Linux: Add a user to have sudo privileges
If there is no sudo group on your system, add one.
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History of the wheel user in Linux
Found this on Wikipedia today. Pretty interesting.
OSX HotCorners Alternative
I’m a frequent user of OSX’s HotCorners feature. It allows me to put my display to sleep with a simple swipe of the mouse to the bottom-right corner of the s...
Useful Intellij HotKeys and tricks in OSX
Search everywhere: Shift + Shift Find in Project: Cmd + Shift + F Add a breakpoint: Cmd + F8 Duplicate a line: Cmd + D Run in debug mode: Shift + F9 Run: Shi...
How to return an array to a Robot variable
(And by “Robot,” I mean the Robot Framework)
Advantages of Primitives in Java
Java has some nice classes that wrap Primitives (Integer, Boolean, etc). In recent versions of Java, these classes can be used interchangeably with Primitive...
Securing a Linux server with port knocking
I’d come across an obscure reference to port knocking in a security book and was curious to try it out. Essentially, port knocking is a way of firewalling co...
Chrome plugins for automated web browser testing
Here’s a list of plugins I’ve found useful in writing automated Selenium tests for Chrome:
Let’s Encrypt: Free, automated SSL for the entire Web
Just got the news about this recently. Launching in Summer 2015. Very cool. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web
Implementing a sleep() function in JavaScript
Note: usually, it’s better to use an asynchronous function, like setTimeout(), because this function blocks execution until it’s finished. That being said, s...