bernhardfritz

MacBook-friendly Ubuntu tweaks

I recently decided to switch from macOS BigSur 11.7.10 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS after Apple decided to no longer provide updates for my MacBook Pro 11,1. During this transition I learned about various tweaks to improve user experience for MacBook users.

As a MacBook user you are probably used to keyboard shortcuts involving the ⌘ command key like ⌘ command+C and ⌘ command+V to copy/paste respectively. However, in Ubuntu pressing the ⌘ command key by default will open the Activities Overview which is similar to the Exposé view in macOS which is not what we want. As it turns out, Ubuntu involves the control key for almost all combinations you may be used to that involve the ⌘ command key in macOS. Luckily Ubuntu is quite configurable and we can tailor it to our needs.

Prerequisites

wojtha

# Fixes complains such as:
# .rubocop.yml: Style/IndentationConsistency has the wrong namespace - should be Layout
# .rubocop.yml: Style/IndentationWidth has the wrong namespace - should be Layout
# .rubocop.yml: Style/DotPosition has the wrong namespace - should be Layout

layouts = %w[
  AccessModifierIndentation
  AlignArray
  AlignHash
  AlignParameters

miglen

List of Linux networking tools

netstat (ss)

Displays contents of /proc/net files. It works with the Linux Network Subsystem, it will tell you what the status of ports are ie. open, closed, waiting, masquerade connections. It will also display various other things. It has many different options. Netstat (Network Statistic) command display connection info, routing table information etc. To displays routing table information use option as -r.

Sample output:

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)    
tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.62132 127.0.0.1.http ESTABLISHED

thibaudgg

POST /oauth/token HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "grant_type": "password",
  "client_id": "CLIENT_ID",
  "owner_type": "OWNER_TYPE",
  "username": "OWNER_EMAIL",
 "password": "OWNER_PASSWORD"

eliot-akira

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How Software Companies Die
==========================
 - Orson Scott Card

The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and
marketing types - and vice versa.

Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When
you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into

gtallen1187

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

olivierlacan

This guide assumes that you recently run brew upgrade postgresql and discovered to your dismay that you accidentally bumped from one major version to another: say 9.3.x to 9.4.x. Yes, that is a major version bump in PG land.

First let's check something.

brew info postgresql

The top of what gets printed as a result is the most important:

zhengjia

=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')