For boring technical reasons, computers think the world began on 1st of January 1970. To keep track of the future, they count the number of seconds since that momentous date. So zero seconds represents midnight on that day. So how do computers deal with dates before The Beatles' Abbey Road was top of the UK album charts? Negative numbers! Most modern computers can deal with dates far in the…| Terence Eden’s Blog
We explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy.| ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Notes from Jeroen
Upload files with ease using CURL. Our step-by-step guide shows you how to do it quickly and efficiently. Start uploading your files today!| Filestack Blog
Hacker News doesn’t send Webmentions when a post is created like Lobste.rs will, and there’s not currently a service on sites like Brid.gy that will provide them for you. Even the Hacker News API doesn’t provide search or filtering by site. Luckily, there is a service provided by Algolia that ...| Hearthside by Caleb Hearth
I got around to troubleshooting a Python process running in Docker that had some permission problems accessing Google Storage Reproing inside Python with google-cloud-storage was a bit bothersome, and installing the gcloud cli on an Ubuntu-based Docker image takes too much effort on an ephemeral container (if I change stuff, I need to create a new container and I’ll have to reinstall it all over again). I was looking for something that is both easy to run, and doesn’t require me to modify...| BackSlasher
Base64 encoding a string may seem like a straight-forward operation, but there are a couple of gotchas even when dealing with just simple ASCII strings. Avoid embedding a new line character into the encoding If you use the most straight forward method of Base64 encoding shown below, you have to remember that echo by default ... Bash: avoiding newline artifacts when Base64 encoding a string| fabianlee.org
I use Icinga to monitor the availability of my Debian/OpenWRT/etc machines. I have relied on server-side checks on the Icinga system that monitor the externally visible operations of the services that I care about. In theory, monitoring externally visible properties Continue reading Passive Icinga Checks: icinga-pusher→| Simon Josefsson's blog
Curl is a powerful tool that is mainly used to transfer data. It has way more functions, but I won't be able to cover everything. This blog post is mainly a reference for later use and not a step-by-step guide. Therefore I won't cover everything in depth. Most of it should work on other operating systems too, but I'll use Linux as reference. I'll keep this page up-to-date and add more topics in the future. General # Side note: put the URL into single or double quotes if it contains special ch...| ITTavern.com
A client side fix for SSL issues with httr and Ensembl| msmith.de
Cloudinary is an amazing image hosting service that offers both a highly functional free tier in addition to a paid enterprise grade image hosting and transformation service. In this tutorial I demonstrate a few simple bash shell scripts to interface with Cloudinary.| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog