- Encrypted root partition
- AES-256 bit cipher
- Argon2id variant for PBKDF
- Sha3-512 bit hash
- rEFInd bootloader
- With dreary theme
- Optimal Settings (optimized for aesthetics, and boot time)
- Boot into backups thanks to refind-btrfs
FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
- By Edmond Lau
- Highly Recommended 👍
- http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/
Stop your running postgres server (your plist name may or may not have specified the version in it, mine had 94 in the name)
launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql94.plist
Upgrade to 9.6
brew update && brew upgrade postgresql
Check your version
All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.
Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.
elem.offsetLeft
,elem.offsetTop
,elem.offsetWidth
,elem.offsetHeight
,elem.offsetParent
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# Privacy Settings | |
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# Privacy: Let apps use my advertising ID: Disable | |
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo -Name Enabled -Type DWord -Value 0 | |
# To Restore: | |
#Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo -Name Enabled -Type DWord -Value 1 | |
# Privacy: SmartScreen Filter for Store Apps: Disable | |
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppHost -Name EnableWebContentEvaluation -Type DWord -Value 0 |
Here's how to disable the package that is responsible for loading the Git source control support in Visual Studio. Use at your own risk!
- Create a file called devenv.pkgundef and place it next to
devenv.exe
in you Visual Studio'sCommon7\IDE
(you'll need elevation for this) - Add the following entries to the file:
[$RootKey$\Packages\{7fe30a77-37f9-4cf2-83dd-96b207028e1b}]
[$RootKey$\SourceControlProviders\{11b8e6d7-c08b-4385-b321-321078cdd1f8}]
- Close VS if open, open a Developer command prompt, and type
devenv /updateconfiguration
(by @andrestaltz)
If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.
The prep-script.sh
will setup the latest Node and install the latest perf version on your Linux box.
When you want to generate the flame graph, run the following (folder locations taken from install script):
sudo sysctl kernel.kptr_restrict=0
# May also have to do the following:
# (additional reading http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14227/do-i-need-root-admin-permissions-to-run-userspace-perf-tool-perf-events-ar )
sudo sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid=0
config.middleware.use RoutesReloader |