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This article is now published on my website: Prefer Subshells for Context.

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:

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

Moved

Now located at https://github.com/JeffPaine/beautiful_idiomatic_python.

Why it was moved

Github gists don't support Pull Requests or any notifications, which made it impossible for me to maintain this (surprisingly popular) gist with fixes, respond to comments and so on. In the interest of maintaining the quality of this resource for others, I've moved it to a proper repo. Cheers!

General Background and Overview

Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
[Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t

	<?php
	/* lookforbadguys.php 2011-09-27
	Copyright (C)2011 Karen Chun, Steven Whitney.
	Initially published by http://25yearsofprogramming.com.

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
	modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
	Version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

	# ----------------------
	# installing dnsmasq and enable daemon
	# ----------------------
	brew install dnsmasq
	sudo cp -v $(brew --prefix dnsmasq)/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
	# ----------------------
	# adding resolver for vbox domain
	# ----------------------
	[ -d /etc/resolver ] \|\| sudo mkdir -v /etc/resolver
	sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/vbox'

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding: utf8 --

	import sys
	import os
	import time
	import select
	import socket

	import pycares

	var request = require('request');
	var unzip = require('unzip');
	var csv2 = require('csv2');

	request.get('http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip')
	.pipe(unzip.Parse())
	.on('entry', function (entry) {
	entry.pipe(csv2()).on('data', console.log);
	})
	;

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