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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.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@brandondurham
brandondurham / styles.less
Last active January 11, 2024 06:46
Using Operator Mono in Atom
/**
* Using Operator Mono in Atom
*
* 1. Open up Atom Preferences.
* 2. Click the “Open Config Folder” button.
* 3. In the new window’s tree view on the left you should see a file called “styles.less”. Open that up.
* 4. Copy and paste the CSS below into that file. As long as you have Operator Mono SSm installed you should be golden!
* 5. Tweak away.
*
* Theme from the screenshot (http://cdn.typography.com/assets/images/blog/operator_ide2.png):
@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active May 2, 2024 17:45
System Design Cheatsheet

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?
@xrstf
xrstf / letsencrypt.md
Last active April 18, 2023 05:01
Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04, nginx with webroot auth

Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04, nginx with webroot auth

This document details how I setup LE on my server. Firstly, install the client as described on http://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using.html and make sure you can execute it. I put it in /root/letsencrypt.

As it is not possible to change the ports used for the standalone authenticator and I already have a nginx running on port 80/443, I opted to use the webroot method for each of my domains (note that LE does not issue wildcard certificates by design, so you probably want to get a cert for www.example.com and example.com).

Configuration

For this, I placed config files into etc/letsencrypt/configs, named after <domain>.conf. The files are simple:

@paulirish
paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active April 30, 2024 17:56
What forces layout/reflow. The comprehensive list.

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics
  • elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
@ericelliott
ericelliott / essential-javascript-links.md
Last active April 22, 2024 10:15
Essential JavaScript Links
@pwenzel
pwenzel / lamp-stack-osx-virtualhostx.md
Last active April 8, 2022 04:00
LAMP stack on OSX with Homebrew, built-in Apache, multiple PHP versions, VirtualhostX optional

This guide shows how to set up a PHP and MySQL development environment using OSX's built-in Apache, using Homebrew to install necessary components. With this strategy, you can use different versions of PHP for certain virtual hosts.

VirtualHostX is a convenient way to manage development sites, but not required.

Install PHP and MySQL with Homebrew

brew update
brew install php56
brew install php56-mcrypt
brew install mysql
@Belphemur
Belphemur / build_nginx.sh
Last active November 13, 2022 13:05 — forked from MattWilcox/build_nginx.sh
Compiling Nginx with LibreSSL (and http2)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# names of latest versions of each package
export NGINX_VERSION=1.15.5
export VERSION_NGINX=nginx-$NGINX_VERSION
export VERSION_LIBRESSL=libressl-2.8.1
export VERSION_PCRE=pcre-8.42
#export NPS_VERSION=1.9.32.10
#export VERSION_PAGESPEED=v${NPS_VERSION}-beta
# Install dependencies
#
# * checkinstall: package the .deb
# * libpcre3, libpcre3-dev: required for HTTP rewrite module
# * zlib1g zlib1g-dbg zlib1g-dev: required for HTTP gzip module
apt-get install checkinstall libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dbg zlib1g-dev && \
mkdir -p ~/sources/ && \
# Compile against OpenSSL to enable NPN
# First, Install Vagrant and Virtualbox then:
# Create new project directory
mkdir -p ~/Sites/newproject # Create new project directory
mk ~/Sites/newproject # Go into your new project directory
# Setup Vagrant
vagrant init
# Edit vagrant file box and box url to install Ubuntu, just like https://gist.github.com/fideloper/dab171a2aa646e86b782#file-vagrantfile-share-var-www-rb-L6-L8
# Edit Vagrantfile to create a static IP address, just like https://gist.github.com/fideloper/dab171a2aa646e86b782#file-vagrantfile-share-var-www-rb-L10