Gg – Git Shortcuts, Colored Outputs, and More

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gg helps you work with git more efficiently, saving you keystrokes for your most prized projects. Think of gg as a wrapper for the git commands that you run all the time; a wrapper that adds functionality and is aesthetically pleasing. There's more to…

8 March 2015

Ask HN: Designing Useful Dashboards

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I've set myself a side project to scrape and display car hire price data, to compare suppliers and trends. I've never done this before and my original goal was to play & learn new skills - but the challenge has become displaying this information in a…

8 March 2015

Performance Tuning Linux Instances on EC2

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17 Jan 2018 » How To Measure the Working Set Size on Linux home At the last AWS re:Invent, I gave a talk on "Performance Tuning EC2 Instances", where I showed how my team (Performance and Reliability Engineering) tunes Linux EC2 instances at Netflix.…

4 March 2015

Chalk – Colorize your terminal output

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* Used by ~40,000 packages as of March 1, 2019 $ npm install chalk const chalk = require('chalk'); console.log(chalk.blue('Hello world!')); Chalk comes with an easy to use composable API where you just chain and nest the styles you want. const chalk =…

4 March 2015

The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world

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HTTP2 will mean a change in how we should build websites. The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world. HTTP1 is slow and inefficient for the majority of today's use cases on the web. HTTP1.x is the version of HTTP we are all familiar with.…

3 March 2015

Milo Casagrande: Make nginx Return a JSON Response

Planet Ubuntu

This is more of a “write here so I do not forget” kind of post. I set out trying to make a simple “maintenance” mode for a REST API (that speaks only JSON) without having to handle it in the code base. nginx has a really cool support for maintenance mode…

2 March 2015

Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords

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The primary purpose of a password is to serve as an unique verification identifier for a given user. Ideally, the password for a given website or service should be both random and unique; if the letters and/or numbers in the password follow any patterns,…

27 February 2015