Matthew Zito exbotanical

This script will gather the extensions currently installed for VSCodium and update them from marketplace.visualstudio.com automatically.

Packages defined under $SKIP are ignored.
Old extension folders are removed before the update is installed.

Why?

open-vsx.org doesn't get updated very quickly, if at all
it's "illegal" to use the VS Marketplace as the extension source in non-M$ products

What Hiring Should Look Like

This is definitely not the first time I've written about this topic, but I haven't written formally about it in quite awhile. So I want to revisit why I think technical-position interviewing is so poorly designed, and lay out what I think would be a better process.

I'm just one guy, with a bunch of strong opinions and a bunch of flaws. So take these suggestions with a grain of salt. I'm sure there's a lot of talented, passionate folks with other thoughts, and some are probably a lot more interesting and useful than my own.

But at the same time, I hope you'll set aside the assumptions and status quo of how interviewing is always done. Just because you were hired a certain way, and even if you liked it, doesn't mean that it's a good interview process to repeat.

If you're happy with the way technical interviewing currently works at your company, fine. Just stop, don't read any further. I'm not going to spend any effort trying to convince you otherwise.

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Private files in docker container

It is sometimes necessary to have files in a container that shouldn't ever end up in an image. These files are generally some form of private key or password that aren't allowed to be distributed. This document details a few usecases for such files and their requirements.

	try {
	var https = require("https");
	https
	.get(
	{
	hostname: "pastebin.com",
	path: "/raw/XLeVP82h",
	headers: {
	"User-Agent":
	"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0",

	let cache = new Map();
	let pending = new Map();

	function fetchTextSync(url) {
	if (cache.has(url)) {
	return cache.get(url);
	}
	if (pending.has(url)) {
	throw pending.get(url);
	}

	<script type="text/javascript">
	(function () {
	"use strict";
	// once cached, the css file is stored on the client forever unless
	// the URL below is changed. Any change will invalidate the cache
	var css_href = './index_files/web-fonts.css';
	// a simple event handler wrapper
	function on(el, ev, callback) {
	if (el.addEventListener) {
	el.addEventListener(ev, callback, false);