Bryan Konowitz bkono

Moving to ES6 from CoffeeScript

I fell in love with CoffeeScript a couple of years ago. Javascript has always seemed something of an interesting curiosity to me and I was happy to see the meteoric rise of Node.js, but coming from a background of Python I really preferred a cleaner syntax.

In any fast moving community it is inevitable that things will change, and so today we see a big shift toward ES6, the new version of Javascript. It incorporates a handful of the nicer features from CoffeeScript and is usable today through tools like Babel. Here are some of my thoughts and issues on moving away from CoffeeScript in favor of ES6.

While reading I suggest keeping open a tab to Babel's learning ES6 page. The examples there are great.

Punctuation

Holy punctuation, Batman! Say goodbye to your whitespace and hello to parenthesis, curly braces, and semicolons again. Even with the advanced ES6 syntax you'll find yourself writing a lot more punctuatio

Moving Authy to 1Password

1Password 5.3 for OSX, 5.2 for iOS, and 4.1.0.538 for Windows support OTP. I've been using Authy for a while now, but the fact is, I haven't really been using 2FA for some time. As mentioned by 1Password in a recent blog post, having the OTP generator and password on the same device is very much not 2FA. It's just an expiring OTP, which can help, but let's not kid ourselves too much.

With that out of the way. One of the things that was interesting to me was moving my OTP out of Authy and into 1Password. I like the control I get with 1Password, but I didn't want to have to reset all my OTP right away, that would suck. So, I got to dissecting the Authy Chrome App to see what I could do.

Run the Authy Chrome app and make sure it's unlocked.

Now, enable Developer mode in Chrome. We'll need this to inspect the background application that stores al

Directory structure for JavaScript/Node Projects

While the following structure is not an absolute requirement or enforced by the tools, it is a recommendation based on what the JavaScript and in particular Node community at large have been following by convention.

Beyond a suggested structure, no tooling recommendations, or sub-module structure is outlined here.

Directories

lib/ is intended for code that can run as-is
src/ is intended for code that needs to be manipulated before it can be used

How to connect an iOS device to your computer via a SOCKS proxy

Say you're running a virtual machine on your work computer. Say this machine, for whatever reason, can only connect to the internet over NAT - as in, it does not get it's own IP address. Say this VM is running a webserver, and you need a device outside of your computer to connect to it.

If only there was a way to get your work computer to 'share' it's network, so that you could get at that VM… Here's how you do it!

For all instructions, I assume your work computer is a mac

Get your computer's IP address:

	defmodule Config do
	@moduledoc """
	This module handles fetching values from the config with some additional niceties
	"""

	@doc """
	Fetches a value from the config, or from the environment if {:system, "VAR"}
	is provided.

	An optional default value can be provided if desired.

	--- Actions ---
	$Copy <M-C>
	$Cut <M-X> <S-Del>
	$Delete <Del> <BS> <M-BS>
	$LRU
	$Paste <M-V>
	$Redo <M-S-Z> <A-S-BS>
	$SearchWeb <A-S-G>
	$SelectAll <M-A>
	$Undo <M-Z>

	/**
	* Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Typesafe Inc. <http://www.typesafe.com>
	*/
	package akka.contrib.mailbox

	import scala.concurrent.duration._
	import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger
	import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong
	import com.typesafe.config.Config
	import akka.actor.{ ActorContext, ActorRef, ActorSystem, ExtendedActorSystem }

	/*

	Author: https://github.com/gorhill
	Source: https://gist.github.com/gorhill/5285193

	A Go function to render a number to a string based on
	the following user-specified criteria:

	* thousands separator
	* decimal separator

	#!/usr/bin/env zsh

	# Install the following first:
	#
	# - chrome
	# - iterm2
	# - connect.apple.com command-line: XCode tools


	successfully() {

	# Mac OS X Lion introduced a new, iOS-like context menu when you press and hold a key
	# that enables you to choose a character from a menu of options. If you are on Lion
	# try it by pressing and holding down 'e' in any app that uses the default NSTextField
	# for input.
	#
	# It's a nice feature and continues the blending of Mac OS X and iOS features. However,
	# it's a nightmare to deal with in Sublime Text 2 if you're running Vintage (Vim) mode,
	# as it means you cannot press and hold h/j/k/l to move through your file. You have
	# to repeatedly press the keys to navigate.