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Local Postgres

This gist is an example of how you can simply install and run and extended Postgres using docker-compose. It assumes that you have docker and docker-compose installed and running on your workstation.

Install

Requires docker and docker-compose
Clone via http: git clone https://gist.github.com/b0b7e06943bd389560184d948bdc2d5b.git
Make load-extensions.sh executable
Build the image: docker-compose build

Everything I Know About UI Routing

Definitions

Location - The location of the application. Usually just a URL, but the location can contain multiple pieces of information that can be used by an app
1. pathname - The "file/directory" portion of the URL, like invoices/123
2. search - The stuff after ? in a URL like /assignments?showGrades=1.
3. query - A parsed version of search, usually an object but not a standard browser feature.
4. hash - The # portion of the URL. This is not available to servers in request.url so its client only. By default it means which part of the page the user should be scrolled to, but developers use it for various things.
5. state - Object associated with a location. Think of it like a hidden URL query. It's state you want to keep with a specific location, but you don't want it to be visible in the URL.

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).

Exporting your 2FA tokens from Authy to transfer them into another 2FA application

IMPORTANT - Update regarding deprecation of Authy desktop apps

Past August 2024, Authy stopped supported the desktop version of their apps:
See Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August for details.

And indeed, after a while, Authy changed something in their backend which now prevents the old desktop app from logging in. If you are already logged in, then you are in luck, and you can follow the instructions below to export to tokens.

If you are not logged in anymore, but can find a backup of the necessary files, then restore those files, and re-install Authy 2.2.3 following the instructions below, and it should work as expected.

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

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

	type Directive =
	\| 'child-src'
	\| 'connect-src'
	\| 'default-src'
	\| 'font-src'
	\| 'frame-src'
	\| 'img-src'
	\| 'manifest-src'
	\| 'media-src'
	\| 'object-src'

	package main

	import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"os/signal"
	"strconv"

	package main

	import (
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"

	"github.com/naoina/toml"
	"github.com/naoina/toml/ast"
	)

	package main

	import (
	"github.com/auth0/go-jwt-middleware"
	"github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go"
	"gopkg.in/gin-gonic/gin.v1"
	)

	func main() {
	startServer()