humandoing

My Stripe Tax Story

I've been debating for weeks whether or not I was going to write any of this down. I'm a dad with two kids and a house to take care of and a business to run. Adding story-telling like this to my plate is exhausting.

Until yesterday, I had decided to forget about the whole thing, until I received the email that broke the camels back, as it were.

The best way I can describe why I'm writing this email is for the same reason why you might spend two hours dealing with an uncooperative mobile phone carrier to get them to remove that $5 charge on your bill that shouldn't be there. Some combination of the feeling of frustration and injustice that really pushes my proverbial buttons.

In this particular case, the "$5 charge on my phone bill" turned out to be literally hundreds of recurring subscription invoices that Stripe disabled collection for because, apparently, those subscriptions required "location inputs".

Generally speaking, I don't blog much anymore, and the last thing I wa

mcollina

Matteo Technical Principles

1. Conway’s Law is paramount.

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

In order to design a piece of software we need to “design” the team that is going to produce it.

2. Developer Experience is key to productivity

laughinghan

• any: magic, ill-behaved type that acts like a combination of never (the proper [bottom type]) and unknown (the proper [top type])
  • Anything except never is assignable to any, and any is assignable to anything at all.
  • Identities: any & AnyTypeExpression = any, any | AnyTypeExpression = any
  • Key TypeScript feature that allows for [gradual typing].
• unknown: proper, well-behaved [top type]
  • Anything at all is assignable to unknown. unknown is only assignable to itself (unknown) and any.
  • Identities: unknown & AnyTypeExpression = AnyTypeExpression, unknown | AnyTypeExpression = unknown

• Prefer over any whenever possible. Anywhere in well-typed code you're tempted to use any, you probably want unknown.

difosfor

import { customElement, LitElement } from 'lit-element';

type UnpackCustomEvent<T> = T extends CustomEvent<infer U> ? U : never;

// Define custom event types and details here
interface CustomEventMap {
  /**
   * Dispatched when an error occurs.
   */
  'my-error': CustomEvent<{ error: Error }>;

ndt75

function devmfa() {
  ##################################################################################################
  # TODO: fill out these 2 variables
  ##################################################################################################

  # This is the profile with access keys associated with your AWS user account.
  # These keys are useless when MFA is enabled or required for the CLI.
  # However, we can use these keys to call "aws sts get-session-token" along with the MFA code
  # to get a set of temporary credentials and store then in AWS env variables for the CLI to consume.
  # i.e. this profile should be existing in `.aws/credentials`

erincandescent

Foreward

This document was originally written several years ago. At the time I was working as an execution core verification engineer at Arm. The following points are coloured heavily by working in and around the execution cores of various processors. Apply a pinch of salt; points contain varying degrees of opinion.

It is still my opinion that RISC-V could be much better designed; though I will also say that if I was building a 32 or 64-bit CPU today I'd likely implement the architecture to benefit from the existing tooling.

Mostly based upon the RISC-V ISA spec v2.0. Some updates have been made for v2.2

Original Foreword: Some Opinion

The RISC-V ISA has pursued minimalism to a fault. There is a large emphasis on minimizing instruction count, normalizing encoding, etc. This pursuit of minimalism has resulted in false orthogonalities (such as reusing the same instruction for branches, calls and returns) and a requirement for superfluous instructions which impacts code density both in terms of size and

developit

Preact + Material-UI example

Preact is a fast 3kB alternative to React with the same modern API.

This example uses shows how to use Material UI 4 with Preact X and Preact CLI 3.

How to use

git clone blah preact-mui

rothgar

#!/bin/sh
# Follow instructions here to enable dev mode and start VM
# https://github.com/lstoll/cros-crostini/blob/master/README.md

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libasound2 libxss1 wget

wget -qO- https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=620884 | tar xvz

# Launch code

nitefood

This gist has moved to its own repository HERE

See you there!

boneskull

Here's an example of how to debug Mocha v4 if it hangs.

Ensure you're using a Node.js 8 or newer (or any version with async_hooks support).

If you run your test, you'll notice it hangs:

$ mocha test.js