Mike Arvela mieky

Simple, semi-anonymous backups with S3 and curl

Backing stuff up is a bit of a hassle, to set up and to maintain. While full-blown backup suites such as duplicity or CrashPlan will do all kinds of clever things for you (and I'd recommend either for more complex setups), sometimes you just want to put that daily database dump somewhere off-site and be done with it. This is what I've done, with an Amazon S3 bucket and curl. Hold onto your hats, there's some Bucket Policy acrobatics ahead.

There's also a tl;dr at the very end if you just want the delicious copy-pasta.

Bucket setup

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

This is a proposal for a lightning talk at the Reactive 2015 conference.

NOTE: If you like this, star ⭐ the Gist - the amount of stars decides whether it makes the cut!

The Joy of Composition

Why stateless rendering is pure bliss

React just got stateless components, meaning that they are in essence pure functions for rendering. Pure functions make it dead simple - even fun - to refactor your views

macOS 10.12 Sierra Setup

Custom recipe to get macOS 10.12 Sierra running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. This is very similar (and currently mostly the same) as my 10.11 El Capitan setup recipe and 10.10 Yosemite setup recipe. I am currently tweaking this for 10.12 Sierra and expect to refine this gist over the next few weeks.

I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. I generally reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between releases.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your o

Postgres tips

UIs

Postico $39
pgAdmin Free

Useful queries

TL;DR: If you want to see me perform a spoken word poem about JavaScript in front of 1000 people (and on video), please ⭐ star this gist. If you're on mobile, you'll need to request desktop site.

	// Return operations to modify array a to b.
	// e.g. var a = [{id:1}, {id:2}], b = [{id:2}]
	// operations(a, b) -> [{operation: ‘remove’, item: {id:1}]
	function operations(a, b) {
	var aIds = _.pluck(a, 'id');
	var bIds = _.pluck(b, 'id');

	var notInBoth = _.xor(aIds, bIds);
	return _.map(notInBoth, function(id) {
	var isInA = _.contains(aIds, id);

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/signal"
	"time"

	"golang.org/x/net/context"
	)

	# Version key/value should be on his own line
	PACKAGE_VERSION=$(cat package.json \
	\| grep version \
	\| head -1 \
	\| awk -F: '{ print $2 }' \
	\| sed 's/[",]//g')

	echo $PACKAGE_VERSION

	import fetch from 'node-fetch';
	import { observable, action, runInAction } from 'mobx';

	export default class GithubStore {
	@observable searchName;
	@observable user;
	@observable repos;
	@observable fetchingData;

	constructor() {