Discover gists

方法一：
为 PowerShell 设置代理，命令如下：

$Env:http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:7890";
$Env:https_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:7890";

这是临时命令，重新代理终端需要重新输入
如果想要永久设置代理，建议使用自定义配置，使每次代理 PowerShell 窗口时，运行如上命令：

在 PowerShell 窗口中运行如下指令：

Usage:

```
$ mkdir RHEL9Doc
$ cd RHEL9Doc
$ fetchdoc.sh https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9
```

Prerequirement: curl, GNU Parallel

2024-11-21: fix for docs.redhat.com update

DHCP setup of a single node

TL;DR Set up your sole node Proxmox VE install as any other server - with DHCP assigned IP address. Useful when IPs are managed as static reservations or dynamic environments. No pesky scripting involved.

ORIGINAL POST DHCP setup of a single node

Run shell script on gist

Shells that support process substitution such as bash and zsh allow to run shell script on gist as follows.

# With curl:
bash <(curl -sL ${GIST_URL}) args...

# With wget:

Ruby: The future of frozen string literals

What is a literal?

In programming languages, literals are textual representations of values in the source code. This is a syntactical concept.

Some examples:

7 # integer literal

A brief example on how to use npx to run gist based scripts.

Read the article here https://neutrondev.com/npm-vs-npx-whats-the-difference/ or watch it on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSHWc8RTJug

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

Clean Up Unused GitHub Repositories!

Delete all unused repositories and forgotten forks in 6 (semi)-automatic steps!

Ugh. Github forces me to type my password for every fork and repository I want to delete. That’s smart and all, but what if one wants to mass-delete a bunch of old, unused, forgotten, dirty little repositories that make his repository list look like a mess? well, that person follows this short guide:

[1.] Open in a new tab all to-be-deleted github repositores (Use the mouse’s middle click)

https://github.com/wildeyes?tab=repositories

0. Introduction

This looks at installing Windows 11 on a HP Z640.

1. Starting point

The PC had Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.4474) installed.

Updated the BIOS to the latest version M60 v02.62 01/04/2024 and enabled secure boot.

	## I just ran into this after initializing a Visual Studio project _before_ adding a .gitignore file (like an idiot).
	## I felt real dumb commiting a bunch of files I didn't need to, so the commands below should do the trick. The first two commands
	## came from the second answer on this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7527982/applying-gitignore-to-committed-files

	# See the unwanted files:
	git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard

	# Remove the unwanted files:
	git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard -z \| xargs -0 git rm --cached