Gian Calica gcalica

"What the heck is a Yubikey and why did I buy one?": A user guide

(EDIT: Besides Reddit, I've also put this up on Github Gist)

So while looking for information on security keys before getting one myself, I got very confused reading about all the different modes and advertised features of Yubikeys and other similar dongles. The official documentation tends to be surprisingly convoluted at times, weirdly organized and oddly shy about a few of the limitations of these keys (which I'm making a point of putting front and center). Now that I have one, I decided to write down everything I figured out in order to help myself (and hopefully some other people reading this) make sense of all this.

Since I'm partly writing these notes for myself, there might be some back and forth between "exp

Create a script that will allow macOS to open a source code file in iTerm2/Terminal and Vim/NeoVim

Open Automator and create a new application. You can name it "TerminalVim"
Works with any command basically, just change the following line set q to "nvim " & quote & myPath & quote to match what you want in the code below. For example: set q to "vim " & quote & myPath & quote to use Vim instead of NeoVim.
Paste the following code:

on appIsRunning(appName)
    tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end appIsRunning

GROKKING NOTES

I liked the way Grokking the coding interview organized problems into learnable patterns. However, the course is expensive and the majority of the time the problems are copy-pasted from leetcode. As the explanations on leetcode are usually just as good, the course really boils down to being a glorified curated list of leetcode problems.

So below I made a list of leetcode problems that are as close to grokking problems as possible.

Pattern: Sliding Window

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Note

For every body who using Win10/11 with new Office that you need to know:

to active Office without crack, just follow https://github.com/WindowsAddict/IDM-Activation-Script,

you wiil only need to run

irm https://massgrave.dev/ias | iex

Tar Usage / Cheat Sheet

Compress a file or directory

e.g: tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file

-c: Create an archive.
-z: Compress the archive with gzip.
-v: makes tar talk a lot. Verbose output shows you all the files being archived and much.
-f: Allows you to specify the filename of the archive.

Recently when refactoring a Vue 1.0 application, I utilized ES6 arrow functions to clean up the code and make things a bit more consistent before updating to Vue 2.0. Along the way I made a few mistakes and wanted to share the lessons I learned as well as offer a few conventions that I will be using in my Vue applications moving forward.

The best way to explain this is with an example so lets start there. I'm going to throw a rather large block of code at you here, but stick with me and we will move through it a piece at a time.

<script>

// require vue-resource...

new Vue({

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

	# I'll be doing another one for Linux, but this one will give you
	# a pop up notification and sound alert (using the built-in sounds for macOS)

	# Requires https://github.com/caarlos0/timer to be installed

	# Mac setup for pomo
	alias work="timer 60m && terminal-notifier -message 'Pomodoro'\
	-title 'Work Timer is up! Take a Break 😊'\
	-appIcon '~/Pictures/pumpkin.png'\
	-sound Crystal"

	#!/bin/bash
	iatest=$(expr index "$-" i)

	#######################################################
	# SOURCED ALIAS'S AND SCRIPTS BY zachbrowne.me
	#######################################################

	# Source global definitions
	if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
	. /etc/bashrc