John Bates devstuff

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.

Updated Apr 5 2019:

because this is a gist from 2011 that people stumble into and maybe you should AES instead of 3DES in the year of our lord 2019.

some other notes:

Emoticon explanations

Too many applications provide their own emoticons. This is not acceptable. When I type the following characters this is what I mean.

:) – This made me smile.
:D – This really made me smile. My mouth is open. Please don't throw things at it.
:E – E is one better than D, therefore I just smiled so hard that my face broke.
;) – I said something cheeky and hilarious.
:P – I said something that probably wasn't serious.

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

	/*!
	* Dynamically changing favicons with JavaScript
	* Works in all A-grade browsers except Safari and Internet Explorer
	* Demo: http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/dynamic-favicons
	*/

	// HTML5™, baby! http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/document-head
	document.head \|\| (document.head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]);

	function changeFavicon(src) {

	# Copyright © 2020 Nicky Peeters
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
	# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
	# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE

	#!/bin/sh
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

	## Copyright (C) 2011 Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <przemoc@gmail.com>
	##
	## This script is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
	## https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
	#
	# Usage: gitio URL [CODE]
	#

	# Get Sublime to use your rvm ruby... Change your ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/Ruby/Ruby.sublime-build
	# (for ST3: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/Ruby.sublime-build) to this, replacing YOURUSERNAME.
	# I am still looking to optimize this further... For example, avoiding hardcoding by using something like $HOME, although
	# I have yet to get any form of that to work.

	{
	"working_dir": "${project_path}",
	"cmd": [
	"/Users/YOURUSERNAME/.rvm/bin/rvm-auto-ruby", "-Ilib:test", "$file"
	],

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD