jasongilman

Atom Clojure Setup

This describes how I setup Atom for an ideal Clojure development workflow. This fixes indentation on newlines, handles parentheses, etc. The keybinding settings for enter (in keymap.cson) are important to get proper newlines with indentation at the right level. There are other helpers in init.coffee and keymap.cson that are useful for cutting, copying, pasting, deleting, and indenting Lisp expressions.

Install Atom

Download Atom

The Atom documentation is excellent. It's highly worth reading the flight manual.

CMCDragonkai

Version Control Diff, Patch and Merge Analysis (mostly Git)

Inspired by this: https://github.com/mndrix/merge-this

Intrafile-Intraline Change

Where branch A and branch B changes 2 different contiguous sets of characters on the same line, but the changes are non-overlapping. Both changes can change the line length arbitrarily.

CMCDragonkai

History Data Structures

For stateful applications, there are 5 different ways of managing the history of state:

• No History - Living in the moment. - Examples: Any stateful application that doesn't discards all previous states upon mutation.
• Ad Hoc Snapshotting - Allows restoration to manually saved snapshots. - Examples: Memento Pattern.
• Singleton - Only remembers the previous snapshot, where undoing the undo is just another undo. - Examples: Xerox PARC Bravo.
• 1 Stack - Allows linear undo. - Examples: AtariWriter.
• 2 Stack - Allows linear undo and redo. - Examples: Browser History, Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop.

joepie91

Not all random values are created equal - for security-related code, you need a specific kind of random value.

A summary of this article, if you don't want to read the entire thing:

• Don't use Math.random(). There are extremely few cases where Math.random() is the right answer. Don't use it, unless you've read this entire article, and determined that it's necessary for your case.
• Don't use crypto.getRandomBytes directly. While it's a CSPRNG, it's easy to bias the result when 'transforming' it, such that the output becomes more predictable.
• If you want to generate random tokens or API keys: Use uuid, specifically the uuid.v4() method. Avoid node-uuid - it's not the same package, and doesn't produce reliably secure random values.
• If you want to generate random numbers in a range: Use random-number-csprng.

You should seriously consider reading the entire article, though - it's