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Configure Git to use a proxy

In Brief

You may need to configure a proxy server if you're having trouble cloning or fetching from a remote repository or getting an error like unable to access '...' Couldn't resolve host '...'.

Consider something like:

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

If you're not familiar: What is fail2ban? fail2ban is an awesome linux service/monitor that scans log files (e.g. auth.log for SSH) for potentially malicious behavior. Once fail2ban is tripped it will ban users for a specified duration by adding rules to Iptables. If you're unfamiliar with fail2ban Chris Fidao has a wonderful (& free!) series about security including setting up fail2ban here.

Recently Laravel released a new feature in 5.1 to throttle authentication attempts by simply adding a trait to your authentication controller. The Laravel throttle trait uses the inputted username, and IP address to throttle attempts. I love seeing this added to a framework out of the box, but what about some of our other apps not built on Laravel? Like a WordPress login? Or even an open API etc.? Ultimately,

Golang Workers / Job Queue

A running example of the code from:

This gist creates a working example from blog post, and a alternate example using simple worker pool.

TLDR: if you want simple and controlled concurrency use a worker pool.

From Symfony 2.3 to Symfony 2.7: the complete guide

Objectives

assume your code doesn't use any deprecated from versions below Symfony 2.3
update dependencies from 2.3 to 2.7
do not support "deprecated", be "Symfony3-ready"
list tasks component by component, bundle by bundle.

	/*

	This example demonstrates how to load SystemJS and use npm deps from scratch in the browser

	About SystemJS : https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs

	- first loads SystemJS runtime from CDN with a script tag (same as if you add it with a script tag in the html)
	- then loads some npm dependencies using SystemJS
	- finally use react to add some component to the page

	<?php
	// app/AppKernel.php

	use Symfony\Component\Config\Loader\LoaderInterface;
	use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;

	class AppKernel extends Kernel
	{
	public function registerBundles()
	{

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"sync"
	)

	func gen(done <-chan struct{}, nums ...int) <-chan int {
	out := make(chan int)
	go func() {

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net"
	"os"
	"strings"

	package main

	import (
	"bufio"
	"encoding/csv"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"