swyxio

2019 update: this essay has been updated on my personal site, together with a followup on how to get started

2020 update: I'm now writing a book with updated versions of all these essays and 35 other chapters!!!!

1. Learn in public

If there's a golden rule, it's this one, so I put it first. All the other rules are more or less elaborations of this rule #1.

You already know that you will never be done learning. But most people "learn in private", and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that's fine, but we're here to talk about being in the top quintile. What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust. Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets. Speak at meetups and conferences. Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit. (Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discourse, they're not public). Make Youtube videos

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

thomseddon

app.filter('bytes', function() {
	return function(bytes, precision) {
		if (isNaN(parseFloat(bytes)) || !isFinite(bytes)) return '-';
		if (typeof precision === 'undefined') precision = 1;
		var units = ['bytes', 'kB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB'],
			number = Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024));
		return (bytes / Math.pow(1024, Math.floor(number))).toFixed(precision) +  ' ' + units[number];
	}
});

bert

/*!
 * \file pango_layout_word_wrap.c
 * \brief pango layout word wrap
 *
 * \author Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org
 *
 * In working with Pango I found an oddity that I do not understand.
 * It may be a bug, or it might just be my misunderstanding.
 *
 * As part of a table layout procedure for printing, my code wishes to find out