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❓ Interview Questions to Ask Prospective Employers as a Software Developer ❓

I've been a part of this industry at a professional level for more than two decades now, and in that time I've worked for some AMAZING companies ... and a couple of appalling ones as well. All of that experience helped me to realise the FIRST LAW OF PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING:

... The quality of your work is ultimately dictated by your employer ...

When you're being paid well, respected, and are made to feel secure because of the company's loyalty towards you, you'll rarely think twice before putting in that little extra bit of effort into your work. Conversely, when you're being paid less than you're worth, your supervisor or boss is an absolute PRICK, and you feel sick merely at the thought of having to drag your ass into the office tomorrow ... well ... the company pretty much deserves the shitty performance you can barely manage to put in each day for them.

Since the **SECOND LAW

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Install Docker Desktop on Windows 11

The following WSL configuration changes are purely optional, but can help to save a little more space on your system drive.

/etc/wsl.conf (per instance config)

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BADGES

• https://github.com/Ileriayo/markdown-badges
• https://github.com/badges/shields
• https://github.com/alexandresanlim/Badges4-README.md-Profile
• https://github.com/mrhrifat/shield-icons
• https://github.com/Naereen/badges
• https://github.com/badgen/badgen.net
• https://github.com/badgen/badgen-icons
• https://hub.docker.com/r/amio/badgen

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Install Multiple Instances of WSL2 Linux on Windows 11

Here's an easy method which allows you to install multiple instances of any Linux Distro in any location under WSL2.

** Click on each heading to reveal instructions **

Preparation

If you HAVEN'T installed WSL2 prior to this, open up a Powershell terminal and execute the following commands:

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Linux Distro Downloads for WSL2

• Ubuntu
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 ARM
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 ARM
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Debian GNU/Linux

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Bulk Delete Old Github Repos & Forks

(Inspired by the resources listed at the bottom of this Gist)

Deleting old repos in bulk is quite easy if you've got a WSL instance at hand.

Step 1 - Create Your Hitlist

Open a text editor, and list each repository you want to delete in the form of userName\repoName with one per line.

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Enable systemd on WSL2 (Windows 11)

WSL now includes support for running systemd inside your WSL distros. Here's how to set it up:

Ensure you are running the right version of WSL

To set this up, you need to be running WSL version 0.67.6 or higher. You can check your WSL version by running this command under PowerShell or Command Prompt:

wsl --version

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Use this trick to bulk delete your old repos or old forks

(Inspired by https://medium.com/@icanhazedit/clean-up-unused-github-rpositories-c2549294ee45#.3hwv4nxv5)

1. Open in a new tab all to-be-deleted github repositores (Use the mouse’s middle click or Ctrl + Click) https://github.com/username?tab=repositories

2. Use one tab https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall to shorten them to a list.

3. Save that list to some path

4. The list should be in the form of “ur_username\repo_name” per line. Use regex search (Sublime text could help). Search for ' |.*' and replace by empty.

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Setup Docker to run on Windows 11 & Ubuntu WSL2 AND still be able to use Docker Desktop to monitor the lot!!

The goal here is to set up a container cluster using WSL2, Ubuntu Linux, and other Open Source packages. The secondary goal being to be able to use it from both Linux and Windows AND to be able to still use Docker Desktop under either Windows or Linux to manage things.

To do so, we need to setup WSL2, Ubuntu, dockerd and containterd, then build docker-cli for Windows and finally wire them all together so they can talk to each other.

Prerequisites

First you need to set up Windows so that you can use virtualised containers, as well as WSL2. Type the following in a terminal:

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Creating Symbolic Links on Windows 10 & Windows 11

Did you know that Windows has supported symlinks since Vista? You can create them using the Windows Command Prompt.

🔗 What Are Symlinks?

Symbolic Links are basically advanced shortcuts that you create on the command line. Once created, Windows treats them just the same as if they were a normal folder.

For example, let's say you have a program that needs its files at C:\MyProgram, but your C: Drive is dangerously low on space and you'd prefer to install that program on another drive, but it throws errors whenever you try to install it there. For the sake of this argument, we're going to pretend that the installer will allow you to install to an existing directory - so that one way you could solve this problem would be to create a folder called D:\Stuff\MyProgram, and then create a symbolic link at C:\MyProgram which points to D:\Stuff\MyProgram. Now, once you've installed the program and launch it, when it tries to access **C:\MyPr