Vitaly Shishlyannikov dragolabs

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime and ffmpeg.

Forked from https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207. Updated to use a palette to improve quality and skip gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Close Android File Transfer
Open Activity Monitor and kill “Android File Transfer Agent”
Go to where you installed “Android File Transfer.app” (I have it under /Applications)
Ctrl+click –> “Show package contents”
Go to Contents/Resources
Rename “Android File Transfer Agent” to e.g. “Android File Transfer Agent_DISABLED”
Then go to “/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Android File Transfer” and again rename the Agent app.

Sublime-Style-Column-Selection
Enable Sublime style 'Column Selection'. Just hold 'alt' while you select, or select using your middle mouse button. Also similar to Texmate's 'Multiple Carets', or BBEdit's 'Block Select'

activate-power-mode
Activate POWER MODE to write your code in style.

atom-alignment
A simple key-binding for aligning multi-line and multiple selections in Atom (Based on the sublime text plugin)

atom-beautify

Reverse proxy over 3G modem (draft)

We will explain how to configure a cubieboard running debian as a reverese proxy. The modules that will be used are wvdial and autossh

Credits goes to:

1. http://blog.rootshell.be/2015/02/19/my-little-pwnie-box/
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/3G_and_GPRS_modems_with_pppd

Notes

ssl testing

Even with ssl.verify off, berks install or berks vendor will fail when supermarket is using a self-signed certificate. So, how do we get around that?

Note: I hacked my /etc/hosts to resolve supermarket-0.c.cheffian-supermarket.internal

	#!/bin/bash

	# Install Quake 3: Arena on a mac

	# Copyright (c) 2016 simonewebdesign
	# 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,

	# Add this snippet to the top of your playbook.
	# It will install python2 if missing (but checks first so no expensive repeated apt updates)
	# [email protected]

	- hosts: all
	gather_facts: False

	tasks:
	- name: install python 2
	raw: test -e /usr/bin/python \|\| (apt -y update && apt install -y python-minimal)

	#!/bin/bash

	# Configs overwritable via environment variables
	VSYSTEM=${VSYSTEM:=qemu} # Either 'qemu' or 'kvm'
	FLAVOUR=${FLAVOUR:=debian} # Either 'debian' or 'ubuntu'
	INCLUDES=${INCLUDES:="less,vim,sudo,openssh-server,acpid"}
	MIRROR=${MIRROR:="http://ftp.hu.debian.org/debian"}
	#MIRROR=${MIRROR:="http://localhost:3142/debian"}
	#MIRROR=${MIRROR:="http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/"}
	#MIRROR=${MIRROR:="http://localhost:3142/ubuntu"}

	[Unit]
	Description=consul agent
	Requires=network-online.target
	After=network-online.target

	[Service]
	EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/consul
	Environment=GOMAXPROCS=2
	Restart=on-failure
	ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/consul agent $OPTIONS -config-dir=/etc/consul.d