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COVID-19 reentry scenarios

My friends and I have been exploring economic re-entry plans. The plans seem to boil down to five alternatives. Physical distancing until vaccine (18-months). The hammer and the dance.Test everyone every two

Bash Kata on Ubuntu > 16.04

These are some commands that I like to run through when I am fiddling around on a Linux machine. output computer name hostname inspect network interfaces ifconfig show current working directory pwd change

covid-19

Helpful Things to Know for COVID-19

The authors of this page live on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada. The page contains links to resources that we have found personally useful. Here's a great video about how to properly wash

vscode

Allow VSCode through WSL Firewall

As far as I can tell, VSCode's Remote - WSL service connects over port `41261`. So, we can allow it through the Firewall like this: sudo ufw allow 41261 comment 'VSCODE'

Bash commands that are helpful to me on a daily basis and which I initially found difficult to use

I learned most of what I know about bash from The Linux Command Line by William Shotts. Find something by name and ignore a directory. find . -path ./ignoreDir -prune -o -name "findName&

bash

Use ssh to run a local script with arguments on a remote host.

ssh [email protected] -i rsa_private_key 'bash -s arg01 arg02' < some_script.shSee also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/305035/how-to-use-ssh-to-run-a-shell-script-on-a-remote-machine

productivity

Temporarily mute/hide a specific user in a channel in the Slack web interface.

This is a JavaScript one-liner that works in the Slack web interface. // this code is a work in progress document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(element => element.addEventListener('scroll', () => Array.from(document.

assertiveness

Social Skills for Software Developers

DRAFT This post is a work in progress.Many software developers could benefit from learning evidence-based social skills: in particular, assertive communication. I sure did. Adopting an assertive style is worth it. Lack

windows

Starting with WSL 2

Before starting this process, my machine was running WSL 1. These are the steps I took to install and to start using WSL 2 side-by-side with WSL 1. Install Windows 10 build 18917

php

Serve PHP files from the command line in Windows

Here is one way to run PHP applications from the command line (either cmd or PowerShell) in Windows without requiring IIS. Download PHP Download the VC15 x64 Non Thread Safe (2019-Dec-17 23:16:

windows-10

Windows 10 Performance Tip #1

Improve Windows 10 performance by making it ugly. This is one small change among many that might make your Windows 10 perform faster. Press the Windows key. Type 'performance'. Click on 'Adjust the

vscode

Use a regular expression in VS Code's find/replace to replace && with JavaScript's optional chaining

In December 2019, optional chaining went to TC39 stage 4. Here is a regular expression to replace most instances of foo && foo.bar and baz && baz() with optional chaining.

VS Code's markdown highlighting stopped working in JavaScript/TypeScript comments.

This change is by design; markdown highlighting in comments is now shipped as an extension.

software-development

Parse jest --json test output with jq

The following example installs jq, saves the jest test output to a JSON file, parses the JSON with jq, and then selects only the fullName of tests with a status of "failed&

git

Use Git Large File Storage (LFS) in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 1)

I use Git as a backup storage system and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 1) as my Linux distribution. The Git LFS feature lets me use Git as a backup system for

ssh

Open-SSH commands that are helpful to me on a regular basis

On the Client // start the ssh-agent eval `ssh-agent -s` // create a new key; as a convention... // 1. put the user as a comment // 2. name the file as hostname_algorithm ssh-keygen -t rsa

workplace

A realistic and encouraging way of thinking for staff at a company that is working at 100% capacity.

When a company is working at 100% capacity (sometimes with no clear processes), breakdowns are bound to occur. This is not your fault. You are allowed to make mistakes at work. A well

domain-driven-development

CQRS/ES and DDD: Some Frequently Asked Questions

CQRS/ES stands for Command Query Responsibility Segregation. DDD stands for Domain Driven Design. A team of mine has been working with these for the last year and a half. Here are some

wsl

Tab completion in Ubuntu Bash (in WSL)

This is for people, like me, who come from ten years of Windows PowerShell, and are more an more using Linux (through the Windows Subsystem for Linux). Here is a snippet from the

DNS Record and Domain Name Notes

Zone apex, root domain, naked domain name. References How to overcome root domain CNAME restrictions?We are hosting many web applications for our customers. As is obvious they want to use their own

docker

Use GoCD to deploy a single Docker image to DigitalOcean

Overview of Our Set Up Steps Remote: Create an Ubuntu Droplet through the DigitalOcean UI.Local: Install GoCD Server and Agent on our local machine.Local: Set up GoCD to SSH into the

vim

Vim Substitution (Find/Replace) with Capture Groups (Placeholders)

Example 105,109s/\([a-zA-Z]*\)\(:\)\(.*\)/\1\2'\1',/gBefore payload: { companyName: string, companyGstNumber: string, companyEmail: string, companyPhoneNumber: string, } After payload: { companyName:'companyName', companyGstNumber:'companyGstNumber', companyEmail:'companyEmail', companyPhoneNumber:'companyPhoneNumber', }See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/

climate-crisis

We have been developing our do-it-yourself rainwater catchment system for about six years.

Its water keeps our strawberries (pictured above) happy throughout the dry summers. Our system is pragmatic and started by laying necessary foundations. Six years ago we added a metal roof. From there we

climate-crisis

Bill Gates is mistaken about divestment in fossil fuels - he is not numeric enough about the paradigm shifting impact.

This article assumes we are in a climate crisis and need to stop burning fossil fuels. If you do not believe that, we need a different conversation. Climate Change Dispatch quoted Mr. Gates

climate-crisis

Things we have personally done to mitigate, adapt, and shift the paradigm during the climate crisis.

Individual actions shift the paradigm. Shifting the paradigm generates political pressure. Political pressure creates city-state actions. We cannot all be Greta Thunberg, few of us achieve that level of impact, but our accomplishments