lisawolderiksen

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

shortjared

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access-analyzer.amazonaws.com
account.amazonaws.com
acm-pca.amazonaws.com
acm.amazonaws.com
airflow-env.amazonaws.com
airflow.amazonaws.com
alexa-appkit.amazon.com
alexa-connectedhome.amazon.com
amazonmq.amazonaws.com

jezhumble

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

gwillem

# Add this snippet to the top of your playbook. 
# It will install python2 if missing (but checks first so no expensive repeated apt updates)
# gwillem@gmail.com

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: False
  
  tasks:
  - name: install python 2
    raw: test -e /usr/bin/python || (apt -y update && apt install -y python-minimal)

arno-di-loreto

Open API Specification (fka Swagger Specification) tutorial

All these Gist files are explained on my Open API Specification (fka Swagger Specification) tutorial on API Handyman blog.

The tutorial

This tutorial is composed of several posts, here are the posts links and files used for each one:

• Part 1: Introduction
  • A JSON specification
  • A YAML specification
• Part 2: The basics

ikwattro

#!bin/bash
sed -i.bak 's/^\(dbms\.security\.auth_enabled=\).*/\1false/' ./conf/neo4j-server.properties

ikwattro

$q = 'MATCH (n) OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]-() RETURN r,n';
$result = $neoclient->sendCypherQuery($q)->getResult();

$graph = [];
foreach ($result->getNodes() as $node) {
	$graph['nodes'][] = [
		'id' => $node->getId(),
		'label' => $node->getLabels()[0],
		'group' => $node->getLabels()[0],
		'properties' => $node->getProperties()

jimbojsb

public function processJob($job)
{
        try {
            // stuff
        } catch(Exception $e) {
            if(Offers\Model::getDb()->errno() == 2006) {
                Offers\Model::connectDb();
                $this->processJob($job);
            } else {
                throw $e;

jsturgis

var mediaJSON = { "categories" : [ { "name" : "Movies",
        "videos" : [ 
		    { "description" : "Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps... and the rabbit ain't no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.\n\nLicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license\nhttp://www.bigbuckbunny.org",
              "sources" : [ "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4" ],
              "subtitle" : "By Blender Foundation",
              "thumb" : "images/BigBuckBunny.jpg",
              "title" : "Big Buck Bunny"
            },
            { "description" : "The first Blender Open Movie from 2006",
              "sources" : [ "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ElephantsDream.mp4" ],

dhrrgn

# ...

    config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
        # ... Other stuff here
        
        # Set the timesync threshold to 10 seconds, instead of the default 20 minutes.
        v.customize ["guestproperty", "set", :id, "/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--timesync-set-threshold", 10000]
    end

# ...