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usametov / bash_strict_mode.md
Created August 15, 2021 06:25 — forked from mohanpedala/bash_strict_mode.md
set -e, -u, -o, -x pipefail explanation

set -e, -u, -o, -x pipefail

The set lines

  • These lines deliberately cause your script to fail. Wait, what? Believe me, this is a good thing.
  • With these settings, certain common errors will cause the script to immediately fail, explicitly and loudly. Otherwise, you can get hidden bugs that are discovered only when they blow up in production.
  • set -euxo pipefail is short for:
set -e
set -u

Greasing the Skids: Building Remote Teams

In the wake of the virus that-must-not-be-named (which most people misname anyway), it seems like everyone and their cat has posted some sort of opinion or how-to on making remote work, work. This is a good thing! Working remotely, particularly full-time, is hard! I've done it for my entire career (aside from an odd 14 month office period in the middle that we shall not speak of), but more relevantly, for the past two years I've been responsible for building, managing, and enabling an entirely remote team, distributed across nine timezones. Remote teams don't just happen by installing Slack and telling everyone to work on their couch: they require a lot of effort to do correctly and efficiently. But, done right, it can be a massive multiplier on your team efficiency and flexibility.

Here's how we do it. I'm going to attempt to structure this post more towards management than engineering, and so I apologize in advance if I assume terminology or knowledge which

@ciaranj
ciaranj / gist:9056285
Created February 17, 2014 18:32
A *working* (on Windows) UDP Multicast client & server with Node.Js v0.10.25 (I spent a *LOT* of time getting EINVAL and I still don't quite know why :/)
For my own sanity ;) Scraped from a variety of places, including: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14130560/nodejs-udp-multicast-how-to?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
!Server
var news = [
"Borussia Dortmund wins German championship",
"Tornado warning for the Bay Area",
"More rain for the weekend",
"Android tablets take over the world",
"iPad2 sold out",
@webdesserts
webdesserts / Gulpfile.js
Last active April 3, 2023 08:16
Automatically reload your node.js app on file change with Gulp (https://github.com/wearefractal/gulp).
// NOTE: I previously suggested doing this through Grunt, but had plenty of problems with
// my set up. Grunt did some weird things with scope, and I ended up using nodemon. This
// setup is now using Gulp. It works exactly how I expect it to and is WAY more concise.
var gulp = require('gulp'),
spawn = require('child_process').spawn,
node;
/**
* $ gulp server
* description: launch the server. If there's a server already running, kill it.
@ondravondra
ondravondra / EFExtensions.cs
Created November 2, 2012 12:49
C# extension for executing upsert (MERGE SQL command) in EF with MSSQL
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
namespace EFExtensions