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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

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Single file Go script

Install gorun:

go install https://github.com/erning/gorun@latest

Save the above script.go and modify it as you wish. See https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/bitfield/script

Run the script:

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Inspired from:
# - https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/simple-deploy-script
# - https://gist.github.com/WesleyAC/b3aaa0292579158ad566c140415c875d
# - https://caddyserver.com/docs/running#using-the-service

set -e
# cd $(dirname $0)

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/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
  // Change this to your project source folder
  content: ['./web/**/*.go'],
  plugins: [],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  }
}

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Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

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Video and Screen recording tools

References

• https://ubuntustudio.org/ (ubuntu flavor with many media tools installed)
• https://obsproject.com/kb/post-production-tools
• https://obsproject.com/kb/standard-recording-output-guide

Screen recording / Image or Video

• https://getsharex.com/ (free, screenshots, gifs, and screen recording with lots of shortcuts and handy upload functionality too. windows only)

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DuckDB JSON to Parquet

Command to generate sample NDJSON files:

copy (select * from (select a.range as 'a' from range(1000) as a), (select b.range as 'b' from range(1000) as b)) to 'range.ndjson';

Creates a 2x1000000 table:

select count(1) from 'range.ndjson';
┌──────────┐

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package main

import (
  "database/sql"
  "context"
  "fmt"
  "log"
  "time"
  "os"

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PaaS / DX tools / self-hosted PaaS / CICD

Deployment Platforms

• https://github.com/debarshibasak/awesome-paas
  • More than 60 platforms and tools
  • Many dead tools, or companies that closed shop
• https://ossdatabase.com/projects/heroku

Others not included in the above list (as of time of writing):

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BRANCH_NAME="master"

# Clone the repository .git information only
# Docs: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone
#
# --no-checkout :: Do not fetch any files, only the `.git` directory.
# --sparse :: Only files at the top-level directory, at the root of the repository, will be part of the checkout. 
# --branch <branch_name> :: Only fetch the information for the given branch.
# --depth 1 :: Only fetch the tip commit, HEAD of the specified branch.
# --filter=blob:none :: Do not download any blob files.