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Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

September 2022:

This has spread to a far wider audience than I had anticipated - probably my fault for using a title that is in hindsight catnip for link aggregators. I wrote this back in 2021 just as a bunch of personal thoughts of my experiences using Rust over the years (not always well thought through), and don't intend on trying to push them further, outside of personal experiments and projects.

Managing a living language is challenging and difficult work, and I am grateful for all the hard work that the Rust community and contributors put in given the difficult constraints they work within. Many of the things I listed below are not new, and there's been plenty of difficult discussions about many of them over the years, and some are being worked on or postponed, or rejected for various good reasons. For more thoughts, please see my comment below.

My personal list of Rust gr

Fastify did 6K RPS (Request per Second)
Netty did 23K RPS (Request Per Second)
Actix did 53K RPS (Request Per Second)

Actix 1ms latency
Netty 4ms latency
Fastify 14ms latency

npm install -g autocannon

OpenSSL Cheat Sheet 🔐

Install

Install the OpenSSL on Debian based systems

sudo apt-get install openssl

Story

In needed include base64 encoded simple image into HTML page in two formats:

1st as PNG format has length 196 characters and looks like this:

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2nd as CUR format has length 1536 characters and looks like this:

`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

This example queries data from CARTO, uses the geolocation API to get the user's position, and finds the nearest three features.

Note: geolocation appears blocked within bl.ocks.org.

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)

Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

	import EXIF from 'exif-js';

	const hasBlobConstructor = typeof (Blob) !== 'undefined' && (function checkBlobConstructor() {
	try {
	return Boolean(new Blob());
	} catch (error) {
	return false;
	}
	}());

	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates -y
	sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
	sudo echo deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get purge lxc-docker
	sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r) -y
	sudo apt-get install docker-engine cgroup-lite apparmor -y
	sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER
	sudo service docker start

	# PowerView's last major overhaul is detailed here: http://www.harmj0y.net/blog/powershell/make-powerview-great-again/
	# tricks for the 'old' PowerView are at https://gist.github.com/HarmJ0y/3328d954607d71362e3c

	# the most up-to-date version of PowerView will always be in the dev branch of PowerSploit:
	# https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit/blob/dev/Recon/PowerView.ps1

	# New function naming schema:
	# Verbs:
	# Get : retrieve full raw data sets
	# Find : ‘find’ specific data entries in a data set