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Security Checklist

Configuration Security

• Store secrets in environment variables or dedicated secret management systems
• Never commit secrets to version control
• Implement secret rotation policies
• Use different credentials for different environments
• Encrypt sensitive configuration values

Authentication & Authorization

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How to use Python3 Type Hints in AWS Lambda

TL;DR

Static Type Checkers help you find simple (but subtle) bugs in your Python code. Check out lambda_types.py and incrementally improve your code base and development/debugging experience with type hints.

Your Lambda Function code will go from this:

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" antirez's .vimrc
" Copyright(C) 2001 Salvatore Sanfilippo

" Enable the syntax highlight mode if available
syntax sync fromstart
if has("syntax")
	syntax sync fromstart
	syntax on
        set background=dark
	let php_sync_method="0"

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Mutt for multiple email accounts

This is an OS X-centric configuration.

My setup and configuration for Gmail/Google Apps

The idea here is to use environment variables, loaded via aliases to mutt, to control which account you're loading. Years ago I had all of my accounts configured to be accessible from a single mutt

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

• They are the people who get things done. Effective Engineers produce results.

Adopt the Right Mindsets

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/*
 * File: bst.js
 *
 * A pure JavaScript implementation of a binary search tree.
 *
 */

/*
 * Class: BST
 *

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var MARGIN = 28;

// Fullscreen
slate.bind('f:cmd,alt', function(win) {
    // ±4 to account for hidden Dock on left of screen.
    win.doOperation(S.op('move', {
		'x': 'screenOriginX - 4 + ' + MARGIN,
		'y': 'screenOriginY + ' + MARGIN,

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# post_loc.txt contains the json you want to post
# -p means to POST it
# -H adds an Auth header (could be Basic or Token)
# -T sets the Content-Type
# -c is concurrent clients
# -n is the number of requests to run in the test

ab -p post_loc.txt -T application/json -H 'Authorization: Token abcd1234' -c 10 -n 2000 http://example.com/api/v1/locations/

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Studying for a Tech Interview Sucks, so Here's a Cheat Sheet to Help

This list is meant to be a both a quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.

Data Structure Basics

###Array ####Definition:

• Stores data elements based on an sequential, most commonly 0 based, index.
• Based on tuples from set theory.

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$(function() {
  // good opportunity to combine into a single statement
  // qq w cw   <esc> A, <esc> 0 j q
  var a = 10;
  var b = 20;
  var c = 30;
  var d = 40;
  var e = 50;

  // opportunity to simplify syntax