jashkenas

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

dypsilon

Frontend Development

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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.

turtlesoupy

 http {
    proxy_cache_path  /var/cache/nginx levels=1:2 keys_zone=one:8m max_size=3000m inactive=600m;
    proxy_temp_path /var/tmp;
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip on;
    gzip_comp_level 6;

dypsilon

Backend Development

• node.js
  • Installation paths: use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo.
  • Node.js HOWTO: Install Node+NPM as user (not root) under Unix OSes
  • Felix's Node.js Guide
  • Creating a REST API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • Node Cellar Sample Application with Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • JavaScript Event Loop
• Node.js for PHP programmers

nuxlli

Sublime Text 2 - Useful Shortcuts

Tested in Mac OS X: super == command

Open/Goto

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• super+t: go to file
• super+ctrl+p: go to project
• super+r: go to methods

jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

domenic

Node.js core does its best to treat every platform equally. Even if most Node developers use OS X day to day, some use Windows, and most everyone deploys to Linux or Solaris. So it's important to keep your code portable between platforms, whether you're writing a library or an application.

Predictably, most cross-platform issues come from Windows. Things just work differently there! But if you're careful, and follow some simple best practices, your code can run just as well on Windows systems.

Paths and URLs

On Windows, paths are constructed with backslashes instead of forward slashes. So if you do your directory manipulation

remy

#!/usr/bin/env python
# saved to ~/bin/batcharge.py and from
# http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/my-extravagant-zsh-prompt/#my-right-prompt-battery-capacity
#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding=UTF-8

import math, subprocess

p = subprocess.Popen(["ioreg", "-rc", "AppleSmartBattery"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
output = p.communicate()[0]

konklone

# Basically the nginx configuration I use at konklone.com. 
# I check it using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=konklone.com
# 
# To provide feedback, please tweet at @konklone or email eric@konklone.com.
# Comments on gists don't notify the author. 
# 
# Thanks to WubTheCaptain (https://wubthecaptain.eu) for his help and ciphersuites.
# Thanks to Ilya Grigorik (https://www.igvita.com) for constant inspiration.

server {