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yossorion / what-i-wish-id-known-about-equity-before-joining-a-unicorn.md
Last active April 15, 2025 22:49
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

@ryansimms
ryansimms / circleci-2.0-eb-deployment.md
Last active February 22, 2024 04:55
Deploying to Elastic Beanstalk via CircleCi 2.0

Deploying to Elastic Beanstalk via CircleCi 2.0

I got to here after spending hours trying to deploy to an Elastic Beanstalk instance via CircleCi 2.0 so I thought I'd write up what worked for me to hopefully help others. Shout out to RobertoSchneiders who's steps for getting it to work with CircleCi 1.0 were my starting point.

For the record, I'm not the most server-savvy of developers so there may be a better way of doing this.

Setup a user on AWS IAM to use for deployments

@aldgagnon
aldgagnon / .block
Last active January 26, 2020 16:04
d3-ontario-wmu-map
license: gpl-3.0
height: 950
scrolling: no
border: yes
@alisdair
alisdair / intensify.sh
Created May 21, 2019 23:44
intensifies Slack emoji creator
#!/bin/bash
# Generate a `:something-intensifies:` Slack emoji, given a reasonable image
# input. I recommend grabbing an emoji from https://emojipedia.org/
set -euo pipefail
# Number of frames of shaking
count=10
# Max pixels to move while shaking
@IanColdwater
IanColdwater / twittermute.txt
Last active April 14, 2025 16:31
Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit.
Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords
ActivityTweet
generic_activity_highlights
generic_activity_momentsbreaking
RankedOrganicTweet
suggest_activity
suggest_activity_feed
suggest_activity_highlights
suggest_activity_tweet
@OrionReed
OrionReed / dom3d.js
Last active May 15, 2025 11:15
3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically.
// 3D Dom viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM as a stack of solid blocks.
// You can also minify and save it as a bookmarklet (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/)
(() => {
const SHOW_SIDES = false; // color sides of DOM nodes?
const COLOR_SURFACE = true; // color tops of DOM nodes?
const COLOR_RANDOM = false; // randomise color?
const COLOR_HUE = 190; // hue in HSL (https://hslpicker.com)
const MAX_ROTATION = 180; // set to 360 to rotate all the way round
const THICKNESS = 20; // thickness of layers
const DISTANCE = 10000; // ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
@deepfates
deepfates / convert_archive.py
Created November 17, 2024 19:33
Convert your twitter archive into a training dataset and markdown files
import argparse
import json
import logging
import os
import re
import shutil
from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, as_completed
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime
from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Tuple