Eric Huang titaneric

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.

The netfilter hooks in the kernel and where they hook in the packet flow

The figure below calls out

The netfilter hooks
The order of table traversal

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

Generate ssl certificates with Subject Alt Names on OSX

Open ssl.conf in a text editor.

Edit the domain(s) listed under the [alt_names] section so that they match the local domain name you want to use for your project, e.g.

DNS.1   = my-project.dev

Additional FQDNs can be added if required:

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	## Tiny Syslog Server in Python.
	##
	## This is a tiny syslog server that is able to receive UDP based syslog
	## entries on a specified port and save them to a file.
	## That's it... it does nothing else...
	## There are a few configuration parameters.

	LOG_FILE = 'youlogfile.log'

	# vim style tmux config

	# use C-a, since it's on the home row and easier to hit than C-b
	set-option -g prefix C-a
	unbind-key C-a
	bind-key C-a send-prefix
	set -g base-index 1

	# Easy config reload
	bind-key R source-file ~/.tmux.conf \; display-message "tmux.conf reloaded."

	# On slow systems, checking the cached .zcompdump file to see if it must be
	# regenerated adds a noticable delay to zsh startup. This little hack restricts
	# it to once a day. It should be pasted into your own completion file.
	#
	# The globbing is a little complicated here:
	# - '#q' is an explicit glob qualifier that makes globbing work within zsh's [[ ]] construct.
	# - 'N' makes the glob pattern evaluate to nothing when it doesn't match (rather than throw a globbing error)
	# - '.' matches "regular files"
	# - 'mh+24' matches files (or directories or whatever) that are older than 24 hours.
	autoload -Uz compinit

	# The initial version
	if [ ! -f .env ]
	then
	export $(cat .env \| xargs)
	fi

	# My favorite from the comments. Thanks @richarddewit & others!
	set -a && source .env && set +a