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Quick fix to an ssl error was encountered with python requests on ubuntu 14.04.

Enable https for github pages with cloudflare

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A compiler error was observed during installing lxml on ubuntu the error looks something like: error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 4, and it's most likely caused by low memory.

Quickly share files with python SimpleHTTPServer

With python2 builtin SimpleHTTPServer (or http.server in python3), you can start an http service to easily and quickly share a directory with files, which is especially useful and convenient in LAN environments.

Nginx to share default http port

How to use nginx to proxy http request to default port (e.g. 80) to other processes running on different ports on the same server.