Ayrton ayrton

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Recently CSS has got a lot of negativity. But I would like to defend it and show, that with good naming convention CSS works pretty well.

My 3 developers team has just developed React.js application with 7668 lines of CSS (and just 2 !important). During one year of development we had 0 issues with CSS. No refactoring typos, no style leaks, no performance problems, possibly, it is the most stable part of our application.

Here are main principles we use to write CSS for modern (IE11+) browsers:

SUIT CSS naming conventions + SUIT CSS design principles;
PostCSS + CSSNext. Future CSS syntax like variables, nesting, and autoprefixer are good enough;
Flexbox is awesome. No need for grid framework;
Normalize.css, base styles and variables are solid foundation for all components;

To make this work in CSS:

background: url('images.svg#chart');

or img:

<img src="images.svg#chart">

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

I use tmux splits (panes). Inside one of these panes there's a Vim process, and it has its own splits (windows).

In Vim I have key bindings C-h/j/k/l set to switch windows in the given direction. (Vim default mappings for windows switching are the same, but prefixed with C-W.) I'd like to use the same keystrokes for switching tmux panes.

An extra goal that I've solved with a dirty hack is to toggle between last active panes with C-\.

Here's how it should work:

	const toArray = a => (Array.isArray(a) ? a : [a]);

	export async function waitForXpath(page, selector, options = {}) {
	return page.waitForFunction(
	selector => {
	return (
	null !==
	document.evaluate(
	selector,
	document,

	# Install a recent version of the ruby interpreter from ppa:brightbox

	include_recipe "apt"
	include_recipe "build-essential"

	# Add the brightbox ppa
	apt_repository 'brightbox' do
	uri 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/brightbox/ruby-ng/ubuntu'
	distribution node['lsb']['codename']
	components ['main']

	# config/routes.rb
	resources :documents do
	scope module: 'documents' do
	resources :versions do
	post :restore, on: :member
	end

	resource :lock
	end
	end

	class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
	before_filter :ensure_xhr

	private
	def ensure_xhr
	if request.get? && request.format && (request.format.js? \|\| request.format.json?)
	head :forbidden unless request.xhr?
	end
	end
	end

	# Touch tmp/caching.txt to turn on caching
	if Rails.root.join('tmp/caching.txt').exist?
	config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
	config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
	else
	config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
	config.cache_store = :null_store
	end

	# Touch tmp/precompile.txt to test with asset precompiles. Run