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Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

How to create self-signed SSL certificates for localhost

Option 1

Create a directory in your user root directory where we will store the necessary generated files.

$ cd ~/
$ mkdir .localhost
$ cd .localhost

Now run this single command and you will have both a certificate and private key which was used to sign the certificate.

PM2 as a Windows Service under Local Service

Written for jon-hall/pm2-windows-service#3

This is a PoC for running PM2 as a Windows Service under the Local Service account instead of the Local System account.

Prerequsites

Neither pm2 or pm2-windows-service installed yet. (The Powershell script will run npm i)
- At the very least, you should run pm2-service-uninstall before running this script
npm and npm-cache global folders should be somewhere accessible to NT AUTHORITY\LocalService.
- Instructions for moving them to C:\ProgramData\

Need to do this in both php.ini files !!!

Attention Wamp/Wordpress/windows users. I had this issue for hours and not even the correct answer was doing it for me, because I was editing the wrong php.ini file because the question was answered to XAMPP and not for WAMP users, even though the question was for WAMP.

here's what I did

Download the certificate bundle.

Put it inside of C:\wamp64\bin\php\your php version\extras\ssl

How to Install Homebrew on Debian-based Distros

Steps required to install Homebrew on MX Linux (and other Debian-based distros)

Steps

Update apt cache and optionally do a full upgrade
```
 apt update
```

apt full-upgrade # optional, reboot if needed

	import click
	from pathlib import Path
	import pdfplumber
	import pandas as pd
	from pandas import ExcelWriter


	def to_excel(path, output_path):
	with pdfplumber.open(path) as pdf:
	data = []


	# ref to open stack rc containing envvars and credentials
	OPENSTACKRC=./openstackrc.sh


	#
	# Functions
	#

	connect(){

	# See http://superuser.com/questions/14403/how-can-i-download-an-entire-website
	# You can install wget in mac with brew.
	wget --mirror -p --html-extension --convert-links www.example.com