The Catalog Of Awesome Things

January 1, 2015

Last Updated: 2019-Dec-10 22:22

Table of Contents

Things I regularly forget
EDC
OSS Lists (Github)
Hosting (Personally used)

Things I regularly forget

Socks Proxy for securely accessing ops

ssh -D 12345 -q -C -N -f root@<domain goes here>

Public IP Address lookups via DNS

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com
dig whoami.akamai.net. @ns1-1.akamaitech.net. +short

curl wtfismyip.com/json
curl httpbin.org/ip

Blue-Green Deploys with Static Sites + Object Storage

Manage it via DNS changes. (i.e. DNS Blue, DNS Green. Swap when deploy completes. Max 1 Deploy / 48hrs.)
I was an idiot for registering this domain via Hover instead of Namecheap which has an API for that.
I probably need to build my own DNS infrastructure for this when I have time since its got multiple uses.

Otherwise, you have to use a Gatekeeper that knows the Blue v. Green buckets and handles matters accordingly. Probably should use Netlify at that point but being me…I’ll probably build some halfbaked version. For practice + Netlify doesn’t give me a chance to test my own infra stuff.

SSH

Force Password Authentication For SSH for testing if you secured things correctly. You bloody nub.

ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no <url>

Config

Multiple Github Accounts

#kgodwin
Host github.com-kgodwin
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_kgodwin

#account
Host github.com-account
    HostName github.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_account

CSS

Zebra Stripe Tables

tbody tr:nth-child(odd) {
   background-color: #FEE;
}

RSS Feeds

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev+programming/.rss

http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews?format=xml

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/.rss

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec+security/.rss

https://static.nvd.nist.gov/feeds/xml/cve/misc/nvd-rss.xml

FSTAB + cifs

credentials

username=?
password=?

fstab

//$SERVER/$PATH /media/$USER/$PATH cifs credentials=/home/$USER/.bastioncifs,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,uid=$USER,gid=$USER,user,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 0

EDC

Sneak 2017

0x00

MaddieDog

OSS Lists (Github)

Things I tend to need from time to time

Cli.Fyi

https://cli.fyi/ / mostly for the ip info
https://github.com/daveearley/cli.fyi

DNS

LAN

https://pi-hole.net/

Authoritative

Lists

Hosting (Personally used)

Dedicated Vendors

Recommended Vendors. Hobby=Cheap and OK.

Rating	Vendor
Hobby	WholesaleInternet / Nocix / Datashack / et al (Least reliable but best otherwise)
Hobby	Joe’s Datacenter (More stable than Wholesale but not by much.)
Hobby	Online.NET (Bad network outside EU)
Hobby	Hetzner (Picky and easy to knock over)
Hobby	OVH (Prod if you have good failover systems in place. Its just they go down and stay down for awhile.)
Hobby	Worldstream.nl (Its been years.)
Prod	ReliableServers
Prod	HiVelocity
Prod	Voxility

VPS Vendors

Recommended Vendors are Bold

Price	Power	Rating	Vendor
$3.5/mo	1vCPU/1GB	Hobby	BuyVM Anycast
$4.5/mo	1vCPU/2GB	Hobby	OVH
€4/mo	1vCPU/1GB	Hobby	Hetzner
$10/mo	1vCPU/1GB	Hobby	Amazon Lightsail
€3/mo	1vCPU/2GB	Hobby	Scaleway
$5/mo	1vCPU/1GB	Hobby	Linode LB
$5/mo	1vCPU/1GB	Prod	Vultr
$10/mo	1vCPU/1GB	Prod	Digital Ocean LB

Scaleway: Its just not as good as their dedicated Online.net brand (which is basically always out of stock now).

Note About Linode: Do not use for financial transactions or other security-is-critical functions. Their security is subpar and they are not good about disclosure. But, for some random mobile app that doesn’t have a massive honeypot of $$ if its exploited, its fine.

Object Storage

Recommended Vendors are Bold

Storage	Transfer	Rating	Vendor
$0.005/GB	$0.02/GB	Hobby	B2 Backblaze
$0.0112/GB	$0.011/GB	Hobby	OVH Swift
$0.02/GB	$0.01/GB	Production	DO Spaces
$0.023/GB	$0.10/GB	Production	AWS S3
$0.026/GB	$0.12/GB	Production	GCP