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Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a custom chat mode for VS Code agent that adds an opinionated workflow to the agent, including use of a todo list, extensive internet research capabilities, planning, tool usage instructions and more. Designed to be used with 4.1, although it will work with any model.

Below you will find the Beast Mode prompt in various versions - starting with the most recent - 3.1

Installation Instructions

Go to the "agent" dropdown in VS Code chat sidebar and select "Configure Modes".
Select "Create new custom chat mode file"

I have been utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance and optimize my codebases. After evaluating various models, applications, and editors, I find the claude.ai interface with a Pro Account to be the most effective. Here’s the approach I’ve developed to achieve optimal results:

This gist contains a carefully crafted prompt and a script designed to convert your entire Laravel codebase (excluding the resources folder, which can be easily added if needed) into a TXT file with the following structure:

<File Start: ./path/filename.extension> Content of file <End File: ./path/filename.extension>

To implement this method:

S3 Static Sites

⚠ This post is fairly old. I don't keep it up to date. Be sure to see comments where some people have posted updates

What this will cover

Host a static website at S3
Redirect www.website.com to website.com
Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
Free AWS SSL certs
Deployment with CDN invalidation

Free Programming Ebooks - O'Reilly Media

You can check here for getting the latest version. Change the wget url to download newer versions.

Install instructions
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 - Ubuntu 22.04 x64
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 - Ubuntu 18.04 x64
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 - Ubuntu 16.04 x64
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 - Ubuntu 16.04 x64
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 - macOS Ventura 13.6

Make sure mysql-client is installed. If not, then :

    sudo apt install mysql-client
	or
    sudo apt-get install mysql-client

Open php.ini

; PHP's default character set is set to UTF-8.

Cryptographic Best Practices

Putting cryptographic primitives together is a lot like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, where all the pieces are cut exactly the same way, but there is only one correct solution. Thankfully, there are some projects out there that are working hard to make sure developers are getting it right.

The following advice comes from years of research from leading security researchers, developers, and cryptographers. This Gist was [forked from Thomas Ptacek's Gist][1] to be more readable. Additions have been added from

	server {
	listen 80;

	server_name app.rehanmanzoor.me;
	charset utf-8;
	client_max_body_size 1M;

	location / {
	proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
	proxy_http_version 1.1;

	#!/bin/bash

	#PS_NGX_EXTRA_FLAGS="--with-cc=/opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/gcc"
	PS_NGX_EXTRA_FLAGS=""
	DOWNTMP=/data/

	#[check the https://www.modpagespeed.com/doc/release_notes for the latest version]
	NPS_VERSION=1.13.35.2-stable
	cd $DOWNTMP
	wget https://github.com/apache/incubator-pagespeed-ngx/archive/v${NPS_VERSION}.zip

	<?php

	// Create in-memory SQLite database
	$sqlite = new PDO('sqlite::memory:');

	// Generate schema (for whatever tables you want)
	$sqlite->prepare('CREATE TABLE users(id, family_id, first_name, last_name, email)')->execute();
	$sqlite->prepare('CREATE TABLE families(id, name, phone, address)')->execute();

	// Insert pre-defined data