quickshiftin

// if several clients latch on to the same promise, do they all receive the results?

let thePromise = null;
const getSharedPromise = () => {

    // first time invocation, spin up the async activity
    // (connect to db, fetch crypto price quote, etc, etc)
    if(thePromise === null) {
        thePromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            setTimeout(() => {

quickshiftin

/**
 * https://www.embracepetinsurance.com/waterbowl/article/measuring-my-cats-body-mass-index-the-fbmi
 *
 * ribCage float Circumference of your cat's rib cage in inches. (The level of the 9th rib is ideal).
 * legLength float Length in inches of your cat's rear leg from knee to ankle.
 *
 * If the result is >= 42, your cat is overweight!
 */
function catBmi(ribCage, legLength) {
    return (ribCage / .7062 - legLength) / .9156 - legLength;

quickshiftin

// Using thephpleague/oauth1-client
// https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth1-client

require_once __DIR__.'/../../vendor/autoload.php';

// Create server
$server = new League\OAuth1\Client\Server\Magento(array(
    'identifier' => $data['consumerKey'],
    'secret' => $data['consumerSecret'],
    'callback_uri' => "http://mage-access.local/oath.php/",

quickshiftin

/**
 * @param {string} value The text to copy to the clipboard
 * This method is designed to circumvent the inability to copy test from an inactive textarea,
 * Hopefully it gets the keyboard to drop off on mobile too
 */
copyToClipboard = () => {
    const tmpTextArea = document.createElement('textarea');
    const newContent = document.createTextNode(this.props.getText());
    tmpTextArea.appendChild(newContent);
    tmpTextArea.style.width = 0;

quickshiftin

<?php
/**
 * This is such a common thing, I decided to put it in a gist so I don't have to keep reinventing it every time LOL.
 */
function substr_to($haystack, $needle) {
  $iPos = strpos($haystack, $needle);
  if($iPos === false) {
     return false;
  }
  return substr($haystack, 0, $iPos);

quickshiftin

#!/bin/bash
php -d xdebug.remote_autostart=1 -d xdebug.remote_host=$(echo $SSH_CLIENT | sed 's/ .*//') path-to-php-script.php

quickshiftin

#/bin/bash
# http://disq.us/p/1k1ww01

cert_path=$1 # eg /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/cert.pem
key_path=$2  # eg /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem

certbot revoke --cert-path "$1" --key-path "$2"

quickshiftin

//--------------------------------------------------------------------
// http://solutionoptimist.com/2013/12/27/javascript-promise-chains-2/                                
//--------------------------------------------------------------------

//--------------------------------------------------------------------
// Pretend calls to a service
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
function getDeparture() {                                                                             
    return new Promise((resolve) => {
        setTimeout(function() {                                                                       

quickshiftin

#!/bin/bash
# Locate files relative to current working directory
# Potentially faster than find for deep directories
function rlocate
{
    locate "$1" | grep "$(pwd)"
}

quickshiftin

alias thisdir='basename "$(pwd)"'