Dan Stroot dstroot

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

macOS 10.12 Sierra Setup

Custom recipe to get macOS 10.12 Sierra running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. This is very similar (and currently mostly the same) as my 10.11 El Capitan setup recipe and 10.10 Yosemite setup recipe. I am currently tweaking this for 10.12 Sierra and expect to refine this gist over the next few weeks.

I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. I generally reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between releases.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your o

Go pointers

This gist demonstrates the use of pointers in go (and other similar languages)

Use &x to get the address of x

Use *x to get a value from an address x

When should I use a pointer?

Use these rapid keyboard shortcuts to control the GitHub Atom text editor on macOS.

Key to the Keys

⌘ : Command key
⌃ : Control key
⌫ : Delete key
← : Left arrow key
→ : Right arrow key
↑ : Up arrow key

Facebook: Unfollow people and pages

See comments section for more up-to-date versions of the script. The original script is from 2014 and will not work as is.

Open news feed preferences on your Facebook menu (browser)
Click people or pages
Scroll down (or click see more) until your full list is loaded
Run the script in your browser console

Facebook will block this feature for you while you use it, depending on how much entities you try to unfollow. It automatically unblocks in a couple of hours and you will be able to continue.

	import React, {PropTypes} from 'react';
	import { debounce } from 'lodash';

	// A simple helper component, wrapping retina logic for canvas and
	// auto-resizing the canvas to fill its parent container.
	// To determine size/layout, we just use CSS on the div containing
	// the Canvas component (we're using this with flexbox, for example).
	// Expects a "paint" function that takes a "context" to draw on
	// Whenever this component updates it will call this paint function
	// to draw on the canvas. For convenience, pixel dimensions are stored

	package main

	import (
	"log"
	"syscall"
	"unsafe"
	)

	var (
	kernel32 = syscall.NewLazyDLL("kernel32.dll")

	// connect() is a function that injects Redux-related props into your component.
	// You can inject data and callbacks that change that data by dispatching actions.
	function connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps) {
	// It lets us inject component as the last step so people can use it as a decorator.
	// Generally you don't need to worry about it.
	return function (WrappedComponent) {
	// It returns a component
	return class extends React.Component {
	render() {
	return (

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	set -e

	STAGING_LOCATION="$(brew cask doctor \
	\| grep -A1 '==> Homebrew-cask Staging Location:' \| tail -n1 \
	\| awk '{print $1}')"

	echo "==> Upgrading casks"
	for cask in $(ls ${STAGING_LOCATION})

	/* 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)); };