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Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

Thinkfan setup

Note: I configured this thinkfan setup for my old Thinkpad w520 on Ubuntu 17.10.

1. Install necessary programs

Install lm-sensors and thinkfan.

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors thinkfan

Monitorama 2018 Talks

Hi I'm Ilan, I work at Datadog, a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale applications and infrastructure. I've been at Monitorama this week and figured I'd make it easy to find the talks from the conference.

Datadog is hiring! Come join me

Day 1

Optimizing for Learning - Logan McDonald (BuzzFeed)

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	#/ Usage: <progname> [options]...
	#/ How does this script make my life easier?
	# ** Tip: use #/ lines to define the --help usage message.
	$stderr.sync = true
	require 'optparse'

	# default options
	flag = false
	option = "default value"

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <string.h>

	#define LOC_MAXLEN 13

	int main (void)
	{
	char dest[LOC_MAXLEN];
	snprintf(dest, LOC_MAXLEN, "%s%s", "abc", "def");