Michael Willis Xainey

Laravel Homestead XDebug Nginx and Composer config changes

/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params

Update nginx config to support a longer timeout to prevent it dropping the connection when trying to debug in PHP Storm

fastcgi_read_timeout 600; # Set fairly high for debugging

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

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

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

	#fixed now!

	Param(
	[string]$html,
	[string]$docx
	)

	# make the powershell process switch the current directory.
	$oldwd = [Environment]::CurrentDirectory
	[Environment]::CurrentDirectory = $pwd

	@echo off

	if _%1_==__ goto USAGE

	openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem -subj "/CN=My Cert Name"
	openssl pkcs12 -export -out mycert.pfx -inkey mycert.pem -in mycert.pem -passout pass:%1
	openssl x509 -inform pem -in mycert.pem -outform der -out mycert.cer

	openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.pfx -nodes -passin pass:%1 \| openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint
	openssl x509 -in mycert.pem -noout -fingerprint

	/**
	* Converts an RGB color value to HSL. Conversion formula
	* adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_color_space.
	* Assumes r, g, and b are contained in the set [0, 255] and
	* returns h, s, and l in the set [0, 1].
	*
	* @param Number r The red color value
	* @param Number g The green color value
	* @param Number b The blue color value
	* @return Array The HSL representation

	<?php
	/**
	* A helper file for Laravel 5, to provide autocomplete information to your IDE
	* Generated for Laravel 5.5.13 on 2017-09-28.
	*
	* @author Barry vd. Heuvel <[email protected]>
	* @see https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
	*/
	namespace {
	exit("This file should not be included, only analyzed by your IDE");

	#requires -version 2.0
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
	[parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
	[ValidatePattern('\.rptproj$')]
	[ValidateScript({ Test-Path -PathType Leaf -Path $_ })]
	[string]
	$Path,

	[parameter(