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@ragingwind
ragingwind / Backend Architectures Keywords and References.md
Last active March 21, 2025 15:01
Backend Architectures Keywords and References
@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active June 19, 2025 10:53
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.
@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active June 24, 2025 12:49
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@gnarf
gnarf / ..git-pr.md
Last active June 20, 2025 11:04
git pr - Global .gitconfig aliases for Pull Request Managment

Install

Either copy the aliases from the .gitconfig or run the commands in add-pr-alias.sh

Usage

Easily checkout local copies of pull requests from remotes:

  • git pr 4 - creates local branch pr/4 from the github upstream(if it exists) or origin remote and checks it out
  • git pr 4 someremote - creates local branch pr/4 from someremote remote and checks it out
@VRMink
VRMink / gist:5169211
Last active January 6, 2020 20:31
How to setup a private node.js web server with SSL authorization

Secure private web server with NodeJS

This article will explain how to set up a secure web server with NodeJS which only accepts connection from users with SSL certificates that you have signed. This is an efficient way to ensure that no other people are able to access the web server, without building a login system which will be significantly weaker.

I will not explain how to create a certificate authority (CA), create certificates or sign them. If you need to read up on this, have a look at this excelent article on how to do it with OpenSSL (Mac and Linux): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSSL#Practical_OpenSSL_Usage It is also possible to do this on a Mac with the keychain application, and I assume it is possible on a Windows machine aswell.

This architecture will allow you to have one web server communicating with an array of trusted clients, the web server itself can be on the public internet, that will not decrease the level of security, but it will only ser

Node.js Resources

What is node.js?

Node.js is just JavaScript running on the server side. That's it. That's all there is to it.

Express

  • Express Docs, if you want to get started and already know JavaScript this is the place to be
@rkirsling
rkirsling / LICENSE
Last active September 22, 2024 23:23
Directed Graph Editor
Copyright (c) 2013 Ross Kirsling
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
@dfm
dfm / LICENSE
Last active September 29, 2024 08:40
XKCD-style plots in d3
Copyright (c) 2012–2013 Daniel Foreman-Mackey
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
for i in $HOME/local/*; do
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[ -d $i/sbin ] && PATH="${i}/sbin:${PATH}"
[ -d $i/include ] && CPATH="${i}/include:${CPATH}"
[ -d $i/lib ] && LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${i}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
[ -d $i/lib ] && LD_RUN_PATH="${i}/lib:${LD_RUN_PATH}"
# uncomment the following if you use macintosh
# [ -d $i/lib ] && DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${i}/lib:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
[ -d $i/lib/pkgconfig ] && PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${i}/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"
[ -d $i/share/man ] && MANPATH="${i}/share/man:${MANPATH}"