Isaac Imholt isaacimholt

brew is a bad neighbor

This isn't a guide about locking down homebrew so that it can't touch the rest of your system security-wise.

This guide doesn't fix the inherent security issues of a package management system that will literally yell at you if you try to do something about "huh, maybe it's not great my executables are writeable by my account without requiring authorization first".

But it absolutely is a guide about shoving it into its own little corner so that you can take it or leave it as you see fit, instead of just letting the project do what it likes like completely taking over permissions and ownership of a directory that might be in use by other software on your Mac and stomping all over their contents.

By following this guide you will:

Never have to run sudo to forcefully change permissions of some directory to be owned by your account

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.

Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.

The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.

atuin: "Magical shell history"
bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Nerd Fonts for your IDE

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

The following solution thanks to @hackerzgz & @snacky101 will install all nerd fonts;

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew search '/font-.*-nerd-font/' | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs -I{} brew install --cask {} || true

Source: Jackett/Jackett#1576 (comment)

From the Jackett page, click the "add indexer" button so that the pop up window with the full list of indexers appears.

You'll then need to open your browser's development toolbar (in Chrome just hit F12) and go to the JavaScript Console and enter the following:

////hack to add all free indexers in Jackett
$(document).ready(function () {
	EnableAllUnconfiguredIndexersList();

BitTorrent Client Performance Tests

Performance Constrained by Low-Speed 300 KB/s Down, 39 KB/s Up ADSL Provisioning

Benchmarks conducted 18-19, 22-24, 26-28 February; 01-07, 15-22 March 2010

BitTorrent Client	Time to Download `ubuntu-9.10-desktop i386.iso`	Memory Use While Downloading	User CPU (MM:SS)	Sys CPU (MM:SS)	Engine	GUI
BitTornado 0.3.18 1st run	53:33	19.3 MiB	2:15	0:53	Built-in	Curses

Kubuntu 18.04 on Dell XPS 13"

Install with Encrypted LVM

Fix Sleep

sudo apt-get install sysfsutils
sudo echo 'power/mem_sleep = deep' > /etc/sysfs.d/mem_sleep.conf

Eric Elliott's "Composing Software" Series

A collection of links to the excellent "Composing Software" series of medium stories by Eric Elliott.

	#source stack
	from scrapy import spiderloader
	from scrapy.utils import project
	from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerRunner
	from twisted.internet import reactor, defer
	from scrapy.utils.log import configure_logging
	import logging

	from datetime import datetime

	#!/bin/bash

	set -e

	if [ -d ~/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox ]; then
	echo "JetBrains Toolbox is already installed!"
	exit 0
	fi

	echo "Start installation..."

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