Kristján Ingi Mikaelsson kristjanmik

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

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)

Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

Code Review Agreement

As the coder, what do I expect of the reviewer?

Be critical! I won't take it personally!
Thou shalt always weakify strongify! (i.e. reviewer spots dumb things)
Suggest alternatives and share knowledge.
Build and run code locallly.
Take your time to review.
Try to spot missing tests.

Fixing Geo Location Permissions in iOS8

In iOS8, Apple has changed how geo location permissions work. This gist outlines an approach to fix this so Geo will continue to work in iOS8.

Before getting started with the code change, we need to update the tiapp.xml with a few keys.

If you wish to have Geo always run, you need to add the below key. The key NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription is used when requesting permission to use location services whenever the app is running. To enable this, add the below to the tiapp.xml:

NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription Reason that appears in the authorization prompt

	<!--
	* Copyright (c) 2021 GraphQL Contributors
	* All rights reserved.
	*
	* This code is licensed under the MIT license.
	* Use it however you wish.
	-->
	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>

	## Install NGINX
	## when installing on Amazon Linux AMI, use:
	$ sudo yum install nginx -y
	## when installing on Amazon Linux 2 AMI, use
	$ sudo amazon-linux-extras install nginx1.12 -y

	## Install PHP and PHP-FPM
	# for PHP version 7.1 use php71 and php71-fpm instead
	$ sudo yum install php -y
	$ sudo yum install php-fpm -y

	// Promise.all is good for executing many promises at once
	Promise.all([
	promise1,
	promise2
	]);

	// Promise.resolve is good for wrapping synchronous code
	Promise.resolve().then(function () {
	if (somethingIsNotRight()) {
	throw new Error("I will be rejected asynchronously!");

	# Create your superuser
	$ mongo
	> use admin
	> db.createUser({user:"someadmin",pwd:"secret", roles:[{role:"root",db:"admin"}]})
	> exit

	# Alias for convenience (optional and at your own risk)
	$ echo 'alias mongo="mongo --port 27017 -u someadmin -p secret --authenticationDatabase admin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
	$ source ~/.bash_profile

	var cluster = require('cluster');

	if (cluster.isWorker) {

	console.log('Worker ' + process.pid + ' has started.');

	// Send message to master process.
	process.send({msgFromWorker: 'This is from worker ' + process.pid + '.'})

	// Receive messages from the master process.