Matt Matt-Deacalion

The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

Generalities first

Suppose you have weird taste and you absolutely want:

your visual selection to always have a green background and black foreground,
your active statusline to always have a white background and red foreground,
your very own deep blue background.

Docker-based Web Application Setup (example)

This is an example of hosting standalone web front-end (web) and data API (api) applications under the same domain via Nginx (acting as a reverse proxy) and Docker, where HTTP requests starting with example.com/graphql and example.com/login/* are being redirected to http://api:3000 and everything else under the same domain is going to be passed to http://web:3000.

Folder Structure

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├── /nginx.sites/               # Server configuration for each of web apps
├── /nginx.snippets/            # Nginx code snippets

Once you are ready to hire a developer, what should you do to mitigate execution / build risk?

Writing a good functional specification is key to getting the build phase of this project right. It's not easy to do but it's mostly just about thinking hard and writing out all the boring details of your desired outcome. The best guide for this is Joel Spolsky (recently sold Trello for $425M). He wrote a 4 part series on this, starting here, and also has an example (real) spec on his website here (the PDF link is broken, this is the real one)
Before you start on a spec, trim down your functionality to the absolute bare minimum - and be brutal with it! Imagine you had to complete it in one day, or imagine it was only a single feature... take away everything that isn't fundamental

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.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

Recently when refactoring a Vue 1.0 application, I utilized ES6 arrow functions to clean up the code and make things a bit more consistent before updating to Vue 2.0. Along the way I made a few mistakes and wanted to share the lessons I learned as well as offer a few conventions that I will be using in my Vue applications moving forward.

The best way to explain this is with an example so lets start there. I'm going to throw a rather large block of code at you here, but stick with me and we will move through it a piece at a time.

<script>

// require vue-resource...

new Vue({

What forces layout / reflow

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.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

	" Background here: https://gist.github.com/romainl/047aca21e338df7ccf771f96858edb86
	" with help from https://github.com/teoljungberg

	function! CCR()
	let cmdline = getcmdline()
	let filter_stub = '\v\C^((filt\|filte\|filter) .+ )*'
	command! -bar Z silent set more\|delcommand Z
	if getcmdtype() !~ ':'
	return "\<CR>"
	endif

	# Paths {{{
	set folder = ~/Mail # mailbox location
	set alias_file = ~/.mutt/alias # where to store aliases
	set header_cache = ~/.mutt/cache/headers # where to store headers
	set message_cachedir = ~/.mutt/cache/bodies # where to store bodies
	set certificate_file = ~/.mutt/cerficates # where to store certs
	set mailcap_path = ~/.mutt/mailcap # entries for filetypes
	set tmpdir = ~/.mutt/temp # where to keep temp files
	set signature = ~/.mutt/sig # my signature file

	# Caesar cipher encoding
	echo "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG" \| tr '[A-Z]' '[X-ZA-W]'
	# output: QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD

	# Caesar cipher decoding
	echo "QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD" \| tr '[X-ZA-W]' '[A-Z]'
	# output: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG


	# Can also be adjusted to ROT13 instead