Andrew Naylor argon

Leaving this for historical reasons, but with the latest iteration I set up proper dotfiles. Check em out

Setup macOS with a Clean Install

After too many years of tinkering my machine is a bit all over. With ~~Mojave~~ ~~High Sierra~~ Montery I wanted to start fresh

1. Run Software Update

Make sure everything is up to date.

Your class can be no longer than 100 lines of code.
Your methods can be no longer than five lines of code.
You can pass no more than four parameters and you can’t just make it one big hash.
When a call comes into your Rails controller, you can only instantiate one object to do whatever it is that needs to be done. And your view can only know about one instance variable.

You can break these rules if you can talk your pair into agreeing with you.

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

	/* Copyright 2023 Andreas Fuchs <[email protected]>
	*
	* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	* the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
	* (at your option) any later version.
	*
	* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import binascii
	import socket
	import sys
	from collections import OrderedDict

	# See https://web.archive.org/web/20180919041301/https://routley.io/tech/2017/12/28/hand-writing-dns-messages.html
	# See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035

	#!/usr/local/bin/fontforge
	# Usage: fontforge -script ttc2ttf.pe /path/to/font.ttc

	fonts = FontsInFile($1)
	n = SizeOf(fonts)
	i = 0
	while (i < n)
	Open($1 + "(" + fonts[i] + ")", 1)

	index = ToString(i + 1)

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	//
	// NSObject+BlockObservation.h
	// Version 1.0
	//
	// Andy Matuschak
	// [email protected]
	// Public domain because I love you. Let me know how you use it.
	//

	#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>