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@mtigas
mtigas / gist:952344
Last active June 15, 2026 22:12
Mini tutorial for configuring client-side SSL certificates.

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.


Updated Apr 5 2019:

because this is a gist from 2011 that people stumble into and maybe you should AES instead of 3DES in the year of our lord 2019.

some other notes:

@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 20, 2026 02:01
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@JakeWharton
JakeWharton / AspectRatioImageView.java
Created June 2, 2012 02:14
ImageView that respects an aspect ratio applied to a specific measurement.
// Copyright 2012 Square, Inc.
package com.squareup.widgets;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.ImageView;
/** Maintains an aspect ratio based on either width or height. Disabled by default. */
public class AspectRatioImageView extends ImageView {
@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active July 20, 2026 03:27
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@devunwired
devunwired / GifDecoder.java
Last active October 8, 2024 08:32
An optimized implementation of GifDecoder for Android devices.
/**
* Copyright (c) 2013 Xcellent Creations, Inc.
*
* 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:
@slightfoot
slightfoot / SearchActivity.java
Last active January 27, 2025 06:58
SearchView example
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Locale;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.AbstractCursor;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.text.TextUtils;
@miguelgrinberg
miguelgrinberg / rest-server.py
Last active July 30, 2025 09:09
The code from my article on building RESTful web services with Python and the Flask microframework. See the article here: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-with-python-and-flask
#!flask/bin/python
from flask import Flask, jsonify, abort, request, make_response, url_for
from flask_httpauth import HTTPBasicAuth
app = Flask(__name__, static_url_path = "")
auth = HTTPBasicAuth()
@auth.get_password
def get_password(username):
if username == 'miguel':
@JakeWharton
JakeWharton / OkHttpStack.java
Created May 21, 2013 01:14
A `HttpStack` implementation for Volley that uses OkHttp as its transport.
import com.android.volley.toolbox.HurlStack;
import com.squareup.okhttp.OkHttpClient;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
/**
* An {@link com.android.volley.toolbox.HttpStack HttpStack} implementation which
* uses OkHttp as its transport.
*/
@benvd
benvd / FadeInNetworkImageView.java
Created May 31, 2013 09:16
Extension of Volley's NetworkImageView that fades in images as they're loaded
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.drawable.*;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.NetworkImageView;
public class FadeInNetworkImageView extends NetworkImageView {
private static final int FADE_IN_TIME_MS = 250;
@PrashamTrivedi
PrashamTrivedi / AppExternalFileWriter.java
Last active February 25, 2023 06:45
File writer that helps you to write files in your own applocation directory in SD Card
package com.phtrivedi.opensource.externalfilewriter;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.os.StatFs;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;