Note: I do not maintain this gist anymore, but people report that it still works. Please check the comments for any revisions or extra things you should take into consideration.
As of writing, the Debian distro for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is quite old.
You can get more up-to-date package managers, text-editors and compilers by upgrading WSL to Debian 12 (current testing).
- Root required
- Use at your own risk, preferably on a fresh installation.
This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.
It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.
It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)
And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u
| # Source: http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/07/18/pstip-how-to-switch-off-display-with-powershell/ | |
| # Turn display off by calling WindowsAPI. | |
| # PostMessage(HWND_BROADCAST,WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, POWER_OFF) | |
| # HWND_BROADCAST 0xffff | |
| # WM_SYSCOMMAND 0x0112 | |
| # SC_MONITORPOWER 0xf170 | |
| # POWER_OFF 0x0002 | |
| /** Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. */ | |
| "use strict"; | |
| /** | |
| * The runtime has a single beforeExit function which is stored in the global | |
| * object with a symbol key. | |
| * The symbol is not exported. | |
| * The process.beforeExit listener is setup in index.js along with all other | |
| * top-level process event listeners. | |
| */ |
| async function forEachSerial(cb, arr) { | |
| await arr.reduce(async (prevPromise, value) => { | |
| await prevPromise; | |
| return cb(value); | |
| }, Promise.resolve()); | |
| } | |
| async function forEachParallel(cb, arr) { | |
| await Promise.all(arr.map(cb)); | |
| } |
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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).
It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.
Git for Windows comes bundled with the "Git Bash" terminal which is incredibly handy for unix-like commands on a windows machine. It is missing a few standard linux utilities, but it is easy to add ones that have a windows binary available.
The basic idea is that C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\ is your / directory according to Git Bash (note: depending on how you installed it, the directory might be different. from the start menu, right click on the Git Bash icon and open file location. It might be something like C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Git, the mingw64 in this directory is your root. Find it by using pwd -W).
If you go to that directory, you will find the typical linux root folder structure (bin, etc, lib and so on).
If you are missing a utility, such as wget, track down a binary for windows and copy the files to the corresponding directories. Sometimes the windows binary have funny prefixes, so
| var colorScheme = 'darkula'; | |
| var link = document.createElement('link'); | |
| link.setAttribute('rel', 'stylesheet'); | |
| link.setAttribute('type', 'text/css'); | |
| link.setAttribute('href', '//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/9.1.0/styles/' + colorScheme + '.min.css'); | |
| document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link); | |
| var script = document.createElement('script'); | |
| script.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript'); |
| # The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. | |
| # If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown. | |
| # Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object | |
| # and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit. | |
| git describe | |
| # With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the closest tagname without any suffix: | |
| git describe --abbrev=0 | |
| # other examples |
