a cheat sheet:

	# On production
	sudo -u postgres pg_dump database \| gzip -9 > database.sql.gz

	# On local
	scp -C production:~/database.sql.gz
	dropdb database && createdb database
	gunzip < database.sql.gz \| psql database

	require 'rake/file_list'

	IMAGES = Rake::FileList['*.Dockerfile'].collect {\|f\| f[/.+(?=\.Dockerfile)/] }

	namespace :images do
	IMAGES.each do \|name\|
	desc "Build image '#{name}'"
	task "build_#{name}" do
	sh "docker build -f #{name}.Dockerfile -t mtrense/#{name} ."
	end

	/* bling.js */
	window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
	window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
	Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
	NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
	NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };