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Cryptographic Best Practices

Putting cryptographic primitives together is a lot like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, where all the pieces are cut exactly the same way, but there is only one correct solution. Thankfully, there are some projects out there that are working hard to make sure developers are getting it right.

The following advice comes from years of research from leading security researchers, developers, and cryptographers. This Gist was [forked from Thomas Ptacek's Gist][1] to be more readable. Additions have been added from

How to setup a practically free CDN

I've been using [Backblaze][bbz] for a while now as my online backup service. I have used a few others in the past. None were particularly satisfactory until Backblaze came along.

It was - still is - keenly priced at a flat $5 (£4) per month for unlimited backup (I've currently got just under half a terabyte backed-up). It has a fast, reliable client. The company itself is [transparent about their operations][trans] and [generous with their knowledge sharing][blog]. To me, this says they understand their customers well. I've never had reliability problems and everything about the outfit exudes a sense of simple, quick, solid quality. The service has even saved the day on a couple of occasions where I've lost files.

Safe to say, I'm a happy customer. If you're not already using Backblaze, [I highly recommend you do][recommend].

Taking on the big boys with B2

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hnq90 / master-javascript-interview.md
Created July 13, 2021 06:39 — forked from Geoff-Ford/master-javascript-interview.md
Eric Elliott's Master the JavaScript Interview Series
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hnq90 / LearnGoIn5mins.md
Created January 6, 2021 06:34 — forked from prologic/LearnGoIn5mins.md
Learn Go in ~5mins
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hnq90 / gist:8385edda720fc252abfd679798d7af02
Created June 11, 2019 01:21 — forked from mikeyk/gist:1329319
Testing storage of millions of keys in Redis
#! /usr/bin/env python
import redis
import random
import pylibmc
import sys
r = redis.Redis(host = 'localhost', port = 6389)
mc = pylibmc.Client(['localhost:11222'])
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hnq90 / .docker_aliases
Created January 30, 2019 02:05 — forked from cjus/.docker_aliases
Docker aliases
#!/bin/sh
alias dm='docker-machine'
alias dmx='docker-machine ssh'
alias dk='docker'
alias dki='docker images'
alias dks='docker service'
alias dkrm='docker rm'
alias dkl='docker logs'
alias dklf='docker logs -f'
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hnq90 / functions.php
Created January 11, 2018 16:52 — forked from yoren/functions.php
Parent Post From Another Post Type And A New URL Structure In WordPress
<?php
// Flush rewrite rules after switch theme
function my_rewrite_flush() {
flush_rewrite_rules();
}
add_action( 'after_switch_theme', 'my_rewrite_flush' );
// A little help so we can get the stylesheet from parent theme
// Remove line 10-19 if this is not a child theme
function my_enqueue_styles() {

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