Category: VAULT Links

In the never ending battle between my browser tabs, I am undoubtedly a looser.  I suppose the ideal way to deescalate this situation would be to have a bi-weekly link dump as part of my regular organizational process and maybe that is something I should seriously consider.  At the very least it would help organize these tabs more chronologically then they currently are.

The themes for this dump are common; DevOps, Linux system scripting (primarily in bash), and Android automation.  If that doesn’t clue someone into what I’ve been working on the last couple weeks then nothing can.

Bash Command Line

• Fun with the Unix Command Line – https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1483
• Funny Commands of Linux – https://www.tecmint.com/20-funny-commands-of-linux-or-linux-is-fun-in-terminal/
• Tmux and Vim – https://blog.bugsnag.com/tmux-and-vim/
• Things I wish I Knew about the Linux Command Line – https://linuxacademy.com/blog/linux/ten-things-i-wish-i-knew-earlier-about-the-linux-command-line-2/
• Vim Tutorials, Paste Mode – http://vimcasts.org/episodes/using-vims-paste-mode-with-the-system-paste-command/
• Bash Best Practices – http://kvz.io/blog/2013/11/21/bash-best-practices/
• The Unofficial Bash Strict Mode – http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
• Bash Snippets Master List – https://github.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets
• Command Line Options as Passed Variables – http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/050
• Mastering Bash & Terminal – https://www.blockloop.io/mastering-bash-and-terminal
• Generic for Mocking Standard Bash Commands during Testing – https://pbrisbin.com/posts/mocking_bash/
• dtools -Distributed scripting tools written in pure bash – https://github.com/ajdiaz/dtools
• parallel Replace bash for looks and executing code in parallel – https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
• rat, a tool for making interactive bash applications from existing scripts – https://github.com/ericfreese/rat

SSH & System Tools

• SSH Check Test Tool – https://sshcheck.com/
• Using GPG for SSH Authentication – http://ryanlue.com/posts/2017-06-29-gpg-for-ssh-auth
• SSH CA Validation – https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-an-ssh-ca-to-validate-hosts-and-clients-with-ubuntu
• Duplicity Backups on Fedora – https://fedoramagazine.org/taking-smart-backups-duplicity/
• Welder, Simple Bash Scripting Linux Server Setup – https://github.com/pch/welder

DevOps & Services

• Secret Management Overview – https://medium.com/on-docker/secrets-and-lie-abilities-the-state-of-modern-secret-management-2017-c82ec9136a3d
• KeyWiz – https://github.com/square/keywhizGlusterFS Distributed Data Store – https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• JMESPath Examples for AWS – http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/07/27/advanced-aws-cli-jmespath-query/
• Pseudo-URI Patter & Micro-Services – http://philcalcado.com/2017/03/22/pattern_using_seudo-uris_with_microservices.html
• Transform Data by Example – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/transform-data-by-example/
• Ansible – https://www.ansible.com/quick-start-video
• Welder, Setup Linux servers with shell scripts  – https://github.com/pch/welder
• Open Source Datasets – https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/open-source-datasets/
• casync, a tool for distributed file system images – http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file-system-images.html
• AWS LAambda S3 & Dynamo – http://blog.michaelschmatz.com/2016/04/02/how-to-build-an-image-host-using-aws-lambda-s3-and-dynamo/
• NoSQL Data Models – https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/

Android Dev Tips

• Android Build Cache – https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-cache.html#disable_build_cache
• Cordova Android Platform Guide – https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/platforms/android/
• Cordova Android Platform Hooks – https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/appdev/hooks/index.html
• Grade Build Environment – https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html
• Pro Tips for Jenkins & Android – https://bluefletch.com/blog/pro-tips-for-continuous-integration-with-android-and-jenkins/
• Jenkins Android Auto Deploy Plugin – https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Google+Play+Android+Publisher+Plugin

Tutorials & Projects

• How to Study – http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html
• Effective learning: 20 rules of formulating knowledge – https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules
• HTML5 Game Workshop – https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/html5-games-workshop-make-a-platformer-game-with-javascript/
• Setup a Maleware Analysis Lab – https://blog.christophetd.fr/set-up-your-own-malware-analysis-lab-with-virtualbox-inetsim-and-burp/
• Bootstrap your own Saas – https://medium.com/@cliffordoravec/the-epic-guide-to-bootstrapping-a-saas-startup-from-scratch-by-yourself-part-1-4d834e1df8c1
• Simply Offline Data Store Syncing – http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/05/simple-offline-data-synchronization-for-mobile-web-and-phonegap-applications/
• Life Changing Benifits to a Side Project – https://medium.com/@gammons/the-life-changing-benefits-of-side-projects-5e2fe47a8961
• Web Design in 4 minutes – http://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/
• Create a burner phone with Twilio & Kotlin – https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/07/building-a-fully-featured-burner-phone-with-kotlin.html
• Learning Master-Master Replication on NoSQL Platforms for High Availability – http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/5/3/homegrown-master-master-replication-for-a-nosql-database.html
• Going Paperless with JSON & QR Codes – http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/UsingQR____Electronic__paper_invoices_using_JSON_and_QR_codes.html
• Learn Vim, a 4 Week Plan – https://medium.com/@peterxjang/how-to-learn-vim-a-four-week-plan-cd8b376a9b85

Another link dump building up over time in my browser history.

Linux

• Linux Daemon How-To
• shunit – xUnit test framework for bash
• bats – bash Tap test framework for bash
• Roundup – Bug finder and unit test framework for bash
• ttyrec – Command line recorder, and playback program. Here is the github page.

JavaScript

• Node Inspector a Javascript Node.js debugger – Because I need to get the bugs out… and wasn’t having much luck.
• Node.js Debugging Documentation – Again with the bugs.
• Talking Serial in Node.js
• QRCodes in Javascript
• Execution in the Land of Nouns – Great explanation of why Java developers seem to cause me so many headaches. Functional vs Object Oriented design decisions.
• Express REPL – If your programming language doesn’t have a REPL you are doing it wrong.
• Real-time Off-line JavaScript
• Restify – Build correct RESTful web-services in Node.js
• MEAN stack with Couchdb – Tutorial using MEAN, Angular, and Express to build a Couchdb based web application.
• Authentication REST API – Using Angular and Node to create a RESTful API for authentication.
• Node.js Linux App Deployment – High level overview of getting your Node app running on Linux (CentOS or Ubuntu).

Software Development

• Starting a startup Video series
• git.io Programmatic Interface
• Alerts best practices
• Mirage OS – Mini-VM images for running single process servers instances (i.e. static webpages.)
• CMkae – Probably what I should have done instead of building and autoconfig setup.
• Vim HTML 101 – Baiscs on doing html design with VIm.
• Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programming – The classic work now available for free online.
• Crypto 101 – Walk though of all the basic software development building blocks cryptography.  Create your own block cipher, and then hack it… etc.
• CPU Flamegraphs – Amazing way to display system utilization to debug process intensive application stacks.  It is aways awesome what the right display allows you to see.
• SICP – Why is it still important.  A commentary on the most important computer science class ever developed.
• MIT OpenCourseware – Freely available classes from the most important Software Engineering school in the history of the world.  No 36 ACT required.
• Imperative vs Declarative – Good overview between the differences of the two methodologies.  Particularly aimed at non-science engineers.
• Functional Programming in 5 Minutes – Or more accurately, some functional programming concepts in about 15 minutes.
• The CHECKS Pattern – Information integrity and data verification inside form submissions.

Management

• Getting Things Done in 15 minutes – Nice guide to getting started with GTD.
• Cyph – Encrypted private text and video chat.  Perfect for executive teams and foreign dignitaries.
• Debt Supercycle vs Secular Stagnation – A generalised theory on the cause of global economic slowdowns.  This is NOT a 2 minute bullshit explanation from a politician.
• Project Management Track – A Cousera Introduction to Project Management track I am looking at for training up some co-workers interested in pursuing a PMP.

Nethack Spoilers

After 15 years of trying to beat this game without using spoilers I have given up.  Here are some of the more useful links I have found.

• Maniac’s Ascension Guide – Step by step suggestions for first time ascenders.
• Nethackwiki – Just exactly like what is sounds.

Cheatsheet of some of the more useful vim commands I have run into lately:

• ci(, ci{, ci<, ci", ci' – Delete and insert into text between (, {, <, “, etc.. brackets.  Really useful for things like function arguments and quoted text.
• ca(, ca{, ca<, etc... - Same as above but removed the "bracket" as well.

