Perry samesense

Genomics - A programmer's guide.

Andy Thomason is a Senior Programmer at Genomics PLC. He has been witing graphics systems, games and compilers since the '70s and specialises in code performance.

https://www.genomicsplc.com

Connect to a Google Cloud Compute Engine using Mosh (mobile shell)

Mosh is a great way to overcome lag and flakey connection issues when accessing remote terminals over SSH: https://mosh.org/

Unfortunately, there's still not a lot of clear documentation for "idiots" because a lot of the existing guides assume a) "it just works", or b) you're already skilled enough to set everything up from scratch (assumed knowledge/use cases).

One of the problems I ran into for quite a long time yesterday was getting the darn thing to connect to my Google Cloud instance. I kept running into the mosh: Nothing received from server on UDP port 60001. [To quit: Ctrl-^ .] error (by the way - to quit, you have to press . after Ctrl-^ - it's not just Ctrl-^, there is a dot there too!)

FAQs and the like made vague spartan references to NATs, firewalls, iptables and the like and I tried out various commands and configurations on the se

0.1. References
0.2. Other cheatsheets
0.3. Manage multiple gcloud config configurations
- 0.3.1. Switch gcloud context with gcloud config
0.4. Credentials
0.5. info
0.6. projects
0.7. zones & regions
0.8. Organization
0.9. billing

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

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/

	# Put this function to your .bashrc file.
	# Usage: mv oldfilename
	# If you call mv without the second parameter it will prompt you to edit the filename on command line.
	# Original mv is called when it's called with more than one argument.
	# It's useful when you want to change just a few letters in a long name.
	#
	# Also see:
	# - imv from renameutils
	# - Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y (cut last word, paste, paste)

	# Place this in your .bashrc
	# Covers several corner cases such as nested apostrophes, history extraction in screens/subshells, Slack being down, etc.
	# Strings to replace with your own credentials:
	## {your email address} (1 instance)
	## {slack webhook url} (1 instance) (see guide below)
	## {your computer name} (2 instances)

	# How to set up a Slack webhook (as of Jul 2019):
	## Go here: https://api.slack.com/apps?new_app=1.
	## Click “incoming webhooks” and turn the slider on

	bind -T root F12 \
	set prefix None \;\
	set key-table off \;\
	set status-style "fg=$color_status_text,bg=$color_window_off_status_bg" \;\
	set window-status-current-format "#[fg=$color_window_off_status_bg,bg=$color_window_off_status_current_bg]$separator_powerline_right#[default] #I:#W# #[fg=$color_window_off_status_current_bg,bg=$color_window_off_status_bg]$separator_powerline_right#[default]" \;\
	set window-status-current-style "fg=$color_dark,bold,bg=$color_window_off_status_current_bg" \;\
	if -F '#{pane_in_mode}' 'send-keys -X cancel' \;\
	refresh-client -S \;\

	bind -T off F12 \

	# Set as the root configuration system wide
	root = true

	# Unix-style newlines with a new line ending every file
	[*]
	end_of_line = lf
	# Remove trailing white spaces for every file type
	trim_trailing_whitespace = true

	# Matched different files

	def fspath(path):
	'''https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0519/#os'''
	if isinstance(path, (str, bytes)):
	return path

	# Work from the object's type to match method resolution of other magic
	# methods.
	path_type = type(path)
	try:
	path = path_type.__fspath__(path)

Perry samesense

Genomics - A programmer's guide.

Connect to a Google Cloud Compute Engine using Mosh (mobile shell)

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?