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anonymous
anonymous / gist:5190528
Created March 18, 2013 20:30
class BaseHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
def initialize(self):
self.thread = None
def task(self, target, *args, **kwargs):
target_task = functools.partial(target, *args, **kwargs)
def callback_wrapper(callback):
@BlakeGardner
BlakeGardner / Install HTTPie.md
Last active November 5, 2020 08:43
Install HTTPie Mac OS X

This is a quick guide on installing HTTPie for Mac OS X systems. This is also useful if you want the python package management utility pip. An installed copy of Homebrew is a prerequisite.

HTTPie

The easy way

brew install httpie
@adamwiggins
adamwiggins / adams-heroku-values.md
Last active November 10, 2025 18:54
My Heroku values

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

@jed
jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 27, 2025 16:31
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active October 22, 2025 16:10
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048
@mobilemind
mobilemind / git-tag-delete-local-and-remote.sh
Last active August 10, 2025 11:21
how to delete a git tag locally and remote
# delete local tag '12345'
git tag -d 12345
# delete remote tag '12345' (eg, GitHub version too)
git push origin :refs/tags/12345
# alternative approach
git push --delete origin tagName
git tag -d tagName
@jkbrzt
jkbrzt / pyc
Last active June 6, 2023 14:59
Delete Python's compiled *.pyc files like a pro
#!/bin/sh
#
# Delete Python's compiled *.pyc and __pycache__ files like a pro
# https://gist.github.com/jakubroztocil/7892597
#
# Usage:
# Delele *.pyc and __pycache__ files recursively in the current directory:
# $ pyc
#
# The same, but under /path:
@gruber
gruber / Liberal Regex Pattern for Web URLs
Last active November 8, 2025 10:46
Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching Web URLs
The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http,
https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to
match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502
License: https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause
# Single-line version:
(?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com|net|org|edu|gov|mil|aero|asia|biz|cat|coop|info|int|jobs|mobi|museum|name|post|pro|tel|travel|xxx|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|dd|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|me|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps
# This gist is compatible with Ansible 1.x .
# For Ansible 2.x , please check out:
# - https://gist.github.com/dmsimard/cd706de198c85a8255f6
# - https://github.com/n0ts/ansible-human_log
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
@arvidfm
arvidfm / asyncio-tornado.py
Last active May 18, 2025 18:05
Running Tornado on asyncio's event loop, including 'yield from' support in request handlers
import asyncio
import tornado.concurrent
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import tornado.platform.asyncio
import tornado.httpclient
class ReqHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
async def get(self):