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The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: "what the fuck is going on?"

IMPORTANT NOTE:

It's come to my attention that some people have been spamming issue trackers with a link to this gist. While it's a good idea to inform people of the situation in principle, please do not do this. By all means spread the word in the communities that you are a part of, after verifying that they are not aware yet, but unsolicited spam is not helpful. It will just frustrate people.

Update 3 (May 24, 2021)

A number of things have happened since the last update.

@shoogle
shoogle / qt-without-xcode.md
Last active August 13, 2024 09:48
Qt without XCode - how to use Qt Creator for macOS software development without installing XCode

Qt without Xcode

How to use Qt Creator for software development on macOS without having to install Xcode

Justification

Qt refuses to install on macOS unless Apple's Xcode is installed beforehand. This is unfortunate because:

@jpswade
jpswade / devops_best_practices.md
Last active November 18, 2024 02:16
Devops Best Practices Checklist

Find the original here article here: Devops Best Practices

DevOps started out as "Agile Systems Administration". In 2008, at the Agile Conference in Toronto, Andrew Shafer posted an offer to moderate an ad hoc "Birds of a Feather" meeting to discuss the topic of "Agile Infrastructure". Only one person showed up to discuss the topic: Patrick Debois. Their discussions and sharing of ideas with others advanced the concept of "agile systems administration". Debois and Shafer formed an Agile Systems Administrator group on Google, with limited success. Patrick Debois did a presentation called "Infrastructure and Operations" addressing

@evancz
evancz / data-interchange.md
Last active October 31, 2024 12:01
Why do I have to write JSON decoders in Elm?

A vision for data interchange in Elm

How do you send information between clients and servers? What format should that information be in? What happens when the server changes the format, but the client has not been updated yet? What happens when the server changes the format, but the database cannot be updated?

These are difficult questions. It is not just about picking a format, but rather picking a format that can evolve as your application evolves.

Literature Review

By now there are many approaches to communicating between client and server. These approaches tend to be known within specific companies and language communities, but the techniques do not cross borders. I will outline JSON, ProtoBuf, and GraphQL here so we can learn from them all.

@JamieMason
JamieMason / list-remote-git-branches-merged-into-master.js
Created February 23, 2017 15:12
List all remote git branches which have been merged into master and can be safely deleted.
const chalk = require('chalk');
const execa = require('execa');
const SPLIT = '~~~~';
execa('git', [
'for-each-ref',
'--sort=-committerdate',
'--sort=-authoremail',
'refs/remotes/',
'--merged',
@lukas-h
lukas-h / license-badges.md
Last active November 11, 2024 03:22
Markdown License Badges for your Project

Markdown License badges

Collection of License badges for your Project's README file.
This list includes the most common open source and open data licenses.
Easily copy and paste the code under the badges into your Markdown files.

Notes

  • The badges do not fully replace the license informations for your projects, they are only emblems for the README, that the user can see the License at first glance.

Translations: (No guarantee that the translations are up-to-date)

@RichardBronosky
RichardBronosky / pep8_cheatsheet.py
Created December 27, 2015 06:25
PEP-8 cheatsheet
#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""This module's docstring summary line.
This is a multi-line docstring. Paragraphs are separated with blank lines.
Lines conform to 79-column limit.
Module and packages names should be short, lower_case_with_underscores.
Notice that this in not PEP8-cheatsheet.py
@Khoulaiz
Khoulaiz / gist:41b387883a208d6e914b
Last active August 30, 2024 01:05
Checking ports without telnet

Here are several different ways to test a TCP port without telnet.

$ cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
^C

$ cat &lt; /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/23
# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.
@grugq
grugq / gist:03167bed45e774551155
Last active October 30, 2024 02:44
operational pgp - draft

Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.