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Hector Perez

How to delete a collection of IDs in POSTMAN

Today I had to delete several objects that I created when testing an API. It was very easy to click the Send button and create a bunch of stuff but now I have to clean the DB. I am using Postman as testing tool and I chose to execute the

How to delete a WordPress.com website

If you are like me and you have a new hosting service for your blogs you may know that after moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org you may want to delete that old website. Here is how to do it. 1. Open your web browser and navigate to the

Base64 URL Safe Encoding / Decoding (RFC-7515)

A few days back I was required to encode some string in base 64 URL safe. After some research I found that there are several variants of base 64. The one implemented in the code below corresponds to RFC-7515. Here is the code: function encodeBase64Url(str) { let s = new Buffer(

How to remove documents from a capped collection in MongoDB

You can’t remove one or all documents from a capped collection in MongoDB. BUT! you can drop the collection! Execute the following command: db.getCollection('myCollection').drop() The result for me is: true There you go, quick and easy. Sources: * https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/capped-collections/ * https://stackoverflow.

How to count documents of a collection in MongoDB

Today, I had to do this at work. turns out it is very easy. I am using Robomongo 1.0-RC1. I just double click on the collection that I want, in this case knives and I just execute the following query: db.getCollection('knives').count() The result in my case

How to create a strong password?

There are a few things you can do to create a strong password that will protect your account from being compromised. 1. Use lower case, upper case, numbers, and symbols (check list of valid symbols, this could vary depending on the website / system) 2. Use at least 12 chars to

How to generate random bytes in Node.JS

Easy! I discovered this recently and it is interesting to me. Here is a quick example: const crypto = require('crypto'); console.log(crypto.randomBytes(1).toString("hex")); console.log(crypto.randomBytes(2).toString("hex")); console.log(crypto.randomBytes(4).toString("hex")); console.log(crypto.randomBytes(8).toString("hex")); console.log(