Ian Channing ianchanning

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

nylas/N1 💌 An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web.
black-screen/black-screen A terminal emulator for the 21st century.
shockone/black-screen A terminal emulator for the 21st century.
ptmt/react-native-macos React Native for macOS
docker/kitematic Visual Docker Container Management on Mac & Windows
kitematic/kitematic Visual Docker Container Management on Mac & Windows
davezuko/wirk-starter Get started with React, Redux, and React-Router!
TelescopeJS/Telescope 🔭 An open-source social news app built with Meteor & React
coryhouse/react-slingshot React + Redux starter kit / boile

Edit — February 2019

This gist had a far larger impact than I imagined it would, and apparently people are still finding it, so a quick update:

TC39 is currently moving forward with a slightly different version of TLA, referred to as 'variant B', in which a module with TLA doesn't block sibling execution. This vastly reduces the danger of parallelizable work happening in serial and thereby delaying startup, which was the concern that motivated me to write this gist
In the wild, we're seeing (async main(){...}()) as a substitute for TLA. This completely eliminates the blocking problem (yay!) but it's less powerful, and harder to statically analyse (boo). In other words the lack of TLA is causing real problems
Therefore, a version of TLA that solves the original issue is a valuable addition to the language, and I'm in full support of the current proposal, which you can read here.

I'll leave the rest of this document unedited, for archaeological

How to change your commit messages in Git?

At some point you’ll find yourself in a situation where you need edit a commit message. That commit might already be pushed or not, be the most recent or burried below 10 other commits, but fear not, git has your back 🙂.

Not pushed + most recent commit:

git commit --amend

This will open your $EDITOR and let you change the message. Continue with your usual git push origin master.

Installing Steam on Fedora

These instructions are currently for Fedora 30. I'll update them over the releases if anything changes.

Open Software

Press the Win/Super key, type software and press Enter.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	function filter {
	while read line; do
	if [ "$($1 $line)" -ne 0 ]; then
	echo $line
	fi
	done
	}

	// Since `overlapArea` function is monotonic increasing, we can perform a
	// simple bisection search to find the distance that leads to an overlap
	// area within epsilon of the desired overlap.
	function distanceForOverlapArea(r1, r2, desiredOverlap) {
	// Ensure r1 <= r2
	if (r1 > r2) {
	var temp = r2;
	r2 = r1;
	r1 = temp;
	}

	@echo off

	setlocal
	call :setESC

	cls
	echo %ESC%[101;93m STYLES %ESC%[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[0m %ESC%[0mReset%ESC%[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[1m %ESC%[1mBold%ESC%[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[4m %ESC%[4mUnderline%ESC%[0m

	import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';

	export function encodeSvg(reactElement) {
	return 'data:image/svg+xml,' + escape(ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup((reactElement)));
	}