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I was recently adding a bunch of files to a new Git repo, but I couldn't be sure if I was about to commit a 100MB file. The following bash command should print out a sorted list of unstaged files and their size, so you can check if
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I've been using GitHub Actions more and more across the projects I maintain. It's a great offering and integrates well into GitHub. There are a few Rust projects I have where I wanted to automate the publishing of prebuilt binaries to the GitHub releases page. I&
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If you read my blog or follow me on Twitter you may have noticed I'm a huge fan of flamegraphs. I've previously written about how I use them to profile PHP [https://daniellockyer.com/php-flame-graphs/] and Node.js [https://daniellockyer.com/profiling-nodejs/] applications, and I help
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I was recently setting up some CI on GitHub Actions and ran across double builds for pull requests. The official documentation is still a bit lacking and it's a problem because it burns 2x the credits. In the end, I made this diff: -on: [push, pull_request] +on:
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Last October I made Upgrade your PHP [https://upgradeyourphp.com/], a site to let people know that PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 were about to reach their End of Life, and would no longer be officially supported. In the time since, I've been helping people upgrade
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This post is a case study of how I profiled a Node.js application, and how using flamegraphs allowed me to make the boot time of Ghost 20% faster. I remember trying to profile Node.js many years ago and it was much harder than it is now. When researching
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I always recommend to my clients that they use a CDN on their website. These are my recommendations for people using the Cloudflare Free plan, along with some warnings to watch out for. DNS * Status: Orange Cloud - this will ensure the requests go through Cloudflare. Crypto * SSL: Full (Strict)
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Earlier today I was looking at a couple of sites to see why they were much slower than I expected. I ran them through GTmetrix and saw the following in the waterfall tab. Straightaway I could see that this is the classic pattern produced by trying to load a bunch
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I recently added support for Ruby 2.5.4, 2.5.5 and 2.6.0-2.6.3 to rbspy, the sampling profiler written in Rust. I have replaced the original Flamegraph library by Brendan Gregg with Inferno, a Rust port. I also updated and merged a PR for handling
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A few days ago, the server running Nomad List [https://nomadlist.com] and Remote OK [https://remoteok.io] randomly went down. This is the timeline of what happened and how I fixed it. All times are in Korean Standard Time. 21:05 Pieter [https://twitter.com/levelsio] starts messaging me
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By default, Cloudflare does not cache static HTML. [https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168216--Does-Cloudflare-cache-HTML-content-] It's nice when you're constantly pushing updates because the changes are immediately shown. But it does mean that you still have that short delay whilst Cloudflare gets the latest version
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A week or so ago, I saw the inferno [https://github.com/jonhoo/inferno] project mentioned on the Rust subreddit. It was a rewrite of the great FlameGraph [https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph] library into Rust. All of the work was being livestreamed by Jon Gjengset [https://twitter.com/Jonhoo/