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@merlinmann
merlinmann / wisdom.md
Last active April 17, 2024 21:52
Merlin's Wisdom Project (Draft)

Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

@developit
developit / *valoo.md
Last active November 13, 2023 08:39
🐻 Valoo: just the bare necessities of state management. 150b / 120b. https://npm.im/valoo

🐻 valoo

just the bare necessities of state management.

Usage

Hotlink it from https://unpkg.com/valoo.

See Interactive Codepen Demo.

I bundled these up into groups and wrote some thoughts about why I ask them!

If these helped you, I'd love to hear about it!! I'm on twitter @vcarl_ or send me an email carl.vitullo@gmail.com

Onboarding and the workplace

https://blog.vcarl.com/interview-questions-onboarding-workplace/

  • How long will it take to deploy my first change? To become productive? To understand the codebase?
  • What kind of equipment will I be provided? Will the company pay/reimburse me if I want something specific?
@saggiyogesh
saggiyogesh / mongo_dump_restore.md
Last active December 3, 2020 18:26
Mongodb dump and restore from mlab
  • install mongodb on local machine (mongodump & mongorestore) commands are required.
  • command dumping

mongodump -h xxx11.mlab.com:11 -u user -p password --authenticationDatabase release-db -d release-db -o /home/dumps

**Options** `-h`: mlab host:port, `-u`: db user, `-p`: db user password, `--authenticationDatabase` `-d`: mlab dbname, `-o`: path to store backupfiles
  • restore command, to restore locally

    mongorestore --db dname /home/dumps

Otherwise to restore in mlab, create a new db and replace the options

@solace
solace / extend-email-send.md
Last active November 20, 2020 06:58
Meteor: Extend default Email.send invocation

Use a non-SMTP mail method in Meteor

Requirements:

  • lodash (or underscore, you may need to change your _ functions to suit)
  • Meteor email package
Meteor.startup(function () {
 var sendEmail = _.bind(Email.send, Email);
@nodesocket
nodesocket / bootstrap.flatten.css
Last active April 1, 2021 23:37
Below are simple styles to "flatten" bootstrap. I didn't go through every control and widget that bootstrap offers, only what was required for https://commando.io, so your milage may vary.
/* Flatten das boostrap */
.well, .navbar-inner, .popover, .btn, .tooltip, input, select, textarea, pre, .progress, .modal, .add-on, .alert, .table-bordered, .nav>.active>a, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip-inner, .badge, .label, .img-polaroid {
-moz-box-shadow: none !important;
-webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
-webkit-border-radius: 0px !important;
-moz-border-radius: 0px !important;
border-radius: 0px !important;
border-collapse: collapse !important;
background-image: none !important;
@dankrause
dankrause / _hover_example.py
Last active June 26, 2024 22:35
Example code to use the (unofficial, unsupported, undocumented) hover.com DNS API.
import requests
class HoverException(Exception):
pass
class HoverAPI(object):
def __init__(self, username, password):
params = {"username": username, "password": password}
r = requests.post("https://www.hover.com/api/login", params=params)
@adamgit
adamgit / .gitignore
Last active June 27, 2024 13:16
.gitignore file for Xcode4 / OS X Source projects
#########################
# .gitignore file for Xcode4 and Xcode5 Source projects
#
# Apple bugs, waiting for Apple to fix/respond:
#
# 15564624 - what does the xccheckout file in Xcode5 do? Where's the documentation?
#
# Version 2.6
# For latest version, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49478/git-ignore-file-for-xcode-projects
#
@xandkar
xandkar / awk-one-liners.awk
Created June 1, 2012 15:13
HANDY ONE-LINE SCRIPTS FOR AWK
HANDY ONE-LINE SCRIPTS FOR AWK 30 April 2008
Compiled by Eric Pement - eric [at] pement.org version 0.27
Latest version of this file (in English) is usually at:
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
This file will also be available in other languages:
Chinese - http://ximix.org/translation/awk1line_zh-CN.txt
USAGE: