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System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

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Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

	<?php
	require "vendor/autoload.php";
	use Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth;

	// You can get all these via https://dev.twitter.com/
	$consumer_key = "";
	$consumer_secret = "";
	$access_token = "";
	$access_token_secret = "";
	$user_id = 0; // Twitter user ID

	###
	###
	### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script:
	### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
	### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
	### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
	### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win \| iex
	###
	### OR take a look at
	### https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security

	* {
	font-size: 12pt;
	font-family: monospace;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: black;
	cursor: default;
	}

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	"""
	Rudimentary Spotify Web Proxy using mitmproxy.
	Use it by your own responsibility!!
	This was only entertainment!!
	"""

	import random
	import hashlib