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getaaron / irs-get-human.md
Created April 1, 2024 23:01
Get a person at the IRS
  • Call 1-800-829-1040
  • Press 1 for English (or other language as desired)
  • Press 2 for personal tax
  • Press 1 for form / tax history
  • Press 3 for other
  • Press 2 for other
  • Ignore 2 SSN prompts till you get secret other menu
  • Press 2 for personal tax
  • Press 3 for other
  • Wait for agent!
@bahadiraraz
bahadiraraz / Git_Commit_Freeze_Solution.md
Last active December 2, 2025 10:39
Git Commit Freeze Due to GPG Lock Issues (Solution)

Git Commit Freeze Due to GPG Lock Issues

If you encounter a problem where you cannot commit changes in Git – neither through the terminal nor via the GitHub Desktop application – the issue might be a freeze during the Git commit process. This is often caused by GPG lock issues. Below is a concise and step-by-step guide to resolve this problem.

Solution Steps

1. Check for GPG Lock Messages

Open your terminal and try to perform a GPG operation (like signing a test message). If you see repeated messages like gpg: waiting for lock (held by [process_id]) ..., it indicates a lock issue.

@natecj
natecj / etrade-2fa-with-1password.md
Last active December 1, 2025 16:21

How to use 1Password and 2FA with eTrade

IMPORTANT!
As of May 17, 2020, python-vipaccess stopped working for provisioning new Symantec VIP Access tokens (which was its raison d'être).
As of May 27, 2020, it's working again.
It might stop working again. and we might not be able to get it to work again (see #39)

Note: Your password cannot be more than 26 characters for you to use 2FA in general. eTrade makes you enter your 2FA code appened to your password to login and limits the length of password input to 32 characters, thus further restricting the maximum length of your actual password.

@mcpower
mcpower / aoc-tips.md
Last active December 3, 2025 13:55
Tips for getting on the Advent of Code leaderboard

Hi, I'm mcpower. I've done Advent of Code seriously for two years now in Python, placing 9th in 2018 and 12th in 2017. This year, I'm taking a break from aiming for the leaderboard - while it's fun and all, it is a bit stressful at times (the good kind of stress, though!). As such, I'd like to share a few tips for anyone wanting to aim for the leaderboard.

This is everything that worked for me. Your mileage may vary, though - don't take this as gospel, see what works for you.

Go fast

Go fast.

@larahogan
larahogan / app-perf.md
Last active October 30, 2025 15:54
Native app performance metrics

Native app performance metrics

This is a draft list of what we're thinking about measuring in Etsy's native apps.

Currently we're looking at how to measure these things with Espresso and Kif (or if each metric is even possible to measure in an automated way). We'd like to build internal dashboards and alerts around regressions in these metrics using automated tests. In the future, we'll want to measure most of these things with RUM too.

Overall app metrics

  • App launch time - how long does it take between tapping the icon and being able to interact with the app?
  • Time to complete critical flows - using automated testing, how long does it take a user to finish the checkout flow, etc.?
  • Battery usage, including radio usage and GPS usage
  • Peak memory allocation
@JoshuaEstes
JoshuaEstes / 000-Cheat-Sheets.md
Last active April 23, 2025 10:31
Developer Cheat Sheets for bash, git, gpg, irssi, mutt, tmux, and vim. See my dotfiles repository for extra info.