adamwiggins

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Isaddo

/*
  Go on your labels page (https://github.com/user/repo/labels)

  Edit the following label array
  or
  Use this snippet to export github labels (https://gist.github.com/MoOx/93c2853fee760f42d97f)
  and replace it

  Paste this script in your console
  Press Enter!!

xeloader

Unfollow everyone on Social Media

Unfollow everyone on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is even more clickbait than Facebook nowadays. Adios. 💣

Visit https://www.linkedin.com/feed/following/

Scroll down to load all of your contacts

Open developer console, run the following

douglascayers

/**
 * Inspired by @MoOx original script: https://gist.github.com/MoOx/93c2853fee760f42d97f
 * Adds file download per @micalevisk https://gist.github.com/MoOx/93c2853fee760f42d97f#gistcomment-2660220
 * 
 * Changes include:
 *  - Get the description from the `title` attribute instead of `aria-label` (doesn't exist anymore)
 *  - Use style.backgroundColor and parse the rgb(...) to hex (rather than regex parsing of 'style' string)
 *  - Downloads labels to a JSON file named after the webpage to know which GitHub repo they came from.
 * 
 * Last tested 2019-July-27:

mGBUfLn9

I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction
ever since I was a little kid. I can't say it's because I wanted to
make the world a better place. Not really. I was simply drawn to it
because I was drawn to it. Writing programs was fun. Figuring out how
nature works was fascinating. Science fiction felt like a grand
adventure.

Then I started a software company and poured every ounce of energy
into it. It failed. That hurt, but that part is ok. I made a lot of
mistakes and learned from them. This experience made me much, much

geek-at

#!/bin/bash

while :; do

    verf=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '0-9' | fold -w 8 | head -n 1)
    pin=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '0-9' | fold -w 5 | head -n 1)

    ip=$(printf "%d.%d.%d.%d\n" "$((RANDOM % 256))" "$((RANDOM % 256))" "$((RANDOM % 256))" "$((RANDOM % 256))")