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// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

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FWIW: I'm not the author of the content presented here (which is an outline from Edmond Lau's book). I've just copy-pasted it from somewhere over the Internet, but I cannot remember what exactly the original source is. I was also not able to find the author's name, so I cannot give him/her the proper credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

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

What's an Effective Engineer?

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

# NOTE to create labels for your repo
# to support types from commit message guide (feat, fix, docs, style, refactor, test, chore)
# by hitting GitHub API v3
#
# https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/issues#create-a-label
# https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/labels/#create-a-label

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#!/bin/bash

# This is a very naive script, it doesn't do grouping and returns all branches
# I only really care about branches that have not seen commits in two months
#
# I am hoping to find some time to write a tool that can output these reports for me
# In the meantime, I am using this

echo "Merged branches"
for branch in `git branch -r --merged | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git log --no-merges -n 1 --format="%ci, %cr, %an, %ae, "  $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r

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# Complete words from tmux pane(s) {{{1
# Source: http://blog.plenz.com/2012-01/zsh-complete-words-from-tmux-pane.html
# Gist: https://gist.github.com/blueyed/6856354
_tmux_pane_words() {
  local expl
  local -a w
  if [[ -z "$TMUX_PANE" ]]; then
    _message "not running inside tmux!"
    return 1
  fi

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Move your stashes from one repo to another

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This was useful for me when we created a new branch for a new major release, but were still working on our current version as well. I cloned our repo again and kept the new project on our new branch, but also wanted to get my stashes there.

Download your stashes

git stash show -p > patch

You'll have to specify your stash and name your file whatevery you want. Do this for as all your stashes, and you'll have patch files in your pwd.

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I use PlantUML a lot. It's what I use for drawing all sorts of diagrams and it's handy because of its easy markup (once you get used to it) while making things easy to maintain as projects grow (thanks to version control)

This gist explains how I do my PlantUML workspace in a project.

• The idea is to keep a globals directory for all diagrams to follow (like the "stylesheet" below) to keep things consistent.
• I use a stylesheet.iuml file that keeps the use of colors consistent through use of basic FOREGROUND, BACKGROUND and ACCENT colors.
• The style-presets.iuml file defines these colors so you can make "presets" or "themes" out of them.
• As stated in the stylesheet.iuml, you'll need the Roboto Condensed and Inconsolata fonts for these to work properly.
• You can choose to either run the PlantUML jar over your file/s, or use an IDE like VSCode with the PlantUML extension. Here's a preview of example-sequence.puml for example: https://imgur.com/Klk3w2F

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OpenVPN .ovpn manipulation.

This is how you can take an OpenVPN .ovpn config file and extract the certificates/keys required to import the profile into NetworkManager.

• Download the .ovpn file. Save it somewhere you can store it permanently (I use ~/.vpn).
• Copy from between <ca> tags into ca.crt, remove <ca> tags.
• Copy from between <cert> tags into client.crt, remove <cert> tags.
• Copy from between <key> tags into client.key, remove <key> tags.
• Copy from between <tls-auth> tags into ta.key, remove <tls-auth> tags.
• Remove the line "key-direction 1"
• Above "# -----BEGIN RSA SIGNATURE-----" insert the following lines.

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Vim: pushing built-in features beyond their limits

The situation

Searching can be an efficient way to navigate the current buffer.

The first search commands we learn are usually / and ?. These are seriously cool, especially with the incsearch option enabled which lets us keep typing to refine our search pattern. / and ? really shine when all we want is to jump to something we already have our eyeballs on but they are not fit for every situation:

• when we want to search something that's not directly there, those two commands can make us loose context very quickly,
• when we need to compare the matches.

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How to ssh to a remote server without typing your password

Save yourself a few keystrokes. Follow the steps below:

1. Run this Bash script on your laptop:

   #!/usr/bin/env bash
   

The hostname of your remote server.