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This is a collection of my most often used lines of code, as well as a few other examples I want to have ready at a moment's notice. These snippets focus on building HTML from scratch, linking in good web fonts, and setting up responsive styles for your pages.

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

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
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	" Highlight currently open file in nerdtree
	" see http://superuser.com/a/474298/175466
	" see http://superuser.com/a/509721/175466

	" returns true iff is NERDTree open/active
	function! rc:isNTOpen()
	return exists("t:NERDTreeBufName") && (bufwinnr(t:NERDTreeBufName) != -1)
	endfunction

	" returns true iff focused window is NERDTree window

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
	<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
	package="com.cards.notification">

	<uses-sdk
	android:minSdkVersion="17"
	android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

	<application
	android:allowBackup="true"

	# (I recommend understanding the basics of this first: http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/rdoc/files/doc/object_model_rdoc.html)

	# Extending the underlying dataset (http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/rdoc/files/README_rdoc.html#label-Extending+the+underlying+dataset)

	# The recommended way to implement table-wide logic by defining methods on the dataset using dataset_module:

	class Post < Sequel::Model
	dataset_module do
	def posts_with_few_comments
	where{num_comments < 30}

	# GIT heart FZF
	# -------------

	is_in_git_repo() {
	git rev-parse HEAD > /dev/null 2>&1
	}

	fzf-down() {
	fzf --height 50% --min-height 20 --border --bind ctrl-/:toggle-preview "$@"
	}

	[merge]
	tool = vimdiff
	[mergetool]
	prompt = true
	[mergetool "vimdiff"]
	cmd = nvim -d $LOCAL $REMOTE $MERGED -c '$wincmd w' -c 'wincmd J'
	[difftool]
	prompt = false
	[diff]
	tool = vimdiff

Luong Vo luong-komorebi

Table of Contents

Don't use VPN services.

Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

	// For all the confusing Prometheus configuration and
	// regular expressions,
	// explained in examples.


	// Remember, there are default values for each item if it's missing.
	// regex is (.*),
	// replacement is $1,
	// separator is ;
	// ,and action is replace