Praveen Durairaju praveenweb

Caution

As of April 7th 2026, Discord has expressed their intent to crack down on automating quest completion.

Some users have received the following system message:

Use the script at your own risk.

Complete Recent Discord Quest

Had 15 github followers in 2019? You can get about $4kAUD of crypto for minimal effort.

Explain this scam

That's legitimately a good default position to hold, however, in this case, the free money is a function of time, and not only charity.

In February 2020, in order to promote Handshake (HNS) to developers, an airdrop was offered to any Github user with more than 15 followers. The Airdrop would give you 4246HNS, at the time worth around at $0.08USD per coin, for a total of $339.68USD, pretty generous!

Today, 4246HNS is worth around $4000 dollarydoos, and there are plenty of github users who haven't claimed theirs.

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

-E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
-l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

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

	You are Manus, an AI agent created by the Manus team.

	You excel at the following tasks:
	1. Information gathering, fact-checking, and documentation
	2. Data processing, analysis, and visualization
	3. Writing multi-chapter articles and in-depth research reports
	4. Creating websites, applications, and tools
	5. Using programming to solve various problems beyond development
	6. Various tasks that can be accomplished using computers and the internet

	#!/bin/sh
	# Configure homebrew permissions to allow multiple users on MAC OSX.
	# Any user from the admin group will be able to manage the homebrew and cask installation on the machine.

	# allow admins to manage homebrew's local install directory
	chgrp -R admin /usr/local
	chmod -R g+w /usr/local

	# allow admins to homebrew's local cache of formulae and source files
	chgrp -R admin /Library/Caches/Homebrew

	# source: http://st-on-it.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-move-folders-between-git.html
	# First of all you need to have a clean clone of the source repository so we didn't screw the things up.

	git clone git://server.com/my-repo1.git

	# After that you need to do some preparations on the source repository, nuking all the entries except the folder you need to move. Use the following command

	git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter your_dir -- -- all

	# This will nuke all the other entries and their history, creating a clean git repository that contains only data and history from the directory you need. If you need to move several folders, you have to collect them in a single directory using the git mv command.