Ian Channing ianchanning

Tiny rules for how to name stuff

CSS

How to name CSS classes

Stateful Class names

Is it a state that is only one of two conditions? (i.e. a boolean)

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

A Beginner's Guide to Media Whistleblowing

You're a tech novice, leaking to a reporter for the first time. Computers are confusing. Encryption is a very long and very tiring word. The people who know how to do this all talk like holier-than-thou jackasses. (Spoiler: we pretty much are.) Here's a quick, hopefully beginner-friendly guide to safer leaking.

Don't use your phone. There are some marginally safe ways to use phones, but you're not going to manage them. Just put it down, and never try to do anything terrible or heroic with a cell phone. The same is true of email.
Don't do anything from your work, your house or your regular haunts. There's various ways of tracing things back, and you don't want to have to worry about them.
Use someone else's WiFi. A cafe or a library, or better yet, the laundromat or cafe next to the one with the WiFi you're using. This takes a little investigation, but it's not hard. Get a few passwords as a customer and think about where you can sit unobtrusi

How to contact me

After some stalking problems I stopped using these accounts. I will repost when I have new info.

material-components/material-components-web#134

Closure Compiler Support

Google Closure Compiler support is required in order to support the Google projects and properties which are built around this toolchain. Concretely, MDC-Web must be able to compile with ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS enabled, and produce no errors or warnings. There are implications for internal support as well, but that is outside the scope of this issue.

Goals

Full compilation of MDC-Web using ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS
Test infrastructure to verify both compilation, as well as runtime correctness, e.g. our closurized code behaves correctly

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

	// per https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts, npm exposes a bunch of variables to
	// the environment prefixed with npm_config_, npm_package_ and npm_lifecycle_*.
	// Here's a list of all variables exposed in my setup.

	npm_config_access=
	npm_config_allow_same_version=
	npm_config_also=
	npm_config_always_auth=
	npm_config_argv='{"remain":[],"cooked":["run","foo"],"original":["run","foo"]}'
	npm_config_auth_type=legacy

	@echo off
	cls
	echo [101;93m STYLES [0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[0m [0mReset[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[1m [1mBold[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[4m [4mUnderline[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[7m [7mInverse[0m
	echo.
	echo [101;93m NORMAL FOREGROUND COLORS [0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[30m [30mBlack[0m (black)

	{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE ExistentialQuantification #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE MagicHash #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
	module Main (main) where

	import Foreign
	import Foreign.C.Types

	{
	"text": " alertDetails - ID: monitorID. URL: [monitorURL](monitorURL)",
	"title": "monitorFriendlyName is alertTypeFriendlyName"
	}