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Git Cheat Sheet

Transcribed from Tower’s blog post

Create

$ git clone ssh://[email protected]/repo.git

Clone an existing repository

Command Line Cheat Sheet

Transcribed from Tower’s blog post

Directories

$ pwd

Display path of current working directory

Books I finished reading

in 2025

Absolute Batman - Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Frank Martin
Final Cut - Charles Burns
Things Become Other Things - Craig Mod
All Fours (Audiobook) - Miranda July
Daddy Boy (Audiobook) - Emerson Whitney
American Freak - Dave Louapre, Vince Locke
Tenderness: A Black Queer Meditation on Softness and Rage - Annika Hansteen-Izora

git commit stats

Commands to get commit statistics for a Git repository from the command line -
using git log, git shortlog and friends.

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

Server setup for Ubuntu 16.04 on Digital Ocean

The setup installs the following software:

Nginx
MySQL
PHP
Node
Composer

This markdown file explains how to run Ubuntu on your Acer CB3-111-C670 Chromebook through Crouton.

Developer Mode

You first need to put your chromebook in developer mode.

To invoke Recovery mode, you hold down the ESC and Refresh (F3) keys and poke the Power button.

To enter Dev-mode you first invoke Recovery, and at the Recovery screen press Ctrl-D (there's no prompt - you have to know to do it). It will ask you to confirm, then reboot into dev-mode.

	// paste in your console
	speechSynthesis.onvoiceschanged = function() {
	var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();
	msg.voice = this.getVoices().filter(v => v.name == 'Cellos')[0];
	msg.text = Object.keys(window).join(' ');
	this.speak(msg);
	};

	I think you mean team...
	I think you mean squad..
	I think you mean gang...
	I think you mean pals...
	I think you mean buds...
	I think you mean posse...
	I think you mean phalanx...
	I think you mean crew...
	I think you mean crüe...
	I think you mean nerds...