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@andyrbell
andyrbell / scanner.sh
Last active November 3, 2024 13:42
Make a pdf look scanned using ImageMagick
# use ImageMagick convert
# the order is important. the density argument applies to input.pdf and resize and rotate to output.pdf
convert -density 90 input.pdf -rotate 0.5 -attenuate 0.2 +noise Multiplicative -colorspace Gray output.pdf
@mttjohnson
mttjohnson / mysql-performance-tuning.sql
Last active August 23, 2024 17:54
MySQL Performance Tuning
-- Query the database to calculate a recommended innodb_buffer_pool_size
-- and get the currently configured value
-- The rollup as the bottom row gives the total for all DBs on the server, where each other row is recommendations per DB.
SELECT
TABLE_SCHEMA,
CONCAT(CEILING(RIBPS/POWER(1024,pw)),SUBSTR(' KMGT',pw+1,1))
Recommended_InnoDB_Buffer_Pool_Size,
(
SELECT CONCAT(CEILING(variable_value/POWER(1024,FLOOR(LOG(variable_value)/LOG(1024)))),SUBSTR(' KMGT',FLOOR(LOG(variable_value)/LOG(1024))+1,1))

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

What's an Effective Engineer?

import React from 'react'
const provideContext = (contextKey, contextType) => (
React.createClass({
childContextTypes: {
[contextKey]: contextType
},
getChildContext() {
const { children, ...props } = this.props
@paulirish
paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active November 15, 2024 16:45
What forces layout/reflow. The comprehensive list.

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics
  • elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
@HenrikJoreteg
HenrikJoreteg / README.md
Last active September 20, 2021 01:36
Minimalist routing in Redux

Why would you want to do this? Because you often don't need more. It's nice to not have to think about your "router" as this big special thing.

Instead, with this approch, your app's current pathname is just another piece of state, just like anything else.

This also means that when doing server-side rendering of a redux app, you can just do:

var app = require('your/redux/app')
var React = require('react')
@chantastic
chantastic / on-jsx.markdown
Last active November 10, 2024 13:39
JSX, a year in

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

Folder Structure

Please note

While this gist has been shared and followed for years, I regret not giving more background. It was originally a gist for the engineering org I was in, not a "general suggestion" for any React app.

Typically I avoid folders altogether. Heck, I even avoid new files. If I can build an app with one 2000 line file I will. New files and folders are a pain.

@NotSqrt
NotSqrt / settings_test_snippet.py
Last active May 1, 2022 01:34 — forked from nealtodd/settings_test_snippet.py
Another shot at this problem ..
class DisableMigrations(object):
def __contains__(self, item):
return True
def __getitem__(self, item):
return "notmigrations"
MIGRATION_MODULES = DisableMigrations()
@tkafka
tkafka / LICENSE.txt
Last active May 17, 2024 02:08
Drop-in replacement for ReactCSSTransitionGroup that uses velocity.js instead of CSS transforms. Add your own transitions to `transitions` hash.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Tomas Kafka
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: