Patrick Lee patleeman

Setup WSL 2

Follow steps in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
If Microsoft Store cannot be used, install manually from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual
Sections below assume Ubuntu 18.04+ is installed

Setup Neovim

Neovim on Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable
sudo apt-get update

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

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?

Hofstadter on Lisp

In the mid-80s, while reading through my roommate's collection of Scientific American back issues, I encountered this introduction to Lisp written by Douglas Hofstadter. I found it very charming at the time, and provide it here (somewhat illegally) for the edification of a new generation of Lispers.

In a testament to the timelessness of Lisp, you can still run all the examples below in emacs if you install these aliases:

(defalias 'plus #'+)
(defalias 'quotient #'/)
(defalias 'times #'*)
(defalias 'difference #'-)

	const MY_DOMAIN = "agodrich.com"
	const START_PAGE = "https://www.notion.so/gatsby-starter-notion-2c5e3d685aa341088d4cd8daca52fcc2"
	const DISQUS_SHORTNAME = "agodrich"

	addEventListener('fetch', event => {
	event.respondWith(fetchAndApply(event.request))
	})

	const corsHeaders = {
	"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",

	# -----------------------------------------------------------------
	# .gitignore for WordPress @salcode
	# ver 20180808
	#
	# From the root of your project run
	# curl -O https://gist.githubusercontent.com/salcode/b515f520d3f8207ecd04/raw/.gitignore
	# to download this file
	#
	# By default all files are ignored. You'll need to whitelist
	# any mu-plugins, plugins, or themes you want to include in the repo.

	# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
	#
	# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
	# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
	# programs.
	#
	# Once you're done here, go to
	# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
	# to learn SOOOO much more.

	# -----------------------------------------------------------------
	# .gitignore
	# Bare Minimum Git
	# https://salferrarello.com/starter-gitignore-file/
	# ver 20221125
	#
	# From the root of your project run
	# curl -O https://gist.githubusercontent.com/salcode/10017553/raw/.gitignore
	# to download this file
	#