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@sumardi
sumardi / gist:5559896
Created May 11, 2013 12:56
Subdirectory checkouts with Git sparse-checkout
# New repository
mkdir <repo> && cd <repo>
git init
git remote add –f <name> <url>
git config core.sparsecheckout true
echo some/dir/ >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
echo another/sub/tree >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git pull <remote> <branch>
# Existing repository
@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active July 14, 2025 21:19
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
@ogrrd
ogrrd / dnsmasq OS X.md
Last active July 4, 2025 00:45
Setup dnsmasq on OS X

Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

To setup your computer to work with *.test domains, e.g. project.test, awesome.test and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.

Requirements

Install

@deltheil
deltheil / libcurl_dns.md
Last active March 15, 2019 00:54
libcurl options to control DNS lookup (cache, timeout, resolving time, etc). The short URL for this page is: http://git.io/libcurl-dns.

Easy handle interface

Options

Info

@hofmannsven
hofmannsven / README.md
Last active July 10, 2025 04:46
Git CLI Cheatsheet
@ryanuber
ryanuber / gist:9014174
Created February 15, 2014 03:31
Vagrant re-import box from files on local system

If you find that vagrant box list somehow does not contain a box you previously had, you can sometimes add the box back if you still have the sources for it in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes.

$ cd ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/precise64/0/virtualbox/
$ tar czf ~/precise64.box .
$ vagrant box add precise64 ~/precise64.box 
Downloading box from URL: file:/Users/ryanuber/precise64.box
Extracting box...te: 417M/s, Estimated time remaining: --:--:--)
Successfully added box 'precise64' with provider 'virtualbox'!
@mangecoeur
mangecoeur / concurrent.futures-intro.md
Last active July 20, 2024 10:30
Easy parallel python with concurrent.futures

Easy parallel python with concurrent.futures

As of version 3.3, python includes the very promising concurrent.futures module, with elegant context managers for running tasks concurrently. Thanks to the simple and consistent interface you can use both threads and processes with minimal effort.

For most CPU bound tasks - anything that is heavy number crunching - you want your program to use all the CPUs in your PC. The simplest way to get a CPU bound task to run in parallel is to use the ProcessPoolExecutor, which will create enough sub-processes to keep all your CPUs busy.

We use the context manager thusly:

with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
@trevnorris
trevnorris / perf-flame-graph-notes.md
Last active December 24, 2023 05:25
Quick steps of how to create a flame graph using perf

The prep-script.sh will setup the latest Node and install the latest perf version on your Linux box.

When you want to generate the flame graph, run the following (folder locations taken from install script):

sudo sysctl kernel.kptr_restrict=0
# May also have to do the following:
# (additional reading http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14227/do-i-need-root-admin-permissions-to-run-userspace-perf-tool-perf-events-ar )
sudo sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid=0
def authorize_key_for_root(config, *key_paths)
[*key_paths, nil].each do |key_path|
if key_path.nil?
fail "Public key not found at following paths: #{key_paths.join(', ')}"
end
full_key_path = File.expand_path(key_path)
if File.exists?(full_key_path)
config.vm.provision 'file',
@tristanfisher
tristanfisher / Ansible-Vault how-to.md
Last active May 27, 2025 10:11
A short tutorial on how to use Vault in your Ansible workflow. Ansible-vault allows you to more safely store sensitive information in a source code repository or on disk.

Working with ansible-vault


I've been using a lot of Ansible lately and while almost everything has been great, finding a clean way to implement ansible-vault wasn't immediately apparent.

What I decided on was the following: put your secret information into a vars file, reference that vars file from your task, and encrypt the whole vars file using ansible-vault encrypt.

Let's use an example: You're writing an Ansible role and want to encrypt the spoiler for the movie Aliens.