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@ragingwind
ragingwind / Backend Architectures Keywords and References.md
Last active October 22, 2025 20:58
Backend Architectures Keywords and References
@vrypan
vrypan / dyndns53.py
Last active August 12, 2021 21:43
Python script to add/update an A record at amazon area53 DNS service, using current IP. (ie, dyndns replacement)
from area53 import route53
from boto.route53.exception import DNSServerError
import requests
import sys
from datetime import datetime
# Modified from https://markcaudill.me/blog/2012/07/dynamic-route53-dns-updating-with-python/
domain = 'domain.tld'
subdomain = 'subdomain_name'
@tshirtman
tshirtman / Ground_(front_layer).png
Created October 10, 2012 22:37
This gist show how to build a scrolling and repeating background with kivy
Ground_(front_layer).png
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@jjb
jjb / gist:996292
Created May 27, 2011 22:11
How to securely acquire the Mozilla root certificate bundle for use with curl, Net::HTTP, etc.

If you want to use curl or net-http/open-uri to access https resources, you will often (always?) get an error, because they don't have the large number of root certificates installed that web browsers have.

You can manually install the root certs, but first you have to get them from somewhere. This article gives a nice description of how to do that. The source of the cert files it points to is hosted by the curl project, who kindly provide it in the .pem format.

problem: Sadly, ironically, and comically, it's not possible to access that file via https! Luckily, the awesome curl project does provide us with the script that they use to produce the file, so we can do it securely ourselves. Here's how.

  1. git clone https://github.com/bagder/curl.git
  2. cd curl/lib
  3. edit mk-ca-bundle.pl and change: