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wanglf / vscode-extension-offline.md
Last active February 6, 2026 15:08
Download VS Code extensions as VSIX

How to use?

  • Copy content of vsix-bookmarklet, create a bookmark in your browser.
  • Navigate to the web page of the VS Code extension you want to install.
  • Click the bookmark you just created, then click the download button.
    download
  • After download finished, rename the file extension to *.vsix.
  • In VS Code, select Install from VSIX... in the extension context menu.
    vsc
@paulera
paulera / exploding-cards.md
Last active September 13, 2024 04:06
Exploding cards: Explodding Kittens variant, with regular playing cards

Exploding cards

This is a variant of the Exploding Kittens game rules, using regular playing cards

  • 1 deck: 3 to 8 players
  • 2 decks: up to 16 players

Objective

The last survivor wins the game. If you draw a Bomb card and don't have a Disarm card, you die.

Preparing the game

@briansmith
briansmith / how-to-generate-and-use-private-keys-with-openssl-tool.md
Last active October 6, 2025 11:37
How to generate & use private keys using the OpenSSL command line tool

How to Generate & Use Private Keys using OpenSSL's Command Line Tool

These commands generate and use private keys in unencrypted binary (not Base64 “PEM”) PKCS#8 format. The PKCS#8 format is used here because it is the most interoperable format when dealing with software that isn't based on OpenSSL.

OpenSSL has a variety of commands that can be used to operate on private key files, some of which are specific to RSA (e.g. openssl rsa and openssl genrsa) or which have other limitations. Here we always use

@fideloper
fideloper / update_curl.sh
Last active December 15, 2025 05:03
Update curl on Ubuntu 14.04
#! /usr/bin/env bash
# Install any build dependencies needed for curl
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
# Get latest (as of Feb 25, 2016) libcurl
mkdir ~/curl
cd ~/curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.50.2.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf curl-7.50.2.tar.bz2
@72lions
72lions / concat.array.buffers.js
Created January 14, 2013 09:22
Concatenates two ArrayBuffers
/**
* Creates a new Uint8Array based on two different ArrayBuffers
*
* @private
* @param {ArrayBuffers} buffer1 The first buffer.
* @param {ArrayBuffers} buffer2 The second buffer.
* @return {ArrayBuffers} The new ArrayBuffer created out of the two.
*/
var _appendBuffer = function(buffer1, buffer2) {
var tmp = new Uint8Array(buffer1.byteLength + buffer2.byteLength);
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active February 10, 2026 15:32
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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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