Franco Gilio fgilio

Read Shape Up by basecamp on a kindle / reMarkable / eReader

Basecamp's new book Shape Up is now available online (https://basecamp.com/shapeup) to read page-by-page.

There is a .pdf version, but that's not the best format for Kindle / other eReaders. Instead, we can convert the page-by-page into an eReader friendly format.

Part 1: Convert to a single page

NOTE: This has only been tested on Chrome

😱 Before: ~/Desktop/Screen Shot….png 4.1 MB

🏆 After: ~/Screenshots/Screen Shot….png 937 KB

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Install https://pngquant.org/
```
$ brew install pngquant
```

Understanding Facades in Laravel

What's a Facade?

The Laravel explination, shown below is confusing.

Facades provide a "static" interface to classes that are available in the application's service container. Laravel ships with many facades which provide access to almost all of Laravel's features. Laravel facades serve as "static proxies" to underlying classes in the service container, providing the benefit of a terse, expressive syntax while maintaining more testability and flexibility than traditional static methods.

Many examples use Cache::get('key') to demonstrate how a Facade works. Comparing the following code to the utility that a Facade provides.

A set of snippets I use in Laravel Nova

Snippets

Vue,js devtools (Only with manual installation)

cd ./nova 
yarn
mv webpack.mix.js.dist webpack.mix.js

Custom format for displaying bytes as kb, mb, gb or tb.

Response to a few places on the internet: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/x_T_N-yRUYg And here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1533811/how-can-i-format-bytes-a-cell-in-excel-as-kb-mb-gb-etc

Here is one that I have been using:

[<1000000]0.00," KB";[<1000000000]0.00,," MB";0.00,,," GB"

	; Within this file you may set preferences for Shift.
	; These may be used to customize the behavior of the
	; Shift bot by disabling or guiding the automation.

	; NOTE: Any paths should be relative to location
	; of this file and exclude a trailing slash.

	; Section to set options for PHP Shifts.
	[php]

	WITH RECURSIVE fizz_buzz (sequence, modulo_3, modulo_5) AS (
	SELECT 1, CAST('' AS CHAR(4)), CAST('' AS CHAR(5))
	UNION ALL
	SELECT sequence + 1,
	IF(MOD(sequence + 1, 3) = 0, 'Fizz', ''),
	IF(MOD(sequence + 1, 5) = 0, 'Buzz', '')
	FROM fizz_buzz
	WHERE sequence < 100
	)

	<?php

	require_once __DIR__.'/relative/path/to/PrettierPHPFixer/File';

	return PhpCsFixer\Config::create()
	->registerCustomFixers([
	(new PrettierPHPFixer()),
	])
	->setRules([
	'Prettier/php' => true,

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>Ansi 0 Color</key>
	<dict>
	<key>Alpha Component</key>
	<real>1</real>
	<key>Blue Component</key>
	<real>0.17254902422428131</real>

	<?php

	namespace App\Libraries\Queue;

	use Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher;
	use Illuminate\Queue\DatabaseQueue;
	use Illuminate\Support\Str;
	use Laravel\Horizon\Events\JobDeleted;
	use Laravel\Horizon\Events\JobPushed;
	use Laravel\Horizon\Events\JobReleased;