Tom Spalding tom-spalding

There doesn't seem to be a good resource online describing the issues with protocol buffers and deterministic serialization (or lack thereof). This is a collection of links on the subject.

Protocol Buffers v3.0.0. release notes:

The deterministic serialization is, however, NOT canonical across languages; it is also unstable across different builds with schema changes due to unknown fields.

Maps documentation:

Wire format ordering and map iteration ordering of map values is undefined, so you cannot rely on your map items being in a particular order.

Ruby Book List

Learning Ruby

You're taking your first steps into Ruby

The Well Grounded Rubyist

A good introduction to programming in general. Easy on newer programmers.

You Don't Need CoffeeScript

It's time to replace CoffeeScript with Babel and CoffeeLint with eslint.

CoffeeScript was useful a few years ago. It provided many features that JavaScript was lacking. It gave us the fat arrow (lexical this functions), default parameters, destructuring assignments, splats (spread operator), a class keyword, block strings, and more. Everything in the list above is now part of the JavaScript standard. JavaScript is moving forward and gaining

Ubuntu 16.04 on Macbook Pro 10,1 with Encrypted Root

NOTE: This is for dual-booting OS X 10.11 with Ubuntu 16.04.

Install

Preparation in OS X

Resize OS X partition with Disk Utility.

Serving Flask under a subpath

Your Flask app object implements the __call__ method, which means it can be called like a regular function. When your WSGI container receives a HTTP request it calls your app with the environ dict and the start_response callable. WSGI is specified in PEP 0333. The two relevant environ variables are:

SCRIPT_NAME
The initial portion of the request URL's "path" that corresponds to the application object, so that the application knows its virtual "location". This may be an empty string, if the application corresponds to the "root" of the server.

How to use Pelican on GitHub Pages

Author: Josef Jezek

Install on Ubuntu

Installing Python tools

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

	# Copyright 2017 Josef N Patoprsty
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
	#
	# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	#
	# Simply provides a wrapper around `yardoc`, modifying the output s.t. RubyMine will make the file references linkable.
	#

	require "yard"

	REPO_ROOT = $REPLACE_ME or fail
	SUBSTITUTION_MATCHER = /[Ii]n file [`'](?<path>[^`']*)[`'](?: near line \|:)(?<line>[0-9]+)/.freeze

	# install wine and ltspice
	sudo apt-get install wine
	# sudo pacman -S wine
	cd /tmp/
	wget http://ltspice.linear-tech.com/software/LTspiceIV.exe
	wine LTspiceIV.exe
	rm LTspiceIV.exe

	# start lstpice through wine
	wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/LTC/LTspiceIV/scad3.exe