Peter Aronoff telemachus

zstyle booleans

Setup foo,bar,baz boolean vars

zstyle ':example:foo' doit yes
zstyle ':example:bar' doit no
# leave baz unset

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

Syncthing Ubuntu/Mint Headless

Syncthing: https://syncthing.net/

Syncthing is a free, open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization application available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Solaris, Darwin, and BSD. It can sync files between devices on a local network, or between remote devices over the Internet. Data security and data safety are built into the design of the software.

This is written using Linux Mint 21.2 x86_64 using kernel 5.15.0-89-generic.

I couldn't find good directions for doing this, so here we go.

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

There are three easy to make mistakes in go. I present them here in the way they are often found in the wild, not in the way that is easiest to understand.

All three of these mistakes have been made in Kubernetes code, getting past code review at least once each that I know of.

Loop variables are scoped outside the loop.

What do these lines do? Make predictions and then scroll down.

func print(pi *int) { fmt.Println(*pi) }

There are a number of good introductory SQL resources available for free and online. There are also some paid resources which I recommend for beginners, that are very effective, and well worth expensing in my opinion.

A couple of notes:

I haven’t used all of these resources, but they come with strong recommendations around the web or myself/my peers.
You absolutely don’t need to use every single resource. Find a couple that work for you, and go to town.
You can always reach out to me if you have questions. I always paste this online when people are new to asking very technical questions – it’s not meant to be snarky – it's a gentle guide on how to compose your questions and gather necessary resources in order to best give technical people the information needed to get a quick/effective response: http://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html

Video/Class/Mini-course based:

Stanford Self-paced ‘Database’ course

The original Coursera

	package main

	// ref: https://blog.golang.org/go-slices-usage-and-internals
	// 1234 <-- digits

	import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"regexp"
	)

	.
	├── books
	│ ├── handlers.go
	│ └── models.go
	├── config
	│ └── db.go
	└── main.go

	CREATE TABLE books (
	isbn char(14) NOT NULL,
	title varchar(255),
	author varchar(255),
	price decimal(5,2)
	);

	INSERT INTO books (isbn, title, author, price) VALUES
	('978-1503261969', 'Emma', 'Jayne Austen', 9.44),
	('978-1514274873', 'Journal of a Soldier', NULL, 5.49),

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	port 587
	protocol smtp
	auth on
	from [email protected]
	user [email protected]
	password topsecretpassword!
	tls on
	tls_nocertcheck