premek

# Put this function to your .bashrc file.
# Usage: mv oldfilename
# If you call mv without the second parameter it will prompt you to edit the filename on command line.
# Original mv is called when it's called with more than one argument.
# It's useful when you want to change just a few letters in a long name.
#
# Also see:
# - imv from renameutils
# - Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y (cut last word, paste, paste)

adisbladis

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:

let

  # To use this shell.nix on NixOS your user needs to be configured as such:
  # users.extraUsers.adisbladis = {
  #   subUidRanges = [{ startUid = 100000; count = 65536; }];
  #   subGidRanges = [{ startGid = 100000; count = 65536; }];
  # };

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

iafisher

"""
A script to automatically export bookmarks from Firefox's SQLite database.

There does not seem to be a programmatic way to get Firefox to export its bookmarks in
the conventional HTML format. However, you can access the bookmark information directly
in Firefox's internal database, which is what this script does.

Always be careful when working with the internal database! If you delete data, you will
likely not be able to recover it.

kemitchell

https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=39m45s

When I put the reference implementation onto the website I needed to
put a software license on it.

And I looked at all the licenses that were available, and there were a lot
of them. And I decided that the one I liked the best was the MIT License,
which was a notice that you would put on your source and it would say,
"you're allowed to use this for any purpose you want, just leave the
notice in the source and don't sue me."

tmcw

const fs = require('fs');
const d3 = require('d3-dsv');
const path = require('path');
const yaml = require('js-yaml');
const toMarkdown = require('to-markdown');

d3.csvParse(
  fs.readFileSync('./goodreads_library_export.csv', 'utf8')
).filter(row => {
  return row['Exclusive Shelf'] !== 'to-read';

hyg

func openbrowser(url string) {
	var err error

	switch runtime.GOOS {
	case "linux":
		err = exec.Command("xdg-open", url).Start()
	case "windows":
		err = exec.Command("rundll32", "url.dll,FileProtocolHandler", url).Start()
	case "darwin":
		err = exec.Command("open", url).Start()

chitchcock

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