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@isaacs
isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active March 1, 2026 06:00
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
@n8v
n8v / check_tap.pl
Created June 2, 2011 21:49
Nagios Plugin for checking Test Anything Protocol (TAP) output
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
### check_tap.pl
# By Nathan Vonnahme, n8v at users dot sourceforge dot net, June 2 2011
# Allows Nagios to check the output of anything that emits Test Anything
# Protocol.
# See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol
@michiel
michiel / cors-nginx.conf
Created July 5, 2011 10:41
Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
# Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
location / {
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
#
@acdha
acdha / curl-ttfb.sh
Created November 28, 2011 23:03
Use curl to measure and report HTTP response times (pre-, start- and total transfer)
#!/bin/bash
#
# Report time to first byte for the provided URL using a cache buster to ensure
# that we're measuring full cold-cache performance
while (($#)); do
echo $1
curl -so /dev/null -H "Pragma: no-cache" -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" \
-w "%{http_code}\tPre-Transfer: %{time_pretransfer}\tStart Transfer: %{time_starttransfer}\tTotal: %{time_total}\tSize: %{size_download}\n" \
"$1?`date +%s`"
#!/bin/sh
set -e
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
ruby-build --definitions
exit 1
fi
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
rev=1
# Do a bunch of shit that should only happen at initial setup
# file: cookbooks/foo/recipes/bootstrap.rb
# initial runlist role[foo],recipe[foo::bootstrap]
# useful for downloading an initial codebase of an application
# as opposed to attempting to reinstall each time
ruby_block "remove_bootstrap_recipe" do
block do
Chef::Log.info("Removing foo boostrap from runlist")
node.run_list.remove("recipe[foo::bootstrap]") if node.run_list.include?("recipe[foo::bootstrap]")
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active March 31, 2026 17:03
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@russss
russss / graphite-jenkins.py
Created June 7, 2012 10:46
Quick script to send Jenkins successful build durations to Graphite
#!/usr/bin/env python
""" Sends Jenkins build duration statistics to Graphite. """
import requests
import json
from graphite import Graphite # This is our closed-source library but you get the idea.
JENKINS_URL='http://jenkins'
GRAPHITE_HOST='10.x.x.x'
GRAPHITE_PREFIX='jenkins.main.build_time.'
@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active March 30, 2026 05:29
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

These are only examples, for a few very common actions. You are expected to write your own rules for the rest. The syntax is regular JavaScript, but see the polkit(8) manpage for the object structure and available API. These examples are for polkit versions 106 and later, with the JS interpreter. They won't work with Debian's polkit v105.

  • If you don't know the action name, either run pkaction and look for anything similar:

    pkaction | grep cups
    

    ...or try to perform the actual action, cancel it, then look in your system logs:

    journalctl -t polkitd -n 10 | grep action