ThaddeusJiang

function isLeapYear(year: number) {
  return new Date(year, 1, 29).getDate() === 29
}

export default isLeapYear

toolness

#! /usr/bin/python

"""
    This simple script makes it easy to create server certificates
    that are signed by your own Certificate Authority.
    
    Mostly, this script just automates the workflow explained
    in http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html.
    
    Before using this script, you'll need to create a private

jvns

Ruby and Python profilers

CPU profilers

Python

• cProfile
• https://github.com/bdarnell/plop (blog post)
• https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler
• https://github.com/uber/pyflame (blog post)

fritzy

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION table_update_notify() RETURNS trigger AS $$
DECLARE
  id bigint;
BEGIN
  IF TG_OP = 'INSERT' OR TG_OP = 'UPDATE' THEN
    id = NEW.id;
  ELSE
    id = OLD.id;
  END IF;
  PERFORM pg_notify('table_update', json_build_object('table', TG_TABLE_NAME, 'id', id, 'type', TG_OP)::text);

lisawolderiksen

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

mbbx6spp

Alternatives to the "Atlassian Stack"

Fuller stack alternatives (replaces at least two of the Atlassian stack)

• Phabricator

• Github

• Gitlab

• Taiga

• Redmine

cwhinfrey

ChainSwap 1

• $800k
• July 2, 2021
• Vulnerability: Smart contract bug
• Note: Users reported lost funds, ChainSwap shut down all nodes and a fix was deployed within 30 minutes.
• Source: https://chain-swap.medium.com/chainswap-post-mortem-and-compensation-plan-90cad50898ab

ChainSwap 2

• $4.4M
• July 10, 2021
• Vulnerability: Smart contract bug

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

rondy

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.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

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

What's an Effective Engineer?

mbinna

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft