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@burke
burke / remotepaste.md
Last active April 18, 2025 03:35
This sets up keybindings in tmux that allow you to copy/paste to/from your OS X clipboard from tmux running inside an SSH connection to a remote host. Partially borrowed from http://seancoates.com/blogs/remote-pbcopy

Local (OS X) Side

~/Library/LaunchAgents/pbcopy.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
     <key>Label</key>
     <string>localhost.pbcopy</string>
@jed
jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 27, 2025 16:31
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active May 3, 2025 05:27
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048
@lisamelton
lisamelton / transcode-video.sh
Last active April 29, 2025 20:17
Transcode video file (works best with Blu-ray or DVD rip) into MP4 (or optionally Matroska) format, with configuration and at bitrate similar to popular online downloads.
#!/bin/bash
#
# transcode-video.sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Don Melton
#
about() {
cat <<EOF
$program 5.13 of April 8, 2015
@scy
scy / README.md
Last active December 23, 2024 01:58
My OSX PF config for #30C3.

My OS X “VPN only” Setup For #30C3

You should never let passwords or private data be transmitted over an untrusted network (your neighbor’s, the one at Starbucks or the company) anyway, but on a hacker congress like the #30C3, this rule is almost vital.

Hackers get bored easily, and when they’re bored, they’re starting to look for things to play with. And a network with several thousand connected users is certainly an interesting thing to play with. Some of them might start intercepting the data on the network or do other nasty things with the packets that they can get.

If these packets are encrypted, messing with them is much harder (but not impossible! – see the end of this article). So you want your packets to be always encrypted. And the best way to do that is by using a VPN.

Target audience

@chrisb
chrisb / gist:4d6a09c6cc1ca2e1b14e
Last active November 25, 2022 04:15
Homebrew, Ruby, and Rails on OS X 10.10

OS X 10.10 Guide

Here's what I did to get things working.

1. Install Xcode 6

Yep, over at: https://developer.apple.com

2. Install the Command Line Tools (CLT)

@jameskyle
jameskyle / certs.sh
Last active June 7, 2017 18:46
Generating CA, Server, & Client Certificates
#!/bin/bash
###############################################################################
# NOTICE: This script is intended to be used in conjunction with a openssl.cnf
# template such as this one:
# https://gist.github.com/jameskyle/8106d4d5c6dfa5395cef
# (C) Copyright 2014 James A. Kyle.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 9, 2025 12:50
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@drkarl
drkarl / gist:739a864b3275e901d317
Last active April 29, 2025 20:18
Ask HN: Best Linux server backup system?

Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

  • It has a lot of management overhead and that's a problem if you don't have time for a full time backup administrator.
@pr1ntf
pr1ntf / iohyve.sh
Last active October 13, 2021 11:03
iohyve v0.2.5 -- bhyve manager based on iocage for FreeBSD
#!/bin/sh
# iohyve v0.2.5 2015/05/06 "ALL HAIL LINUS edition"
# Process command line
__parse_cmd () {
while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do
case "$1" in
version) __version
exit