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I recently had the need to write a small url shortening application. I am aware that this problem has been solved quite a few times before, but what is being a developer if not reinventing the wheel just for the heck of it? Custom CMS anyone?

Knowing that this was going to be a tiny RESTful API and also knowing that Laravel 5.2 had API rate limiting built in, I was eager to give it a try. Taylor Otwell being Taylor Otwell shipped 5.2 with the rate limiting defaults set up out of the box and I had my application building out short url's in a matter of minutes. The problem for me came when I wanted to start associating those short urls with a user.

Typically my applications have a UI and authentication is done through a simple login page. Obviously for a RESTful API, having a login page isn't ideal. Instead, my hope was to have users append an api_token to the end of their query string and use that to auth

Forbes Is Irrelevant

an AdBlock Plus filter list

Installation

Right-click the "ABP" icon in yoru browser toolbar.
Select "Options".
Click the "Add Filter Subscription" button.
Select "Add a different subscription..." from the drop-down menu.
Enter "Forbes Is Irrelevant" for the subscription title, and http://bit.ly/forbes-sucks for the filter list location.
Click the "Add" button.

Install php7.0-fpm

# remove php5 modules
apt-get autoremove --purge php5-*
# add php-7.0 source list by [Ondřej Surý](https://github.com/oerdnj)
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
# Update index
apt-get update
# Install php7.0-fpm with needed extensions

How to Ignore Merge Conflicts for Specific Files in a Git Repository

Create a directory and git init it

$ mkdir merge-test
$ cd merge-test/
$ git init

MATLAB code to demonstrate [Fourier series][1] representation of periodic signals (as a sum of sinusoidal functions).

The animation shows an approximation of a square wave signal using the first 4-terms of its Fourier series. (Change the parameters near the top of the code to manipulate the animations and explore other variations).

![animation1][6] ![animation2][7]

This was inspired by the following similar animations:

[Fourier Series Animation using Circles][2]

	# The initial version
	if [ ! -f .env ]
	then
	export $(cat .env \| xargs)
	fi

	# My favorite from the comments. Thanks @richarddewit & others!
	set -a && source .env && set +a

	#!/bin/bash
	# Generate a Markdown change log of pull requests from commits between two tags
	# Author: Russell Heimlich
	# URL: https://gist.github.com/kingkool68/09a201a35c83e43af08fcbacee5c315a

	# HOW TO USE
	# Copy this script to a directory under Git version control
	# Make the script executable i.e. chmod +x changelog.sh
	# Run it! ./changelog.sh
	# Check CHANGELOG.md to see your results

	server {
	listen 80;
	server_name localhost;
	root /Users/YOUR_USERNAME/Sites;

	access_log /Library/Logs/default.access.log main;

	location / {
	include /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/php-fpm;
	}

	--[[
	Provides custom authorization for nginx.
	See the `nginx_authorize_by_lua.conf` for the Nginx config. This lua file is referenced in the config
	See testWebserverAccess.sh for unit tests.

	To Run nginx (make sure you have the lua, config and htpasswd file):
	$ /usr/local/openresty/nginx/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/conf/nginx_authorize_by_lua.conf

	Logs are available at: /usr/local/openresty/nginx/logs/lua.log
	To write to the log:

	var uk = createFuzzyScorer('United Kingdom');
	var us = createFuzzyScorer('United States');

	console.log([
	uk('United') > uk('uk'),
	uk('nited') > uk('ingdom'),
	uk('united kingdom') > uk('united kingdo'),
	uk('united dom') < uk('united kin'),
	uk('knited k') > uk('dom'),
	uk('_united_') < uk('united'),