timvisee

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).

gbaman

# An example to get the remaining rate limit using the Github GraphQL API.

import requests

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR API KEY"}


def run_query(query): # A simple function to use requests.post to make the API call. Note the json= section.
    request = requests.post('https://api.github.com/graphql', json={'query': query}, headers=headers)
    if request.status_code == 200:

marjamis

#!/bin/bash -xe

# Below command can be replaced to the required CLI, including with custom JSON output, assuming the NextToken is in the same location.
AWS_CLI_COMMAND="aws elasticbeanstalk list-platform-versions --max-records 100 --query={NextToken:NextToken,PlatformARNs:PlatformSummaryList[*].PlatformArn}"
OUTPUT_FILE="./output-$(date +%s)"

function CLI_call() {
  if [ ! -v NEXT_TOKEN ]; then
    cli_output=$($AWS_CLI_COMMAND)
  else

vMarkusK

# Workaround for SelfSigned Cert
add-type @"
    using System.Net;
    using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
    public class TrustAllCertsPolicy : ICertificatePolicy {
        public bool CheckValidationResult(
            ServicePoint srvPoint, X509Certificate certificate,
            WebRequest request, int certificateProblem) {
            return true;
        }

bloodearnest

# Copyright 2018 Simon Davy
#
# 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

cmcginty

Powershell Remoting to a Non-Domain Host

1. From an admin shell, enable PS remoting on the machine you wish to access:

New-ItemProperty -Name LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy `
  -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System `
  -PropertyType DWord -Value 1

Enable-PsRemoting -Force

davidstrauss

import os
import pprint
import fnmatch
import time
import subprocess

def find_services_needing_restart():
    services = {}
    pids = [ f for f in os.listdir('/proc') if f.isdigit() and os.path.isdir(os.path.join('/proc', f)) ]

smasterson

#requires -Version 3.0
<#

    .SYNOPSIS
    My Veeam Report is a flexible reporting script for Veeam Backup and
    Replication.

    .DESCRIPTION
    My Veeam Report is a flexible reporting script for Veeam Backup and
    Replication. This report can be customized to report on Backup, Replication,

mbklein

mount_map = Hash[
  `mount`.split(/\n/).collect { |l|
    (loc, mount, type) = l.scan(/^(.+) on (.+) type (\S+) /).flatten
    if loc =~ /:\//
      loc = "#{type}://#{loc.sub(/:\//,'/')}"
      [mount, loc]
    end
  }.compact
]

corny

# Save this file as lib/capistrano/tasks/git.cap

namespace :git do
  desc 'Copy repo to releases'
  task create_release: :'git:update' do
    on roles(:all) do
      with fetch(:git_environmental_variables) do
        within repo_path do
          execute :git, :clone, '-b', fetch(:branch), '--recursive', '.', release_path
        end