• yi(, di{, va<, .. – Yank content between ( and ), delete content betwen { and }, select content between < and > including brackets, etc..
• ZZ – Quick same/close, works the same as :x.
• * – Search for word under the cursor.
• gv – Re-select previous selection block
• q<letter> & @<same letter> – Record a macro with q (named letter) and play it back with @.

Cloud:

• BitTorrent Sync – Multiple source file syncing using bit torrent client.  Thank of it as headless Dropbox.
• Own Cloud – Open Source personnel cloud solution. Includes things like data, music, contacts, calendar and can even be used by multiple clients. Even set it up on your own server.
• SparkleShare – Dropbox like functionality on Linux, Mac, and Windows systems. Includes versioning as well.
• Gmail Forwarder –  Correctly configure gmail when using your own smtp settings, domain, and email forwarder.
• Github For Everything – Using Github to manage everything in your company; from your hiring process to your internal documentation.
• Using Gnu Stow – Stow is a open source tool for managing your dotfiles in a universal way across multiple machines.  This also simplifies the process of using a version control system to track your dotfile history.
• Git-Annex – Headless, versions, unlimited, decentralized file syncronization for Unix systems.  Based on Git and includes a mobile app.  Possibly the best replacement for Dropbox available anywhere.

App Dev

• Apple App Distribution – All 100 freggin pages of it.  Includes beta testing and is almost like developing software back in the 90’s.
• Android App Distribution – Eight pages and you can even using Google Groups to manage your beta test groups.  Includes automatic updates.
• Ruby Rack nginx – Very clean, very simple example of setting up a Ruby Rack nginx configuration.
• Source Code Comments – A list of the most humorous source code comments people have read.
• Testing Code, Simply – I love this post.  Best simplification of how/why TDD should be used.  The examples can even be modified to allow testing of things like Bash or VBA.

Bash & SSH

• More cool bash commands and shortcuts.
• Need a web server, how about a single line of bash.

  while true; do { echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; cat index.html; } | nc -l 8080; done

• Resetting an unresponsive SSH session.

  newline ~.

• Setting up SSH to use shared concurrent connections.  Came from a tutorial on speeding up Git, but useful everywhere.
• More SSH Awesomeness – This was how I learned ssh-copy-id.  Lots of other amazing advice.
• Improve SSH Key Security – Things to do AFTER you have placed a passphrase on your SSH keys.  You have done, at least, that?  Right??
• Passing SSH commands in git clone – Stackoverflow reponse on how to configure .ssh/config options for specific hosts.  They, in tern, get picked up by git.

Go

• Go Tutorial Exercises – I have really enjoyed GO lately.  C language power with a language actually built for multi-core processors in a network connected world.
• Effective Go FAQ – Some really great tutorials and information for developers trying out a new language.
• Hermans Go – Project Euler solutions written in Go.  Great example code for learning algorithms in Go.

Vim

• Nouns & Version – Understanding the basic structure of how VIM works.
• Colons are Bad – How to stop using colon commands in VIM.
• YADR – Sample dot files, vimrc, git support and other useful vim tools.
• Vim Bookmarks – How to use and manage bookmarks in Vim.
• Yankstack – A plugin to give kill ring capabilities to the Vim.
• Block Shift – Visual block shifting in Vim.  Tab and un-tabbing, spacing, and block selections are all covered.
• Vim Adventures – Learn Vim while playing a video game.
• Awesome Vimrc – That is the name its developer gave it, not mine.  Still, it is a pretty cool, VERY clean vimrc file that has a lot of good examples in it.  Also can be found on github.

Misc

• Programming Books – List of freely available programming books.
• Effing Package Manager – Create rpm, deb package building directly from gems and bundler.
• View your Axciom Data – Axciom is one of the largest data brokers of personnel information on the planet.  This website allows you to see the data that Axciom has on you.  The downside?  They get to keep the data you have to submit to see the data they already have.
• Large Distributed System – Advice from people who build Google.
• Faynmen Lectures on Physics – Everything you have ever wanted to know about almost everything that we think we know.
• Nginx Secure Configuration – Setting up and securing nginx with ssl.
• Debugging Broken postinst on Debian – Basically the postinst file gets installed anyway, so you just need to edit it on the semi-installed machine and then run it again… until it is fixed.
• Bruce Schneier’s Sept 2013 Cryptogram –  Read this if you want a better explanation of why you should be VERY VERY afraid of what the NSA and large internet companies are doing.  Some articles are very technical but others are surprisingly approachable to the lay person.