John Reiser johnjreiser

Download a McGraw Hill Education eTextbook

If you purchase a textbook from McGraw Hill, the website to view it is clunky and only works on some devices. You can't go to specific page numbers, the search is super slow, etc. That's why I wrote this script to download the textbook as an ePub file for your own viewing.

Using this script is 100% legal. McGraw Hill publicly hosts their ebooks online in order for their web client to download it. Moreover, to use it, you must already have purchased the book you would like to download, so it is legally yours to use as you please. However, it IS illegal to use this for piracy purposes. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ANY TEXTBOOKS YOU DOWNLOAD USING THIS SCRIPT.

My Elasticsearch cheatsheet with example usage via rest api (still a work-in-progress)

Shortlinks:

Cluster Health
- Index Level
- Shard Level
Nodes Overview
Indices Overview
Cluster Maintenance

We prefer to have audit logging in our services that leverage databases. It gives us clarity into sources of where ACL issues might originate as well as gives us a general timeline of activity in our application.

Audit logging is tedious to set up so this gist contains our latest iteration of audit logging support for a sequelize based service.

How to setup AWS lambda function to talk to the internet and VPC

I'm going to walk you through the steps for setting up a AWS Lambda to talk to the internet and a VPC. Let's dive in.

So it might be really unintuitive at first but lambda functions have three states.

No VPC, where it can talk openly to the web, but can't talk to any of your AWS services.
VPC, the default setting where the lambda function can talk to your AWS services but can't talk to the web.
VPC with NAT, The best of both worlds, AWS services and web.

Processing JSON using jq

jq is useful to slice, filter, map and transform structured json data.

Installing jq

On Mac OS

brew install jq

Around 2006-2007, it was a bit of a fashion to hook lava lamps up to the build server. Normally, the green lava lamp would be on, but if the build failed, it would turn off and the red lava lamp would turn on.

By coincidence, I've actually met, about that time, (probably) the first person to hook up a lava lamp to a build server. It was Alberto Savoia, who'd founded a testing tools company (that did some very interesting things around generative testing that have basically never been noticed). Alberto had noticed that people did not react with any urgency when the build broke. They'd check in broken code and go off to something else, only reacting to the breakage they'd caused when some other programmer pulled the change and had problems.

sudo yum -y update
sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel
sudo yum -y install make automake gcc gcc-c++ libcurl-devel proj-devel geos-devel
cd /tmp
curl -L http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.gz | tar zxf -
cd gdal-2.0.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --without-python
make -j4
sudo make install

	#!/usr/bin/env node
	var fs = require('fs');
	var esprima = require('esprima');
	var escodegen = require('escodegen');
	var estraverse = require('estraverse');
	var debug = true;
	var rename = true;

	var stringrotatefunc = `
	(function (array, times) {

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	import os
	import requests
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	import glob
	from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger

	#Todo: debug this function

	#!/bin/bash
	#set -e

	# origin-source: http://www.fars-robotics.net/install-wifi
	# install-wifi - v9.4 - by MrEngman.
	# After downloading this script:
	# $ sudo mv ./install-wifi /usr/bin/install-wifi
	# $ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/install-wifi
	# $ sudo install-wifi -h
	#