John Athanasiou jathanasiou

How to use Hexo and deploy to GitHub Pages

1. Install Hexo

$ sudo npm install -g hexo-cli

$ hexo -v
hexo-cli: 0.1.9

How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

 # Download latest archlinux bootstrap package, see https://www.archlinux.org/download/
 wget 'ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/iso/latest/archlinux-bootstrap-*-x86_64.tar.gz'
 # Make sure you'll have enough entropy for pacman-key later.
 apt-get install haveged
 # Install the arch bootstrap image in a tmpfs.
 mount -t tmpfs none /mnt
 cd /mnt
 tar xvf ~/archlinux-bootstrap-*-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components=1

	function mapValues(obj, fn) {
	return Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => {
	result[key] = fn(obj[key], key);
	return result;
	}, {});
	}

	function pick(obj, fn) {
	return Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => {
	if (fn(obj[key])) {

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	#
	# A Python 3.x script designed for command-line operation:
	# Given a location string, passes it to Google's Geocoding API and prints to stdout: lat, lng,
	# level of accuracy, and formatted address, as a single delimited line and, optionally, the raw JSON
	# This is one in a series of mundane programming examples:
	# - srccon.org/sessions/#proposal-106215
	# - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oaUNiWOyuTmxr0hVgx32vr5XN8E4MEb_2FD56BE6mZA/edit?usp=drive_web
	#
	# Documentation of Google Maps API