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edthrn / recovery.gpg
Created October 27, 2025 18:04
Disaster Recovery
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edthrn / aes.sh
Last active August 30, 2025 11:08
AES encryption/decryption using openssl
#!/bin/bash
function encrypt {
input=$1
echo "Encrypting $input..."
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -iter 800000 -in "$input" -out cipher.bin
echo "Encrypted file saved to: $(pwd)/cypher.bin"
}
function decrypt {
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edthrn / Strong_Opinions_Weakly_Held.md
Created November 30, 2024 12:29
Paul Saffo's Essay / Strong Opinions weakly held

Strong Opinions weakly held

Orginally posted on 07.26.02008 by Paul Saffo, at https://saffo.com

The point of forecasting is not to attempt illusory certainty, but to identify the full range of possible outcomes. Try as one might, when one looks into the future, there is no such thing as “complete” information, much less a “complete” forecast. As a consequence, I have found that the fastest way to an effective forecast is often through a sequence of lousy forecasts. Instead of withholding judgment until an exhaustive search for data is complete, I will force myself to make a tentative forecast based on the information available, and then systematically tear it apart, using the insights gained to guide my search for further indicators and information. Iterate the process a few times, and it is surprising how quickly one can get to a useful forecast.

Since the mid-1980s, my mantra for this process is “strong opinions, weakly held.” Allow your intuition to guide you to a conclusion, no matter how imperfec

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edthrn / redis.clj
Created February 20, 2021 16:27 — forked from ragnard/redis.clj
Using Redis for persistent memoization of Clojure functions
(ns util.redis
(:refer-clojure :exclude [memoize])
(:require [taoensso.carmine :as car]))
;; boilerplate stuff that is not in Carmine
(def ^:dynamic ^:private *pool*)
(def ^:dynamic ^:private *spec*)
(defmacro with-redis
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edthrn / remove-from-git.sh
Created February 10, 2021 20:15
Remove old data from Git repo and Git history
# Taken from https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository
# Warning:
# --------
# All stashes may be lost!
PATH_TO_REMOVE=big-folder/commited/by/error
# 1. Force Git to process, but not check out, the entire history of every branch and tag
# 2. Remove the specified file, as well as any empty commits generated as a result
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edthrn / pw.sh
Last active November 20, 2019 20:31
Put a password stored in `1password` to clipboard
# Usage: ./pw.sh Github.com
op get item $1 | jq -r '.details.fields[] | select(.designation=="password").value' | xclip -selection c
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edthrn / humansorted.py
Last active August 16, 2019 15:57
Sorting for humans with Python
# Inspired by https://blog.codinghorror.com/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order/
# Adding a `key` argument so we can expect the same behaviour as the builtin `sorted`
import re
def humansorted(seq, key=None):
"""Return the sequence in the order that a human being expects.
If `key` is provided, as per the built-in `sorted` function, it must be a
callable that accepts a single argument.
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edthrn / execute.py
Last active January 26, 2023 18:08
Execute Shell command on EC2 Linux instance with Python and Boto3
# Following https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34028219/how-to-execute-commands-on-aws-instance-using-boto3
import boto3
ssm = boto3.client('ssm')
response = ssm.send_command(
InstanceIds=['i-abcde12345...'],
DocumentName='AWS-RunShellScript',
Parameters={'commands': ['echo "This command ran on $(date)"']
)
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edthrn / sync-postgres-db.md
Last active July 23, 2019 00:45
Sync content from one Postgres database to another

Say we have a database A hosted at my.first.database.com loaded with data, and we want to replicate this data over database B, located at my.second.database.com. We suppose database A and B have identical schemas, and both databases are accessible via port 5432.

Dump content from database A

 pg_dump --data-only \
 -h my.first.database.com \
 -U {database_user} \
 -f /tmp/dump.sql \
 -T={table pattern to exclude [optional]} \
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edthrn / execute_shell_ec2.py
Last active June 23, 2019 16:57
Execute shell commands in EC2 with SSM
"""
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/manage-instances-at-scale-without-ssh-access-using-ec2-run-command/
https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/ssm.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34028219/how-to-execute-commands-on-aws-instance-using-boto3
"""
import boto3
# Need AWS credentials in ~/.aws...
ssm = boto3.client('ssm')