Greg Allen gtallen1187

Updated 2021-02-03

Chrome Extensions
- General Chrome Extensions
- Chrome Extensions by Google
Opera Extensions

Chrome Extensions

Below is a list of Chrome extensions that I've found helpful, useful, or fun. There's a section for Chrome Extensions from Google.

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.

[Laughter]

"The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working"

From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford.

Programmers tend to worry too much and too soon about performance. Many college-level Computer Science classes focus on fancy algorithms to improve performance, but in real life performance rarely matters. Most real-world programs run plenty fast enough on today's machines without any particular attention to performance. The real challenges are getting programs completed quickly, ensuring their quality, and managing the complexity of large applications. Thus the primary design criterion for software should be simplicity, not speed.

> Occasionally there will be parts of a program where performance matters, but you probably won't be able to predict where the performance issues will occur. If you try to optimize the performance of an application during the initial construction you will add complexity that will impact the timely delivery and quality o

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Global Git Config

When setting up git for the first time on your computer, you'll need to configure it before you can really use it. This guide below outlines some of the well-known and lesser-known configuration options that I've found to be super helpful in the past.

Core
Optional

Core

The commands below are essential to run when configuring your git installation.

Probably one of the easiest things you'll ever do with gpg

Install Keybase: https://keybase.io/download and Ensure the keybase cli is in your PATH

First get the public key

keybase pgp export | gpg --import

Next get the private key

Updated 2020-01-10

Chrome Extensions for Developers

Below is a list of Chrome extensions that I've found to be especially helpful for software development. There's a section for Chrome Extensions by Google, and another section for Chrome Extensions for GitHub.

Developer Extensions

Clear Cache - A simple extension that clears your browser cache (and optionally history, cookies, etc) with a single click. I use this extension multiple times per day.
Library Sniffer - Identifies the technologies running any web page.

	subject:
	message:
	# references #123
	# closes #456

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #