MacID: Unlock your Mac with Touch ID

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Even though my 27-inch iMac is in my home office and usually not apt to be "played with" by unauthorized personnel other than my cats, I make sure that it auto-locks whenever I'm away from the keyboard for even a few minutes. Of course, that means en...

20 January 2015

Building Services in Go (lcau-2015)

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Sign in Sign up GitHub is home to over 31 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. Sign up Use Git or checkout with SVN using the web URL. Want to be notified of new releases in …

18 January 2015

Add a Telnet server to your iOS app for field debugging and logging

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GCDTelnetServer is a drop-in embedded Telnet server for iOS and OS X apps. * Entirely built using Grand Central Dispatch for best performance and concurrency * Support for ANSI colors with an extension on NSMutableString * Can parse line inputs as…

18 January 2015

What's new in CSS Selectors 4

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Please note that this article is written about an Editor’s Draft of a specification as of January 2015, which means the information may change without notice CSS Selectors Level 4 is the next iteration of the CSS selector spec, the last version of which…

12 January 2015

Cool, but obscure unix tools

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Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install…

12 January 2015

Tips for Intermediate Git Users

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UPDATE: This blog post was originally posted to my blog in November 2009, it hasn’t been updated — but a lot of people find it useful so I wanted to keep it around. Please don’t bother commenting saying “these aren’t intermediate tips any more. I’ve been…

12 January 2015

Ntopng: High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection

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ntopng is the next generation version of the original ntop, a network traffic probe that monitors network usage. ntopng is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform, MacOSX and on Windows as…

10 January 2015