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@adtac
adtac / README.md
Last active April 26, 2025 09:06
Using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor

3.5 fps, Paperwhite 3
@adtac_

step 1: jailbreak your Kindle

mobileread.com is your best resource here, follow the instructions from the LanguageBreak thread

I didn't really follow the LanguageBreak instructions because I didn't care about most of the features + I was curious to do it myself, but the LanguageBreak github repo was invaluable for debugging

@IanColdwater
IanColdwater / twittermute.txt
Last active April 14, 2025 16:31
Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit.
Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords
ActivityTweet
generic_activity_highlights
generic_activity_momentsbreaking
RankedOrganicTweet
suggest_activity
suggest_activity_feed
suggest_activity_highlights
suggest_activity_tweet
@Rob--W
Rob--W / manifest.json
Created August 2, 2019 15:20
Dummy extension to prevent elision of "http" / "file" / subdomains from the omnibox in Chrome. Use this instead of the "Suspicious Site Reporter".
// This is a dummy extension that prevents elision of "http" / "file" / subdomains
// from the omnibox by impersonating the "Suspicious Site Reporter" extension.
// Do not use this if you use the "Suspicious Site Reporter" extension.
//
// Usage:
// 1. Create a directory, e.g. "prevent-elision-in-locationbar"
// 2. Put the content of this file as "manifest.json" in that directory.
// 3. Visit chrome://extensions, choose the "Load Unpacked" button and select the directory.
// (OR use the --load-extension=path/to/prevent-elision-in-locationbar flag to load the extension)
// Result:
@hgfischer
hgfischer / benchmark+go+nginx.md
Last active January 6, 2025 09:05
Benchmarking Nginx with Go

Benchmarking Nginx with Go

There are a lot of ways to serve a Go HTTP application. The best choices depend on each use case. Currently nginx looks to be the standard web server for every new project even though there are other great web servers as well. However, how much is the overhead of serving a Go application behind an nginx server? Do we need some nginx features (vhosts, load balancing, cache, etc) or can you serve directly from Go? If you need nginx, what is the fastest connection mechanism? This are the kind of questions I'm intended to answer here. The purpose of this benchmark is not to tell that Go is faster or slower than nginx. That would be stupid.

So, these are the different settings we are going to compare:

  • Go HTTP standalone (as the control group)
  • Nginx proxy to Go HTTP
  • Nginx fastcgi to Go TCP FastCGI
  • Nginx fastcgi to Go Unix Socket FastCGI
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'base64'
require 'open-uri'
# file or url
def get_css(src)
if src.start_with? 'http'
src = src.gsub('|', '%7C')
STDERR.puts "# GET #{src}"
# simulate modern browser to get woff
@lastguest
lastguest / access_property.php
Last active January 24, 2024 09:18
PHP - Read/Write public/protected/private object property
<?php
// Access a property with no restrictions
function stole($object,$property){
$dict = (array)$object;
$class = get_class($object);
return isset($dict[$property])?
$dict[$property]:(isset($dict["\0*\0$property"])?
$dict["\0*\0$property"]:(isset($dict["\0$class\0$property"])?
$dict["\0$class\0$property"]:null));
@mguymon
mguymon / websocket.conf
Created June 11, 2013 14:05
stunnel config for secure websockets (wss://)
key = /etc/certs/server.key
cert = /etc/certs/server.crt
CApath = /etc/ssl/certs
socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1
socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1
setuid = stunnel4
setgid = stunnel4
pid = /var/run/stunnel4/websocket.pid
@raveren
raveren / cryptographically_secure_random_strings.php
Last active November 21, 2023 12:35
Generate cryptographically secure random strings. Based on Kohana's Text::random() method and this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13733588/179104
function random_text( $type = 'alnum', $length = 8 )
{
switch ( $type ) {
case 'alnum':
$pool = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
break;
case 'alpha':
$pool = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
break;
case 'hexdec':
@alexnask
alexnask / reapPlaylist.ooc
Last active December 13, 2015 21:38
Reap an m3u playlist from an iTunes library xml file
use xml
use math
import math
import xml/[Xml, XPath]
import structs/ArrayList
import io/File
main: func(args: ArrayList<String>) -> Int {
if(args getSize() <= 3) {
"Usage: %s <path to iTunes Music Library.xml> <name of playlist to extract> <destination m3u file>" printfln(args get(0))
@jsleetw
jsleetw / gist:3446852
Created August 24, 2012 06:51
ntpdate over http proxy
date -s "$(wget --no-cache -S -O /dev/null google.com 2>&1 | sed -n -e '/ *Date: */ {' -e s///p -e q -e '}')"