Steven Oderayi oderayi

Add Git Branch Name to Terminal Prompt (zsh)

Updated for MacOS with zsh

Catalina
Big Sur
Monterey
Ventura
Sonoma

S3 Static Sites

⚠ This post is fairly old. I don't keep it up to date. Be sure to see comments where some people have posted updates

What this will cover

Host a static website at S3
Redirect www.website.com to website.com
Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
Free AWS SSL certs
Deployment with CDN invalidation

If your running a x64 bit Ubuntu or other Linux and find USB transfers hang at the end apply this fix:

echo $((16*1024*1024)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_bytes
echo $((48*1024*1024)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes

I suggest you edit your /etc/rc.local file to make this change persistant across reboots.

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

	#!/bin/bash
	# Get postman app
	wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz
	sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt
	sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman

	#Create a Desktop Entry
	cat > ~/.local/share/applications/postman.desktop <<EOL
	[Desktop Entry]
	Encoding=UTF-8

	import Image
	from cStringIO import StringIO
	import base64

	def combine_b64(top, bottom, x, y):
	a = b64_to_Image(top)
	b = b64_to_Image(bottom)
	return Image_to_b64(combine(a, b, x, y))

	def Image_to_b64(img):