Michael Nielson nielsonm

PDXReactJS Lightning Talks

Lightning talks from the @pdxreactjs meetup on 2019-02-12.

Daniel Lemay - @dslemay

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

This is a quick-and-dirty guide to setting up a Raspberry Pi as a "router on a stick" to PrivateInternetAccess VPN.

Install Raspbian Jessie (2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie.img) to your Pi's sdcard.

Use the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool or sudo raspi-config to:

Here you find the DSL language definition for your phrases you can use in .feature files:

With Homebrew that gets really easy:

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	Given /^(?:\|I )am on "(?P<page>[^"]+)"$/
	Given /^(?:\|I )am on (?:\|the )homepage$/
	Given :type content:
	Given :vocabulary terms:
	Given I am an anonymous user
	Given I am at :path
	Given I am logged in as :name
	Given I am logged in as a user with the :permissions permission(s)
	Given I am logged in as a user with the :role role(s)
	Given I am logged in as a user with the :role role(s) and I have the following fields:

	{
	"name": "mynamespace/myproject",
	"description": "Composer file example",
	"repositories": [
	{
	"type": "composer",
	"url": "http://drupal-packagist.webflo.io/"
	},
	{
	"type": "package",

	# Delete all git branches merged into master
	git-branch-cleanup() {
	echo "Do you want to delete remote branches? [y/n]"
	read remote
	echo "Do you want to delete local branches? [y/n]"
	read local
	echo "Which branch do you want to have as the base? All branches merged into this branch will be deleted. Defaults to master."
	read branchBase
	git checkout $branchBase
	IFS=$'\n'

	function prompt_command {
	local RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
	local GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
	local YELLOW="\[\033[0;33m\]"
	local BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
	local MAGENTA="\[\033[0;35m\]"
	local CYAN="\[\033[0;36m\]"
	local CRESET="\[\033[0m\]"

	if git branch >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then