rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

desandro

I'm having trouble understanding the benefit of require.js. Can you help me out? I imagine other developers have a similar interest.

From Require.js - Why AMD:

The AMD format comes from wanting a module format that was better than today's "write a bunch of script tags with implicit dependencies that you have to manually order"

I don't quite understand why this methodology is so bad. The difficult part is that you have to manually order dependencies. But the benefit is that you don't have an additional layer of abstraction.

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don1138

/* Modern Font Stacks */

/* System */
font-family: system, -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", "Roboto", "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;

/* System (Bootstrap 5.2.0) */
font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";

/* Times New Roman-based serif */
font-family: Cambria, "Hoefler Text", Utopia, "Liberation Serif", "Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular", Times, "Times New Roman", serif;

manigandham

Strictly Frameworks

• Mobiledoc - github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit - framework to build editors with a standardized JSON structure
• ShareDB - github.com/share/sharedb - framework to sync any JSON document using operational transforms, add real-time collaborative editing to anything else
• Bangle.dev - github.com/bangle-io/bangle.dev - toolkit built for building editors, based on prosemirror

Abstracted Editors

These use separate document structures instead of HTML, some are more modular libraries than full editors

marktheunissen

This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.

madrobby

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig 

# /etc/apt/sources.list should contain these:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse

sudo echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | sudo debconf-set-selections

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

liamcurry

Moving from jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

douglasjarquin

rds-modify-db-parameter-group {param-group-name} \
--parameters="name=character_set_server, value=utf8, method=pending-reboot" \
--parameters="name=collation_server, value=utf8_general_ci, method=pending-reboot" \
--parameters="name=tmp_table_size, value={DBInstanceClassMemory/16}, method=pending-reboot" \
--parameters="name=max_heap_table_size, value={DBInstanceClassMemory/16}, method=pending-reboot" \
--parameters="name=query_cache_type, value=1, method=pending-reboot" \
--parameters="name=query_cache_size, value=131072, method=pending-reboot" \
--parameters="name=table_open_cache, value=2500, method=pending-reboot" \
--parameters="name=join_buffer_size, value={DBInstanceClassMemory/64}, method=pending-reboot" \
--parameters="name=thread_cache_size, value={DBInstanceClassMemory/12582880}, method=pending-reboot" \