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A list of things I find myself always referring to, or I SHOULD always refer to 😄

The source of this is a Gist and is located here

Architecture/Design

Many pressures tend to make programs more complicated (and therefore more expensive and buggy). One such pressure is technical machismo. Programmers are bright people who are (often justly) proud of their ability to handle complexity and juggle abstractions. Often they compete with their peers to see who can build the most intricate and beautiful complexities. Just as often, their ability to design outstrips their ability to implement and debug, and the result is expensive

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

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	# http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/39587/view-estimated-size-of-github-repository-before-cloning
	# tested on macOS
	echo https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git \| perl -ne 'print $1 if m!([^/]+/[^/]+?)(?:\.git)?$!' \| xargs -I{} curl -s -k https://api.github.com/repos/'{}' \| grep size

	# output:
	# "size": 1746294,

	// connect() is a function that injects Redux-related props into your component.
	// You can inject data and callbacks that change that data by dispatching actions.
	function connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps) {
	// It lets us inject component as the last step so people can use it as a decorator.
	// Generally you don't need to worry about it.
	return function (WrappedComponent) {
	// It returns a component
	return class extends React.Component {
	render() {
	return (

	@import MobileCoreServices;

	static CFStringRef UTTypeForImageData(NSData *data) {
	const unsigned char * bytes = [data bytes];

	if (data.length >= 8) {
	if (bytes[0] == 0x89 && bytes[1] == 0x50 && bytes[2] == 0x4E && bytes[3] == 0x47 && bytes[4] == 0x0D && bytes[5] == 0x0A && bytes[6] == 0x1A && bytes[7] == 0x0A) {
	return kUTTypePNG;
	}
	}

	#!/usr/bin/expect -f
	#
	# VIPAccess.exp
	#
	# Command-line emulation of Symantec's VIP Access software token.
	# Usage:
	# ./VIPAccess.exp [v]
	# If the "v" argument (or any argument) is specified, verbose output
	# will be produced on stderr. The OTP value will be output on stdout.
	#

	# Basically the nginx configuration I use at konklone.com.
	# I check it using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=konklone.com
	#
	# To provide feedback, please tweet at @konklone or email [email protected].
	# Comments on gists don't notify the author.
	#
	# Thanks to WubTheCaptain (https://wubthecaptain.eu) for his help and ciphersuites.
	# Thanks to Ilya Grigorik (https://www.igvita.com) for constant inspiration.

	server {

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048