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16 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 15 comments · first 2012-09-10 · latest 2022-08-15

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  1. My junk drawer: https://github.com/peterwwillis/junkdrawer The junk I haven't touched in 10 years: https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/src
    comment by 0xbadcafebee · 2022-08-15 · in Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
  2. …two-man crypto verification to make sure a file was signed/encrypted by multiple parties. Example: https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/se...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2019-10-24 · in Show HN: Passbox – Give access to your data only after you're dead
  3. …together some scripts to automate the most common configure/make/make install/packaging steps ( https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/tree/public-bin/src/sl... ). My scripting experience was, let's say... "limited". :) I ended up making a…
    comment by peterwwillis · 2019-09-20 · in Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”
  4. …keep or delete mails from the remote server. I think it only supports one remote mailbox, however. https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/po... (It's very old code that sucks, and not secure, fwiw)
    comment by peterwwillis · 2017-04-28 · in OfflineIMAP: sync and backup tool for IMAP
  5. Yep, makes it much simpler to write scripts like this https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/st... (run an application that's stored in git, but in a temp working directory, and clean up after)
    comment by peterwwillis · 2017-03-18 · in HardCIDR will query ARIN and a pool of BGP route servers
  6. …one I wrote a while back that has its own RC4 routine in Perl, so no external dependencies needed. https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/sy...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2016-04-22 · in Show HN: Shell utility to encrypt a file into a self-decrypting script
  7. …calculate dates correctly is rather simple, but you need to be pretty good at math to optimize it) https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/ne...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2014-10-01 · in Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing
  8. …(which you can generate with an included Makefile and cacert.pem) and downloads intermediaries. https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/tree/public-bin/src/ne...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2014-08-14 · in Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates
  9. …and strace and you want to watch a live ssh or bash session, I wrote a script that will do that. https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/sy...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2014-03-26 · in We may have witnessed a NSA "Shotgiant" TAO-like action
  10. …perl script that spies on the file descriptors of another process and outputs it to your terminal: https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/sy...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2014-01-31 · in The Magic of strace
  11. …For example, you can modify it to require a passphrase on the keys; I left it out for simplicity. https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/se...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2013-11-22 · in Red October: Go server for "two man rule" file encryption by Cloudflare
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    Filter your commit logs through this pirate-speak filter for Pirate Day
    story by peterwwillis · 2013-09-19 · 0 comments
  13. …out intoa wide hirearchy so you can reuse some bits in other bits. Hey look, I wrote a crappy one! https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/tree/public-bin/src/si... Next we implement the OP's comments. Hey look, I already implemented it in…
    comment by 0xbadcafebee · 2013-03-05 · in How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server
  14. …traces the chain of trust against a list of CAs that ship with browsers. I have such a tool here: https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/ne...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2012-09-24 · in Websockets 101
  15. …Hell, use checkinstall or some other tool to automate it. I use my scripts called slacktools [ https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/tree/public-bin/src/sl... ] to automate packaging in Slackware. One command 'slackpack foo-1.4.5.tar.gz'…
    comment by peterwwillis · 2012-09-12 · in Using /usr/local
  16. …Mozilla root CA .pem file and follows the chain to verify a cert is really signed and not expired. https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/tree/public-bin/src/ne...
    comment by peterwwillis · 2012-09-10 · in Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry