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Say you want to listen to youtube videos as a podcast but you're too stubborn to use the AWS instant install thing on the podsync home page.

Before you start: if you're using Pocket Casts you'll want to make sure this all works before adding the podcast. Pocket Casts will cache your podcasts and then if you goofed it will always be referencing the non-working podcast. You can fix that by changing the subdomain you use. But it's just easier if you get it right from the start. You can test that it works by using something like Apple Podcasts, which will not cache and will just work if it works.

I'm kind of expecting that you're comfortable (though not necessarily experienced in) logging into your router, accessing the terminal and doing git commands, managing domain names, and that docker works on your system.

Use a Dynamic DNS service to set up

Connecting to an Android device over SSH

Initial Setup

Install Android App Termux from APKPure or AppStore. If the app exists, just delete and re-install it to get the latest version, The APK can be downloaded from https://apkpure.com/termux/com.termux/ Install the APK using by running

adb install ~/Downloads/Termux_v0.73_apkpure.com.apk

Unofficial Bash Strict Mode

Sometimes a programming language has a "strict mode" to restrict unsafe constructs. E.g., Perl has use strict, Javascript has "use strict", and Visual Basic has Option Strict. But what about bash? Well, bash doesn't have a strict mode as such, but it does have an unofficial strict mode:

set -euo pipefail

set -e

Thanks everyone for commenting/contributing! I made this in college for a class and I no longer really use the technology. I encourage you all to help each other, but I probably won't be answering questions anymore.

This article is also on my blog, too.

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Steps to Install Anaconda on Windows Ubuntu Terminal

Install WSL (Ubuntu for Windows - can be found in Windows Store). I recommend the latest version (I'm using 18.04) because there are some bugs they worked out during 14/16 (microsoft/WSL#785)
Go to https://repo.continuum.io/archive to find the list of Anaconda releases
Select the release you want. I have a 64-bit computer, so I chose the latest release ending in x86_64.sh. If I had a 32-bit computer, I'd select the x86.sh version. If you accidentally try to install the wrong one, you'll get a warning in the terminal. I chose `Ana

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).

Useful git diff tools

Overview

Word: docx2txt (brew install docx2txt)
Excel: xlsx2txt
PDF: pdf2txt (brew install poppler)
Images: exiftool (brew install exiftool)

Setup

Nginx Cheat Sheet

(from Understanding Nginx Server and Location Block Selection Algorithms - https://goo.gl/YyzshP)

server {

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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