Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
An IAM user policy document to give minimal rights for deploying an Elastic Beanstalk application.
Where:
REGION: AWS region.ACCOUNT_ID: AWS account ID.APPLICATION_NAME: Desired target Elastic Beanstalk application name(space).IAM_INSTANCE_PROFILE_ROLE: The instance profile (IAM role) Elastic Beanstalk EC2 instaces will run under.
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| exact_matches = {} | |
| partial_matches = {} | |
| no_matches = [] | |
| puts "Searching /Applications for things that exist in cask…" | |
| Dir.glob('/Applications/*.app').each do |app| | |
| app_name = File.basename(app) | |
| search_term = File.basename(app, ".*").downcase.split(/\s/)[0] |
| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| import tweepy | |
| from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as parser | |
| import urllib | |
| import sys | |
| import argparse | |
| import ConfigParser |
This is an example of adding Jenkins build status to a [dashing-dashboard](https://github.com/Shopify/dashing
If a job is running, the widget will have a grey background. If a job succeeded at its last run, it will have a green background. If a job failed at its last run, it will have a red background.
Requirements:
Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git
Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:
| #!/usr/bin/env sh | |
| ## | |
| # This is script with usefull tips taken from: | |
| # https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx | |
| # | |
| # install it: | |
| # curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh | |
| # |
| #! /usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # usage: | |
| # $ das_download.rb email password [download_directory] | |
| require 'mechanize' | |
| # gem 'mechanize-progressbar' | |
| email = ARGV[0] or raise('Please provide the email address for your account') | |
| password = ARGV[1] or raise('Please provide the password for your account') | |
| path = ARGV[2] || './' |