Sergei Nikiforov sergeynikiforov

Introduction

This is about documenting getting Linux running on the late 2016 and mid 2017 MPB's; the focus is mostly on the MacBookPro13,3 and MacBookPro14,3 (15inch models), but I try to make it relevant and provide information for MacBookPro13,1, MacBookPro13,2, MacBookPro14,1, and MacBookPro14,2 (13inch models) too. I'm currently using Fedora 27, but most the things should be valid for other recent distros even if the details differ. The kernel version is 4.14.x (after latest update).

The state of linux on the MBP (with particular focus on MacBookPro13,2) is also being tracked on https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux . And for Ubuntu users there are a couple tutorials (here and here) focused on that distro and the MacBook.

Note: For those who have followed these instructions ealier, and in particular for those who have had problems with the custom DSDT, modifying the DSDT is not necessary anymore - se

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
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

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

Instructions

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

	import argparse
	import os

	import boto3


	class S3MultipartUpload(object):
	# AWS throws EntityTooSmall error for parts smaller than 5 MB
	PART_MINIMUM = int(5e6)


	/**
	* Fix for vw, vh, vmin, vmax on iOS 7.
	* http://caniuse.com/#feat=viewport-units
	*
	* This fix works by replacing viewport units with px values on known screen sizes.
	*
	* iPhone 6 and 6 Plus cannot run iOS 7, so are not targeted by this fix.
	* Target devices running iOS 8+ will incidentally execute the media query,
	* but this will still produce the expected result; so this is not a problem.

	#!/bin/bash
	# extract all postgres databases from a sql file created by pg_dumpall
	# this script outputs one .sql file for each database in the original .sql file
	# unless you pass the name of a database in the dump

	if [ $# -lt 1 ]
	then
	echo "Usage: $0 <postgresql sql dump> [dbname]" >&2
	exit 1
	fi

	#! /usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	import datetime
	from mock import patch

	from django.test import TestCase
	from django.utils import timezone


	class DatesTestCase(TestCase):

	git branch -m old_branch new_branch # Rename branch locally
	git push origin :old_branch # Delete the old branch
	git push --set-upstream origin new_branch # Push the new branch, set local branch to track the new remote