thoughtpolice

{
    "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",

    "Description" : "FoundationDB CloudFormation Test. **WARNING** This template creates one or more Amazon EC2 instances. You will be billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack from this template.",

    "Parameters" : {
        "InstanceType" : {
            "Description" : "EC2 instance type",
            "Type" : "String",
            "Default" : "m1.large",

jessfraz

Freezer cgroup FTW

In a terminal start a server.

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

In another terminal set up the cgroups freezer.

ptarjan

Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

dain

# To regenerate the test key and certificates

# Generate an RSA private key and convert it to PKCS8 wraped in PEM
openssl genrsa 2048 | openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -inform pem -outform pem -nocrypt -out rsa.key
# Generate a certificate signing request with the private key
openssl req -new -key rsa.key -out rsa.csr
# Sign request with private key
openssl x509 -req -days 10000 -in rsa.csr -signkey rsa.key -out rsa.crt

rmondello

Exporting (iCloud) Keychain and Safari credentials to a CSV file

Update (October 2021)

Exporting password + one-time code data from iCloud Keychain is now officially supported in macOS Monterey and Safari 15 (for Monterey, Big Sur, and Catalina). You can access it in the Password Manager’s “gear” icon (System Preferences > Passwords on Monterey, and Safari > Passwords everywhere else), or via the File > Export > Passwords... menu item). You shouldn't need to hack up your own exporter anymore.

Original, Obsolete Content (2014)

After my dad died, I wanted to be able to have access any of his online accounts going forward. My dad was a Safari user and used iCloud Keychain to sync his credentials across his devices. I don’t want to have to keep an OS X user account around just to access his accounts, so I wanted to export his credentials to a portable file.

freeformz

A slightly updated version of this doc is here on my website.

Why I Like Go

I visited with PagerDuty yesterday for a little Friday beer and pizza. While there I got started talking about Go. I was asked by Alex, their CEO, why I liked it. Several other people have asked me the same question recently, so I figured it was worth posting.

Goroutines

The first 1/2 of Go's concurrency story. Lightweight, concurrent function execution. You can spawn tons of these if needed and the Go runtime multiplexes them onto the configured number of CPUs/Threads as needed. They start with a super small stack that can grow (and shrink) via dynamic allocation (and freeing). They are as simple as go f(x), where f() is a function.

anacrolix

Syntax

• Infix?
• Whitespace-aware, but not required (implicit {})

Features

• Static single assignment

juliangruber

Distributed Datastore

Building a distributed database/api on an eventually consistent distribution mechanism like scuttlebutt.

Data model

There are users and (possibly anonymous) posts with permalinks that only take strings/buffers.

Think of information you...